CONVERSATION IN THE MAKING OF MIND:
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
PARTICIPANTS
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY 27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 23 - 25 September 2016 State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Dr Jean Knox
Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. She is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, a Senior Member and Training Therapist of the British Association of Psychotherapists and Consultant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has written and taught extensively on the relevance of attachment theory and developmental neuroscience to psychotherapy theory and practice. Her book Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind was published in 2003. Her book 'Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy and Intimacy' was published in December 2010, in the WW Norton Interpersonal Neurobiology series. She is currently involved in a qualitative research project to explore how agency is expressed by both therapist and patient in transcripts of psychotherapy sessions.
Workshop: Self-agency in relationship - developmental and clinical perspectives Conference: The persecutory therapist re-visited: The damage done by trauma to a patient's sense of agency and the implications for psychotherapy practice
Dr Kamal Touma
Kamal Touma is a medical Analytical Psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He is on the faculty of the Sydney University Master of Medicine and Master of Science Psychotherapy Program and on the faculty of Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP). He is also a Fellow of the Australian College of Sexual Health Physicians.
He is the Principal and the Chief Editor of Audio Visual Archives the publishers of Psychevisual.com and SexualHelathVisual.com
Conference: Trauma and Lateral dissociation: The spoken and the unspoken stories
Dr Roberto D’Angelo
Roberto D’Angelo is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Surry Hills,
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Sydney. He completed training in the Conversational Model in the Master of Medicine (Psychotherapy) program at Westmead Hospital, concurrently with his specialist psychiatric training. He subsequently developed an interest in American contemporary relational theories and the ways they both align with, and differ from, the Conversational Model. In 2015, he completed analytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, obtaining the degree Doctor of Psychoanalysis. He has trained extensively with American Relational clinicians, with a particular focus on contemporary theories emerging from Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. His current interest is in the notion of agency, and how problems of agency are central to many of the difficulties we work with in the consulting room.
Workshop: Why did I say that? A contemporary perspective on boundaries and self- disclosure
Colette Rayment PhD
Colette Rayment is an ANZAP trained therapist in private practice in Sydney and training and supervising Member of the ANZAP Faculty. She writes to integrate her previous experience in teaching and researching literature, history of ideas, theatre and religion studies with psychodynamic theory and practice.
Conference: Joseph Conrad, master of ships and master of affect: His gift to Robert Hobson and the Conversational Model
John Merchant PhD
John Merchant is a training analyst with the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts and is an accredited supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia. He has run adult education courses in analytical psychology at the University of Sydney for many years as well as workshops and seminars in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and the USA. His recent book, Shamans and Analysts: New Insights on the Wounded Healer (Routledge), looks at Siberian shamanism and the parallels between it and contemporary psychotherapy. Other books include Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Research in Analytical Psychology (Routledge, forthcoming). He is in private practice in Sydney, Australia
Conference: The early mother/infant preverbal ‘conversation’ and foetal trauma as understood through Jean Knox’s image schema model: a case illustration
Judith Pickering PhD
Judith Pickering is a psychotherapist and faculty member of ANZAP, a Training Analyst with The Australian and New Zealand Association of Jungian Analysts and a
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Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapist. Judith holds tertiary degrees in Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Music Education (Kodály Institute, Hungary), Musicology, Psychotherapy, and Analytical Psychology and a doctorate in Psychology. She has published and lectured widely in Australia, USA and Europe including: the Tavistock Centre London; The International Family Therapy Association, Turkey, The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Oxford, St Petersburg, Italy and Berlin, Bion in Boston. Books include: Early Childhood Music Education, (Arts Council of Australia, 1989), Acoustically Pure Intonation In A Cappella Vocal Music, (Australian National University, 1996), Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love (Routledge, 2008) and Transformations in Love (Routledge, forthcoming). Judith’s musicology thesis, (researched at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest and Royal Stockholm Acoustics Laboratory, Sweden) was on the Acoustics of the Voice. Judith was also a lecturer at the Australian National University and has over twenty years’ experience as a music educator working with parents and children from conception to adulthood.
Conference: A quasi-meditative gaze, free-floating attention, reverie: The therapist’s state of mind
Dr George Lianos
George Lianos is a consultant psychiatrist psychotherapist currently working in Macquarie Street Sydney. He is a foundation member of ANZAP and has Lectured and Supervised in the ANZAP training programme and the Sydney University Masters of Medicine/Science psychotherapy training programs for more than 25 years.
His recent interests include the relationship between phenomenology and theory. In particular his concerns are about how theory becomes independent of the phenomena it purports to explain, in a manner which makes the application of a theory more important than understanding the phenomena themselves. As a result, clinicians may feel pressure to demonstrate their theoretical prowess ahead of their caring and compassion.
Conference: Depressive realism, angst & creativity What can the work of Michel Houellebecq tell us about the art and science of psychotherapy?
Professor David G Butt
David G. Butt (Associate Professor Linguistics, Macquarie University) has investigated verbal art - its linguistic structures and social functions - for many decades. The techniques developed for such investigations have been applied to the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy, as well as to the study of other forms of
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rhetorical and personal contexts of interaction. He has been Director of the Centre for Language in Social Life at Macquarie.
Conference: “Poiesis” in verbal art, in verbal science, and in nature: Creativity and the Conversational Model.
Liz Evans
Liz Evans is a clinical member of ANZAP and works as a Jungian psychotherapist in Hobart. She holds two clinical trainings and an MA in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. She is currently undertaking certification with the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST/IAAP).
Conference: Conversations without words: Sandplay within the psychotherapy process
Dr Anthony Korner
Anthony Korner works in Sydney as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in both public and private practice. He is Coordinator for the Master of Medicine (Psychotherapy) Program at the University of Sydney and is active in teaching and research as well as clinical practice. His research interests are in psychodynamic psychotherapy, linguistics and philosophy. He has published approximately thirty papers in journals and books. He was on the National Health and Medical Research Council Committee for the development of a guideline for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder 2011-13. He is the Australian representative on the World Council for Psychotherapy and was chairman of the organizing committee for the 6th World Congress for Psychotherapy, held in Sydney in 2011. He is currently in the throes of submitting a PhD thesis with the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University.
Conference: Making sense: The intersection of the actual and the symbolic
Duncan Loasby
Duncan Loasby is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Mental Health Clinical Nurse Consultant working in public and private practice in Sydney. He has over 20 years of experience in mental health work, both in Australia and the UK. He has a particular clinical interest in psychological trauma and its effect on human consciousness. Duncan has an ongoing curiosity about the intersection of art, science and philosophy that results in the therapeutic engagement. He is an advocate for the use of psychodynamic approaches in contemporary mental health nursing work.
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Conference: Case Study ‘T’: Play in the ED, emergency psychotherapy and other contradictions in terms
Dr Nick Bendit
Nick Bendit is a staff specialist in psychiatry and has been working at a publicly funded outpatient psychotherapy unit in Newcastle, Australia, for the past 10 years, treating patients with borderline personality disorder, using conversational model, dialectical behavior therapy, and most recently, group schema therapy. The psychotherapy unit he works at has recently completed a randomised control trial comparing conversational model and DBT in patients with borderline personality disorder. The principal investigator was Dr Carla Walton, and Dr Bendit was a coinvestigator.
Conference: Results of a randomised clinical trial comparing conversational model and DBT in patients with borderline personality disorder
Geoffrey Borlase
Geoffrey Borlase is a practicing psychotherapist in Sydney.
Conference: The King Hit and the Coward’s Punch: Can we make sense of the dialectical tension between these two metaphors?
Dr Joan Haliburn
Joan Haliburn is a consultant, child, adolescent, adult and family psychiatrist and trained psychotherapist in private practice at Drummoyne, NSW. She is also a senior faculty and training member at the Complex Trauma Unit, Western Sydney Health Region at Westmead & Cumberland Hospitals; and clinical senior lecturer, University of Sydney. She is a member of ANZAP; an International Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation; a member of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders; and a member of the International Association, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines. After completing her training in the Conversational Model of Long Term Psychotherapy, she began developing a short-term model with adolescents & adults and continued to refine it to be used in crisis intervention. Since 2011, this model is being presented as a one-year part time training program for clinicians in the Western Sydney Health District, with good outcomes.
Conference: Dissociation or psychosis – whither the conversation?
Kathleen McPhillips PhD
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Kathleen McPhillips is a sociologist of religion and gender at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is currently researching the Catholic Church at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This research is funded by the University of Newcastle. Kathleen is also a psychotherapist with a private practice in Newcastle. Her ANZAP Dissertation titled Unbearable Knowledge: Managing Cultural Trauma at the Royal Commission has been accepted for publication in the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Conference: Spoiled identities and community resilience
Gerard Webster PhD
Psychoanalyst, Forensic & Counselling Psychologist
Honorary Fellow of Australian Catholic University
Gerard Webster is a Counselling and Forensic Psychologist who completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, where he continues to be a member. Gerard has worked intensively with both survivors of child sexual abuse and those who have abused for over thirty years, and has been in private practice since 1993. Since then, Gerard has lectured in child abuse prevention strategies and has published articles, training packages, and practice guidelines for Church and government organisations that are responsible for the care and protection of children. Gerard has been awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of Australian Catholic University in recognition of his reputation as a psychologist and educator, his extensive work in the Catholic education sector. He is also past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse. Gerard holds a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis and is continuing his studies at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis as a PhD candidate, researching the application of Psychoanalytic Complexity Theory to child sexual offending. Gerard recently won the 2015 International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Candidate Essay Award, and the 2016 Stephen Mitchell Award of Division 39, American Psychological Association, for an essay that is soon to be published in Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Conference: Society, Catholicism, and the human person as complex systems and sub- systems
Shaun Halovic1, 2, Anthony Korner1, 2, Loyola McLean1, 2, Clare Chapman1, Joan Haliburn1, 2, Janine Stevenson1, 2, David Butt3, Phillip Graham1, 2, Stephen Malloch1, Tessa Phillips 1, 2, Russell Meares1, 2
1 Westmead Psychotherapy Program, Cumberland Hospital, Australia
2 Sydney University, Australia
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3 Macquarie University, Australia
Emeritus Professor Russell Meares is the co-founder of CMT, founding director of the WPP and has over 170 publications, including the clinician’s manual on how to conduct CMT. Dr Anthony Korner has now taken over the directorship of the WPP and oversees the Masters of Medicine and Masters of Science psychotherapy programs conducted through Sydney University. Dr Anthony Korner, Dr Joan Haliburn, Dr Janine Stevenson, Dr Philip Graham and Dr Tessa Philips were all personal students of Emeritus Professor Meares and, along with Associate Professor Loyola McLean, now carry on the work by teaching the next generation of emerging CMT Psychotherapists and frequently publishing to develop the science underlying the Conversational Model. Associate Professor David Butt is a psycholinguist from Macquarie University who frequently collaborates with the WPP to investigate various linguistic markers underlying psychotherapeutic transformation. Dr Shaun Halovic and Dr Stephen Malloch both come from a psychophysics research background, focusing on dyadic communication through non-verbal communication in both adults and infants, and through musical performance. Dr Clare Chapman comes from both an applied mathematics research and a psychiatry background, as she brings her reflective experience learning CMT through the WPP whilst maintaining the scientific rigour of her quantitative research expertise. The combination of our respective backgrounds, skills and perspectives has allowed us to approach the design of an adherence scale for CMT from multiple angles.
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