In Conversation, Events
Our 40th Anniversary Conferences
In our June session, Ian Stubbs introduced the topic ‘Assisted dying – My Death, My Decision’
In our June session, Ian Stubbs introduced the topic ‘Assisted dying – My Death, My Decision’
Bobbie Stephens-Wright recounts her work as a Spiritualist medium and how psychoanalytic ideas on dissociation gave her a non-supernatural explanation. She describes finding Sea of Faith and her own account of mediumship.
Bobbie Stephens-Wright reflects on losing and finding her sense of self: an ecstatic healing experience, years as a Spiritualist medium, depersonalisation, and release through Winnicott’s psychoanalytic language.
Bobbie Stephens-Wright writes about chronic illness, knee surgery and wheelchair use, the role of laughter and hope, and Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt on the state of the NHS.
Bobbie Stephens-Wright reviews Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive, a memoir of depression and anxiety that she found hopeful and recommends to sufferers and carers.
Bobbie Stephens-Wright describes her experience of depersonalisation and her recovery through psychoanalysis, drawing on Winnicott, to argue that real sympathy for others requires an authentic sense of self.
Bobbie Stephens-Wright, prompted by the film A Dangerous Method, defends Freud against Jung, rejects Jung’s interest in the occult and spiritualism, and draws on psychoanalytic accounts of depersonalisation and dissociation.
Bobbie Stephens Wright explains her decision to decline routine mammograms and accept death, and recounts her past as a Spiritualist medium and her turn to a psychological understanding.
Bobbie Stephens Wright describes how questions about death led her through spiritualism and psychoanalysis, and finally to SOF, where she values religion as a human creation.