| The Poetic Mind – Between the Lines – Approaching Poetry as Mind
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# BPA Event | The Poetic Mind – Between the Lines – Approaching Poetry as Mind
The Poetic Mind Seminar
Between the Lines – Approaching Poetry as Mind
Professor Jonathan Green
Hybrid – In-person and online
89 Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3NT & Online via Zoom
Approaching poetry’s mind invites readers into a fertile space where poetry and psychological thinking meet – not as disciplines but as ways of thinking, feeling, and being. Talk and performed poetry will illustrate an approach to poetry, not merely as language but as a form of mind: an embodied container for the unspoken and a symbolic space in which absence memory loss and desire are given shape. Drawing on clinical insight literary sensitivity and philosophical depth, between the lines will offer a richly textured meditation on poetic communication. For therapist poets and all those attuned to the inner life of language, this is a presentation about how poems can think.
Jonathan Green has been a Painter for 60 years and a Child Psychiatrist for 40, as well as a long-time poetry reader. He is a clinician and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester, where his work has focused on early child attachment, social development, and autistic development. He also had early Art training in Paris and Winchester School of Art, and kept painting subsequently, exhibiting increasingly over the last 20 years. This presentation of poetry in ‘Between the Lines’ grows out of work I have done on the intersection of Art and Therapeutic relating, expressed in a paper on ‘Form and Mental State; an Interpersonal Approach to Painting’ –https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751. In this event I want to explore and share a similar approach to the reading of Poetry.
The Poetic Mind Seminar
A series centered on the intersection of poetry and psychoanalysis can explore how both disciplines utilise language to navigate the complexities of human experience.
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| The Poetic Mind – Between the Lines – Approaching Poetry as Mind