CONVERSATION IN THE MAKING OF MIND: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PARTICIPANTS Enquiries: Anne Malecki Tel: 02 8004 9873 Email: [email protected] 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, 1 ANZAP 27h Annual Conference 2016 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 2 ANZAP 27h Annual Conference 2016 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 3 ANZAP 27h Annual Conference 2016 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. 4 ANZAP 27h Annual Conference 2016 Conference: Case Study ‘T’: Play in the ED, emergency psychotherapy and other contradictions in terms Dr Nick Bendit Nick Bendit is a staff specialist