Cassel summer conference
Courage is not the absence of fear
A community approach to working with complex trauma
For over a century, the Cassel Hospital has functioned as a therapeutic community in which patients with severe and enduring mental health problems and a multi-disciplinary staff team work together to bring about change to lives blighted by complex trauma. Then as now, we seek to understand the devastation wrought by it in patients’ minds – and often on their bodies – within a psychoanalytic framework that takes account of unconscious motivations. While psychoanalytic psychotherapy, both group and individual, remains part of the treatment, this conference seeks to showcase psychosocial nursing, a specialism pioneered and developed at the Cassel, and the contribution to this inevitably painful, frightening endeavour that requires the greatest courage: the work done by our patients and the patient community.
Experienced clinicians and a collective of former Cassel patients will give talks, discuss their work and answer your questions:
An Overview of the Cassel’s Treatment Model
Dr Kimberley Barlow, Clinical Lead & Dr Miriam Barrett, Inpatient Lead
The Work of the Patient Community
Sonia Hasan, Ciara Murphy, Q Nosheen, Marilyn Ruttley & Natasha Williams
The Patient Perspective: Relationships in and Experience of a Community-Based Treatment
The Work of the Nurse
Simmi Protab, Clinical Nurse Manager Inpatient Service
Key Components of Psychosocial Nursing
Sarah Miell, Psychosocial Nurse
Playing in Psychosocial Nursing at the Cassel – A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This is an in-person only event. Join us under a marquee in our lovely garden. Attendance is free and therefore does not include lunch – please bring your own, or treat yourself in one of the shops and cafes nearby.
Friday 30th June 2023 | 9:30am – 4:00pm
The Cassel Hospital, 1 Ham Common, Richmond TW10 7JF
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/courage-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-tickets-629897409107