Course directors: Peter Fonagy, PhD, James Garbarino, PhD, James Gilligan, MD, Abraham L. Halpern, MD, and Lawrence E. Lifson, MD
8:00- 9:00am Registration
and Coffee
9:00- 9:45 WELCOME AND PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
What Have We Learned about Violence, and What Do We Still Need to Learn?
James Gilligan, President of IAFP
PLENARY
SESSION I: FEMALE VIOLENCE
..(Chairs for all Plenary Sessions to be Announced)
9:45-10:00 From Victim to Victimizer: The Psychotherapy of a Suicidal and Infanticidal Woman ..Estela Welldon
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Break
11:00-11:45 The Psychology of Female Violence Anna Motz
11:45- 12:30pm Battered Women Who Kill .Angela Browne
12:30- 1:30 Lunch
(included with registration fee)
PLENARY
SESSION II: YOUTH VIOLENCE
1:30- 2:15 Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them James Garbarino
2:15-3:00 A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Assessing Violent Children in their Social Context
Stuart Twemlow
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
PLENARY
SESSION III: WAR, TRAUMA, AND VIOLENCE
3:30-5:00 War and Child Abuse as Precursors of PTSD and Violence Bessel van der Kolk
Killing: Psychodynamic Sequelae of Combat Experience Theodore Nadelson
Children Exposed to War-Related Violence: Protective Factors .
Bennett Simon and Roberta Apfel
5:00-7:00 Free
Time
7:30 pm Dinner
at the Hyatt-Regency
(not included with registration, please
see registration form)
8:00-8:30am Coffee
PLENARY
SESSION IV (A): TEAM APPROACHES TO VIOLENCE PREVENTION
8:30-11:00 The Yale Child Study Centers Violence Prevention Programs
..Steven Marans, Myriam Birkman, and Steven Berkowitz
Violence Prevention Programs in the San Francisco Jails
Michael Marcum, Hamish Sinclair, and Ruth Morgan
PLENARY
SESSION (B): AGGRESSION IN INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
9:00-11:30am Aggression in Individuals and Groups: Modes of Modulation, Organization and Disorganization: The Influence of the Family, and the Role of Authority and Discipline ..
.Otto Kernberg with Discussant James Herzog
N.B.: This session will be held jointly with Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
11:00:11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00pm WORKSHOPS I (please see registration form for
options)
(Chairs for all Workshop Sessions to be Announced)
1:00-2:00
Lunch (included with registration)
2:00- 3:30
WORKSHOPS II (please see registration form for options)
3:30-4:00 Coffee
Break
4:00-6:00 WORKSHOPS III (please see registration form for
options)
6:00-7:00 Free
Time
7:30pm Dinner and Dancing at the Courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University (not included with
registration, please see registration form)
8:30-9:00am
Coffee 9:00-10:15 PLENARY SESSION V: TRAINING AND
EDUCATION IN FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY Forensic Psychotherapy in the UK
Gill McGauley with Estela Welldon,
Faculty, and Students The Degree Course in the Interdisciplinary Study of
Violence at the Institute for the Study of Violence, Boston Graduate School of
Psychoanalysis
.Phyllis W. Meadow, Faculty, and
Students 10:15 Coffee break 10:45- 12:15 pm Summary and Discussion of
the Parallel Sessions Chairs of the Parallel
Sessions, All Attendees of the Conference (Moderator to be Announced) 12:15-1:00
Annual General Meeting, Election of Officers, and Discussion of Next
Years Conference
1:00pm Adjourn
ADDITIONAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE: For information regarding other area accommodations,
please call Boston Reservations, 617-332-4199 or e-mail cspinner@star.net ACCOMMODATIONS
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel until March 1, 2000, at a discounted rate for conference attendees of
$199/single or double. Call (617) 492-1234 for reservations, or FAX to (617)
491-6906. Please tell the hotel you are with the International Association
Conference on Learning from Violence. TRAVEL For information on reduced airfare, call 1-800-628-0073
or outside US please call 202-663-7496 or e-mail REFUND
POLICY A handling fee of $50 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be made in writing and
postmarked no later than April 20, 2000. No refund will be made thereafter. Physicians: The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing
medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association
designates this continuing medical education activity for 18 credit hours in
Category I of the Physicians Recognition Award of American Medical Association. Psychologists: The Continuing Education Program at Massachusetts Mental Health Center
is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing
education for psychologists. The Pre-Conference Film meets the
criteria for 2 credit hours, Learning
>From Violence 16 hours, and the Combined Program for 18 hours of continuing
education. Massachusetts Mental Health
Center maintains responsibility for the program. Social
Workers:
Application for continuing education credits will be made to the Massachusetts
Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Nurses: Massachusetts Mental Health
Center is approved by the Massachusetts Nurses Association to offer continuing
education credits to participants. The Pre-Conference Film meets the criteria
for 2.4 contact hours, Learning From
Violence 19.2 contact hours, and the Combined Program for 21.6 contact
hours of continuing education.
Massachusetts Mental Health Center maintains responsibility for the
program. For information about IAFP
contact: Dr. G. McGauley, Secretary of
IAFP, Section of Forensic Psychiatry, St. Georges Hospital Medical School,
Jenner Wing, Cramer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, United Kingdom. Please
choose one Workshop for each Section Saturday, April 29, 2000; 11:30-1:00pm (choose one) “ Workshop A Forensic Psychotherapy with Severe
Personality Disorders Contained
Splitting: Combined Group and Individual Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline
and Dissociative Disorders
. Felicity de Zulueta From Harrods to Holloway: Kleptomania,
Compulsive Shopping, and Drug-Related Shoplifting and Robbery
..Marsha
Taylor “ Workshop
B Social, Political, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychotherapy, Racism and the Over-Representation of Ethnic Minorities
in Prisons and Secure Hospitals: Integrating Awareness of Racism into Forensic
Psychotherapeutic Practice
.Bisi Lalemi The Controversy over Physician Participation in
Legally Authorized Executions: Is There a Solution?
..Abraham
L. Halpern and Alfred M. Freedman “ Workshop
C: Predicting Violence, Assessing Dangerousness Assessment of Violence: Psychodynamic
Perspectives
Ronald Doctor The Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts
Inventory as a Tool for Understanding and Predicting Violent Behavior
..
Lisa
Firestone “Workshop D: Managing and Treating Violent Patients in
Forensic Settings Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Community as a
Means of Increasing Security in Forensic
Psychotherapy
..Klaus Hoffmann Mutual Obligation Versus Constraint: Applying
Systems Theory to Forensic Psychotherapy
...Tilman
Kluttig Saturday, April 29, 2000; 2:00-3:30pm (choose one) “Workshop
AII: Forensic Psychotherapy with
Violent Youth Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Juvenile Sexual
Delinquency and Its Treatment
Michael Gunter The Therapeutic Needs of Violent Young
Offenders
.. Jim Rose “Workshop
BII: Violence and Failures of
Attachment Attachment Styles in Violent Offenders: A
Comparative Analysis
Thomas Ross and Friedemann Pfafflin A Vicious Circle: Transgenerational Transmission of
Violence in a Mother and Grandmother..Gwen Adshead “ Workshop
CII: Relationships
Between Violence and Specific Psychiatric Syndromes Violence and Mental Illness: An
Overview
...James Beck Violence in Borderline Personality
Disorder
.Carl Malmquist “Workshop
D II: Managing and Treating Violent
Patients in Forensic Settings (continued) Psychotherapeutic Approaches to the Understanding
and Prevention of Self-Mutilating Behavior in a PrisonMental Health
Service
Silvia Dominguez Envy and Violence
.. Patricia Polledri Saturday, April 29, 2000; 4:00-6:00pm (choose one) “ Workshop
AIII: From Victim to Perpetrator: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Violence Is It Possible to Prevent Children of Abusers from
Becoming Perpetrators Themselves?
.
Margrethe
Christensen When Aggressor and Victim Are One: The Analysis of a
Six Year Old Boy, Twenty-Five Years On
.David Millar “ Workshop
BIII: Violence and Failures of
Attachment (continued) Attachment Patterns in Crime: Implications for
Treatment
. Peter Fonagy Assessing and Integrating Recent Research Relating
Attachment Theory to the Study of Violence
.
Panel Discussion: Gwen Adshead, Friedemann Pfafflin, Peter Fonagy, and
Thomas Ross “Workshop
CIII: Relatings Between Violence and Specific Psychiatricsyndromes (continued) Precipitants of Violence in Adults with Asperger
Syndrome: Findings from a Qualitative Study of Life-Sentenced
Prisoners
Valerie
Hawes Living with Psychopathy: The Internal World of the
Psychopath
..Martin Harper and Tegwyn Williams A Dangerous Case of Munchausens
Syndrome
.. Celia Taylor “Workshop
DIII: Managing and Treating Violent Patients in Forensic Settings
(continued): Group Analytic Treatment of Men Who Batter
Women
Adam Jukes Management and Prevention of Violence in a Forensic
Psychiatric Clinic: Protecting the Safety of Patients and Staff
. Hans Perik Singing in a Gilded Cage: The Prison as Therapeutic Community
.. Andrew Downie 000428 Title:
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. Tuition:
This includes all the conference proceedings, refreshments, and lunches. “ Early Bird registration fee is $325 for IAFP and BPSI
members, and $350 non-members prior to March 31, 2000 “ After March
31, 2000, $350 for IAFP and BPSI
members, and $375 for non-members “ Friday Evening Dinner
at the Hyatt Regency: $75.00 “ Saturday Evening
Dinner at the Fogg Art Musuem: $75.00 “ Attending both
evenings: $150.00 Please include dinner fees with
registration. Full payment must accompany application (check payable
to The Continuing Education Program at
MMHC, Inc.) Credit cards not accepted. Foreign Payments must be made by a draft on a United States
bank with the cost borne by the sender; Bank Boston, 330 Longwood Ave., Boston,
MA 02115; account number 54125830, routing number 011000390. International wire transfers should be sent to: Bank Boston, S.W.I.F.T.
address: ENBB US 33, Telex: 4996527 BostonBSN, please include Massachusetts
Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115; account number:
54125830. Mail
payments drawn on a US Banks to: The Continuing Education Program at Massachusetts
Mental Health Center 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA, USA, 02115 Bursaries: The association wishes to
give financial assistance to students, those in training, or other deserving
staff working in forensic settings, to enable them to attend this conference.
Applications for bursaries towards the total cost, with an explanatory
statement, may be made to Bruce Irvine: Brookside Young Persons Unit, 107A
Barley Lane, Goodmayes 1G3 8XJ, UK or e-mail bruceirive@compuserve.com or Tel:
0181 9838000 For further information please contact:
Cheryl Owens 617-626-9429 FAX (617) 232-4570
Email:
cheryl_owens@hms.harvard.edu Dr. Gwen Adshead Consultant
Forensic Psychotherapist, Department of Psychotherapy, Broadmoor Hospital. Roberta Apfel, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
Cambridge Hospital; Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic
Society and Institute; Co-Author, Minefields in Their Hearts: The Mental
Health of Children in War and Communal Violence. James Beck, MD, PhD Associate
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School;
Former Director, Cambridge Court Clinic; Editor, Confidentiality versus the
Duty to Protect and The Potentially
Violent Patient and The Tarasoff
Decision in Psychiatric Practice. Steven Berkowitz, MD Clinical Instructor in Child
Psychiatry, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine; Candidate,
Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis. Angela Browne, PhD Senior Soros
Justice Fellow, Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public
Health; Author, When Battered Women Kill. Margrethe Christensen Psychotherapist,
Vasterby, Sweden. Dr. Ronald Doctor,
MRCPsych. Psychoanalyst; Consultant
Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, West Middlesex Hospital, London; Visiting
Psychiatrist, HM Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London. Silvia Dominguez, MSW,
LICSW Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology and Public Policy, Boston.
University; Former Unit Coordinator,
Prison Mental Health Service, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk,
MA. Andrew Downie Group
Psychotherapist, HM Prison Grendon, Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire, U.K. Lisa Firestone, PhD Research
Director, Glendon Association; Adjunct Faculty, University of California, Santa
Barbara. Peter Fonagy, PhD Freud
Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London; Director,
Child and Family Center and Clinical Protocols and Outcome Center, Menninger
Clinic, Topeka;Co-Editor, Recovered Memories of Abuse: True or False?, Vol.
2. James Garbarino, PhD Professor of
Human Development and Co-Director, Family Life Development Center, Cornell
University; Author or Co-Author of 17 books, including Lost Boys: Why Our
Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them. James Gilligan, MD President of
the IAFP; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for
the Study of Violence; Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard
Medical School; Member, Academic Advisory Council, United States Presidential
Campaign Against Youth Violence; Author, Violence: Reflections on a National
Epidemic and Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century; Contributing
Editor, Encyclopedia of Violence in America. Dr. Peter Gottlieb Forensic
Psychiatrist, St. Hans Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark. Priv. Doz. Dr. med.
Michael Gunter Senior Lecturer and
Executive Chief Physician, Abraham L. Halpern, MD Professor
Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York Medical College; Past President of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Martin Harper Forensic
Social Worker, South Wales Forensic Psychiatric Service, Caswell Clinic,
Bridgend, South Wales, U.K. Dr. Valerie Hawes,
MRCPsych Specialist Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry, Norvic Clinic,
Thorpe, Norwich, U.K. Dr. med. Klaus Hoffmann Arzt fur
Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse, Chefarzt Forensische Psychiatrie u.
Psychotherapie, Zentrum fur Psychiatrie, Reichenau, Germany. Adam Jukes Author, Men
Who Batter Women; Group analytic psychotherapist, London. Tillman Kluttig Senior
Clinical Psychologist, Abteilung Forensische Psychiatrie, Zentrum fur
Psychiatrie, Reichenau, Germany. Bisi Lalemi Social
Therapist, Psychotherapy Service,
Henderson Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, U.K. Lawrence
E. Lifson, MD is a Lecturer on
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Continuing Education at
Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He
is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Chairman of
Continuing Education at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Dr. Lifson is also Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Lifson is
editor of Understanding Therapeutic
Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure, and co-editor of The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law:
A Comprehensive Handbook and co-editor of the Psychology of Investing. Steven Marans, MSW, PhD Harris Associate
Professor of Child Psychoanalysis, Child Study Center, Yale University School
of Medicine; Director, Child Development-Community Policing Program; Faculty,
Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis; Member, United States Presidential Commission on Youth Violence;
Author, The Police-Mental Health Partnership: A Community-Based Response to
Urban Violence. Michael J. Marcum
Assistant Sheriff, San
Francisco Sheriffs Department, City and County of San Francisco, California;
Director, Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP). Phyllis W. Meadow, PhD President and Professor, Boston Graduate School of
Psychoanalysis; founder of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New
York; and co-author of Treatment of the Narcissistic Neuroses. Dr. Gill McGauley Secretary of the IAFP, Senior
Lecturer in Forensic Psychotherapy, St. Georges Hospital Medical School,
London. Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, UK. David Millar Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of
Essex; Consultant Psychotherapist, North Essex Child and Family Consultation
Service, Colchester, Essex, U.K. Ruth Morgan Director, Community Works (Violence Prevention
Community Theatre, Art Classes and Creative Writing Programs), San Francisco;
Consultant, Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), San Francisco
Sheriffs Department. Anna Motz Principal
Clinical Psychologist, North West Thames Forensic Psychiatry Service, Southall,
Middlesex, U.K. Author; The Psychology of Female Violence; Crimes Against
the Body (In Press). Theodore Nadelson, MD Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Attending
Psychiatrist, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital; Author, Killing Dr.
Hans Perik Deputy Managing Director, Forensisch Psychiatrisch
Centrum Veldzicht, Balkbrug, Netherlands Professor Dr. Friedemann Pfafflin Immediate
Past President, IAFP; Sektion Forensische Psychotherapie, Ulm, Germany. Patricia
Polledri Forensic Psychotherapist, Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, University College London Medical School. Jim
Rose, MA (Cantab.) Professional
Adviser, HM Prison Service, Abell House, London. Thomas Ross Forensic
Psychotherapist, Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine,
University Clinic, Ulm, Germany. Bennett Simon, MD Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Hospital;
Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute;
Author, Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece; Tragic Drama and the
Family; Co-Author, Minefields in Their Hearts: The Mental Health of
Children in War and Communal Violence. Hamish Sinclair
Executive Director, manalive
(men allied nationally against living in violent environments) Education
and Research Institute, San Francisco; Consultant, Resolve to Stop the Violence
Project (RSVP), San Francisco Sheriffs Department. Dr. Celia Taylor
Consultant Forensic
Psychiatrist, Kneesworth House Psychiatric Hospital, Royston, Hertfordshire,
U.K. Marsha Taylor, MA Consultant
Psychotherapist, HM Prison Holloway, UK. Stuart Twemlow, MD Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Kansas; Past President, Topeka
Psychoanalytic Institute; Founding Editor, Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic
Studies; Co-Author, With the Eyes of the Mind: An Empirical Analysis of
Out-of-Body States. Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD Professor of
Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Clinical Director, the Trauma
Center, Arbour Health System; Past President, International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies; Author, Psychological Trauma; Editor, Traumatic
Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society. Dr. Cleo Van Velsen, MBBS,
MRCPsych Consultant Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy Unit and
Department of Forensic Psychiatry,
Maudsley Hospital; London; Associate Member, British Institute of Psychoanalysis;
Co-Editor, A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy. Estela V. Welldon, MD, FRCPsych Founder and
Honorary Life President, IAFP; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Forensic
Psychotherapy, University College, London; Founder and Director of Forensic Psychotherapy Diploma Course, and
Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman
NHS Trust, London; Author, Mother, Madonna, Whore; Co-Editor, A
Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy. Dr. Tegwyn Williams Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, South Wales
Forensic Psychiatric Service, Caswell Clinic, Bridgend, South Wales, U.K. Dr. Felicity de Zulueta, MD, FRCPsych Honorary
Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Traumatic Stress Service, Maudsley
Hospital, London; Author, From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of
Destructiveness.
The
Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 575 Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139, 617-492-1234 or www.cambridge.hyatt.com
Directions and a map will be provided upon
registration.
mccabebremer@erols.com
Under Massachusetts Law
Chapter 351, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine now requires
Massachusetts Physicians to include Risk Management study as part of their
100 hours continuing medical education. The Ninth
Annual Meeting of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy is designed to meet the
requirements for 18 hours of Risk Management credit in Massachusetts.
E-mail: gmcgaule@sghms.ac.uk
IAFP website address: http://www.psyctc.org/iafp/
Miriam Berkman, JD, MSW
Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work, Child Study Center, Yale
University School of Medicine; Contributing Author, The Police-Mental Health
Partnership: A Community-Based Response to Urban Violence.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Childhood and Adolescence, Eberhard-Karls Universitatsklinik fur Psychiatrie und
Psychotherapie, University of Tόbingen, Germany.