ANOTHER CHANCE TO BE REAL – CONFERENCE INVITATION
Organizer: International Masterson Institute Australia
Conference title: Another Chance to be Real – core sensitivities, disorders of the self, and the process of change
Time: October 4-6th , 2024
Venue: online OR in person Bucharest, Romania
This conference will be in the form of a three-day workshop which will focus on diagnostic dilemmas, treatment planning and forms of therapeutic intervention, as well as focussing on the specific difficulties specialists encounter working with patients who suffer from borderline, narcissistic or schizoid personality disorders.
It is a common even for an experienced psychiatrist or therapist to feel overwhelmed, lost, helpless, or out of control with respect to what to do and how to do it. Where does one start when faced with an impenetrable maze of defense? How does the therapist take charge in the face of the patient’s helplessness, or hopelessness, or suicidality?
The late professor James Masterson, who was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical School, was internationally regarded as a pioneer in the field of personality disorder. He wrote over sixteen acclaimed texts on the treatment of borderline, narcissistic and schizoid personality disorder. His treatment approach, developed with his co-pioneer Dr. Ralph Klein, laid out a treatment approach which enabled the therapist to (1) set up the frame of treatment, (2) distinguish acting out/defense from the patients “real self” (3) intervene to interrupt defense in order to help the patient activate his or her real self (4) in order to work through the underlying abandonment depression which is the nonconscious driver of defensive behaviour in personality disordered patients.
Participants will have the chance to meet clinicians who have trained personally with Dr. Masterson and Dr. Klein and they will learn why and how they can master steps (1) to (4).
The conference will be organised in a hybrid form, which means that you can participate in person or online, via an online platform. All participants will have access to workshops recordings until the 30th day after the conference.
For more information about the conference, you can access the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/7201054926630296
or you can access the website at https://masterson-institute.com
We hope to see you there.
Caroline Andrew
Director IMI Australia