17th September, 2010 - ONE DAY SEMINAR: "On Being Hated by the Patient: The Meaning of and Responses to Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance"
London, UK.
Tenth of a series of one-day workshops in association with Millfields Unit
Personality-disordered offenders are increasingly required to undergo “evidence-based” treatments in order to satisfy public safety requirements, and to regain their own freedom. What is often underestimated, however, is the challenge of engagement: perhaps almost inevitably, these individuals will sooner or later experience the therapeutic alliance as punitive and abusive, and feel justified in hating and rejecting their care-givers. This seminar day will seek to explore the meaning of this deeply destructive development, its impact upon staff, and the importance of the therapeutic opportunity it offers in understanding and mitigating risk.
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28th-30th April, 2011 - 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: "MURDER IN MIND"
Edinburgh, UK
For twenty years the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP) has brought together multi-disciplinary experts and trainees in psychotherapy working with people with mental health problems who have offended or are at risk of doing so. Clinical and academic knowledge has been developed in the field of extreme violence and perversion, not only of perpetrators, but also victims (including the perpetrator him/herself). With a primarily psychodynamic and systemic approach, the Association has always applied this learning to related issues in broader society.

In its anniversary year the IAFP Annual Conference will focus on understanding murder and its meaning. We will explore both murderous fantasies that are not enacted, and those that are, as well as the many aspects of killing that preoccupy both our offender patients and wider society. The format is a central conference with keynote speakers, as well as a series of parallel workshops occurring throughout the three day event, focussing on specific related themes including Torture, Sexual Murder, Serial Killing, Sadism etc.

It will be of particular relevance not only to people working in the fields of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy or the criminal justice system, but also to people working in broader related fields including philosophy and the arts.

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2010 - ONE-DAY SEMINAR
Broadmoor, May, 2010 - One-day seminar: "Brutal Cultures - Bullying and Scapegoating in Forensic Settings" (in association with Broadmoor Hospital - West London Mental Health NHS Trust)

2009 - MINI-EVENTS
Crowthorne, London, May, 2009 - No Man’s Land: Boundaries, Trenches and Defences in the Forensic Field (in association with Broadmoor Hospital - West London Mental Health NHS Trust - and Henderson Hospital Services)
Rampton, October, 2009 - Every Picture Tells A Story: Arts therapies in forensic settings.
(in association with Rampton Hospital – Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust)

2010 - CONFERENCE
Oxford, UK
Tales of Transgression - Narratives in Forensic Psychotherapy
Further details can be found here.

2009 - CONFERENCE
Konstanz, March 2009 - Ruptures and Relations: Group Dynamics and Forensic Psychotherapy
Further details can be found here.

2008 - CONFERENCE
Venice,  April 2008 - Security and Terror: A State of Mind
held as a joint meeting meeting with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy Faculty

2008 - MINI-EVENTS
London, January, 2008 - The Therapeutic Milieu under Fire: Attachment, Attrition and Regeneration
Crowthorne, October 2008 - My Brother’s Keeper? Working with Forensic Families  (in association with Broadmoor Hospital West London Mental Health NHS Trust)

2007 - CONFERENCE
Oxford, March, 2007 - Hope and Hate: Working with the Forensic Patient

2006 - CONFERENCE
Oxford, April, 2006 - Revenge, Justice or Treatment? Forensic Psychotherapy and the Criminal Law

2006 - MINI EVENTS
London, December 2006 - The Significance of Others: Forensic Psychotherapy and the Negotiation of Difference
London, July 2006 - Firestarting
London, May 2006 - Bodily Harm

2005 - CONFERENCE
Dublin, May 2005 After Trauma --- Within Families and Between Strangers

2005 - MINI EVENTS
London, September, 2005 - In Through The Out Door?: Forensic Psychotherapy and Social Exclusion
London, February 2005 - Risk and Responsibility

2004 - EDINBURGH
Understanding Persecution

2003 ARNHEM
Process or Protocol?

2002 STUTTGART
Trauma and Delinquency

2001 LONDON
(Cancelled)

2000 BOSTON
Learning from Violence

1999 SHEFFIELD
Forensic Psychotherapy and the Public Sphere

1998 COPENHAGEN
Forensic Psychotherapy – Boundaries and Relations

1997 LONDON
Intoxification, Crime and the Forensic Patient

1996 ULM
Freedom and Coercion. Forensic Psychotherapy under Scrutiny

1995 GLASGOW
Violence and Death

1994 THE HAGUE
Personality Disorders: the Challenge for Forensic Psychotherapy

1993 LONDON
Psychodynamics and the Adolescent and Female Offender

1992 LONDON
Forensic Psychotherapy – Identity, Network and Future