The first MLPC lecture entitled 'Displaced: Psychotherapy in My Father's Tongue', was given by Ali Zarbafi, an Anglo-Iranian psychotherapist, in December of 1997. This lecture was an exploration of the personal journey and clinical difficulties the author encountered when he started seeing refugees in Farsi.

The next MLPC lecture in March of 1998, 'Lost and Found in Translation' was given by Dr Judit Szekacs an eminent Hungarian psychoanalyst. This lecture was an exploration of her analytic journey from Hungary to England and the difficulties and surprises she encountered in her struggle to internalise English analytical language.

Both these inaugural lectures were presented by two of MLPC's eight founder members. The MLPC lecture series provides a forum where both experienced and first time speakers can explore and share transitional experiences such as emigration and loss of mother tongue.

Information for your diary:

Forthcoming Lectures
Thinking of the Past: Looking to the Future (Social Dreaming Matrix) Click here for details	John Clare and Ali Zarbafi	27 Feb 2010

The list of previous lectures are as follows:

Gangs, Guns and the Absent Father	Donald Campbell and Michael Orme	6 Jun 2009
From Silence to Dissonance, From Dissonance to Harmony Click here for details	Cedric Bouet-Willaumez	11 Oct 2008
How Do You Nod and Say 'Aham' in English Click here for details	Yoav Landau-Pope	14 Jun 2008
Lost in Transmission	Lydia Tischler	9 Feb 2008
Suffering in Exile Click here for details	Ali Zarbafi	13 Oct 2007
Now I Know Why Click here for details	Gloria Ogunbadejo	16 Jun 2007
Outre Mer et la Langue de ma Mere: My reinvention as Pygmalion Click here for details	Monique Morris	14 Oct 2006
Aspects of Shared Experience: Psychoanalysis in a Mother-Tongue	Tamar Schonfield	17 Jun 2006
Once Upon A Silence Click here for details	Giselle China	11 Feb 2006
George Mikes - The Story of a Friendship	Marietta Marcus	15 Oct 2005
Revolution, Exile and Psychoanalysis	Dr Alejandro Reyes	11 Jun 2005
Return To Berlin: My Forbidden Mother Tongue	Edna Sovin	9 Oct 2004
Going Back: Going Forward	Franca Fubina	12 Jun 2004
Lost for Words: Pseudo-Esperanto in the Therapy Room	Valerie Sinason	14 Feb 2004
The Secret	Eva Hoffman	11 Oct 2003
On Translating Emotion	Dr Richard Carvalho	14 Jun 2003
Refugee Trauma - Dislocation of Meaning	Miranda Alcock	15 Feb 2003
Trauma, Genocide and Psychotherapy	Ruth Barnett	19 Oct 2002
Culture and Language in Therapy: On not taking words too seriously	Dr Begum Maitra	15 Jun 2002
On Translating Myself	Adam Phillips	9 Feb 2002
Proficiency and Psychotherapy in the Language of the Colonizer	Lennox Thomas	6 Oct 2001
Is there a Universal mode of Thinking, Feeling and Being?	Dr Alejandro Reyes	17 Mar 2001
Working Therapeutically with Survivors of Torture	Helen Bamber	21 Oct 2000
Remembering the Father Tongue: Transferences of a Ferenzi Translator	Dr Julia Borossa	10 Jun 2000
The Language of Social Dreaming	Dr Gordon Lawrence	5 Feb 2000
Mixed Marriages and Tongue Tied Children	Geri Dogmetchi and Leila Collins	30 Oct 1999
The Impaired Tongue	Shula Wilson	12 Jun 1999
My New Made Tongue	Susan Haxell	27 Feb 1999
Peter Pan and the Story of Lost Childhood	Kathleen Kelley-Laine	17 Oct 1998
The Way Back of The Unconscious	Pina Antinucci and Enrico Palandri	1 May 1998

Full details of new lectures to be displayed approximately six weeks before each event.

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