"Freedom and Coercion. Forensic Psychotherapy under Scrutiny"

International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy 5th Annual Meeting

April 26-28, 1996

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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)

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