Psychotherapy of Addiction – 11th Annual Conference (UK)

Psychotherapy of Addiction – 11th Annual Conference
Date: Monday 27 – Tuesday 28 June 2011

(Info last updated 14 April 2011)
South West London & St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Psychotherapy of Addiction – 11th Annual Conference
Date: Monday 27 – Tuesday 28 June 2011, 9.45am – 5.00pm
Venue: Friends House (Quakers), 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Cost: Any one day = £70; two days= £130;
Price includes tea/coffee; lunch available to buy locally.
(Employees of SWL&St.G Trust ONLY: 50% discount (i.e. any one day = £35 or both days= £65).

DAY ONE Theme: “Addiction – with & without drugs”
“Psychodynamic Approaches to People with Gambling Problems” – Derek Irwin, Counsellor/Supervisor, Gamcare.
“What is Co-dependency?” – Dr Tracy Burrows, Locum Consultant Psychiatrist.
“The Abuse of an Object & Relating Through Incorporation” – Jean Knox, Jungian Analyst.
“From Toxic Projections to Dependency-group Analysis & Eating D isorders” – Sally Willis, Psychotherapist, Priory.
Large Group reflections.
DAY TWO Theme: “Time, memory, healing”
“Black Holes; Collapses of Time in the Mind of the Addict” – Alistair Sweet, Psychotherapist/NIDAS, Belfast.
“Responses – Pathologies of Time, Memory & Desire” – Jill Fowler, Analytical Psychotherapist; Ryan Kemp, Consultant Psychologist.
“From Enmeshment to Recovery” – An innovative group exercise, facilitated by Mike, Expert by Experience & Martin Weegmann, Consultant Psychologist.
2 Personal accounts of recovery.
Large group reflections.
Martin Weegmann (Organiser)
Tel: 07834 430 880
E-mail: martin.weegmann@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk