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Working with the Unconscious in ISTDP

Friday 9th May – Sunday 11th May 2025

9.15am – 5.00pm

Speakers: Dr Stephen Buller, Dr Susan Hajkowski, Dr Sharon Lewis,

Dr Rohan Naidoo, and Dr Leo Russell

This event will take place at a venue close to Derby City Centre and is for practitioners developing their effectiveness in evidence based treatments.

For further information contact Steve Buller: stephen.buller@cathexispsychotherapy.co.uk

Central to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a concept of conscious and unconscious. Malan and Davanloo’s groundbreaking observations of unconscious dynamics firmly placed ISTDP as a form of accelerated treatment grounded in psychoanalytic theory. Unconscious conflict leads to symptoms and suffering in everyday life for which ISTDP is effective and cost effective in a full range of clinical presentations and disorders. From their work we gained an understanding of interventions with unconscious dynamic structure, content, and processes. There may be many ways of working with the unconscious as it manifests in the practice of ISTDP, and accessing unconscious conflict and potential for restructuring the dynamic unconscious. As the ISTDP model evolves practitioners continue to develop further ways of working with dynamic unconscious process and contribute to theory building. 

On Friday 9th and Saturday 10th May speakers will present perspectives on the dynamic unconscious structure, content, and process, and their impact on elements of therapeutic strategies that they believe are important factors for change. Presenters will illustrate these perspectives using clinical video recordings of their own practice. This event, as part of the broader immersion training, is a forum to illuminate and discuss similarities, differences, and nuances in clinical technique and applications. The aim is to stimulate a productive and informative examination of various aspects used in ISTDP and to distil and highlight critical components required for change.

On Sunday 11th May there will be a supervision workshop as a component of the immersive experience of this training. This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to bring video recorded material from their own current practice and to explore ways that change processes and change mechanisms, central to ISTDP, operate in everyday clinical work. Places at this workshop are limited.

Friday & Saturday 9 & 10 May 2025.

Early bird rate: £248

(Non-early bird rate: £298)

Early bird rate ends on 17 April 2025