June Clinical Roundtable Meeting: The Divided Brain and Its Clinical Implications
Wed, 17 June
|https://thescienceofpsychotherapy.com/clini
A small-group clinical roundtable for members wanting deeper thinking about rigidity, disconnection, over-intellectualisation, and therapeutic process. June’s session explores The Divided Brain and Its Clinical Implications through a reflective, discussion-based format.
Time & Location
17 June 2026, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEST
https://thescienceofpsychotherapy.com/clini
About the event
Peer-to-peer encouragement for VMHPAA members
This Clinical Roundtable June 2026 from The Science of Psychotherapy focuses on The Divided Brain and Its Clinical Implications. The discussion uses the work of Iain McGilchrist as a starting point for thinking about hemispheric differences in attention, perception, and meaning-making, and how these differences may show up in psychopathology and in the therapy room.
For VMHPAA members, the value is in the clinical lens. This is not pitched as a technique-heavy training. It is aimed at a problem many practitioners know well: clients presenting with rigidity, disconnection, and over-intellectualisation that are not easily shifted by technique alone. The roundtable takes that challenge seriously and opens up discussion about how different ways of engaging with the world — abstraction and control on one hand, context and lived relationship on the other — may shape suffering, defensiveness, and therapeutic movement.
That makes it especially relevant for members who enjoy reflective practice and want to sharpen…