Psychothérapie Intégrative: Formations et ateliers
Affect Confusion, Cumulative Trauma, and Attachment Disruptions: Psychotherapy for Borderline Disorders
Richard Erskine, Ph.D. hosted by: nscience UK
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