Integrative Psychotherapy
Training Programs and Workshops

For many therapists, borderline clients present unique professional challenges owing to their frequent relational conflicts, varying developmental levels of transference, and polarization of emotions, such as : idealization and hate, elation and despair, anger and dependency.

This two-day training course will provide:

· diagnostic perspectives on Attachment Disruptions,

· an understanding of the aetiology of Early Affect-Confusion and the formation of the Borderline Personality,

· the therapeutic use of treatment contracts,

· the significance of an attuned therapeutic relationship, and

· a working knowledge of when and how to use behavioural interventions and/or supportive age regression.

Dr. Erskine will help us comprehend practical methods that are effective in psychotherapy for borderline disorders including:

· methods of transference resolution and countertransference identification,

· the bifurcation of therapeutically relevant challenges,

· calibrating for juxtaposition reactions,

· responding to oscillating relational-needs, and

· the importance of a sustained phenomenological inquiry and affect attunement.

Suggested readings in preparation for this workshop include:

• Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact in Relationship

by Richard Erskine, Janet Moursund, and Rebecca Trautmann, 1999,

• Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence , by Richard G. Erskine, 2015.

Both of these books are available through www.karnacbooks.com

Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/affect-confusion-cumulative-trauma-and-attachment-disruptions-tickets-33775417182