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Confer events held to date in 2011, including information and programmes from conferences, seminars and workshops.

12 September to 5 December 2011: APPLICATIONS OF OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY
Since Freud described the attachment to the mother as "unique, without parallel, established unalterably for a whole lifetime as the first and strongest love-object and as the prototype of all later love relations" the role of primary relationships in the development of the human psyche has been a vital theme in psychoanalytic theory, absorbing the attention of every major subsequent theorist.
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13 January 2011 to 24 November 2011: THE EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFANT - LONDON
These seminars have been designed in the light of accruing research evidence on the importance of very early experiences in the development of a core sense of self – the baby-self that is present throughout life. The programme traces the journey from the first sense of self that the baby experiences to the adult's interaction with that earliest developmental core.
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Friday 7 October 2011: WHY PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKS - DUBLIN
In this workshop Dr. Schore will discuss the change mechanism of psychotherapy from the perspective of Regulation Theory, a model of the development, psychopathogenesis, and treatment of the implicit self.
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Saturday 1 October 2011: FACING SEXUALITY
Although members of the general public believe that psychotherapists attribute all psychological difficulties to sexual causes, most psychotherapists and counsellors struggle greatly in their efforts to talk with patients and clients about intimate sexual matters in a professional manner, without being intrusive, excited, or avoidant.
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Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 2011: APPLYING INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY TO CLINICAL TECHNIQUE
In April 2011 Dr Dan Siegel gave an outstanding two-day seminar to explain why psychotherapy works, introducing us to new insights in the field of neural integration. Drawing our attention to the deeply social nature of the mind-body system, Dan elaborated the role of relationships in shaping the mind at a neurobiological level, offering layers of new knowledge to help us more fully explain the power of psychotherapy. We also began to discuss how knowledge about interpersonal neurobiology can be directly applied to clinical technique - a large and enormously complex area for practitioners to grasp - and this second event has been arranged to demonstrate and teach the fine detail of neurobiologically-informed practice.
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Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2011: SUMMER SCHOOL: WORKING WITH BORDERLINE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The concept of the borderline personality has undergone significant review in recent years, and is now widely understood to be a constellation of disturbing symptoms and behaviours that are the consequence and expression of an early attachment disorder. Those who receive the diagnosis of BPD map closely onto those know to have experienced abusive and neglectful early childhood backgrounds, which severely restrict social, relational and emotional development. Models of developmental psychopathology also suggest that borderline attachment histories alter the growth of regulatory structures in the early developing brain thus neurobiologically impairing that person's capacity to self-regulate, manage their feelings and to control impulses.
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Saturday 18 June 2011: THE THEORETICAL JOURNEY TO RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
What theories, discussions, controversies and clinical experience have taken us to our present-day understanding of the centrality of the relationship in the psychotherapeutic relationship? Tracing a developmental journey of theory and practice from Freud to interpersonal neurobiology, Dr Joseph Schwartz will distil and describe the theoretical foundations of contemporary relational approaches to give us a firm grasp of the theories that have brought us to our current paradigms. Famous cases will be revisited to see the strengths and limitations of specific ideas that have formed the pathway to contemporary modes of practice.
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Saturday 21 May 2011: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTIC CHANGE
In this one-day seminar we will be introduced to the theoretical and clinical work of two ground-breaking analytical psychologists and authors, Dr Jean Knox and Margaret Wilkinson, who have both embraced developmental neuroscience to deepen their understanding of the way the human mind functions. They will discuss how new neuroscientific paradigms have led them to greater knowledge and confidence about why certain psychotherapeutic interventions are effective.
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Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 April 2011: WHY PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKS
As we continue to discover more about neural integration and the deeply social nature of the brain we are moving towards remarkable new insights into the nature of the mind. At this 2-day seminar, which is a unique opportunity to work with Dan Siegel in person, we will explore the properties of psychological well-being and how new scientific insights are providing us with a deeper understanding of why psychotherapy works.
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Saturday 26 March 2011: THE MINDFUL PSYCHOTHERAPIST - Developing embodied awareness, felt-experience, and affect regulation in the psychotherapeutic relationship
This one-day seminar is designed to support the psychotherapist’s capacity for sustaining a state of presence in the therapeutic relationship, particularly when working with traumatised or challenging clients/patients.
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10 January to 21 March 2011: THE THERAPEUTIC FRAME - Managing boundaries in the psychotherapy relationship
The vast number of scholarly papers on the ground-rules for psychotherapy is evidence of a profound discussion that reaches into the core of the therapeutic theory. From Freud's analytic hour that protects the transference, to major re-workings of frame theory by contemporary relational psychoanalysts, the issue of where and how therapeutic boundaries should be placed leads inevitably to the deeper enquiry of how psychotherapy works.
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Monday 7 - Friday 11 March 2011: TRAUMA SKILLS SCHOOL EDINBURGH - A programme of 10 seminars for psychotherapists designed for the development of technical skills and theoretical knowledge in working with trauma related disorders.
The aim of this 5-day programme is to present some of the most recent developments in the treatment of trauma related disorders. The 10 seminars, taught by several of the UK's leading specialists in the field, are designed for mental health practitioners interested in...
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Saturday 15 January 2011: OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY AND CHRISTIANITY - Psychotherapeutic work with the patient's desire, longing, and fear of God and the Church
Following Chris McKenna's acclaimed presentation at the Spiritual Narratives and Psychological Therapies conference in Cambridge 2008, this one-day seminar is an exploration of the interface between our inner, subjective worlds, its objects and religious experience with particular reference to understanding the Christian psyche. Beginning with an introduction to Object Relations theory, we will explore the primitive defences and processes of splitting and projective identification that are implicit in both benign and pathological forms of religious thinking.
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