Membership

The Eye and The Mind Society seeks to raise the profile of psychological understanding in patients’ eye care

We do this by:

Campaigning

The Eye and The Mind Society aims to end the stigma attached to sufferers of psychosomatic eye disorders

Promotion

The Society works to increase professional understanding of the emotions involved in eye disorders

Liaison

We develop multi-disciplinary ways of working eg we have supported the establishment of the first-ever Mind’s Eye Clinic at University College London Hospitals, where patients in the Eye Clinic may be referred to colleagues in Psychological Medicine or Liaison Psychiatry for psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Research

The Society and its founders have organised multidisciplinary research seminars for eye, psychoanalytic and social work professionals. These have been arranged at the
Tavistock Clinic and Moorfields Eye Hospital *

Education & Professional Development

Mind’s Eye Conferences and workshops are held on different aspects of psychosomatic ophthalmology and the emotional care of sufferers of sight loss. * Speakers are at the cutting edge of these fields. Society members benefit from reduced attendance fees

Professional Net-working

A unique multi-disciplinary forum for professionals in the eye, social work, psychotherapy, psychology and education professions has been established for those interested in psychological aspects of vision

* Continuous Professional Development (CPD) certificates awarded

Membership of the Eye and The Mind Society

Membership is open to professionals with an interest in promoting psychological understanding in people suffering from eye disorders

They may be:

counsellors
general practitioners
nurses
ophthalmologists
optometrists
orthoptists
psychiatrists
psychoanalysts
psychologists
psychotherapists
rehabilitation workers
social workers
vision teachers