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VENUE
120 Belsize Lane, London NW3
Located on the corner of Belsize Lane and Fitzjohn's Avenue. Nearest tube Swiss Cottage.
Located on the corner of Belsize Lane and Fitzjohn's Avenue. Nearest tube Swiss Cottage.
SCHEDULE
- April 9 2008
Joseph Schwartz - Once More with Feeling? - April 16 2008
Paul Gilbert - Compassion in therapeutic relationships - April 23 2008
Jane Haberlin - An invitation to look into the mind of the Other - April 30 2008
Diana Shmukler - It's all about you and nothing to do with you: the risks and benefits of threats to the therapeutic alliance - May 7 2008
Margaret Wilkinson - Change in the consulting-room: neuroscience, attachment, trauma and the therapeutic alliance. - May 14 2008
Ernesto Spinelli - Relatedness and the therapeutic alliance - May 21 2008
Kate White - It's a Real Relationship: attachment perspectives on therapeutic alliances - May 28 2008
Mike Worrall - Rupture and repair in supervision - June 4 2008
Doris Brothers - Trust, uncertainty, and therapeutic alliance in trauma-centred treatment - June 11 2008
Heinrich Deserno - The Analyst and the Working alliance
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS
Registration from 19.00
Start time 19.30
End time 21.30
Start time 19.30
End time 21.30
FEES
Whole Series
Single places will be sold on the night if available.
- Self-funded £190
- Organisationally-funded £250
- Full-time student £150
- Self-funded £165
- Organisationally-funded £220
- Full-time student £90
- Self-funded £40
- Organisationally-funded £60
- Full-time student £20
Single places will be sold on the night if available.
CPD HOURS
Certificates of Attendance will be provided at each event.
BOOKING CONDITIONS
We regret that full refunds cannot be given but if you cancel in writing two weeks before a seminar you will receive a 50% refund. Your place is for your own use only.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
CONFER takes its responsibility for environmental impact very seriously, and we welcome further suggestions.
THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
10 seminars on Wednesday evenings
April 9 - June 11 2008
April 9 - June 11 2008
ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE
The working alliance considered from a range of contemporary theoretical and clinical approaches.
The purpose of this series of seminars is to illuminate the concept of the therapeutic or working alliance. This term originated in the work of Ralph Greenson and has since been widely used and discussed in describing the means whereby a patient and therapist become attached. But how important to the therapy is the quality of this bond? How is it created, and what places it at risk?
Our group of chosen speakers, who come from a broad range of theoretical backgrounds - psychoanalytic, relational, cognitive behavioural, integrative, existential, person centred - have been invited to consider a number of questions:
- Is the working alliance conscious choice or unconscious process?
- How far is it influenced, either positively or negatively, by transferences or countertransference?
- What is the role of trust in the forming of the alliance?
- How significant are the therapist's authentic feelings in the therapeutic attachment?
- What events may pose threats to that connection and how these might be negotiated?
- Are ruptures to the alliance a necessary part of the therapeutic journey?
- What function does the contract or other aspects of the frame have in binding the therapeutic pair?
- Is there a correlation between working alliance and therapeutic outcome?
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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