The Disintegrated and Divergent Adult Workshop with Cathie Long and Neil Keenan

Across all fields of Transactional Analysis, the adult ego state is given an almost ‘holy’ status, whereby we encourage a commonly desired aim to “be in Adult”. The question is “How do we define ‘Adult’?” Although there are a wide range of models of the adult ego state, described by various authors endeavouring to encompass the differing and contradictory aspects of adult in a single model, what about the neurodivergent mind? Does their experience of adult, and how this presents, differ to the predominant neurotype? 

As a psychotherapist who specialises in working with neurodivergent clients, Neil Keenan will co-present with Cathie Long, a neurodivergent independent social worker, and a psychotherapist in advanced clinical training. Together they will examine the profoundly divided, and sometimes irreconcilable, nature or natures of consciousness.