Interactive Zoom online event
19:00 to 20:30 UK time (20:00 Central Europe, 11:00 California, 14:00 East Coast)
Leigh Money will present her Michael Fordham Prize-winning paper:
Labels and the Self: Identity Labels as Scaffold
Published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2023, Vol. 68, 3, 590–608
A free copy of the paper is available:
In this paper Leigh Money explores the different functions of self-adopted labels such as “neurodiverse,” “genderfluid,” “sex-positive,” “ADHD,” and “highly-sensitive”.
Just as scaffolding may facilitate new development, so too may the use of labels lead to growth. However, the very same labels can also be used to defensively shield by way of presenting a ‘labelled self’ that is not up for discussion. Composite clinical material is used to illustrate these different possibilities.
This will be the fourth event in the JAP series in which selected authors present their papers and provide the opportunity to ask questions and to enter into a discussion.
Participation is free but restricted to psychotherapeutic practitioners.
Leigh Money is an analyst member of The Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). She has a private practice in London, and also works with Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP), a charitable organization supporting Irish people in Britain. She is a books review editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and on the training faculty for the psychodynamic psychotherapy training at the SAP. She has a particular interest in digital technology; specifically the ways in which it is re-shaping human communication and connection.
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