Analytic and Jungian Attitudes to Working with LGB Clients: Research Findings and Implications for Practice and Training

Wayne will present his PhD research, completed in 2021, looking at how psychoanalytic/Jungian therapists working today understand and think about same-sex desire both theoretically and clinically, and how the role of institutional psychoanalytic/Jungian training has shaped the views and practice of UK psychoanalytic/Jungian psychotherapists working with LGB clients.

This event begins at 6:30pm BST 

About the Speaker

Dr Wayne Full has joined the BPF team as our Head of Projects. Wayne’s role is an exciting and varied one including writing bids to trusts and foundations and statutory bodies to raise funds for clinical services expansion, overseeing a major application to the Office for Students (OfS) for BPF to gain degree awarding powers and leading our work around Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

Wayne has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (2021) and a MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies (2013), both qualifications are from the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London (UCL). Until very recently, Wayne was Senior Research Fellow at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), overseeing high profile empirical research programmes and studies within counselling and psychotherapy. Wayne is a British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Scholar and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Wayne is familiar with the BPF because, in 2017-18, he co-ordinated BPF’s introductory course, Psychotherapy Today, and he also spent a brief stint with us as Head of Professional and Business Development. Wayne has taught psychoanalytic theory at postgraduate level at the Anna Freud Centre and also at UCL. From 2013 – 2021, he was a member of the BPC Task Group on Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity and has compiled this learning resource for BPC registrants, please see the following document: https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/files/Final-Updated-Accessible-BPC-Bibliography-GSRD-Jan-2023.docx. Wayne has been in his own twice weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy for 12 years.

Wayne is passionate about cultivating a psychotherapy profession in the UK that is diverse, collaborative, interdisciplinary, pluralistic and research-informed, and he hopes, through his many projects, to make a real difference to the professional lives of BPF members.

18:30-18:35 – Introduction from Dr Frances Gillies (CEO of the British Psychotherapy Foundation)

18:35-19:15- Talk with Dr Wayne Full, ‘Analytic and Jungian Attitudes to Working with LGB Clients: Research Findings and Implications for Practice and Training’

19:15-19:30 – Q&A

19:30 – end of webinar