Soul Murder: A Treatable Catastrophe? With , Paul Williams

In this compelling recorded workshop, acclaimed psychoanalyst Paul Williams examines the chilling phenomenon of soul murder — not as a diagnosis, but as a profound psychic crime that devastates the inner world. Building on the work of von Feuerbach, Freud, Leonard Shengold, and literary voices like Orwell and Ibsen, Williams explores how soul murder relates to trauma and psychosis today.

Drawing on his decades of clinical experience with severely disturbed and traumatized patients, Williams discusses ways of working psychoanalytically with those who have suffered this depth of psychic violation — and whether, and how, healing is possible.

Essential viewing for psychotherapists, analysts, and all mental health professionals seeking to understand and work with extreme psychic wounding, this video recording brings Paul Williams’ profound insight directly to you.

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Originally delivered live to an audience of practitioners on the 21^st April 2024,

Video lecture – and handouts – 2 hrs 36 mins

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Paul Williams trained as a psychoanalyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society where he was a Training Analyst. He won the Rosenfeld Prize for the treatment of severe disturbance. He was Joint Editor-in-Chief, with Glen Gabbard, of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis between 2002 and 2007. He worked as a Consultant Psychotherapist in the National Health Service in Belfast, Northern Ireland, treating traumatized patients. He now lives and works in private psychoanalytic practice in Northern California. He has published many papers and books on the subject of severe disturbance and psychosis. He recently produced an acclaimed experimental trilogy on severe disturbance seen from the inside: The Fifth Principle (Routledge, 2010). Scum (Routledge, 2013), The Authority of Tenderness (Routledge 2021).