The Pickstock Room
Department of Continuing Education
1, Wellington Square
Oxford
UK
Fee:
£100
Deadline for Early Registration Fee:
20th September, 2009
Early Registration Fee:
£80
Description:
Severe depressive symptoms inhibit and disguise the expression of the self, depriving the individual of his/her individuality and making him/her depleted, neutral and lacking vital energy, similar to a physically ill person. Depression is often mistaken for a purely medical condition to be treated only with drugs. The two patients whose therapies will be shown on video will illustrate, under the depressive cloud, differing personality structures, including contrasting degrees of resistance and fragility. Both patients have a long history of relapsing depression and previous psychotherapy and were on antidepressant, mood-stabilising or neuroleptic medication at the start of therapy. Both were seriously jeopardising the relationship with the people they most loved, in one case, the wife and, in the other, a young daughter.
The seminar will highlight the experiential activation of emotions from the very beginning of therapy. Audiovisual vignettes will be used to demonstrate how active monitoring of the patient's anxiety and of his/her ability to connect emotionally with the therapist become the initial focus of therapeutic intervention, promoting the safe, in-session experience and regulation of conflicting feelings, impulse and anxiety.
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