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The big idea
THE BIG IDEA
Bold proposals, visionary ideas and inspiring concepts for the next decade of psychotherapy
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PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 5 MARCH 2010
18.30 Registration
 
19.0 Jon Blend and Dr Claire Asherson Bartram
Families are changing fast and psychotherapy needs to catch up

Claire Asherson Bartram is an integrative psychotherapist. Her own stepfamily inspired her to write and run groups on stepfamily issues. For her doctorate she explored the narratives of mothers in stepfamily situations and founded the organisation StepIn ASAP. Jon Blend is a psychotherapist, counsellor and supervisor who works with adults, children, adolescents and families in private practice in West London, and within the NHS. His background includes extensive work in psychiatry and social work. He teaches freelance at Terapia Institute and the Gestalt Centre London. He tutors on behalf of the Violet Oaklander Foundation (California, USA) using creative arts-based approaches to engage young persons in therapy. He is also a musician and a step-parent.
 
19.20 Dr Bernard Ratigan
Reasserting Freud's radical universal bisexuality and polymorphous perversity as a renewed theory of sexuality for the future

Dr Bernard Ratigan works as a psychotherapist and independent scholar in Leicester. His interests are in the space between psychoanalysis, the (homo-) sexualities, the arts and religious praxis. For many decades he has been pondering Freud’s ideas about sex and gender.
 
19.50 Paul Maiteny
Psychotherapy is an eco-systemic activity and we urgently need to recognise it as such

Paul Maiteny is an integrative and transpersonal psychotherapist, anthropologist and ecologist with 25 years working in ecological education, originally as a ranger. Since 1996, he has taught and written courses for the MSc Education for Sustainability, London South Bank University. He has held research posts at Oxford University, the Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, the Open University and the University College London. He has researched psycho-emotional and cultural dimensions of ecological breakdown, contributing writings on this work to The Psychotherapist (Winter 2008/9), Handbook of Sustainability Literacy (Stibbe, Ed., in press), and UNESCO's Encyclopaedia of Life-Support Systems.
 
20.10 DISCUSSION
Your hopes for the profession of psychotherapy

 
20.40 Nick Totton
Wild Therapy: an approach which supports spontaneity, embodiment, heart focus, and relatedness with the human, other-than-human and more-than-human

Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with over twenty five years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, he has also trained in cranial-sacral therapy and taken an MA in Psychoanaytic Studies; he now practices and teaches Embodied-Relational Therapy. His primary 'way in' to ecopsychology is through our embodied connection with the rest of the universe and with nonhuman beings. He offers workshops and talks on ecopsychology and embodiment, most recently exploring the concept of 'Wild Mind', and sometimes takes therapy sessions out of doors. He has written several books, including Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction; Psychotherapy and Politics; and Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems.
 
21.0 Laurie Slade
Dreaming the future - emergent thinking in the face of the unknown

Laurie Slade is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in West London. He is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and the Confederation for Analytical Psychology. He has been involved in social dreaming since 2001, hosting sessions in a variety of settings, in the UK and internationally. At the IAGP Conference in Rome this summer, he will be giving a presentation on an experimental project at Rose Bruford Drama College which he has been involved with since 2005, using dreams to facilitate creativity for student theatre directors.
 
21.20 DRINKS RECEPTION


 
SATURDAY 6 MARCH 2010
09.0 Registration
 
9.30 Dr Brian Martindale
Rediscovering Psychosis: the chance for psychotherapists to make an impact within the national early intervention in psychosis framework

9.50 Suzette Clough
Visual Medicine and the creative mind - an innovative paradigm for exploring the unconscious

10.10 Isabel Clarke
Bringing psychosis in out of the cold: we need to re-conceptualise our understandings of madness

10.30 Dr Phil Mollon
Energy psychotherapy connects to the deep energetic structure that links psyche and, if embraced, offers equally deep potential for healing our patients.

10.50 Discussion time followed by COFFEE
 
11.40 Dr Joseph Schwartz
How long does a paradigm shift take?

12.0 Dr Jean Knox
Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity: how neuroscience is contributing to a new theory of self-agency in psychotherapy?

12.20 Dr Ruth Lanius (BY VIDEO LINK)
Brain imaging and psychotherapy: the next decade of research

12.40 Dr Ellert Nijenhuis
Dissociation of the personality and other substitute actions: unifying theory on dissociation in trauma

13.0 LUNCH
 
14.0 Adah Sachs
A proposal for a new attachment classification, its relevance to dissociative disorders and radical implications for therapy

14.20 Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
The myth of post-racism and my hope for transcultural therapy

14.40 Discussion time followed by tea
 
15.30 Gabrielle Rifkind
Psycho-politics and international conflict: what can we learn from psychodynamic theory as a key contribution to resolving international disputes?

15.50 Dr Felicity de Zulueta
Intergenerational trauma needs to become a mainstream theoretical axis for understanding the patient's suffering and that of traumatised communities

16.10 Dr Jeremy Holmes
Cross bearing, connectedness and consciousness: an integrative model for 21st century psychotherapy, bringing present unconscious and past unconscious into focus

16.30 Discussion time
 
17.0 END
 
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