BPA Event | 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
Saturday 4th October 11am - 1pm
What is a poem? Poetry and psychoanalysis.
Caroline Beatrice Garland
Hybrid - In-person and online
89 Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3NT & Online via Zoom
Caroline Beatrice Garland is a psychoanalyst and widely published poet whose work explores the intersection of internal worlds and lyrical form.
Poetry and psychoanalysis have much in common: both incorporate many levels and depths of experience, and both need time and thoughtful interpretation if they are to be understood and appreciated. My own need to write is in part because I have spent a lot of time listening to, and trying to understand, other people’s worlds. Writing poems exists in parallel to that: it's a way of talking about the private way in which I see, am touched by, and try to grasp and respond
to my own world, and the people that inhabit it.
Caroline Garland spent many years as a clinician, teacher and researcher both in the Tavistock Clinic and in the Maudsley Hospital. Before beginning work in the NHS, she was an ethologist, studying the social behaviour of chimpanzees (shespeaks fluent chimpanzee). Her subsequent clinical and academic work includes many publications, including three books: Children and Day Nurseries(1980), Understanding Trauma (1999, 2002) and The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy, Principles and Practice (2010). She has had much experience in working with groups, including consulting to organisations in trouble, and working in conflict situations at home and abroad - in Kosovo, and currently (via Zoom) with a group of Ukrainians.
Alongside her day job in the NHS, and working as Beatrice Garland, she has also written and published much poetry. (Volumes: The Invention of Fireworks, Templar Press, 2013; The Drum, 2017, both Templar Press). She has won both the National Poetry Competition, and the Strokestown International Poetry Prize, and her poem Kamikazehas been in the GCSE (AQA) English Literature syllabus for over 6 years.