The Newsletter of the I.A.F.P.
ISSN 1025-9740 Volume 1(1), January 1996, Editors:
- Jo-anne Carlyle, Tavistock Clinic
- Chris Evans, St. George's Hospital Medical School
Mounted by
C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk. 1.iii.96
The 1996 IAFP conference in Ulm
"Freedom and Coercion.
Forensic Psychotherapy under Scrutiny"
Pages 4-7 in the paper version
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"
The preliminary but nearly definite programme details are included thanks
to Sunday afternoon work by Friedmann, Reinmar and Chris slaving over hot
keyboards, 'phones and 'fax machines.
International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy
5th Annual Meeting
April 26-28, 1996
Department of Psychotherapy,
Ulm University, Am Hochsträss 8,
D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Preliminary programme
Chairs:
- THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1996
- 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
- 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
- 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)
Further information is available from: Friedmann Pfäfflin,
Forensische Psychotherapie,
Uni Ulm,
Am Hochsträss 8,
D-89081 Ulm,
Germany
tel.: +49-731-502-5670
fax.: +49-731-502-5672
e-mail:
pfaeff@sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de
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!