Psychopathology: Theory and Practice II

A Certificate or Diploma in Psychopathology: Theory and Practice

Full day seminars over 12 weekends from
Saturday 11 September 2021 – Sunday 10 July 2022

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Delivered via live webinars online.

This course can be taken at a certificate (90 units) or diploma level (120 units)

A one-year diploma programme that is designed to provide mental health practitioners with a deepened understanding of the clinical manifestations of certain psychopathologies. The course will examine specific forms of mental distress including psychosis, depression, self-harm, personality disorder. It will also pay particular attention to the psychosocial context of psychological suffering and its treatment, including inequalities informing mental health, attachment and trauma.

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COURSE STRUCTURE

The course will take place on twelve Saturdays over one year, delivered online.

The course comprises theory, discussion on application of concepts and therapeutic approaches, small and large group discussion and live supervision sessions.

  • At Certificate level: attending all the skills-based training seminars and following a home study programme of videos (90 units).
  • At Diploma level: attending all the skills-based training seminars and following a home study programme of videos and submission of a 5000-word dissertation (120 units)

Award

Certificate in Contemporary Psychopathology Studies

TOTAL UNITS 90

12 Study days (60 units)
Home-study videos and MCQ’s (20 units)
Multiple choice questionnaire to assess learning (10 units)
Participants will demonstrate their learning by undertaking a test at the end of the course.


Diploma in Contemporary Psychopathology Studies

TOTAL UNITS 120

12 Study days (60 units)
Home-study videos and MCQ’s (20 units)
Online tutorials (10 units)
Participants will enhance their learning by participating in 3 X 2hr online tutorial groups, sharing their plans and research as they prepare to write dissertations. They will also attend a two-hour one-to-one tutorial to structure their own dissertation.

Dissertation (30 units)
Submission of 5000-word dissertation to comprise two case studies with reflections on the learning process. This is to demonstrate knowledge of psychopathology and how it can be integrated into therapeutic practice (to be submitted no later than six months after the end of the course).

THE COURSE PHILOSOPHY

Created in 2019, this course provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners from all backgrounds and orientations to explore the origins and treatments of psychopathology, both as a concept and in the specific manifestations that may come into the psychotherapist’s work.

Examining different theoretical frameworks, contrasting paradigms and a range of values involved in the understanding and treatment of severe psychological suffering, the course provides a critical analysis of aetiology, diagnostic models and treatment approaches across different mental health disciplines. As it is designed primarily for psychotherapists, an emphasis on psychodynamic and trauma-based understandings of psychopathology is core to the curriculum.

The first part of the course questions the nature of mental illness, whether a biological condition or a response to abnormal circumstances. It then offers a traumatological view of psychopathology, exploring connections between early attachment problems and disorders in adulthood. Intergenerational trauma and transmitted psychopathology within the family is considered. Paradigm shifts in diagnosis, shifts in the balance between the treatment model and a relational process of healing will be an ongoing discussion. The course also offers an examination of mental health and treatment inequalities across the UK’s diverse communities.

Course participants will also study specific diagnostic categories of mental health disorders as defined by the diagnostic manuals DSM and ICD. These include the severe psychoses (e.g., schizophrenia and affective disorders); forensic psychopathology (e.g., murder, arson, and paedophilia); characterological disorders and personality disorders (e.g., borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and many other forms). These will be discussed between practitioners from different disciplines: psychiatry, psychoanalysis and humanistic or integrative psychotherapy.

Our lecturers and tutors consist of some of the most experienced practitioners, all of whom have trained and worked in one or more of the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, social work, and psychiatry, and most of whom have written standard books and journal articles in their areas of specialisation.

In keeping with Confer’s long-standing tradition of providing not only deep clinical and scholarly knowledge, this course will also offer considerable space for participants to discuss their own work and to receive consultative insight from tutors and fellow participants as well as support for challenging professional experiences from our teaching staff and course directors.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

On successfully completing the course participants will be able to:

1. Study the range of psychiatric mood, personality and psychotic disorders and critically evaluate these from a psychoanalytic perspective.

2. Consider the aetiology of psychosis; what is biological, environmental and what is a normal response to abnormal circumstances.

3. Describe the conceptualisation of mental distress within a psychodynamic framework, including taking in a developmental framework: assessment and diagnosis models in the different disciplines

4. Appraise the psychopharmacologic use of psychotherapy clients and feel comfortable to liaise with other professionals.

5. Consider ways that a psychotherapist would work with the range of presentations through case material presentations and live supervision.

6. Study and appreciate the complexity of the mental health debates in terms of the social perceptive: inequality, diversity, racism, intersectionality and its relationship with other disadvantages, such as poverty.

7. Understand the concept of developmental trauma and the connections between early attachment and pre-verbal trauma.

8. Explore the concept of intergenerational trauma and transmitted psychopathology within the family.

9. Consider the ways a psychotherapist/psychoanalytic psychotherapist/psychoanalyst may work dynamically alongside or challenge the psychiatric system.

IN PERSON PROGRAMME

DATES

Saturday 11 September 2021 (online)

Saturday 9 October 2021 (online)

Saturday 13 November 2021 (online)

Saturday 4 December 2021 (online)

Saturday 22 January 2022 (online)

Saturday 19 February 2022 (online)

Saturday 19 March 2022 (online)

Saturday 09 April 2022 (online)

Saturday 7 May 2022 (online)

Saturday 4 June 2022 (online)

Saturday 9 July 2022 (online)

Sunday 10 July 2022 (online)

SCHEDULE

09.30 Lecture 1
10.30 Q&A
10.45 Break
11.15 Lecture 2
12.15 Q&A
12.30 Break
13.30 Structured enquiry into the application of content into participants’ own psychotherapy practice
14.30 Lecture based on case study
15.30 Q&A
15.45 Break
16.00 Large group live supervision
17.00 End

CURRICULUM

Further details including presenter details to follow

DAY 1 – WHAT IS PSYCHOPATHOLOGY? – Saturday 11 September 2021

DAY 2 – THE TRAUMATOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE – Saturday 9 October 2021

DAY 3 – PARADIGM SHIFTS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS – Saturday 13 November 2021

DAY 4 – MENTAL HEALTH CARE INEQUALITIES – Saturday 4 December 2021

DAY 5 – NEUROBIOLOGICAL WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING THE DYSREGULATED MIND – Saturday 22 January 2022

DAY 6 – PSYCHOSIS – Saturday 19 February 2022

DAY 7 – MOOD DISORDERS – Saturday 19 March 2022

DAY 8 – PERSONALITY DISORDERS – Saturday 09 April 2022

DAY 9 – SUICIDALITY, SELF-DESTRUCTION AND SELF-HARM – Saturday 7 May 2022

DAY 10 – FORENSIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY – Saturday 4 June 2022

DAY 11 – PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY: PSYCHOTHERAPY CLIENTS ON MEDICATION – Saturday 9 July 2022

DAY 12 – SELF-CARE WHEN WORKING WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESSES – Sunday 10 July 2022

HOME STUDY VIDEOS

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Michael Knight
Suicidality

Unit 1 – Basic Psychopathology

First, some thoughts and discussion about how we respond as therapists to a client at serious risk of suicide, a situation that tests the limits of the underlying robustness of our theory and practice and our relational resilience.

The main content of the presentation will then be on Maytree, a unique short stay (100 hours) respite (and therapy) centre for those in suicidal crisis, of which I was a co-founder, and the principal architect of its model. In expounding its genesis and vision, and the gap in services it fills, I will focus on its ethos and the core values of its practice, namely containment and compassion – the essence surely of all our work. Finally, we’ll look at outcomes, successes, failures, inviting discussion on its merits and potential.

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Dr Richard Sherry
PTSD: The Past and Potential Future

Unit 1 – Basic Psychopathology

In his lecture on PTSD Dr Sherry will take 20 years plus of expertise within the field of psychological traumatology that has literally taken him around the world and across multiple fields of training. 

His psychological traumatology work has evolved from his seven years treating traumatized soldiers when he headed the Clinical Psychology section for US Military inpatients for Europe. As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with neuropsychology training, he is a specialist in traumatology (ESTSS Cert and an EMDR Consultant), a licensed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (BPC Reg.); he will take these expert insights to shed light on this diagnosable condition from the assessment and treatment across modalities. Much of his work has looked at extreme environments including gender based violence (GBV) and genocide as well as this he did his ethics training focused on re-examining the core ethical approaches within a disaster.  

In this lecture Dr Sherry will cover some of the history of what PTSD is, the assessment and diagnostic issues, including from a psychoanalytic vantage point, and the treatment issues including some of the innovations with very low resource environments. Much of his focus on PTSD will examine the question of identity and how can we transform issues of instability through expert leadership to create profound well-being. 

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Dr Carine Minne
Forensic Psychopathology

Unit 1 – Basic Psychopathology

In this talk there will be a brief introduction to forensic psychiatry settings, the Criminal Justice System and how these can interact. Some individuals suffering from mental disorders can end up involved in both systems. This talk will focus on the most prevalent disorders seen within these settings and suffered by the individuals. There is often a division and indeed, segregation, made between those suffering from psychoses and those suffering from personality disorders with dual and indeed triple diagnoses being made. Carine will describe the helpfulness of using a single entity diagnostic approach, illustrating the psychopathological presence of several features, some times more manifestly psychotic and at other times more manifestly personality disordered. An emphasis on the aetiological factors, particularly early environmental traumas, will be made. Many of the presenting features can evoke strong responses in others, which can influence the management and treatment of the patients and these will be referred to. There will be descriptions of the multi-disciplinary treatment approaches with special focus on the role of psychoanalytical psychotherapy. 

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Sian Morgan
Phobias

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

Sian will draw on her research into phobias. She will mainly be focusing on claustrophobia and agoraphobia. 

Claustraphobia as pathological fullness and agoraphobia as pathological emptiness, both defences against painful traumatic and unmourned losses, leading to a constriction of both internal and external space. She will explore the notion of transitional space within which loss and emptiness can be borne and transformed through the expression of creativity. 

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Professor Brett Kahr
Sub-clinical Psychopathy

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

Men and women diagnosed as suffering from personality disorders or those described as psychopathic or sociopathic commit the vast majority of serious offences, whether murder, arson, rape, paedophilia, or theft. But many individuals who do not function as formally identified forensic patients will, nevertheless, often perpetrate “unconscious crimes”, expressing violence – often deadly violence – through so-called “accidents”, whether by pushing loved ones down staircases, by transmitting infectious diseases, by killing family members through neglect, and so forth. In this seminar, Professor Brett Kahr will introduce the notion of “sub-clinical psychopathy”, exploring the unconscious motives and the manifestations of those who struggle with profound death wishes and who, in spite of a lack of a formally diagnosable mental illness, will, nevertheless, cause great harm.

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Dr Gwen Adshead
Attachment and Forensic Psychopathology

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

In this talk, Gwen will discuss the implications of attachment theory for the understanding of those mental states which are involved in the commission of violent offending. There is growing evidence that early childhood adversity is a potent risk factor for persistent and severe violent crime. Gwen will explore how childhood adversity leads to disorganised attachment systems; and the parallel disorganisation of how relationships and the people in those relationships are represented in the mind. Specifically, Gwen will discuss the importance of attachment narratives; and the language that offenders use to describe themselves, their offences and their victims. Gwen will conclude with what these findings might imply for interventions for offenders and the services in which they are provided; and discuss recent relevant research.

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Dr Phil Mollon
Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

Freud provided many interesting observations and perspectives in his classic 1914 paper On Narcissism. These were developed further in Kohut’s 1966 paper Forms and Transformations of Narcissism, in which he proposed a separate line of development of narcissism, from primitive to mature. The concept of narcissistic personality disorder did not emerge until the writings of Kernberg and Kohut in the 1970s. These authors presented contrasting, and seemingly incompatible views, a confusion compounded by their use of the same term (grandiose self) to mean quite different things – for Kohut a natural feature of childhood, for Kernberg a pathological structure consisting of a fusion of images of actual self, ideal self, and ideal other.

These contrasting visions of narcissism were later mirrored in Rosenfeld’s concepts of “thin-skinned” and “thick-skinned” narcissists. Rosenfeld observed that treating the “thin-skinned” narcissist as if they were “thick-skinned” could be very damaging. During the 1980s and 1990s, cognitive therapists, and schema therapists, began to develop concepts of narcissistic personality disorder, and the term became increasingly widely used – sometimes pejoratively and simplistically. This teaching will outline some of the core narcissistic dilemmas we all must navigate during childhood – and how these can become particularly pronounced in certain conditions, including ADHD. The realm of narcissism also interfaces with problems of human identity – and the ubiquitous tendency to become falsely identified with culturally and familiarly presented images.

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Valerie Sinason PhD
Intellectual Disabilities

Children and adults with an intellectual disability are more vulnerable to external trauma. In addition, the disability itself is difficult to emotionally process. This seminar reveals the key seminal themes that emerge from talking therapy with children and adults with mild, severe and profound multi-disability.

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Richard Curen
Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

The world appears to be split into those that can be classed as neurotypicals and those that are neurodivergents. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are a part of the neurodivergent group and people with Asperger’s Syndrome are part of the spectrum of people with ASD. There is a long history of misunderstandings and mistreatment of people with ASD across the medical profession and often in the consulting room. This seminar will present current thinking about ASD from a psychoanalytic perspective and suggest applications of that thinking in the treatment of individuals.

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Marian O'Connor
Psychosexual Disorders

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

Clients in psychotherapy may be happy to talk about relationship problems, but may find it difficult to talk about psychosexual concerns. Should psychotherapists encourage clients to open up about sexual difficulties? Is there a danger that talking about sex might stimulate erotic transference or voyeurism or expose the therapist’s ignorance about sexual functioning. This lecture will look at some of the blocks that might prevent the client or therapist talking about sex and will also provide information about sexual anatomy and common psychosexual dysfunctions.

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Professor Brett Kahr
Hysterical Neuroses and Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses

Unit 2 – Sub-Clinical Psychopathology

Although Sigmund Freud pioneered the theory and practice of depth psychology, based predominantly on his work with neurotic patients, especially those struggling with hysteria and with obsessive-compulsive disorders, the concept of neurosis has become increasingly marginalised within the fields of psychiatry, psychopathology and, even psychoanalysis itself. In this seminar, Professor Brett Kahr will review the classical foundations of the theories of hysteria and obsessive-compulsive illness and will argue for the importance of a detailed understanding of these ongoingly important characterological states. We shall begin by exploring Freud’s original work on the Studien uber Hysterie – the Studies on Hysteria – co-authored by Dr. Josef Breuer, as well as his exploration of the famous case of the obsessional “Rat Man”. We shall then consider more recent psychodynamic investigations of these foundational mental states. 

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Dr Arnon Bentovim
Family Psychopathology

Unit 3 – Developmental and Applied Psychopathology

The language of family psychopathology was established by the pioneering group of professionals working with Gregory Bateson in the 1950s who used the perspective of General Systems Theory as the basis of their observations to establish the ‘Double Bind Theory’ of schizophrenia. Concepts such as boundaries, homeostasis, reciprocal transactions, symmetrical and complementary communication, feedback loops, alliances, triangulation have entered shared language. The Family Therapy Movement differentiated from the pervasive psychodynamic orientation in the US, but as practitioners trained in psychodynamic approaches we attempted to link psychodynamic and systemic thinking. 

Based on our research on family functioning we introduced the Family Assessment model which provides the tools for practitioners to work with families. It describes the Family System as being made up of parts or sub-systems such as the parental partnership, and the parent-child subsystem which all contribute to the working or functioning of the system as a whole. Properties include how family members communicate, the nature of family alliances including attachments, and the management of boundaries and feeling states affect how the family system operates. The family system is more than the sum of its parts and there are characteristic patterns and core ways of relating and being – not so much cause and effect, but patterns of interaction. Families are located within the wider social system of extended family, local community and cultural norms and expectations. 

Conflict is inherent in family life as a result of significant differences in gender, age, and developmental stage of family members. The basic structure of the family needs to work optionally to manage differences. The experiences of the parents as children – inter-generational effects – have a profound impact on the way the family functions. Parents with a history of trauma, abuse and dysfunction may have distorted, complex relationships with partners – and children, with mutual dependence and high levels of conflict. Traumatic events ‘organise’ relationships justifying harsh, abusive or neglectful responses. Children may be organised into caring roles for parents with mental health and substance abuse, children with special needs can organise the lives of the family around their needs. 

A variety of therapeutic approaches have been developed to work with families including the SAAF Assessment approaches to determine whether the family is via-ble as an organisation or whether there is a potential for positive outcome, strengths which can be built on, goals which can be met. It is essential that practitioners develop skills to engage with children, young people and family members, joining, managing conflict in the here and now, using a variety of tasks to promote communication, allowing all family members to have a voice. “Structural approaches’ aim to intervene to change dysfunctional patterns, block dominating controlling voices, and promote and reinforce alternate patterns. Solution Focused approaches look for instances of appropriate responses – care rather than criticism, and helps the family to build on the positive – the solution. Attachment based approaches promote positive responsive, reflective key relationships to develop security and organisation of relationships. Mentalisation based approaches aims to help family members to begin to put themselves in each other’s shoes, and develop relationships based on understanding rather than beliefs. 

The Hope for Children and Families approach takes the key practice elements therapeutic procedures across the field to provide the practitioner with a step by step approach to working with families. The seminar will use video examples to explore the concepts of family psychopathology and introduce approaches to intervention. 

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Dr Joel Oberstar
Psychopharmacology

Unit 3 – Developmental and Applied Psychopathology

In this presentation, Dr. Oberstar will review the current understanding of the biological basis for certain psychopathology. Consideration will be given to the role of neurotransmitters in the expression of psychiatric symptoms. Commonly used psychiatric medications will be reviewed with a particular emphasis on “class” mechanisms of action and common effects and side effects. 

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Tamsin Cottis
Introduction to Child Psychopathology

Unit 3 – Developmental and Applied Psychopathology

This lecture will outline the structure of provision of current UK child mental health services 

A number of the most frequently diagnosed child mental health disorders (eg ADHD, ASC, Conduct Disorder, Eating Disorders, Childhood Depression,) will be identified and briefly described, drawing on the most up-to-date diagnostic criteria of DSM 5 and the ICD 10/11 (ICD 11 due to be adopted in May 2019). 

Information will be critically considered with reference to ordinary child development and in the light of up to date research regarding the development of the brain in infancy and childhood. Close consideration will be given to what is known about how trauma and adverse childhood experiences may impact on a child’s emotional, relational, cognitive, behavioural and relational development. Bessell van der Kolk’s Model of Developmental Trauma Model (2005) will be considered. 

As well as talking about medication-based treatments, we will explore how child psychotherapy, informed by Attachment Theory and Object Relations Theory, may be an effective response to childhood disorders which have their roots in traumatic experiences. 

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Dr Matthew Hagger
Geriatric Psychopathology

Unit 3 – Developmental and Applied Psychopathology

My talk will initially cover the common signs and symptoms of mental disorder in older people within the traditional psychiatric framework, including approaches to treatment and management within the biomedical model. A large part of working in old age psychiatry is working with the 3Ds as conditions ie depression, delirium and dementia. However I will also discuss and explore the wider backdrop of ageing and older people and how these factors and many others can affect someones individual mental health. This will lead into discussion about ways to understand and approach mental health in older age. I have a long term interest in psychodynamic approaches in working with patients, families and staff and will also discuss this in relation to older adults. 

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Professor Brett Kahr
The Traumatic Basis of Psychopathology

Unit 3 – Developmental and Applied Psychopathology

Professor Brett Kahr will review key themes of the course and provide an overview of some of the principal findings. 

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COURSE COMPLETION

To gain Certificate Level qualification

Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of twelve one-day seminars
Twenty hours of online home-study via our pre-recorded talks
Completion of an online MCQ test achieving 75% correct answers

Award: A Certificate in Psychopathology: Theory and Practice

At Diploma Level

Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of twelve one-day seminars
Twenty hours of online home-study via our pre-recorded talks
Minimum of 80 per cent attendance of 3 x 2hr online group tutorials
Attendance of a 2hr personal tutorial
Completion of a 5000-word dissertation (with a Submission deadline of January 2023)

Award: A Diploma in Psychopathology: Theory and Practice

ADMISSIONS CRITERIA

The starting point of the course requires that participants have competence in core therapeutic and relational skills. All participants must have qualified as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist or psychiatrist. In order to gain the most from the course, participants will currently be working with clients/patients.

To Apply

  1. Click the PURCHASE COURSE button below, selecting either Certificate or Diploma level
  2. Pay deposit
  3. Complete the application form that will be sent to you on receipt of this payment
  4. If your application is accepted we will retain your deposit and confirm your place
  5. If your application is declined we will notify you and return your deposit within 14 days

Once your place is confirmed, please scan and email back your professional qualification to our Diploma Course Manager, Cressida Moger (cressidamoger@confer.uk.com)

Staying in touch with you

Following this you will be contacted by Confer:

  • In early August 2021 with pre-course reading
  • At the beginning of September with any relevant materials for the first weekend

Coronavirus

This course has been designed to be entirely live streamed from our premises in London E1 with the potential for participants to attend in person from January 2022 (health care regulations permitting). However, in the event of a force majeure which restrictions prohibit in-person attendance, Confer will not take responsibility for any losses incurred through cancelled travel or accommodation costs.

By completing the application process, you agree to these terms.

CORE TEACHING STAFF

Professor Brett Kahr – Senior Course Director

Professor Brett Kahr will serve as Senior Course Director. He has taught psychopathology in various university and clinical training contexts since 1979. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London, as well as Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, also in London. A Consultant in Psychology to The Bowlby Centre and a Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy, he has worked with a large range of psychopathologies over the last forty years.

He is also a trained historian and has recently been appointed as Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London, where he served as a Trustee for many years. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council, which endeavours to create a richer dialogue among mental health clinicians and psychologically orientated academics and scholars.

Kahr has authored or edited sixteen books, and he has served as series editor for over seventy additional titles, having worked as founding Series Editor for the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series” at Karnac Books (now published by Routledge) and, also, for both the “History of Psychoanalysis Series” and for “The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis”. His recent books include Tea with Winnicott and Coffee with Freud, as well as Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy (one of the inaugural titles of Confer Books), as well as Freud’s Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis (scheduled for publication by the newly relaunched Karnac Books on 16th September, 2021).

Brett maintains a long-standing clinical and historical interest in a variety of forms of psychopathology, including, most especially, schizophrenia, forensic psychopathology, and intellectual disabilities. He is a founding member and Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability and as member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

A media psychologist of long standing, he has worked as “Resident Psychotherapist” for BBC Radio 2 and as Spokesperson for the BBC’s mental health campaign; and in recognition of his work on the interface between psychoanalysis and the media, he became Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton and, more recently, Honorary Professor at Bournemouth University in the Faculty of Media and Communication.

Lord Gurjit Singh Basi – Assistant Course Director

Lord Gurjit Singh Basi is a social worker, a certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and certified in phase one of Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Theraputics, a developmentally-informed, biologically-respectful approach to assessing and working with at-risk children.

He has worked with traumatised young people since early 1990 and is known for his expertise in direct work, training and consultation in relation to working with ethnic minority groups.

Gurjit has been an invited member of the parliamentary working group looking at supporting families of exploited children. Gurjit has been a Key note speaker at NOTA conferences, the NSPCC and provided training for The National Working Group on child exploitation.

APPLICATION PROCESS

  1. Click the PURCHASE COURSE button below, selecting either Certificate or Diploma level
  2. Pay deposit
  3. Complete the application form that will be sent to you on receipt of this payment
  4. If your application is accepted we will retain your deposit and confirm your place
  5. If your application is declined we will notify you and return your deposit within 14 days

Once your place is confirmed, please scan and email back your professional qualification to our Diploma Course Manager, Cressida Moger (cressidamoger@confer.uk.com)

Staying in touch with you

Following this you will be contacted by Confer:

  • In early August 2021 with pre-course reading
  • At the beginning of September with any relevant materials for the first weekend

CORE STAFF

Senior Course Director
Professor Brett Kahr

Course Director
Dr Zack Eleftheriadou

Assistant Course Director
Lord Gurjit Singh Basi

The teaching team will include 2-4 guest lecturers on each day

Director of Confer
Jane Ryan

Course Manager
Cressida Moger

FEES

Certificate level:
Deposit £500

Diploma level:
Deposit £500

Certificate level:
Final payment £1,250

Diploma level:
Final payment £2,450

VENUE

Course currently being delivered online.

DATES

11 September 2021 – 10 July 2022

TIME

Saturdays 09.30 – 16:45