• Jo-anne Carlyle, Tavistock Clinic
• Chris Evans, St. George's Hospital Medical School

The conference has been organised by Friedmann Pfäfflin and Reinmar du Bois and will be held with the hospitality of the Forensic Psychotherapy Section in the Department of Psychotherapy in the University of Ulm. The title of the conference is:

"Freedom and Coercion. Forensic Psychotherapy under Scrutiny"

International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy
5th Annual Meeting
April 26-28, 1996

Chairs:

• Friedmann Pfäfflin, Ulm pfaeff@sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de
• Reinmar du Bois, Stuttgart

• THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1996
  • 18.00 Board Meeting

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• FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1996
  • 08.30 Coffee
  • 09.00 Welcome Address
    Bart de Smit, President I.A.F.P., London, UK
    Friedmann Pfäfflin and Reinmar du Bois, Hosts
  • General Perspectives
    Chair: Bart de Smit, London, UK

  • 09.15 Founder's Lecture
    "Within and without - Internal and external coercion in the therapeutic community"
    Stuart Whiteley, Brockham, UK
    Discussants:
    Debbie Taylor, London, UK
    David Mawson, Crowthorne, UK
  • 10.45 "Psychotherapy and coercion - A problem for patients or for therapists"
    Timothy Harding, Geneva, CH
  • 11.15 Coffee Break
    Chair: Tegwyn Williams, Bridgend, UK
  • 11.30 "The double role of psychotherapists in forensic psychotherapy"
    Peter Gottlieb, Roskilde, DK
  • 12.00 "Freedom against one's will, coercion by choice: Paradoxes of psychotherapy in prisons and prison hospitals"
    James Gilligan, Cambridge, Ma, USA
  • 12.30 "Assessment of the patient's personality: is the therapist bound by legal rules and judicial decisions?"
    Bernd Volckart, Burgwedel, D
  • 13.00 Lunch Chair: Nigel Eastman, London, UK
  • 14.30 "Human rights and forensic psychotherapy. Legal and ethical issues"
    Panel, participants N.N.
    Chair: Sandra Grant, Glasgow, UK
  • 15.30 "From coercion to freedom: indications to the sliding scale of forensic psychotherapy"
    Hjalmar van Marie, Utrecht, NL
  • 16.00 Coffee break
    Chair: Ingrid Thompson-Cooper, Montreal, Can
    
  • 16.30 "Internal and external coercion in female perversions"
    Estela V. Welldon, London, UK
  • 17.00 "Recovered memory - clinical, therapeutic and forensic issues"
    Christopher Cordess, London, UK
  • 17.30 "Nothing but the truth - psychotherapy and the false memory syndrome"
    Gwen Adshead, Mortimer, UK
  • 18.00 End of session
  • 18.15 Cocktail reception

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• SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1996
  • 08.30 Coffee
  • 09.00 Business meeting
  • 10.15 Coffee break

  • Research issues
    Chair: Horst Kächele, Ulm, D
  • 10.30 "The effectiveness of offender treatment: results and problems of recent research synthesis"
    Friedrich Lösel, Erlangen, D
  • 11.00 "Measuring what is measurable"
    B.C.M. Raes and J.L. van Emmerik, Utrecht, NL
  • 11.30 "Transcript analysis as a means of hypothesis generation in forensic psychotherapy"
    Erhard Mergenthaler, Michael Holzer and Friedmann Pfäfflin, Ulm, D
  • 12.00 Coffee break
  • 12.15 "The adult attachment interview as a research tool in forensic psychotherapy"
    Jo-anne Carlyle and Chris Evans, Crowthorne and London, UK
  • 12.45 "Therapeutic alliance in forensic psychiatric hospitals. An empirical study"
    M. Krupinski, C. Schöchlin and A. Fischer, Munich, D
  • 13.15 Lunch
  • 15.00 Clinical presentations 1
    Parallel sessions
    • Michael Günter, Tubingen, D
    • Elif Gürisik, London, UK
    • Marijke Smijtink, Utrecht, NL
  • 16.30 Coffee break
  • 16.45 Clinical Presentation: Master Class
    Cleo van Velsen and Leslie Sohn, London, UK
  • 18.00 End of session
  • 20.00 Dinner and music

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• SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1996
  • 08.30 Coffee
  • 09.00 Clinical Presentations II
    Parallel sessions
    • Klaus Frerk and Wolfgang Berner, Hamburg, D
    • Carinne Minne, London, UK
    • Brigitte Brun, Roskilde, DK
  • 10.30 Coffee
    Chair: Stephen Freiberg, Sydney, Aus
  • 10.45 Title to be specified
    Reinmar du Bois, Stuttgart, D
  • 11.15 "Clinical management and dynamics in the interaction with "notorious" patients"
    Celia Taylor, Crowthorne, UK
  • 11.45 "Non-identical repetition and the freedom of coercion in forensic psychotherapy"
    Murray Cox, Crowthorne, UK
  • 12.30 Closing of the conference
  • 12.40 Lunch
  • 13.00 Board Meeting (-13.30)

We have heard a rumour that the "Theatre of Reflections" successful performance of Thursday's Child in London, starring IAFP member and dramatherapist, Jessica Williams-Saunders, may be coming to Ulm. We'll Keep you informed!

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