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 Seminars, conferences and online resources on psychotherapy and human relationships |
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Online Resources
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 - Conferences and Seminars
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 13 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-Zarifi
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? More information >>
Psychotherapy and the Natural World
Friday 31 August - Sunday 2 September 2018 - IrelandWith Dr Sharon Blackie, Robbie Breadon, Dearbhail Conlon, Patricia Fitzgerald, Joanne Hanrahan, Andy Hardie, Matthew Henson, Katarina Horrox, Therese O'Driscoll and Mary-Jayne Rust
So 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 conference brings together the practices of ecology and psychotherapy to illustrate how engagement with nature is a powerful transformative tool, both in itself and - potentially - when integrated into any therapeutic approach. This conference rests on the principle that by seeing ourselves as part of the biosphere, rather than above or beyond it, we can begin to return to a relationship with the natural conditions that once provided us with the core of our psychological, spiritual and cultural sustenance. More information >>
Negotiating Endings in the Psychotherapy Relationship
Saturday 6 October 2018 - LondonWith Professor Jeremy Holmes, Dr John Andrew Miller, Anne Power and Dr Jill Salberg
Endings in therapy can range vastly from abrupt and unexpected ruptures to working towards a fulfilled ending, and anything in between. Of course, endings and loss are inextricably linked, even in the best circumstances. An ending will stir up early experiences of loss that may not have been consciously experienced before let alone worked through in the therapy. Patients with deeply embedded early trauma, patterns of abandonment in early attachment relationships might especially fear their capacity for 'going on being'. How can the therapist support the moving away from the therapeutic relationship whilst enabling the client to hold onto the good objects which may feel at risk during an ending? More information >>
Small Earth
Psychotherapists, ecologists, economists, philosophical and spiritual thinkers ask: can we return to living within the terms of Earth's ecosphere?
Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 November 2018 - SuffolkWith Judith Anderson, James Barrett, Amrita Bhohi, Dr Kim Brown, Dr Mick Collins, Dr Andrew Fellows, Marion Green, Melissa Harrison, Professor Tim Jackson, Paul Maiteny, Dr Alastair McIntosh, Chris Packham, Mary-Jayne Rust and Dr Yuriko Sato
Among the millions of people worried about our environment, there is a growing community of psychotherapists who are bringing ecological understanding and appreciation closer to the heart of their work. These eco-psychologists share a profound concern for species extinction, environmental degradation and climate change. They view the wild as a place that supports psychological well-being, and that the unconstrained use of the planet as a resource counters all aspects of healthy and sustainable living; that living eco-systemically means appreciating and acting on the reality that humans are an intrinsic parts of Earth's eco-system, not a species separate from it. More information >>
Regression: a necessary state of mind for therapeutic growth?
Saturday 17 November 2018 - LondonWith Dr Lorraine Price, Dr Adah Sachs and Marcus West
This meeting will consider how we respond therapeutically when our client seems to be relating to us from a young or regressed self-state. Each of our speakers will approach the subject by considering what early relational experiences the client may be describing by embodying this younger self. What happened for them at that age? What meanings do we make of such frozen self-states? When the client suddenly speaks in a childlike voice or wears clothes suited to a much younger person, what feelings does that arouse for the therapist? More information >>
Confer's 20th Anniversary Conference
What is Normal?
Saturday 24 November 2018 - LondonWith Roz Carroll, Dr Christopher Clulow, Professor Brett Kahr, Dr Phil Mollon, Dr Susie Orbach, Professor Andrew Samuels, Ann Shearer, Dr Valerie Sinason, Lennox Thomas and Dr Felicity de Zulueta
At this special event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Confer's work we have set our speakers a thorny question to answer: what is normal? The subject, while posing important questions about some very binary ideas of sanity and madness, health and illness, predictability and instability, also offers a platform for us to elaborate when and how the concept or normality informs our work - if at all. Does the notion of a regular, standardised way of being guide the direction of psychotherapy towards the perceived goal for the client of becoming in some sense average? What does that look like? Non psychotic, non-neurotic, inconspicuous? More information >>
Reading, Writing, Listening:
A symposium with Adam Phillips, including guests Josh Cohen, Howard Cooper and Laura Marcus
Saturday 1 December 2018 - LondonWith Adam Phillips, Josh Cohen, Howard Cooper and Laura Marcus
Over the course of three decades, Adam Phillips has been exploring and expanding the boundaries of psychoanalytic writing. He has addressed topics from across the broadest range of human experience - among many others, flirtation, escape, sanity, the unlived life and 'unforbidden pleasures'. Yet it's not simply the intellectual richness of his writing that has inspired readers, but his unmistakeable personal voice - playful, paradoxical and profoundly humane. More information >>
Ghostly Hauntings
Subliminal and unconscious messages from our ancestors
Friday 7 December 2018 - LondonWith Lisa Appignanesi, Prophecy Coles, Dr Françoise Davoine, Professor Stephen Frosh and Linda Grant
This conference aims to elucidate a particular experience within the field of intergenerational trauma, the as if experience of being occupied or possessed by another from a different time or place, and feelings that are hard to explain. When working with these clients, a sense of ghostly possession and metaphysical phenomena can come to mind. We are reminded how within the psyche the past and future can collide in the present. The conference will offer a psychodynamic perspective on what we might call the haunting of the living by the unknown experiences of ancestors - those traumas that they were never able to talk about. We will consider the importance of being open to the possibility that our clients carry 'uninvited' guests searching for a voice and seeking to be heard. More information >>
Pre and Perinatal Emotional Health
Saturday 8 December 2018 - LondonWith Professor Vivette Glover, Dr Cherionna Menzam-Sills and Franklyn Sills
This conference brings together speakers from the fields of medicine, psychotherapy and research to consider what we know about the impact of the mother's internal working model of attachment on the emotional development of her baby during pregnancy. We will look at how her states of mind are conveyed to the foetus and are inextricably linked to the attachment style and emotional wellbeing of the new baby to-be-born and the importance of the mother allowing and expressing the full array of feelings she has during her pregnancy including her negative emotions. Beginning with an overview of the neurobiological systems that occur between the mother and her foetus during gestation, we will learn how certain physiological systems coming from the mother's body-mind, influence the baby's potential emotional-self and its endocrinal system. More information >>
Working with High Intensity States of Consciousness:
Ego-disintegration or spiritual breakthrough?
Saturday 15 December 2018 - LondonWith Dr Angela Cotter, Viv Fogel, Dr Tim Read, Dr Malcolm Rushton and Laurie Slade
This conference will explore links between early trauma and high intensity states of consciousness. For some psychotherapists working with 'non-ordinary states', the 'unknowable' and the 'numinous', including archetypal penetration and crisis of meaning, is integral to their work. To others, such heightened types of consciousness are concerning expressions of ego disintegration. Our speakers will describe a stance where understanding, acceptance and normalisation of the client's experience however strange can be a starting point for integration, growth and healing. More information >>
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