17th Annual CPR Conference
Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Location: Ernst Auditorium at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C.
The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research is sponsoring its 17th annual one-day conference in which Dr. Patrick Luyten will present Mentalization as a Multidimensional Concept: Implications for the Treatment of Patients with Trauma-related Psychopathology. The conference will take place on Sunday, February 21, 2010 from 8:30 A.M. until 4:30 P.M. in the Ernst Auditorium at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Luyten is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at the Department of Psychology, University of Leuven (Belgium). The concept of mentalization refers to the ability to reflect on the beliefs, desires and emotional states of oneself and others. This ability is associated with feelings of coherence, a sense of purpose, and the capacity for affect regulation. It is hypothesized to originate through early parental affect mirroring and to foster feelings of relatedness and autonomy. The recent mentalization-based approach to normal and pathological personality development provides a new perspective on the conceptualization, assessment and treatment of patients suffering from trauma across the life span and across a wide variety of conditions, ranging from anxiety and eating disorders, to antisocial and borderline pathology, to patients presenting with functional somatic complaints.
Dr. Luyten will provide a set of concrete guidelines for the assessment of the capacity for mentalization. There will be a lab session in which participants will get first-hand experience with newly developed measures of different aspects of mentalization including a measure of parental mentalization that is used in research aimed at uncovering the mechanisms involved in the intergenerational transmission of functional somatic disorders. Go to www.CPRincDC.org for additional information about the conference.
The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research (CPR) is a DC not-for-profit corporation that represents 13 Baltimore-Washington area organizations (of which ICP&P is one) interested in building a bridge between psychoanalytically oriented clinicians and clinically relevant research. CPR sponsors yearly conferences to bring researchers and clinicians together to share data and ideas, with the aim of bridging the gap between the clinical and research communities.
Fee: $68; $38 for full-time students and active duty military
6 CEU's for Social Workers, Psychologists & Psychiatrists are available. Continental breakfast and boxed lunch are included with advance registration.
Additional information is available at CPRincDC.org