IEDTA Conference 20

2019 International Conference of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) New Frontiers in Experiential Dynamic Therapy

Thursday-Saturday, “Experiential Dynamic Therapy” (EDT) refers to a September 26-28, 2019 group of psychodynamic psychotherapies that focus at the Hyatt Regency on the healing power of deep afective experience in Boston, Massachusetts the context of the therapist-patient dyad and other attachment relationships. Built on groundbreaking Co-sponsors: work of Habib Davanloo and others, EDT is now one of the best-researched forms of short-term therapy, with demonstrated efcacy in treating depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and somatoform disorders. EDTs include Davanloo’s International Experiential Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Dynamic Therapy Association Leigh McCullough’s Afect Phobia Therapy (APT), www.iedta.net Diana Fosha’s Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and others. After previous highly successful conferences in Milan, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Aarhus (Denmark), Vancouver, Oxford (UK), and Amsterdam, the IEDTA’s William James College 2019 International Conference will take place in www.williamjames.edu Boston’s historic Theater District.

Keynote Speaker Our keynote speaker is Dr. Edward Tronick, Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and the Director of its Unit (CDU). At the CDU, he conducts research on the social-emotional development of infants, the efects of stress on infants and mothers, including Washington School mothers with depression and anxiety disorders. He is a Research of Psychiatry Associate in the Department of Newborn Medicine at Harvard www.wspdc.org Medical School; a co-founder and former faculty member of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center; a founding member of the Boston Process of Change Group; and chief faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship program. In 1970, he worked with T. B. Brazelton on the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS); more recently, he collaborated with B. M. Lester on the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Exam. Dr. Tronick developed “The Still Face Paradigm,” which investigates the natural human process of connection between infant and parent and shows the profoundly negative efects on the infant of parental non-responsiveness. One of the most replicated findings in , it is considered a cornerstone of . The author of more than 200 scientific articles, Dr. Tronick has presented at US and international psychodynamic organizations and makes frequent expert appearances on national radio and television pro- grams. He is recipient of numerous awards, and numerous grants from the NIH and NSF. His book, The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children, has been hailed as a “tour de force.”

Register Online at www.williamjames.edu/ce IEDTA Conference 21

Video recording of psychotherapy sessions is integral to EDT Other confrmed presenters teaching, supervision, and research. As such, all clinical include most of the leading presentations will be accompanied by video of actual therapy fgures in the EDT feld: sessions. Conference-goers have an unparalleled opportunity Allan Abbass to sample a wide variety of stylistic variations in the practice Michael Alpert of EDT. Because the conference includes patient video, it is Leone Baruh open only to licensed professionals and students in full-time Kees Cornelissen training to become licensed professionals. Patricia Coughlin Jon Frederickson Since the beginning, EDT practitioners have worked to apply Susan Hajkowski its core tenets to new problems and in new settings. This Roger Sandvik Hansen conference celebrates this work on “new frontiers” with Robert Johansson Nat Kuhn sessions on the following topics in relation to EDT: Jeffrey Magnavita • Addictions Robert Neborsky • Attachment Kristin Osborn Tony Rousmaniere • Countertransference and Therapist Afect Albert Sheldon • Couple, Family, Child, and Adolescent Therapy Joel Town • Deliberate Practice José Verpoort • Highly Resistant Complex Cases Beatrice Winstanley • Inpatient and Group Treatment • Live Demonstrations EDT1, EDT2, EDT3 • Medically Unexplained Symptoms 6 CE/CME Credits per day • Research for up to a total of 18 CE/ • Serious, Persistent Mental Illness CME Credits for the following • Technology professionals: Register at www.williamjames.edu/ce. Physicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Registrants will have an option to donate to a fund to Health Counselors, help people who need financial assistance to attend. and Family Therapists, Hotel rooms are available at a special conference rate for the School Psychologists, and Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA, Nurses. USA. Here’s the hotel reservation link: iedta.net/hotel-2019

Registration Options

Full-time Graduate Students, Fellows, Early Registration Registration after Interns, Retirees, Levels thru July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 Unemployed

Full Conference $450 $500 $250

Per Day Rate $180 $200 $100

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