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Anthroposophic Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Anthroposophic psychiatry psychotherapy and psychosomatics Understanding, treating and preventing mental disorders International annual conference on anthroposophic medicine, Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach / Switzerland Thursday, 13 September to Sunday, 16 September 2012 ProgrammeGoetheanum – annual conference 2012 1 Dear attendees and co-workers at the 2012 annual conference The subject of this year’s annual conference at the Goetheanum comprises the whole field of mental health. For centuries and across all cultures we have been familiar with mental illnesses which can come to expression in, for example, serious melan- cholia or a psychotic state of being beside oneself (“insanity”, “frenzy” and so on). But since the nineteenth century we have been able to observe the rise of forms of illness such as neurotic disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, traumatic disorders, attention deficit disorders and many others which are connected with the challenges of our time and which Rudolf Steiner described as “cultural disorders”: “That is where all the cultural disorders, the cultural decadence, all the psychological emptiness, hypochon- dria, eccentricities, dissatisfaction, crankiness and so on come from, also all the aggressive instincts which attack a culture, which reject a culture. Because either one accepts the culture of an age and adapts to it, or one develops the corresponding poison which is deposited and which will only dissolve through acceptance of the culture.” And Rudolf Steiner sees the possibility of transformation as follows: “There must be the possibility in the world, precisely in our time for example, that people develop a certain spiritual life, that they develop impulses for a free inner, spiritual life within themselves.” (1 January 1917, GA 173b, p.182, 184; previously GA 174) 2 Programme – annual conference 2012 Through severe obstacles of soul, Through confused darkness of spirit – To earnest clarity, To bright truth. Rudolf Steiner GA 40, p. 216 Lecture Berlin 6 March 1913, GA 62, p. 415 The troubles of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics today continue to lie in the insufficiently understood relationship between body , soul and spirit. In the lecture “Hygiene – a social problem” (7 April 1920, GA 314) and the opinion “On psychiatry” (26 March 1920, GA 314), Rudolf Steiner reveals aspects regarding a future psychiatry which sees the whole body as an organ mirroring the soul and spirit and which allows us to think of the ‘I’ as independent spirit. We want to make the fundamentals of a psychiatry of the future the subject of the morning and evening lectures. In doing so, motifs from the Mys- tery Dramas in the sense of a practical study of the psyche and desti- ny will be helpful. A variety of working groups will provide examples of therapeutic approaches from the various fields of work which, of course, will have to remain fragmentary given the breadth of the subject area. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the preparation of the annual conference and look forward to stimulating work together. Warm regards For the preparatory group - Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers, Michaela Glöckler, Boris Krause, Michaele Quetz and Wolfgang Rissmann For the International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM Andreas Arendt, Roland Bersdorf, Guus H. van der Bie, Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers, Stefan Geider, Wolf-Ingo Gobin, Rüdiger Grimm, Rolf Heine, Nand De Herdt, Angelika Jaschke, Andreas Jäschke, Kirstin Kaiser, Manfred Kohlhase, Natascha Neisecke, Unda Niedermann, Anna Sophia Riekert, Hans-Jürgen Schumacher, Patrick Sirdey, Heike Sommer, Johannes Stellmann, René de Winter, Peter Zimmermann and Michaela Glöckler Programme – annual conference 2012 3 *'(. 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Understanding neurotrans- mitters on the basis of our knowledge of the human being as “therapeutic poisons” to strengthen physical processes of conscious- ness. Dr. med. Johannes Reiner, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Stuttgart / DE; Dr. med. Siegward Elsas, neurologist, Arlesheim / CH (German, English) Body therapy Thursday – Saturday 14.00 – 15.15 4. External applications in anthroposophic psychiatry and psychosomatics, biodynamic body psychotherapy developed by Gerda Boyesen. Concepts, indications and active principles in psychiatric disorders. Introduction to the possibility of process- based treatment support based on own observations and the observations of others. With case studies. Charlotte Allmer, bio- dynamic body psychotherapist, practitioner of rhythmical massage, Graz / AT (German, English) 6 Programme – annual conference 2012 5. Rhythmical massage developed by Dr. med. Ita Wegman in psychiatry and psychosomatics. We want to work with the lectures in such a way in the working group that we apply the clinical pictures and therapeutic suggestions in practice. The development of a treatment concept and the practical execution of the latter through massage, embrocations and organ treat- ments will create the reference to the corresponding disorder. Eva-Marie Batschko, nurse, trainer in rhythmical massage, rhythmical embrocations and anthroposophic nursing, Carus Academy Hamburg / DE (German, English) 6. Movement and body therapy against the background of Spacial Dynamics® in acute psychiatry. Using various clinical pictures and case studies from acute psychiatry, possibilities of intervention and healing are discussed and transformed into movement against the background of Spacial Dynamics®. Case studies from participants are welcome. Dieter Bigler, movement and body therapist, St. Urban / CH; Josy Höller, senior psychologist, St. Urban / CH (German, English) Art therapy Thursday – Saturday 14.00 – 15.15 7. Handling “difficult” patients – on the basis of the ego states model. Presentations, case studies, discussions. For nurses, therapists and physicians who are looking for ways to handle so-called difficult patients more easily and respectfully and conserve their own strength. No prior requirements for participation! Susanne Rivoir, art therapy and psychotherapy (HPG), biography work, Niefern-Öschelbronn / DE (German) 8. Art therapy in psychosomatics. Using case studies, the collaboration between psychotherapy and painting therapy will be presented. How do the phenomena of the disorder manifest themselves? How can the anthroposophic understanding of the human being help us to reach a diagnosis and therapy? Boris Programme – annual conference 2012 7 Krause, specialist in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine, Filderstadt / DE; Christine Pommerenke, art therapist (painting, sculpture), lecturer, Filderstadt / DE (German) 9. Music and singing therapy in psychiatric illnesses. Depressive disorders and selected psychosomatic disorders will be considered in particular with suggestions regarding indications and therapy. Group work with active work elements, phenomenological studies, discussion. Viola Heckel, music and singing therapist, Buchenbach / DE; Stephan Kühne, music therapist, Berlin / DE (German, English) Soul exercises Thursday – Saturday 14.00 – 15.15 10. Strengthening the ‘I’ through soul exercises in depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and psychoses. Indications, execution and therapeutic effects. With practical exercises. Klaus Adams, specialist psychiatric nurse, expert in anthroposophic nursing, Kirchzarten / DE (German) 11. Changing habits as a method for self-confidently handling bio- graphical crises, depressive disorders and psychosomatic illnesses. Indications and therapeutic experience. Dr.
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