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Pam Schweitzer
Past and present Confer events
Space in Mind
Monday evenings 18 January – 21 March 2016
Pam Schweitzer
Pam Schweitzer was founder and Artistic Director of Age Exchange Theatre Trust from 1983 - 2005, the first full- time professional theatre company to specialise in touring reminiscence theatre across the UK and Europe. In 2000 she was awarded the MBE for services to Reminiscence and she continues to direct the European Reminiscence Network, lecturing, directing and training in reminiscence. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Greenwich. Reminiscence is a vital way to stimulate communication and promote confidence and self-worth in people with dementia. Her approach is to give those who care for people with dementia a clear sense of how reminiscence can be used to greatly improve their quality of life, opening the world’s first Reminiscence Centre in London in 1987, as a focus for professional training, a meeting place for people of all generations and cultures to participate in reminiscence projects. She has published widely on her work - see www. pamschweitzer.com | ![]() |
Past and present Confer events

Monday evenings 18 January – 21 March 2016
Book of the Month |
Tea with Winnicott Author: Professor Brett Kahr Donald Winnicott is currently the most popular author in contemporary psychoanalysis. His writings are cited in bibliographies even more frequently than those by Sigmund Freud. And yet how many mental health professionals have actually managed to read and digest the nearly twenty published volumes of Winnicott’s books, chapters, essays, reviews, and letters?... read more... |
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Professor Peter Fonagy Professor Peter Fonagy considers the research to show what treatments are most effective when working with children and adolescents suffering from anxiety, ADHD, depression, relationship and conduct problems... view... |
Did you know? |
The Latest Neuroimaging Findings in Borderline Personality Disorder Altered function in neurotransmitter systems including the serotonin, glutamate, and GABA systems was observed in patients with BPD... read more... |