The Journey from Trauma and Abuse
to the Recovery of “Self”

One day seminars followed by weekend workshops

“Understanding Addiction within a Psychospiritual
and Psychosocial Perspective”

“The secret of my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands, I must not miss that opportunity.”
His Holiness The Dali Lama.

We all hear stories through the news and media how addiction affects the lives of both the great and the good, as well as ordinary
people. Addiction is a very difficult subject to talk about; and gives rise to a variety of reactions, opinions, and a whole host of solutions, on how best to deal with it.

Even though the many faces of addiction surround us, some we can find hard to distinguish. Most of us recognise the vagrant lying on the bench with a bottle in his hand as the ‘alcoholic’, or the disheveled drug user, pacing, waiting in the street, the man caught downloading pornography as a pedophile.

But there are many so called functioning addicts, who live in a behaviour and shame that has become their constant companion.

We experience how the consequence of these behaviours erode and destroy relationships, careers, and at worst, results in untimely death. What we are describing here is the indiscriminate nature of this destructive and crippling force, which means that there is a least one person who you know who is suffering right now and doing their best to hide it. We believe that this has touched everybody at some point in their life, in one-way or another.

We are offering a one-day seminar followed by a weekend workshop, aimed at therapists and counselors who wish to deepen their knowledge and experience in the field of substance and process addiction.

During this course we will explore both theoretically and experientially the powerful dynamics which fuel these behaviours, and begin to address the following:

• What do we mean by addiction, and who is an addict?
• What are the psychological effects of addiction?
• The Myths of Addiction from a psychosocial perspective.
• Key defences, the call of the “ self”
• The process of transformation and recovery of “self”

Your tutors

Deena Marcus-Jedamzik Dip AD, MRSS, MA UKCP has a long standing background in the field of body/mind work and 25 years of clinical experience.

Deena initially worked as a Shiatsu practitioner, including being part of a care team working with addicts in early recovery. After completing her training as a psychotherapist she went on to become a trainer, supervisor and part of the Academic Board at the Institute of Psychosynthesis. During this time she brought her knowledge and experience of body/mind work, combined with her art background to form an integrated approach to her work with trauma, abuse and addiction to teaching training therapists.

Currently Deena combines a private psychotherapy/supervision practice with Buddhist Iconic painting, which forms part of her ongoing spiritual practice.

Sue Fox
Sue has been working within the field of addiction as a therapist, supervisor, group worker and teacher since the mid 1980’s.

She is a psychotherapist in private practice, and supervisor for the Institute of Psychosynthesis.

Sue brings her perspective on understanding addiction to training therapists through her teaching, both at Southbank University, and Highgate Counseling Psychodynamic Course. This has evolved and developed over time, and originates from her personal and professional experience and knowledge gathered over 20 years

Sue is a member of UKCP and the Confederation of Analytical Psychologists 

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