44th Foulkes Lecturer
Ms Sue Einhorn (UK) BA (Hons), CQSW, M.Inst.GA, UKCP
Sue has worked as a Literary Agent, a Detached Youth Worker, a Community Worker and a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She has also worked clinically at the Women’s Therapy Centre and at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MFVT). She is currently a Training Group Analyst for the IGA and has a private clinical practice.
She convened the training of Group Analysts in St. Petersburg and currently supervises senior Group Analysts in Russia and Denmark. She was Scientific Chair of GASI for 6 years. She is currently setting up a Group Analytic Foundation and Diploma course in Singapore. She lectures widely and writes occasionally. She is a member of GANLondon and of the Older Therapists Women Group.
Respondent
Ronnie Levine (USA) Ph.D, ABPP
Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and group analyst, practices in New York. She is on the faculties of several group therapy training programs in the USA. In addition, she conducts private training groups in Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, California. Dr. Levine has conducted many workshops and institutes for AGPA and has been the featured keynote conference speaker for a number of local group societies within the USA. She has also conducted many international workshops in Europe and Israel. Dr. Levine has published several articles on the group experience in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. In 2004, Dr. Levine was awarded Fellow of AGPA. In June 2011, the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society honored Dr. Levine for her outstanding contributions to the field of group psychotherapy
Contributors
Dr Suryia Nayak (UK)
Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Salford UK, as a psychoanalytic therapist and supervisor and is in training with Group Analysis North – Institute of Group Analysis. As an anti-colonial, feminist activist Suryia’s principles of collective and group working are the foundations of her psycho-social activism for social justice. For the past four decades Suryia has worked nationally and internationally to end violence against women and girls and for the liberation of asylum seekers and refugees. Within the Rape Crisis Movement Suryia has set up services and spaces dedicated to Black and Asian women. Suryia applies models of education as liberation based on the activism of Black feminism to raise consciousness about the psychological and political impact of oppressive social constructions. She has published extensively about social work, intersectionality and activism. Suryia is currently training as a group analyst in Manchester.
Shama Parkhe (India)
A curious and passionate feminist mental health warrior. She has a keen interest in developing alternatives to conventional mental health practises. She believes that one’s cultural and social systems are highly influential in one’s development of mental health. It is, therefore, necessary to address the larger community and not just the individual in isolation. She co-founded Hank Nunn Institute (HNI) in 2014 and is currently functioning as the clinical director.
Joanna Skowronska (Poland)
A training group analyst, supervisor and teacher at the Institute of Group Analysis „Rasztów”, in Warsaw. She runs small analytic groups in private practice and staff support groups for health institutions as well as providing psychotherapy for individuals and families. She is interested in factors shaping relationships in group analytic psychotherapy and in the applicability of groups in different contexts. She has published on this, both in Polish and in English.
Anna Tsapenko (Russia)
Clinical psychologist, training group analyst, supervisor, and director of the Moscow Institute of Group Analysis. She teaches in various training projects and organizations for mental health professionals, conducts on-line Large Group for Russian speaking psychotherapists from different countries and regions of Russia and teaches a course on the Social Dreaming Matrix. For more than 18 years she has been leading the group-analytical Psychotherapy Program for people with mental health problems and their relatives within the framework of the public organization “Family and Mental Health”. Author of articles on Group Analysis.
Large Group Conductors
Pieter Hutz (Germany)
(Diploma Sociologist), Berlin, Group Analyst, Group Analytic Supervisor and Organizational Consultant, Training Group Analyst (D3G, IGA Heidelberg), Group Analytic Training at the IGA Heidelberg, Founding Chair of the German Society of Group Analysis (D3G)(2011 – 2017), Organizer of 17. Group Analytic Symposium of GASI in Berlin (2017), Together with Tammy Elad conducting the Large Groups of “Voices after Auschwitz”.
Marit Joffe Milstein (Israel) MA EXTH
Training Psychodramatist, Supervisor, Group analyst. Former chairwoman and staff member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis (IIGA). She works in the Sheba Hospital Dept. for children and young people with psychosomatic and eating disorders. Marit teaches in several colleges, giving workshops combining Expressive art and therapy, supervises teams in health and education organizations and has been co-conducting an ongoing staff members Large Group in Mazor psychiatric hospital for 8 years. She has a private practice in Tel Aviv.