Understanding Violent and Mass-Harm Fantasies in Young People

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Event type ACEs SIG Monthly seminars

Webinar, 5:00pm – 6:30pm UK time
JUST £5! FREE TO MEMBERS
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Join this online session, led by Dr Mike Shaw, exploring the increase in young people reporting elaborated fantasies of murder and/or mass killing, observed by FCAMHS and Prevent since the Southport killings. Drawing on the Southport case and fictionalised clinical material from his own practice, the session will consider how these fantasies can be understood as unconscious communications of unmet needs, why parents and professionals may struggle to receive and respond to these communications, and how feelings of desperation and isolation can make young people particularly susceptible to destructive elements in the zeitgeist.

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Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD/CME certificate via email. Recordings from the session will be available to delegates from 5 working days after the event.

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About the session

Since the Southport kills FCAMHS and Prevent have seen a sharp increase in young people reporting elaborated fantasies of murder and/or mass kills. Using the Southport case and some fictionalised clinical material from his own practice Dr Mike Shaw will explore:

  • how these fantasies need to be understood as unconscious communications about their unmet needs
  • why parents and professionals sometimes struggle to receive these communications
  • how feeling desperate and alone makes these young people susceptible to destructive elements in the zeitgeist

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About the Speakers

Dr Mike Shaw is Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Portman Clinic’s Forensic CAMHS, a psychoanalytically informed multidisciplinary team advising professionals networks who see young people at risk to physical and sexual harm.

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