Winnicott and the Climate Crisis: Report of a series of experimental workshops (2022)
Chris Brogan, Convenor & Squiggle Trustee
The Climate Crisis is undoubtedly the biggest existential threat of all time. The enormity of it overwhelms us. It brings to the foreground all the more undesirable elements of being human - greed, consumerism,...
Winnicott at the BBC. Newcastle (2018)
'Hearing Winnicott's voice added a new dimension to his work, where words on a page came alive and one could really get a sense of 'where he was coming from'. There is much about the quality of Winnicott's voice that added to the seminars...' Jo Montgomery...
The Emergence & Submergence of Authenticity. Manchester (2017) & Newcastle (2018)
Michaela Edwards, Lecturer in Organizational Health and Wellbeing & Helen Ingham, Art Therapy Student, University of Chester, reflect on the study day in Manchester.
Aesthetics and the Psychoanalytic Frame. Madeleine Davis Lecture 2017 (2017)
Tessa Dalley, Chair of The Squiggle Foundation, reflects on Gregorio Kohon's Madeleine Davis Lecture 2017.
“‘I AM’ - Vitality, Creativity, Destructiveness and the Value of Contributing: Winnicott's unique view of Depression” (2017)
David Cornelius (Child Psychotherapist) reports on Squiggle North East's Conference held at the Mining Institute in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Saturday 4th November 2017 when Chris Brogan presented his paper ‘I AM’ - Vitality Creativity Destructiveness and...
There’s No Place Like Home: The Experience Of Uprootedness - Dr Katie Lewis (2016)
Squiggle North East: 13 February 2016: Newcastle
Matthew Evans, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, reflects on a presentation which made imaginative use of film alongside clinical material to enhance understanding of the plight of children who cannot...
Dr James Johnston reports and reflects on Squiggle's 2016 Spring Lecture 'Forgiveness: a gift at any cost?'(2016)
"Forgiving the irreparable damage done for both victim and perpetrator is a process for both… It is not an event and cannot be prescribed; it is not a cure – no magical reparation will resolve this mental pain. Drinking from the same bowl of bitterness mar...
Donald Winnicott: The History of the Present (2015)
The Winnicott Trust: 21-23 November 2015: London
“One of the best conferences I have attended” says Chris Brogan, Squiggle Foundation Trustee for the North East of England, who provides an extended report of this conference held as part of the launch of ...
