Confer - continuing professional development, seminars and conferences for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SPEAKERS
Dr Gwen Adshead, Dr Marco Chiesa, Dr Judy Gammelgaard, Dr Richard Geist (by video-link), Dr Nuri Gene-Cos, Professor Brett Kahr, Professor Otto Kernberg (by video-link), Dr Jean Knox, Jack Nathan, Franklyn Sills, Ruthie Smith, Dr Felicity de Zulueta
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PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SKILLS SUMMER SCHOOL
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VENUE
Phillips Room, Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place
London
W1B 1NT
DATES
Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2011
SCHEDULE
Times

09.30 Registration and coffee
10.0 First presentation
13.0 Lunch
14.0 Second presentation
17.0 End
CPD HOURS
30 Hours (6 hours per day)
Certificates of Attendance are provided at the event
DIRECTIONS AND MAP
http://www.76portlandplace.com
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus
PROGRAMME DETAILS
FEES
SELF-FUNDED
  • Single day : £120 +VAT
  • All 5 days: £500 +VAT or a deposit of £250 and balance of £250 paid by 1 June 2011

ORGANISATIONALLY FUNDED
  • Single day : £200 +VAT
  • All 5 days: £690 +VAT

Self-funded participants booking for the whole programme can spread payments by paying a deposit of £250 +VAT and the balance of £250 +VAT by 1 June 2011
REFRESHMENTS
Refreshments of tea/coffee/herbal and a cooked lunch are included in your fee
BOOKING CONDITIONS
We regret that refunds cannot be given in any circumstances unless you cancel your place in writing before 1 June 2011, in which case we will give you a 50% refund. If you need to cancel after 1 June 2011 you may pass on your place to another person.

SUMMER SCHOOL: WORKING WITH BORDERLINE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
TUESDAY 28 JUNE TO SATURDAY 2
JULY 2011
ABOUT THIS EVENT

At this summer school you will explore:
  • The aetiology and nature of borderline structures
  • The complexities of assessment and diagnosis – for example distinguishing BPD from complex PTSD
  • Borderline symptoms: disorganisation of mind, dysfunctional psychological defenses, poor reality testing, and dsyregulation of affect
  • How psychological therapies may be helpful in re-organising defenses and integrating splits
  • Applications of effective treatment modalities: relational, psychoanalytic, attachment-based, DBT, mentalisation
  • Complexities in the psychotherapeutic relationship, boundary issues, transference and countertransference dynamics
  • A review of effective treatment approaches

The concept of the borderline personality has undergone significant review in recent years, and is now widely understood to be a constellation of symptoms and behaviours that are the expression of an early attachment disorder: those who receive the diagnosis of BPD map closely onto those known to have experienced abusive and neglectful early backgrounds. We now have far greater understanding on how such childhoods severely restrict social, relational and emotional development.

But how do we work psychotherapeutically with people for whom early developmental deficits have resulted in severe emotional dysregulation and a dysfunction ally personality structure? Amplified emotional responses to others, self-harming approaches to affect regulation, and difficulty in reciprocal empathy, all lead to complexity in the psychotherapeutic relationship intended to help.

This 5-day seminar school brings together a group of psychotherapists to present their views on how a person with a borderline vulnerability or BPD can gain from psychotherapy. The most contemporary and effective approaches will be explored, introducing new theory and practice that will support your own effective psychotherapy work.
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