The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
and
The Clinic for Dissociative Studies
offer a continuing professional development course
Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice Using an Attachment Perspective
Seminar Leader
Emerald Davis
Visiting Speakers
Valerie Sinason, Rachel Wingfield, Kate White, Margaret Wilkinson
Phil Mollon, Ruth Cureton, and Adah Sachs
This 10-session continuing professional development course introduces key concepts for working therapeutically from a relational perspective with adults suffering from dissociative experiences. Dissociation will be explored as a survival strategy which begins when an individual is faced with repeated early emotional, physical and/or sexual trauma at the hands of attachment figures. Participants will be introduced to both the creative and adaptive continuum of dissociation, as well as when it is no longer adaptive and sabotages chances of personal fulfilment. The course aims to provide a safe environment for participants to explore emotionally and intellectually a topic that is rarely addressed because of the extreme trauma it represents.
The collaborators offering this course share a relational psychoanalytic perspective. They also recognise that extreme trauma can require adaptive approaches and applications and the course will be as inclusive as possible.
Course dates
24 April to 10 July 2008
Participants
This course will be of particular relevance to qualified psychotherapists, although this is not a formal requirement for participation. No prior knowledge of dissociation or dissociative disorders will be assumed.
The course will have a maximum of 15 participants.
Cost
£450. CAPP members: £350.
Time and venue
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings at The John Bowlby Centre, 147 Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ
Application process
Send in a CAPP short course application form (see above) outlining your interest and background by 20 April, 2008.
Valuing diversity
CAPP and CDS encourage applications from all sectors of the community and respect and value diversity in race, age, class, religion, culture, disability, gender, and sexuality.
For an application form and further information contact
The Administrator
CAPP
The John Bowlby Centre
147 Commercial Street
London E1 6BJ
Telephone: 020 7247 9101
Email: administrator@attachment.org.uk
Website: www.johnbowlbycentre.org.uk
Course organisers: Emerald Davis and Graeme Galton |
