In association with the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Psychology
Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association
Conference 2010
"Are Therapists too attracted to
theory?" - A multi-modality perspective
Saturday 13th November, 10:45am to 4:30pm.
Registration 10am at Regent's College London
This conference will start
by presenting attachment theory, acknowledging the prominent place
it has both in psychotherapy and counselling practice but also
within our understanding of cultural practices in general.
Attachment theory offers therapists the opportunity to comprehend
some of the difficult stories that confront them when working with
their patients/clients.
Theory is taught to trainees
as a way of developing their ability to help the people they work
with and also to allow them the opportunity to develop their
thinking and approach to practice.
Speakers
Professor Jeremy
Holmes
A
psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. For 35 years
he worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the
NHS, providing a district psychotherapy service in North Devon,
focusing especially on people with Borderline Personality
Disorder. He has written 120+ papers and book chapters in the
field of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, and 15 books
including John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (1992), and
Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005, co-edited with
Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck). His latest is Exploring In
Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010). He was recipient of the
2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders
Award.
Professor Chris Brannigan
Chris started doing research in
the Psychiatry Department at Birmingham University in 1965 as an
ethologist, working with rats as well as researching and writing on
human non-verbal communication. Currently he is
Director of the Applied Mental Health Research Group at Derby
University, runs a Doctorate of Practice in CBT and supervises
numerous PhDs, as well as acting as Programme Lead for Masters’
degrees in Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt in Organisations in
Scandinavia.
Dr Morris Nitsun
Dr Morris Nitsun is a consultant clinical
psychologist in Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, a
training group analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis in London
and in private practice at the Fitzrovia Psychotherapy Practice in
London, a new practice he has started with colleagues from the
Institute of Group Analysis. He lectures and runs
workshops nationally and internationally and he was the Foulkes
Lecturer in 2009 on the theme of authority and leadership in
groups. He is also a professional artist whose next exhibition of
paintings is scheduled for Spring 2011.
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