Since 1997, MLPC has convened lectures and workshops on the theme of multilingualism in psychotherapy. Lectures were initially held in Burgh House, before moving to Friends’ House and finally on the Freud Museum, in London.
Burgh House Lecture
“Mixed Marriages and Tongue-Tied Children?” by Leila Collins and Geri Dogmetchi
October 1999
Burgh House Lecture
“The Language of Social Dreaming”, by Dr Gordon Lawrence
February 2000
Burgh House Lecture
“Remembering the Father-Tongue: Transferences of a Ferenczi Translator”, by Dr Julia Borossa
June 2000
Burgh House Lecture
“Working Therapeutically with Survivors of Torture”, By Helen Bamber
October 2000
Burgh House Lecture
“Is there a Universal Mode of Thinking, Feeling and Being?”, by Dr Alejandro Reyes
March 2001
Burgh House Lecture
“Proficiency and Psychotherapy in the Language of the Colonizer”, by Lennox Thomas
October 2001
Burgh House Lecture
“On Translating Myself”, by Adam Phillips
February 2002
Burgh House Lecture
“Culture and Language in Therapy: On Not Taking Words Too Seriously”, by Dr Begum Maitra
June 2002
Burgh House Lecture
“Trauma, Genocide and Psychotherapy”, by Ruth Barnett
October 2002
Burgh House Lecture
“Refugee trauma – dislocation of meaning”, by Miranda Alcock
February 2003
Burgh House Lecture
“On Translating Emotion”, by Dr Richard Carvalho
June 2003
Burgh House Lecture
“Lost for Words: Pseudo-Esperanto in the Therapy Room”, by Valerie Sinason, February 2004
Burgh House Lecture
“Going Back: Going Forward”, by Franca Rubini
June 2004
Burgh House Lecture
“Return to Berlin: My Forbidden Mother tongue”, by Edna Sovin
October 2004
Burgh House Lecture
“George Mikes: the Story of a Friendship”, by Marietta Marcus
October 2005
Friends House Lecture
“Once Upon a Silence”, by Giselle China
February 2006
Friends House Lecture
“Aspects of Shared Experience: Psychoanalysis in a Mother-tongue”, by Tamar Schonfield
June 2006
Friends House Lecture
“Outre Mer et la Langue de ma Mère : My reinvention as Pygmalion”, by Monique Morris
October 2006
Friends House Lecture
“Now I Know Why”, by Gloria Ogunbadejo
June 2007
Friends House Lecture
“From Silence to Dissonance, From Dissonance to Harmony”, by Cédric Bouët-Willaumez
October 2008
Friends House Lecture
“Gangs, Guns and the Absent Father”, by Donald Campbell and Michael Orme
June 2009
MLPC Workshop
“Mind the Gap: Clinical Practice in a Multilingual Context”, by Cédric Bouët-Willaumez
September 2011
Freud Museum Lecture
“Language of the Mountains, Language of the Sea: Living with Trauma and Exile as a Journey Between Languages”, by Dr Esti Rimmer
March 2012
Freud Museum Lecture
“Speaking the Language of the Body”, by Elizabeth Campbell
June 2012
Freud Museum Lecture
“In Search of the Mother-tongue in the Language of Exile”, by Ali Zarbafi
October 2012
MLPC Film and Discussion
“The Healing Power of Language”, by Judith Elkan
June 2013
Freud Museum Lecture
“Silence Lends Integrity to Speech: Transcending the Opposites of Speech and Silence in the Analytic Dialogue”, by Anna Bravesmith
March 2013
MLPC MORNING WORKSHOP
“The Dream of Home”
Social Dreaming and Group Discussion
June 2014
Freud Museum Lecture
“Different Workings with Difference”, by Patricia Gorringe
March 2015
Freud Museum Lecture
“Childhood, Spoken and Written Selves: a Journey Through Languages”, by Natsu Hattori
November 2015
Freud Museum Lecture
“The patient, the Interpreter and the Therapist: Cultural and Clinical Challenges”, by Ali Zarbafi
March 2016
Freud Museum Film and Discussion
“From Peshawar to Kilburn: a Refugee Journey”, by Ali Zarbafi
June 2016