2026 Eric Miller Memorial Lecture by Richard Morgan-Jones

2026 Eric Miller Memorial Lecture

Belonging to a Body Larger than your Own

Given by Richard Morgan-Jones

Sunday, 1^st March 2025

17:30 to 19:00 hrs GMT - London Time

Hybrid Event: Online by Zoom

In-person at Freud

Museum London

Moving and being moved between clinical and organisational consulting using a psychoanalytic lens.

In this presentation I will follow Eric Miller’s approach to open systems dynamics in exploring the intake, transformational and export processes of both clinical and consulting engagements. In doing this, I want to explore both active movement in innovating interventions as well as the receptive and reflective dimensions of being moved by sensation and emotion as a professional resource.

By describing and enquiring into a range of personal and professional experiences across a career, I want to explore links between three dimensions: a) bodily experience, b) group and organisational dynamics, c) societal context. These three dimensions have been the focus of the trilogy matrix framework for practice and research that I have been working with to explore the many dimensions of the known and unknown fields we work with. In this way I seek the nature of the task of coming to know aspects of what will always remain in part out-of-reach and out-of-sight.

Theoretical reference will be made to links between Bion’s “Experiences in Groups” and his later thinking and also to developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice using Field Theory. I will also borrow from Anzieu’s application of the analysis of skin phenomena and of Trevarthen and Guerra’s observations on rhythm in parent-child observation.

There will be a presentation and a discussion.