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 Seminars, conferences and online resources for psychotherapists |
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Online Modules
Confer's Online Modules are packages of videoed talks, audio tracks, slides, texts and references contributed by leading theoreticians to support your work.
Eco-Psychotherapy
Synthesising ecology and psychotherapy in practice and theory
Online ModuleSo much psychotherapy takes place within the confines of a consulting room. But what happens when therapy takes place in a natural setting - or when the natural world is invited into the narrative of self and other? This module brings together the practices of ecology and psychotherapy to illustrate how engagement with nature, which includes ourselves, is a powerful transformative tool, both in itself and - potentially - when integrated into any therapeutic approach.
Speakers
Guy Dargert, Caroline Frizell, Jo Hamilton, Dr Adrian Harris, Professor Paul Hoggett, Chris Johnstone, Emma Palmer, Paul Maiteny, George Marshall, Hayley Marshall, Rosemary Randall, Professor Chris Rapley, Mary-Jayne Rust, Nick Totton, Dr Maggie Turp, Sally Weintrobe, Joanna Wise.
CPD value: 16 hours
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Forensic Psychotherapy: Pathologies and Treatment Strategies for working with Violence
Online ModuleThe subject of this online module is the psychotherapeutic treatment of violent offenders and those with abusive tendencies or fantasies. Through 14 hours of videos, audio tracks and papers, we aim to illuminate why human beings can be dangerous, murderous or perverse, and how such tendencies can be psychotherapeutically treated.
Speakers
Dr Jamie Bennett, Dr Ronald Doctor, Dr Sandra M Grant, Mary Haley, Professor Brett Kahr, The late Professor Gill McGauley, Ms Anna Motz, Dr Adah Sachs, Richard Shuker, Dr Celia Taylor, Dr Estela Welldon, Dr Jessica Yakeley.
CPD value: 14 hours
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Embodied Approaches to Psychotherapy
Online ModuleThis new collection of videos and papers brings together the work of an extraordinarily diverse and talented group of psychotherapists - from psychoanalysts to body psychotherapists - who see the body as central to the therapeutic process.
Speakers
Julianne Appel-Opper, Shoshi Asheri, Bill Cornell, Morit Heitzler, Dr Pat Ogden, Dr Susie Orbach, Dr Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, Dr Yorai Sella, Jon Sletvold, Michael Soth, Dr Kathrin Stauffer, Nick Totton.
CPD value: 16 hours
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Neurobiology and its Applications to Psychotherapy - II
Online ModuleThis combination of videos, audio tracks, papers and references provides 12 hours of recorded presentations plus notes, papers and research resources on the subject of neurobiology when applied to the practice of psychotherapy.
Speakers
Lucy Biven, Dr Nessa Carey, Dr Ruth Lanius, Dr Dianne Lefevre, Dr Dan Siegel, Professor Mark Solms, Dr Sharon Stanley, Professor Oliver Turnbull, Dr Alan Watkins.
CPD value: 14 hours
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The Applications of Attachment Theory to Psychotherapy
Online ModuleThis package of online presentations provides over 14.5 hours of new videos plus additional resources on the subject of applying attachment theory to clinical expertise.
Speakers
Dr Christopher Clulow, Linda Cundy, Dr Sarah Ingrid Daniel, Professor Pasco Fearon, Tirril Harris, Professor Jeremy Holmes, Dr Dan Hughes, Dr Frank Lachmann, Dr Mario Marrone, Paul Renn, Dr Daniela Sieff, Professor Miriam Steele, Dr David Wallin, Kate White.
CPD value: 20.5 hours
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Advances in Relational Psychotherapy
Online ModuleThe vast influence of Relational Psychoanalysis in the last 25 years has evolved into one of the most significant paradigm shifts in the field, impacting on almost every psychotherapy modality. This package offers a set of videoed talks on relational theory and practice, presented by some of most influential author-practitioners, and is designed to illustrate relational theory as it is applied to clinical technique.
Speakers
Dr Neil Altman, Shoshi Asheri, Dr Jessica Benjamin, Dr Doris Brothers, Roz Carroll, Dr Muriel Dimen, Professor Maria Gilbert, Dr Adrienne Harris, Dr Nancy McWilliams, Dr Jeremy Safran, Professor Andrew Samuels, Dr Donnel Stern, Dr David Wallin.
CPD value: 20.5 hours
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Psychotherapeutic Work with Intergenerational Trauma
Online ModuleThis package of online presentations provides 10 hours of new videos plus additional resources on the subject of working with the psychological effects of intergenerational trauma. We are delighted to be hosting these internationally distinguished author-clinicians as our presenters:
Speakers
Dr Pamela Alexander, Dr Aileen Alleyne, Dr Doris Brothers, Prophecy Coles, Dr Françoise Davoine, Dr Dori Laub o Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, Dr Clara Mucci, Professor Franz Ruppert, Lennox Thomas, Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch, Dr Estela Welldon.
CPD value: 20 hours
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Neurobiology and its Applications to Psychotherapy
Online ModuleThis combination of videos, audio tracks, papers and references provides 18 hours of recorded presentations plus notes, new papers and research resources on the subject of neurobiology when applied to the practice of psychotherapy.
Speakers
Lucy Biven, Dr Mona DeKoven Fishbane, Professor Vittorio Gallese, Dr Jean Knox, Dr Ruth Lanius, Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Dr Iain McGilchrist, Dr Jaak Panksepp, Professor Stephen Porges, Dr Allan Schore, Dr Dan Siegel, Professor Mark Solms, Dr Alan Watkins, Dr Felicity de Zulueta.
CPD value: 21.5 hours
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Trauma and Dissociation
Online ModuleThis combination of videos, audio tracks, papers and references provides 16.5 hours of recorded presentations plus notes, new papers and research resources on the subject of psychotherapeutic work with trauma and dissociation.
Speakers
Rémy Aquarone, Dr Philip Bromberg, Dr Doris Brothers, Dr Onno Van Der Hart, Professor Brett Kahr, Dr Jean Knox, Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, Dr Pat Ogden, Alexandra Richman, Dr Allan Schore, Dr Daniel Siegel, Dr Valerie Sinason, Dr Donnel Stern and Dr Felicity de Zulueta.
CPD value: 20.5 hours
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Online Events
Learning from Life: the acquisition of psychoanalytic wisdom
Patrick Casement3 video lectures
In his fourth and most personal book Learning from Life Patrick Casement gives us a fascinating insight into fundamental questions concerning the acquisition of analytic wisdom and how personal experiences shape the analyst's approach to clinical work. In this 3-part seminar he talks to us about how the psychoanalytic self comes into being, and how our own emotional truths consciously or unconsciously shape our work. These presentations will have a fresh and emergent quality that cannot be summarised in abstracts. Participants can expect to hear inspiring, personal insights that illuminate the practice of psychoanalysis and the engagement with life.
This combination of video lectures provides 2.5 hours of recorded presentations..
CPD value: 3 hours
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Live Events
Confer's live events are seminars and conferences held in the UK at which we aim to present the cutting edge of research and theory in order to deepen our understanding of the mind and best practice in mental health disciplines.
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Women on the Couch - the seminar series
Thursday evenings, 17 May to 6 December 2018 - LondonWith Susanna Abse, Dr Meg-John Barker, Sarah Benamer, Roz Carroll, Jocelyn Chaplin, Prophecy Coles, Marion Green, Janice Hiller, Dr Amanda Jones, Dr Dianne Lefevre, Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, Anna Motz, Emma Palmer (formerly Kamalamani), Holli Rubin, Anna Santamouris, Dr Maggie Turp, Maria Xrisoula and Heba Zaphiriou-Zafira
Holding in mind that hysteria was considered a female mental disorder for over 4000 years and has been inextricably linked with the origins of psychoanalysis, this unique seminar series asks how far we have come in our understanding of the female psyche and the treatment of female patients in psychotherapy. Female distress was once cured with herbs, sex or sexual abstinence, punished and purified with fire for its association with sorcery. Thankfully, we have come a long way from such confusion about the emotional life of women, but where are we now with psychotherapeutic intervention for those suffering, not from hysteria but anxiety, depression, racism, anger, disempowerment or identity confusion? Do women come to psychotherapy with specific issues? And if so, what do these issues throw up in terms of a continual re-evaluation of the 'female psyche' - if, indeed, such a thing exists. More information >>
Wild Therapy
Bringing therapy into the wild, and wildness into therapy
Saturday 12 May 2018 - LondonA 1-day workshop led by Nick Totton
Psychotherapy has recently experienced the turn to relationality, and the turn to the body. Now we are beginning to see the turn outside - to out of the consulting room, out of the obsessive focus on the private world of humans, and towards a realisation that we are wholly dependent on the wider world of which we are a part, on the other-than-human and more-than-human, on the wildness that surrounds and contains our familiar domesticity. But just as important as taking therapy outside is what happens when we bring it back into the therapy room, and find that it has changed - leading us to revise our conceptions of what therapy is, and of the relationship between individuals and larger networks, in ways which support a deeper, humbler and wilder approach to our work. More information >>
The Inner Baby on the Couch
Infant Development and Relational Psychoanalysis
Friday 18 May 2018 - LondonA 1-day seminar led by Dr Stephen Seligman
This seminar will be anchored in the immediacy and vitality of direct experience with infants and their parents, and of the lived experience of therapeutic relationships. Stephen Seligman will consider analogies between infant-parent and patient-therapist patterns of interaction, how looking at babies brings the lived experience of the body back into analysis, and helps us think about the non-verbal, emotional and interactive realms. An orientation to the history of developmental psychoanalysis and the place of infancy and childhood in different analytic approaches will be offered. The different "analytic babies" are described and compared -Freud's baby, Klein's baby, Winnicott's baby, the Relational baby. Video illustrations will be included, and case material will be considered. More information >>
Psychoanalytic Babies:
Towards a Relational-Developmental Psychoanalysis
Saturday 19 May 2018 - LondonA conference with Dr Anne Alvarez, Dr Graham Music and Dr Stephen Seligman
Welcoming back Dr Stephen Seligman (who is also leading a seminar for us on 18 May), this conference will consider how analytic practice can be affected by thinking about infants and children, asking how and whether we can talk about babies and adult patients in the same breath. The discussion will be anchored in the immediacy and vitality of direct experience with infants and their parents, and of the lived experience of therapeutic relationships with adults. More information >>
The Landscapes of Grief
Saturday 26 May 2018 - DublinWith speakers John Banville, Ciaran Benson, Dr Tanya M. Cassidy, Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Julie Sutton
It is a universal truth that we are all going to die. We know this but we tend to ignore the reality, and to struggle with the inevitability that we will lose people we love. Death in our society is unacceptable and 15 percent of all psychological disorders are due to unresolved grief. But within the last two decades, there has been a revolution of understandings and theories that help us understand the process of healthy mourning. This day brings together therapy, landscape and literature to look at theories and processes that facilitate healthy grieving - both in psychotherapeutic practice and in life itself. More information >>
Bombs in the Consulting Room
How to survive hostile transference and relational dynamics
Saturday 9 June 2018 - LondonA 1-day seminar with Professor Brett Kahr and Dr Carine Minne
Although the vast majority of psychotherapy patients comport themselves with great honourability and pose no physical or emotional threat to the clinician, a small number of individuals will, from time to time, hurl "bombs" into the consulting room. Some patients might confess to criminal activities, or might even stalk or terrorise the psychotherapeutic practitioner, causing great distress.
In this special one-day event, Professor Brett Kahr and Dr. Carine Minne, two of our nation's leading specialists, will present material from their work in both independent and forensic settings, examining the ways in which one can better diagnose potential clinical "bombs" in advance and, also, exploring how one might better defuse the bombs which patients hurl, inevitably, on certain occasions. More information >>
Women on the Couch
Saturday 16 June 2018 - LondonWith Carmen Joanne Ablack, Dr Luise Eichenbaum, Sissy Lykou, Gina Miller and Dr Susie Orbach
With multiple allegations of abuse by powerful men of less powerful women, we (both men and women) are in an extraordinary moment of taking stock of our relative positions to each other. The revelations of transgressions in the entertainment industry - from intrusive touching to actual rape - by intelligent and privileged men are an extraordinary testimony of inequality at the deepest and most primitive level: our relationship to the body and its ownership. More information >>
Toxic Couples in Therapy
Attachment and unconscious processes in relationship conflict and abuse
Saturday 23 June 2018 - LondonWith Damian McCann, Andy Metcalf, Anna Motz and Kate Thompson
One of the most complex ironies of the human condition is that our need for intimacy - so essential for survival from the moment of birth - often results in relationships that persistently thwart our deepest emotional and embodied prerequisites for contentment in adulthood: tenderness, empathic atunement and sexual fulfilment. At the beginning of a new relationship these desires may appear attainable and yet, as we see so often in therapy, unconscious processes can disrupt the most loving intentions, bringing the weight of negative, deeply held expectations about the self and the other into the core experience of the couple relationship, leading to great pain and disappointment. More information >>
Emotion-Focused Therapy
The transforming power of affect
Saturday 14 July 2018 - LondonA 1-day seminar with Professor Leslie Greenberg
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach developed by Professor Leslie Greenberg and colleagues that views emotions as centrally important in human functioning and in therapeutic change. It is an integrative, neo-humanistic treatment based on a program of psychotherapy research that began in the 1970s. It integrates Person-Centred, Gestalt and Existential Therapy traditions with a psychodynamically informed approach, all within an emotion theory and neuroscience perspective that views emotion as a source of meaning, direction and growth. It has been shown to be effective in the treatment of depression, anxiety, complex trauma, eating disorders and couple distress, as well as interpersonal problems and problems in living. More information >>
Existential Uncertainty
A 1-day workshop facilitated by Professor Ernesto Spinelli
Saturday 28 July 2018 - DublinWith Professor Ernesto Spinelli
Current issues such as political and economic instability, climate change, and Brexit have provoked ever-increasing levels of anxiety and confusion. In turn, these concerns serve to highlight the degree to which uncertainly permeates our lives. Among contemporary psychotherapeutic models, existential psychotherapy emphasizes the inevitability of uncertainty. Its foundational stance of relatedness makes it evident that no individual "I" can ever fully determine, with complete and final certainty, what and how the world will be; how another or others will be; or even how "I" will be at any point time. More information >>
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