2. Introduction to the Unconscious
Friday 22nd April 2016 pm
PC414

3. Administration
The Building
Feedback Forms

4. Adrian Scott MSc Senior MBACP Accredited www.counsellingme.co.uk

5. Paper Free! pdf files on website Skills -menu
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6. My Training Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling 1995
Highgate Counselling Centre (Ex WPF)
Apprenticeship Model – Own therapy Unconscious life!

7. My Experience MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor
MBACP Senior Accredited Supervisor for Individuals and Groups
Managed Counselling services in Voluntary Sector Providence Row, Brent MIND, Southwark Carers, Phasca, CNWL PCT, Minster Centre, Survivorsuk, MiE, MiH
Bereaved, Homeless, Mental health, Carers

8. Expert Not a guru or unconscious expert Do not know everything
Ideas to be Debated / Challenged

9. Other City Literary Courses
Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling
Working with Bereavement
Living through Bereavement

10. Morning Session 10.40 Introduction 10.55 Icebreaker Exercise
12.00 History & Theory of the Unconscious
1pm Lunch  

11. Afternoon Session 2pm Unconscious Exercise /Mindfulness Group
2.45pm Break
3pm History & Theory of the Unconscious
Case Examples - Video
4.15 Round Up / Administration
4.30 End

12. Your Experience & Ideas Examples

13. Audio Visual

14. Learning Outcomes
An Understanding of some of the History of the Unconscious
An Understanding of some of the Theory of the Unconscious
An Understanding of some of your own Unconscious

15. The Day Wide range of skills in the room
Hope you all get something out of it
I am not an expert on The Unconscious
Encourage you to have your own view

16. Boundaries
Look after yourselves the Unconscious can be a difficult and emotive subject
Do not say anything you do not want to say. This is not a therapy group!
Confidentiality Agreement -
All information should be kept to this room
and with this group of people.

17. Icebreaker Exercise Ask Your Colleague: 1. What brought you here?
2. What is your interest and experience of the
subject?
3. What do you want from the day?
You will be asked to briefly and concisely to report back what
your colleague has told you to the group, and check with your
colleague how you did!

18. What do you want from the Day?
Are there any Topics, Issues, that you would like to focus or discuss today?
Write on flip chart

19. 10-15 minute Break

20. Theory of the Unconscious

21. Our Relationship to Theory

22. The Theory
Tool
Guide

23. History Overview Ancient cultures Magnetism Dynamic Psychiatry
Hypnotism

24. Theory Overview Freud How the Unconscious works Nervous System
Dreams Freud’s Dream
Carl Jung

25. Introduction to the Unconscious
How do I introduce the unconscious?
Like air – feel but not see?
Light and shadow?
We are hidden to ourselves
Scepticism – it doesn’t exist?

26. Use of Unconscious Can be used by anyone
A reason to rationalise their own or other people’s bad behaviour
To rationalise strange behaviour and events

27. Everyday link to the Unconscious
Art
Hypnosis / Trance States
Spiritualism
Psychic Development – predicting the future
Mediumship – communicating with the dead
Mindfulness Meditation
Automatic Writing
Capitalism - Consumerism
Mind Control – Advertising / Technology / Insurance

28. Everyday Link to the Unconscious
Unconscious / Freud
Freudian slip
Humour – UK!
Dreams Free Association Meditation
Childhood
Marketing / Selling / Business
Self Development

29. Agreement on what it is? As we go about everyday life
Another force or energy
Contributes to our decisions

30. Happy If we are happy the Unconscious becomes less relevant
If we are unhappy – modern distractions do not work
The unconscious can be a way of understanding upset

31. Unconscious Revealed? For the purpose of today my emphasis is more on
Meditation
Freud
Counselling / Psychotherapy

32. Unconscious Revealed? Welcome Your

33. Unconscious Revealed? 2 people sitting in a room Talking Cure?
No answer – a journey

34. Unconscious Revealed?
One person (practitioner) holds onto their Unconscious?
Empty Space
Other person’s unconscious revealed

35. Results of revealing the Unconscious ? - No Cure?
Not magically happier
Able to accept ourselves
Accept History we experienced
Not told how we experienced history

36. Environment for Revealing the Unconscious
Quiet Calm Slow Gentle Challenging
Reflective Not immediate Patience
No solution No outcome
Takes adjustment – Resistance Frustrating
Contrary to 21st Century culture

37. Unconscious Unknown A slightly larger section that Freud called the
preconscious, or what some refer to as
the subconscious. It is much
larger than the conscious
mind and accounts for
around 50-60% of your brain
capabilities. The section
below this is the 
unconscious mind.

38. Unconscious Unknown No one’s unconscious can be known Not even our own
Are we able to reflect on what the unconscious is at any one time??

39. Arrival of Freud!

40. Sigmund Freud
Freud was born of Jewish parentage in Freiburg, Moravia the first of seven children. The family moved in 1860 to Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic )
Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna under Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician. From 1882 to 1886 Freud worked at the General Hospital, and experimented among others with cocaine, also using it himself.
He went to Paris in 1885 to study under Jean Martin Charcot at the Salpetriere Hospital. There the hypnotic treatment of women, who suffered from a medical state called ‘hysteria’, led Freud to take an interest in psychiatry.

41. Influence of Josef Breuer
His former tutor, Breuer, had with some success by encouraging patients to talk about their past under hypnosis.
1895 they wrote Studies in Hysteria
Freud's idea was that all humans have an unconscious where potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy.
Freud ‘discovered’ the unconscious mind… but the idea has been around since Homer.

43. Freud and the Psychoanalytic Unconscious
An iceberg is often used to provide a visual representation of Freud’s theory that most of the human mind operates unconsciously.
Conscious mind - ego
Unconscious mind Further divided into the id - instincts and drive
and the superego – conscience

44. Unconscious Terms Preconscious / Sub conscious
Thoughts which are unconscious, but not repressed, able for recall
Capable of becoming conscious

45. Unconscious Terms Ego (I) Mediator Defenses are unconscious
Id (It) Instinctive part
Unconscious hereditary
Innate & Repressed / Acquired through
experience – in conflict with ego
Super ego (Over-I) Judge censor formation of ideals
Parental prohibitions and denials

46. Diagram of the Unconscious

47. Mental Iceberg

48. The Nervous System
Happy stimuli reached the nervous system – no reaction remains in a neutral state.
An unhappy stimuli provokes a greater reaction with more energy needed to keep it away.
Stimuli of anxious energy are repelled by the nervous system only to constantly return and to be again repelled.
 So stimuli with a command and energy to move your arm, hits the nervous system and discharges its energy through the physical movement of the arm: the nervous system returns to neutral
Unhappy thought and feelings keep being repelled by the nervous system and returning to it.

49. Diagram of the The Nervous System
Happy Thoughts
Neutral
Unhappy Thoughts
Energy

50. Summary of the Nervous System
The Nervous System wants to remain NEUTRAL Happy Energy / Thoughts are neutral
Unhappy energy / thoughts have ENERGY are not tolerated by the nervous system
Bounce off the nervous system to go where? The Unconscious?

51. Characteristics of the Unconscious
The Unconscious is full of energy from unpleasant feelings
Always wants to escape to the Conscious
Always held back by the Pre Conscious and Conscious

52. Characteristics of the Unconscious
The Unconscious cannot remain unconscious?
How does it escape into the conscious?
How does it pass by the guards of the pre-conscious and conscious?

53. Characteristics of the Unconscious

54. Characteristics of the Unconscious
Uses Disguise
Opposites / Parallels / Symbols / Metaphors
Usually some connection to original idea

55. Intro to Kate Woman in temporary accommodation
In rel. with violent boyfriend / friends don’t like him
He disappeared with her flat keys
Stays with him when he is asleep in the day: does not leave flat
30 minutes late to sessions

56. Kate Conscious Pre- Conscious Unconscious Repression Distortion
Afraid to question herself / or allow others to question
Conscious
Pre- Conscious
Fractured isolated life style Repeating pattern /men abusing her, provoking violence towards herself
Repression
Distortion
She senses that something is wrong: leading a life she doesn’t want
Repression
Distortion
Unconscious
Anger/Ideas/Energy satisfied to maintain status quo by entering conscious in a distorted state

57. Kate 2 Conscious Pre- Conscious Unconscious Fear Pain Repression
Afraid to question herself / or allow others to question
Conscious
Pre- Conscious
Angry at boyfriend attracts violence
Trusts and believes him, so attracts violence Repeating pattern
Repression
Distortion 1 2
Has access to feelings of not trusting, not believing 4 3
Repression
Distortion
Anger turned back by repression
Unconscious
Angry trying to reach conscious
Unsatisfied anger gaining energy
Angry situation
censored
Fear Pain

58. Repressions
1: Anger her own somebody else’s experienced as un-pleasurable so repressed Learnt anger is bad: family influence?
2: Displacement of object of anger – creates violent situation towards herself
3: Always late: no time to talk: no opportunity to explain
4: Dramatises situation to distract herself /counsellor from her feelings

59. Reactions Counsellor: irritated and angry on her behalf and with her
Concerned for her re: violence. Frustrated with repeating pattern. Wants her to give boyfriend up
Supervisor: Angry with her: repeating set up