INNER CIRCLE SEMINARS
Timetable
January 2025 to April 2026
Conducted by: Anthony Stadlen (unless otherwise stated, in which case they are introduced or co-conducted by him)
For the time being, these will be online seminars, using ZOOM.
Cost: Psychotherapy trainees £140, others £175; 25% reduction for a whole year’s seminars, or subseries of Laing and Esterson seminars, or subseries of Zollikon-seminars seminars; some bursaries; payment in advance by bank transfer or PayPal; a Zoom invitation and instructions will then be sent
Time: Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (although some seminars, conducted by speakers in distant lands, may be at different times)
Apply to: Anthony Stadlen, 'Oakleigh', 2A Alexandra Avenue, London N22 7XE
Telephone: +44 (0) 7809 433 250
Email: stadlenanthony@gmail.com
For further information on seminars, visit: http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/
19 January 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 295
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 3 (2 and 5 November 1964)
Socrates: 'The hardest is to say the same about the same'
Seminar 4 (18 and 21 January 1964)
'Can we disregard the human being altogether?'
https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/2024/01/heideggers-zollikon-seminars-60th_63.html
16 February 2025
RAYMOND TALLIS
CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 296
Does Heidegger allow space for free will?
https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/2024/01/circling-round-reality-raymond-tallis.html
9 March 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 297
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 5 (10 and 12 March 1965)
'In making-present the Zürich main railway station, we are directed not to a picture of it, not to a representation ...'
30 March 2025
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 298
Fourth of seminar subseries
60 years since publication of
R. D. Laing & A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Family 2: Lucy Blair and the Blairs
27 April 2025
TOBY INGHAM
CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 299
His new book
A GUILTY VICTIM
Recovering Creativity after Trauma and Abuse
(published 13 March 2025)
11 May 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 300
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 6 (11 and 14 May 1965)
'We now make a leap to the body-problem.'
1 June 2025
NAOMI and ANTHONY STADLEN
with INTERNATIONAL KIERKEGAARD AUTHORITIES
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 301
Does Kierkegaard's 'truth' entail lying?
Abraham and the four 'weaning' episodes in Fear and Trembling (1843)
22 June 2025
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 302
'May you live to 120!'
Jean-Paul Sartre
(21 June 1905 - 15 April 1980)
Sartre's 'Freud' scenario and Huston's film 'Freud the secret passion'
6 July 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 303
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 7 (6 and 18 July 1965)
'Is the body and its bodying ... something somatic or something psychic or neither of the two?'
20 July 2025
KEITH HOELLER and ANTHONY STADLEN
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 304
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatric Justice (1965)
A reappraisal 60 years on
24 August 2025
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 305
Fifth of seminar subseries
60 years since publication of
R. D. Laing & A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Family 3: Claire Church and the Churches
21 September 2025
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 306
Sixth of seminar subseries
60 years since publication of
R. D. Laing & A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Also considering
A. Esterson, The Leaves of Spring (1970)
Family 4: Sarah Danzig and the Danzigs (Part 1)
5 October 2025
KEITH HOELLER and ANTHONY STADLEN
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 307
Thomas Szasz
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1965)
A reappraisal 60 years on
26 October 2025
RAYMOND TALLIS
CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 308
(Subject to be announced)
9 November 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 309
Centenaries of 20th-century existential therapists:
John Heaton (born 11 November 1925)
Heaton's dialectic of Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein
23 November 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 310
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 8 (23 and 26 November 1965)
‘Whence comes the insight that ... the Sein of the Da is ecstatic ... ?’
14 December 2025
Inner Circle Seminar No. 311
For the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth
(16 December 1775)
An existential enigma: Mansfield Park
25 January 2026
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 312
Seventh of seminar subseries
60 years since publication of
R. D. Laing & A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Also considering
A. Esterson, The Leaves of Spring (1970)
Family 4: Sarah Danzig and the Danzigs (Part 2)
15 February 2026
ANTHONY STADLEN and YAARA SUMERUK
CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 313
Eighth of seminar subseries
60 years since publication of
R. D. Laing & A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Also considering
A. Esterson, The Leaves of Spring (1970)
Family 4: Sarah Danzig and the Danzigs (Part 3)
1 March 2026
Inner Circle Seminar No. 314
Heidegger's Zollikon seminars
60th-anniversary revaluation
Seminar 9 (1 and 3 March 1966)
‘Unburdening and burdening are possible only through the human being's ecstatic being-outstretched.'
19 April 2026
Inner Circle Seminar No. 315
For the 30th anniversary of the first Inner Circle Seminar
Impossible Union
Here the impossible union
Of spheres of existence is actual
(T. S. Eliot)
130 years on: Sigmund Freud: His seduction theory and the name psychoanalysis announced in Vienna (21 April 1896)
100 years on: Martin Heidegger: Being and Time dedicated to Edmund Husserl on his 67th birthday (8 April 1926)
30 years on: Inner Circle Seminar No.1: 'Freud's seduction theory and the birth of psychoanalysis' (21 April 1996)
Anthony Stadlen founded the Inner Circle Seminars in 1996 as an ethical, existential, phenomenological search for truth in psychotherapy. They have been kindly described by Thomas Szasz as 'Institute for Advanced Studies in the Moral Foundations of Human Decency and Helpfulness'. But they are independent of all institutes, schools, and universities.
The Inner Circle Seminars take place on Sundays, and last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. London time (occasionally from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. London time). They are conducted by Anthony Stadlen and by international authorities in a number of disciplines, including Mariam al-Attar, Fra Francesco Alfieri, Laura Barnett, Joseph Berke, Alexandra Birkert, Rachel Blass, Maurizio Borghi, Vladimir Bukovsky, Havi Hannah Carel, Alessandra Comini, Daniel Conway, Barry Cooper, Susan Cooper, Alan Ereira, C. Stephen Evans, Ernst Falzeder, Tamás Fazekas, Antony Flew, Jerome Yehuda Gellman, "Emma Gold", Lawrence Goldie, Tomi Gomory, Tom Greeves, Miles Groth, Daphne Hampson, Jacqueline Hamrit, Salomé Hangartner, David Harsent, John Heaton, Gitta Henning, Susannah Heschel, Keith Hoeller, Alice Holzhey-Kunz, Jim Hopkins, Allan Ingram, Han Israëls, Marianne Jaccard, Uta Jaenicke, Derek Jeffreys, Sheila Kitzinger, Claudia Koonz, Adrian Laing, Mette Lebech, Peg LeVine, John Lippitt, Zvi Lothane, Franz Maciejewski, Malcolm Macmillan, Dame Hilary Mantel, Rabbi Rodney Mariner, Deirdre McCloskey, Sarah Menin, Kate Millett, Katherine Morris, Christopher John Müller, Jyoti Nanda, Jack Newman, George Pattison, Marilyn Piety, Hansjörg Reck, Nigel Reeves, Richard Rojcewicz, Phyllis Roth, Peter Rudnytsky, Fred Sander, Donna Christina Savery, Jeffrey Schaler, Frank Schalow, Morton Schatzman, Gitta Sereny, Carole Seymour-Jones, Sonu Shamdasani, Ann-Helen Siirala, Martti Siirala, David Singmaster, Richard Skues, Naomi Stadlen, Tanja Staehler, Yaara Sumeruk, Peter Swales, Thomas Szasz, Raymond Tallis, Terence Tanner, Michael Tregenza, Richard Vatz, Hugo Vickers, Antti Vihinen, Edward Walden, Paul Weindling, Karin Weisensel, Susannah Wilson, Sarah Wise, Sir Christopher Zeeman.
The seminars themselves have an international reputation. They study thinkers whose work is of incalculable importance for the foundations of psychotherapy and related disciplines: Anders, Andreas-Salomé, Aurobindo, Austen, Becker, Binswanger, Blass, Bleuler, Boss, Bowen, Breuer, Buber, Bukovsky, Cioffi, Coleridge, Collingwood, Condrau, Cooper, Descartes, Eliot, Esterson, Fanon, Ferenczi, Flew, Fließ, Flournoy, Freud, Heaton, Heidegger, Heschel, Hoch, Hoche, Holzhey-Kunz, Husserl, Jaspers, Jeffreys, Johnson, Jones, Jung, Kierkegaard, Klein, Laing, Lévinas, Lomas, Mantel, Marcel, McCloskey, Merleau-Ponty, Millett, Minuchin, Morita, Myers, Nabokov, Patočka, Ramakrishna, Reich, Rilke, Rogers, Sander, Sartre, Schaler, Scheler, Schiller, Schreber, Shakespeare, Siirala, Smart, Stein, Straus, Szasz, Tallis, Thompson, Tillich, von Hildebrand, Watsuji, Wittgenstein, Zeeman.
The seminars are both for advanced professionals and for students of psychotherapy and other disciplines who seek a place where they can explore perplexities. The heart of the seminars is discussion and dialogue, though some people prefer not to speak. The seminars are a dangerous space, in an age when students at universities demand 'safe spaces' where they may feel 'comfortable'. But the atmosphere is one of courtesy and respect. You may attend as many or as few seminars as you wish. They are recognised as Continued Professional Development (CPD) for psychotherapists. You will receive a CPD certificate of attendance.
Anthony Stadlen has practised since 1970 as a Daseinsanalyst and existential-phenomenological individual and family analyst. He is registered as a Daseinsanalyst by the International Federation for Daseinsanalysis (Independent Effective Member for UK); as an existential psychotherapist by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (Society for Existential Analysis); and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist by the British Psychoanalytic Council (Senior Member, British Psychotherapy Foundation). He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Regent's University School of Psychotherapy and Psychology, London. He is a former Research Fellow of the Freud Museum, London. His research has been sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Essex and supported by the Nuffield Foundation. He received the 2003 Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Services to the Cause of Civil Liberties (professional category) from the Center for Independent Thought, New York City.
Anthony Stadlen
'Oakleigh'
iPhone.: +44 (0) 7809 433 250
Email: stadlenanthony@gmail.
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