OXPIP Training: Ghosts in the Nursery

Summary

4 July 

09.30 – 15.00

This is a one-day training aimed at early years professionals, social workers, and mental health workers. The training will give an understanding of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic concepts and how these apply in our work settings with our clients. What does the client bring from their history to their relationship with their child and what do we as professionals bring from our own history?

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• be able to draw on Selma Fraiberg’s paper ‘Ghosts in the Nursery’ to think about the unconscious aspects of parent infant relationships, particularly projective processes
• recognise how the transmission of intergenerational trauma can be reduced through helping parents shift from identification with the aggressors of childhood to identification with the vulnerability in their baby *understand how unresolved issues from participants’ own pasts can get into their work