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Dear Colleagues,
Learn about new developments stemming from the integration of attachment theory and neurobiology.
BEYOND WORDS:
Implicit Communication &
Therapeutic Change
in Humans and Animals.
Dates:
June 17-18, 2011
Location:
Scholastic Inc. Auditorium
557 Broadway (between Prince and Spring)
Soho, NYC
Fees:
Registration Fee: $325
Student and Group Rates
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Presentations by
Philip Bromberg
Gay Bradshaw
Efrat Ginot
Karen Maroda
Pat Ogden
Allan Schore
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Couple & Family Therapy at NYU Postdoc. Program
Over the last two decades we have witnessed remarkable advances in both science and clinical practice. The once impenetrable gap between researchers and psychotherapists has now been bridged by an expanding dialogue on common matters. Clinical models rest on fundamental constructs that previously were seen to be metapsychological, yet all of these basic mechanisms of the change process are currently being explored by science. As opposed to imprecise speculations of the last century we now have a coherent theory of emotion, and this emotional revolution has provided us with a neuropsychoanalytic model of unconscious affect and a neurobiological understanding of affect and affect regulation. We also have a theoretical perspective that bypasses Descartes error and describes how brain, mind, and body interact, and thereby a heuristic biopsychosocial theory that integrates the psychological and biological realms across species.
At the same time, clinicians in all mental health disciplines are incorporating data on nonverbal affective communications and the neurobiology of attachment into an overarching developmental theory, and studies of relational trauma and pathological dissociation into a more complex conception of psychopathogenesis. Current relational models in psychology, research on implicit processes in neuroscience, and neuropsychoanalytic descriptions of a relational unconscious fit nicely with recent clinical interests in intersubjectivity and enactments. Integrating all these trends, we now have an emerging neurobiological conception of the Freudian unconscious, a mapping of this early developing system in the right brain, and a heuristic model of how interpersonal experiences change the evolution of psychic structure (for better or worse). In total, these rapid expansions in knowledge are revealing essential mechanisms of the change process, common to both development and all forms of psychotherapy.
PsyBC'S Third Affect Regulation conference will continue to focus on the direct relevance of the ongoing paradigm shift for models of psychotherapeutic change, especially in individuals, human and non-human, with a history of attachment trauma. The faculty, all with extensive clinical experience, represent different disciplines - psychoanalysis, neuroscience, ethology and traumatology. Yet all are converging on a relational model of therapeutic action that emphasizes the unconscious communication and regulation of affect rather than interpretation and conscious cognition to be at the core of the change mechanism. This state-of-the-art conference will be structured to give presenters ample time to present various aspects of their latest work, as well as to allow for significant dialogue both between the presenters and with the audience.
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Thanks for your support.
Dan Hill
Daniel Hill, Ph.D.
Director
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