Mounted by Chris Evans C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk, updated 14.viii.96

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOSIS: 'CONTAINING THE INNER AND OUTER WORLDS'

University of Essex, Colchester 20-22 SEPTEMBER 1996

Final Programme

This is the third semi-annual conference where an attempt is made to bring together people who work psychoanalytically and psychotherapeutically with psychotic and borderline patients, on the one hand, and people who work with them psychiatrically and in the community, on the other. The first conference led to the publication of a collection, "Psychosis: Understanding and Treatment", edited by Jane Ellwood (published by Jessica Kingsley).

This year all the plenary sessions will be concerned with positive models of care in the community and will include an historical survey and comparisons between different countries (Harriet Sturdy, Tim Kendall), along with presentations of new programmes for psychosocial interventions which are causing a great and even hopeful stir in these astringent times (Charlie Brooker, Lawrence Ratna).

Peter Barham, who has contributed deeply to our understanding of the experience of being mentally ill in his books ("Schizopohrenia and Human Value"; "Relocating Mental Illness"; "Closing the Asylums"), will speak about 'shell-shocked' patients in the First World War (a central topic in Pat Barker's moving "Regeneration" trilogy).

Other papers will explore various aspects of working experientially and psychotherapeutically with severely disturbed patients. The conference has been organised so as to allow maximum time for discussion.

The full list of papers is as follows:

Harriet Sturdy, 'International Family Care Systems in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'
Charlie Brooker, 'Psychosocial Interventions in Severe Mental Disorders'
Lawrence Ratna, 'Schizophrenia and the Family in Crisis'
Tim Kendall, 'Democratic Psychiatry in Trieste: The Current Situation'
Film of a scheme whereby patients have lived with families in the community in Geel, Belgium since the eleventh century.
Peter Barham, 'The Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War'
Robert Young, 'Representations of Mental Illness in the Cinema'
Jeanne Magagna, 'The Eye Turned Inward: Hallucination in Children'
Dianne Lefevre, 'Institution Psychosis'
Helen Morgan, 'User Participation in Mental Health Services'
Joscelyn Richards, 'Working Analytically with Patients Diagnosed as Having Manic-Depressive Disorder'
Harriet Meek, 'Ghostbusting: Helping Staff to Find Meaning in "Psychotic" Behavior'
Jean Knox, 'What Kind of Model Does the "Jung- Klein Hybrid" Offer for Borderline States?'
Joy Schaverien, 'Transference and Transactional Objects: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Psychosis'
Astrid Hoàng, 'Psychosis and Trauma'
Christopher Hauke. 'Transference Psychosis: How the Narcissistic Patient Is in the Transference'
John Walshe, 'Obsessions and Cointainment'
Joseph Redfearn, 'Normal Autism and the Need for Oneness: The Wear and Tear in Me Coping with Your Madness'
Issy Asgad and Hilary Cooper 'Workshop re: Patients in a Community Household'
Henena Cole on an aspect of working with black patients
Hearing Voices - a collective advocating a new view of hallucinations.

The Conference is sponsored by:
THE GUILD OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS,
FREE ASSOCIATIONS JOURNAL,
THE HUMAN NATURE TRUST,
N. E. ESSEX MENTAL HEALTH TRUST
CENTRE FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX

The setting of the university in Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, is lovely, and the accommodation and places for eating and drinking are also.

Full fee - residential £165; non-residential £125 Students - residential £120; non-residential £90

Places are still available. For further information write or phone or email Marilyn Ward, Conference Secretary, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3JQ Tel. (0206) 873745 marilynw@essex.ac.uk

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|  Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies,
|    Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of  Sheffield
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