A New Look at Borderline and Psychotic Psychologies : Dimensional Diagnosis and Integrative Treatment

 
Friday, October 2, 2015
The Crestview Country Club, Agawam, MA

AGENDA

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee
   
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Dimensionality, inference, context, and integration in diagnosis.

The forthcoming Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, second edition (PDM-2) and its effort to supply a diagnostic sensibility that will be much more useful to therapists than contemporary DSM and ICD taxonomies.
 
   
10:15 AM -10:30 AM Break & Refreshments
   
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Borderline psychologies:

The concept, the syndrome, the personality organization (versus the personality disorder per se). Evolution of the concept in terms of descriptive phenomena, transference challenges, relationship to ego psychology, object relations theory, attachment theory, dissociative models, and other angles of vision.
   
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch ( included with your registration)
   
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Implications of borderline psychological conditions for psychotherapy.

Seven emphases that Kernberg, Linehan, Fonagy, Meares, Young, and other experts of differing theoretical orientations have in common.
 
   
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Break and Refreshments
   
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Psychotic-level psychologies.

Evidence for a psychotic level of organization in addition to psychosis as an illness category encompassing schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, and bipolar illness with psychosis.

Implications of a dimensional view for psychotherapy.

Integration of CBT and psychoanalytic approaches to helping patients with psychotic-level suffering.
 
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Questions and Answers
   
 

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