I am a psycho-analyst with a special
interest in the clinical understanding of psychosis. I have developed a view that there is
an underlying pattern that generates all the different forms of mental illness described
in the psychiatric text-books.
I believe that we clinicians at the
moment are largely failing to heal the deeper level of disturbance because we have not got
the right lenses with which to see what is in need of healing.
I believe also that our underlying philosophy of mind is seriously at fault and that this
blinds us to disturbances both in ourselves and in our patients.
The relationship between Psycho-Analysis and Religion requires special attention and the
linking area is in the phenomenon of Narcissism which is a focus of concern both for
clinicians and those concerned with a religious solution to emotional problems.
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Brief Summary of Neville Symington's curriculum vitae.
Having studied Philosophy and Theology I then took
a degree in Psychology and then trained as a Psycho-Analyst at the
Institute of Psycho-Analysis in London. I became Director of the Camden
Psychotherapy Unit and then moved to the Tavistock where I was on
the Senior Staff in the Adult Department and then Head of the Psychology
Discipline in the Adult and Adolescent Departments. I worked for eight
years at the Tavistock and was in part-time private practice at the
same time.
In 1986 I migrated to Australia and in the following year became Chairman
of the Sydney Institute for Pscho-Analysis and in 1999 President of
the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, a position I held until 2002.
For the last year I have been treating
several patients either by telephone or by SKYPE. With SKYPE together
with a web camera I can see the patient and the patient can see me.
If someone is interested in exploring this possibility please contact
me by e-mail.
I also supervise people both on the
telephone and on SKYPE.
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