Attachment
Theory in Clinical Practice
Seminar
Leader:
Kate White
Next Course
- Oct- Dec 2010
This
professional development short course introduces the key concepts
of attachment theory as they appear in therapeutic work with
adults. The course explores both clinical and personal experience
of attachment theory and discusses applications of new attachment
research from a relational perspective. There will be an opportunity
for participants to discuss current clinical dilemmas and
explore how these might be understood from an attachment and
relational point of view.
Seminars
will include the following themes:
Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory
Attachment theory in context
Separation, loss and mourning
Patterns of attachment and their internal representation:
Secure
Dismissing
Preoccupied
Unresolved/disorganized
Not classifiable
Evaluating adult attachment states of mind:
Internal working models
Reflective functioning
Intersubjectivity
Clinical
work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality
and recognition and affective attunement and cycles of rupture
and repair in the therapeutic process.
Course
Details:
The course is designed for practising psychotherapists and
counsellors who are working from a psychodynamic perspective.
There will be a maximum of 10 participants so as to facilitate
participation and provide space for discussion. The teaching
methods used will include presentation by seminar leader,
discussion of articles, handouts and videos as well as a project
to be undertaken by participants in small groups.
Seminar
Leader:
Kate White is a training therapist, supervisor and teacher
at The Bowlby Centre.
Formerly a senior lecturer at South Bank University in the
Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has
used her extensive experience in adult education to contribute
to the innovative psychotherapy curriculum developed at The Bowlby Centre.
In addition to working as an individual psychotherapist, Kate
writes about psychotherapy education and runs workshops on
the themes of attachment and trauma in clinical practice.
She has edited Unmasking Race, Culture and Attachment in the
Psychoanalytic Space; What do we see? What do we think? What
do we feel? (Karnac, 2006) and Touch: Attachment and the Body.
(Karnac, 2004), co-edited with Joseph Schwartz, Sexuality
and Attachment in Clinical Practice (Karnac 2007) and co-edited with Sarah Benamer, Trauma and Attachment (Karnac 2008)
Venue:
The Bowlby Centre, 147 Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ.
(10 mins walk from Liverpool Street Station)
Cost:
Self funded £470, Organisation funded £520, Bowlby Centre members, £400.
Dates:
The seminars will be held on 10 Tuesday afternoons: from 2pm – 4pm; October 5th 2010 – 14th December 2010 with a break on 26th October .
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