Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis: The importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice

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Dr. Hewison will highlight Winnicott's and Bollas's rich contributions to psychoanalysis regarding their understandings of creativity and the relationship between the self and the unconscious. He will elaborate his own view on how these ideas can be creatively applied to understanding couple relationships, discussing the importance for the couple psychotherapist to focus on five areas in the clinical hour: the need for a gesture to be properly met; the need to understand repetition in a creative way; the need to attend to mood and the emotional atmosphere, allowing it to unfold in the absence of interpretation; and the need to rethink the uses made of other people and other things outside the session. 

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David Hewison, holds a doctorate in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Tavistock Relationships, where he is a Consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Head of Research and Ethics. David joined Tavistock Relationships in 1996 with a background in adult mental health, social work and training and has been involved in all aspects of Tavistock Relationships work over the years including being part of the senior management team

David also works in private practice in North London and is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, where he did his individual analytic training in the mid-1990s, and he works with couples for psychotherapy and individuals for analysis.

David has published extensively and teaches internationally. He has a particular interest in creativity and imagination, and in linking Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives.