Interview with Paul Renn
An in-depth interview with Paul Renn, coordinated by Dr Jan Hepburn, exploring attachment theory and patterns, violent relationships, ordinary relationships, the patterns we fall in, and much much more.
Paul Renn generously shares his knowledge of attachment theory and research, infant development, trauma studies, neuroscience, and relational psychoanalysis, and the way in which his integrated therapeutic model may be applied in the clinical setting to facilitate a process of change in work with individuals and couples.
Paul Renn (born October 7 1944) is a UKCP accredited relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist, couples counsellor and supervisor. Prior to training as a therapist at the Bowlby Centre in 1998, he attended the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. On retirement from the British army in 1988, he trained as a social worker at Kingston University. He then worked for the National Probation Service in London, specializing in working with very high-risk violent offenders. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and is a member of the Anna Freud Academic Faculty, the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists, the International Attachment Network, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.
He has taught trainee therapists seminars on psychosis, trauma and dissociation, and child and adolescent development, and presented papers at international conferences. He has devised and facilitated continuing professional development workshops, seminars and webinars on attachment and trauma, violent attachments, attachment theory and relational psychoanalysis, sexuality in the consulting room, memory, trauma and dissociation, and a contemporary perspective on the internal world and the process of change. His clinical interests and publications centre on understanding intimate personal violence and issues relating to attachment, psychological trauma, and the role of implicit memory in the process of change.
The treatment model he has developed, as set out in his book The Silent Past and the Invisible Present: Memory, Trauma and Representation in Psychotherapy, is based on an integration of relationally oriented psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, and a large body of empirical and clinical research in cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment disorders, trauma studies, infant-parent research, and neuroscience. He has a private practice in South-West London.
Paul is a qualified Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, based in Twickenham, United Kingdom.
With a commitment to mental health, Mr Renn provides services in English, including Psychoanalysis.
Mr Renn has expertise in Abuse (Emotional / Physical), Anger Management Issues, Anxiety Disorderss (Panic), Anxiety Disorders (Phobias), Attachment Issues, Behavioural and Emotional Problems, Bereavement and Loss, Depression, Dissociative Difficulty and Divorce and/or Separation.
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