XVIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA “INNER DIALOGUE, HALLUCINATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES” Madrid, 28th-30th November 2013 Hotel Meliá Castilla. Capitán Haya 43. MADRID. SPAIN M. Romme(Netherlands), S. Escher (Netherlands), J. Jenner(Netherlands), J. Watkins (Australia), S. McCarthy-Jones (Australia), A. Brabban(U. Kingdom), O. Runciman (Denmark), R. Huertas (Madrid), A. Tarí (Zaragoza) M. Chico(Burgos), C. Gisbert, S. Romero (Gerona), R. Cubillo (Tenerife) y M. González de Chávez (Madrid) Organization: Organizer: Dr. Manuel González de Chávez Advisory Committee: Dr. Mariano Hernández Monsalve, Dr. Pedro Cuadrado, Dr. Francisco R. Pulido, Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza, Dr. Andrés Fdez-Cuevas, Dr. José Jaime Melendo, Dr. María Martín, Dr. María Teresa Capilla Roncero and Dr. Isabel R. Gorostiza www.cursoesquizofrenia.com In collaboration with: Technical Secretariat: The Schizophrenia Courses that we have been holding over the last seventeen years are addressed to mental health care professionals. Their objective is still to facilitate the relationship and knowledge between professionals involved in and interested in better understanding and helping these patients. The Spanish and foreign professors who have been attending our Courses form a part of the most innovating and outstanding national and international vanguard in this field, both due to their practice involvement in new and more extensive pathways of investigation and treatment for these patients as well as their interest in spreading and sharing their experiences and knowledge with us. The Schizophrenia Course that we hold every year aims to be a place where we can participate, inform, learn, teach, and think about it, a place in which we can communicate and a forum of motivation, interest and enthusiasm for more global views of these problems and more complete and effective therapeutic programs. This year we continue with the possibility of Poster presentations in the course and thus make the works and research of merit in this field of the professionals from different sites known and we will also extend the intensive, reduced and practical Workshops, as many of those attending have been requested in the evaluation sheets we hand out at the end of the Courses. We usually hold it in the Hotel Meliá Castilla, because for all of us, the site is a comfortable and convenient site, with hotel services and spaces that will provide us with greater possibilities and facilities to obtain, beyond the Course program, the objectives of our meeting. Manuel González de Chávez XVIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA 2 “INNER DIALOGUE, HALLUCINATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES” Thursday, November 28th - Simultaneous workshops 15.00 h Presentation of accreditation, documentation, Spanish book and bibliographic dossier of the Course Workshop schedule: 16.30h - 18.00h 18.00h - 18.30h Rest and Coffee Break 18.30h - 20.00h WORKSHOP 1 “Impact of psychotic disorder: mourning and recovery” Professors Antonio Tarí García, Psychiatrist. Group Therapist. Coordinator of Day Center Romareda (Aragón) and Mercedes Chico del Río, Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of the Hospital Fuente Bermeja, Psychiatry Service. Burgos. WORKSHOP 2 “Group interventions to increase flexibility in hospital care: how to favor the return to the community” Professors Cristina Gisbert Aguilar, Psychiatrist. Chief of Hospital Rehabilitation Department. Subacute Unit: IAS. Girona and Susana Romero Palomino, Clinical Psychologist. Hospital Rehabilitation Department. Subacute Unit. IAS (Health Care Institute). Girona . WORKSHOP 3 “Voice hearing and meaning structure: why self-help groups are healing. Inspiration to launch the Spanish Hearing Voices Network” Professor Olga Runciman, Psychologist of Copenhagen University, registered psychiatric nurse and voice hearer. She is a campaigner, writer and chair of the Danish Hearing Voices Network. WORKSHOP 4 “Art therapy for recovery of persons with psychosis: "Once upon a time there was a person who felt...” Professor Rosa Cubillo López, Head Professor of the University School of the Didactics Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression of the University of La Laguna, and director of the art therapy workshop for the recovery of persons with persistent and severe mental disorders, of the Canary Island Association of Creative Therapies (AsCaTeC). Note: All the workshops will be in Spanish. No simultaneous translation will be provided. Madrid, 28th -30th November 2013 3 Friday, November 29th, morning 08.30h Presentation of accreditation, documentation, book and bibliographic dossier of the Course 09.00h COURSE INAUGURATION 09.30h ”INNER DIALOGUE AND HALLUCINATIONS” Prof. Manuel González de Chávez Ex-President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. "THE MEDICALIZATION OF HALLUCINATIONS" Prof. Rafael Huertas Professor of Investigation, Institute of History – Center of Human and Social Sciences. CSIC. Madrid. COLLOQUIUM 11.30h REST AND COFFEE BREAK 12.00h “A DIALOGUE WITH THE PAST: WHAT CAN HISTORY TELL US ABOUT AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS ('HEARING VOICES')” Prof. Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. Australia “THE VOICES WITHIN: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH INTO INNER DIALOGUE AND AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS ('HEARING VOICES')” Prof. Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. Australia COLLOQUIUM 14.00h LUNCH Friday, November 29th, afternoon 16.00h “PREVALENCE, COURSE AND TREATMENT OF HALLUCINATIONS IN MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD” Prof. Jack Jenner Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist. Haren. The Nethelands.. “TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION: MAKING SENSE OF PSYCHOSIS” Prof. Alison Brabban Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Durham University. United Kingdom. COLLOQUIUM 17.30h COFFEE BREAK XVIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA 4 “INNER DIALOGUE, HALLUCINATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES” 18.00h “VOICES AND SPIRITUALITY” Prof. John Watkins Mental Health Counselor. Melbourne, Australia. “HALLUCINATIONS-FOCUSED INTEGRATIVE THERAPY, AN ENDURABLE (COST) EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR HALLUCINATIONS IRRESPECTIVE THEIR AXIS I DSM-IV- TR DIAGNOSIS” Prof. Jack Jenner Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist. Haren.The Netherlands. COLLOQUIUM Saturday, November 30th, morning 09.30h “A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO INNER DIALOGUE AND VOICES” Prof. Alison Brabban Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Durham University. United Kingdom. “USING MEDICATION WISELY” Prof. John Watkins Mental Health Counselor. Melbourne, Australia. COLLOQUIUM 11.00h COFFEE BREAK 11.30h “THE POWER WITHIN THE EXPERIENCE OF VOICE HEARERS” Prof. Sandra Escher Honorary Research Fellow at the Birmingham City University in Birmingham. United Kingdom. “LINKS BETWEEN VOICE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE VOICE HEARER” Prof. Marius Romme Former Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht. Founder of the Hearing Voices Movement. The Netherlands. 13.00h CLOSING COLLOQUIUM Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Jack Jenner, John Watkins, Alison Brabban and Simon McCarthy-Jones. Madrid, 28th -30th November 2013 5 SPEAKERS Prof. Marius Romme is Dutch psychiatrist, best known for his work on hearing voices (auditory hallucinations) and regarded as the founder and principal theorist for the Hearing Voices Movement. Professor Romme qualified as a medical doctor in Holland in 1960, specialising in psychiatry between 1961 and 1965, and upon completing his research for his PhD in 1967, was awarded the title of MD. From 1965 until 1972 he was a senior researcher at the Department of Social Health and Director of the Regional Community Mental Health Service in Amsterdam, and Chair of the Dutch Society of Mental Health from 1968 until 1976. He was an adviser to the Ministry of Health and the Dutch National Health Service (1972 -1974) during the preparations of the law base on community mental health in the Netherlands. He was full professor in Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht (1974-1999) before becoming a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University, and in 1999 he became Knight of the Dutch Lion. Prof. Sandra Escher was first trained at the School of Journalism in Utrecht, before she began to work at the University of Maastricht, Department of Social Psychiatry in 1986. She became a senior staff member at the Community Mental Health Centre in Maastricht in 1987, and since that time has worked together with Professor Marius Romme on the hearing voices project. Using the research she developed from a 3-year follow-up of 80 children hearing voices, she received her M.Phil from Birmingham (2004) and her PhD at the University of Maastricht (2005). She has been an honorary research fellow at the University of Central England in Birmingham City University since 1999 and in 2011 she became an Officer in the order of Orange Nassau. Prof. Jack Jenner is Adult, Child and Adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist working as private consultant and researcher. He is Emeritus Associate Professor in Community Psychiatry and Tutor in family psychiatry and community psychiatry. He has been the Head of the Outpatient Department of the Academic Hospital of Groningen, the Netherlands, where he opened the first Dutch Voices Department in 1994 and started the development of Hallucinations –focused Integrative Therapy (HIT) in 1996. With many publications on hallucinations and their treatment