Seven Deadly Sins Revisited

This talk is loosely based on Lust, the first of the seven deadly sins. Lust is a complex word, weaving through love and desire sexuality and passion in ways that can be both negative and positive. I will draw on clinical material and on my previous writing about Jimmy Savile to address the question of sexual abuse in which lust is in some way implicated. I will also draw on material from some of our major novels. My aim is to focus on what happens when object relations are disrupted and boundaries are broken.  

Jennifer Silverstone is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in private practice. She is a training therapist, supervisor and Fellow of the London Centre for Psychotherapy, now part of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She represented the LCP on the Editorial Board of the BJP for many years. She has written a number of clinical papers, and contributed a chapter entitled ‘Siblings’ to Prophecy Coles’ edited collection Sibling Relationships. She also contributed ‘Meeting my father’ to Voices, the LCP’s book of prose writing, ‘An Absence of Mind’ to LCP’s book Ideas in Practice and has written numerous book reviews. Her most recent publication in the BJP was ‘Jimmy Savile Abuse and a question of Trust’.