Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust
Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust
Relationships with Reality Working with self-harm, dissociation and trauma in individuals and institutions
9:30am – 4:00pm, Friday 31st January 2025
Uffculme Centre, 52 Queensbridge Road, Birmingham B13 8QY
A one-day conference with leading clinicians from the Cassel Hospital in Richmond, Surrey. The Cassel is the only centrally funded, specialist NHS service in the UK for patients with severe and enduring mental health problems on a background of complex trauma. A recurrent challenge in working with this group of patients is the way in which staff and patients can find themselves disconnected from reality, whether it is the patient’s painful internal reality, their physically damaged bodies, the realities of their lives outside the treatment, or the emotional toll it takes to try and understand the complicated interplay between these areas.
We will spend the day exploring the connections between self-harm, trauma and dissociation from different perspectives, thinking about the ways in which patients, staff and organisations may disconnect from reality, and how we can work with these experiences.
Programme
Out of sight, out of mind? Working with separation and risk when patients are away from hospital’
Sarah Miell, Psychosocial Nurse & Simmi Protab, Clinical Nurse Manager
Defensive Care – Social defence systems in health institutions
Ricardo Readi, Principal Adult Psychotherapist/ Psychoanalyst
Double-Edged – Thinking about professionals’ responses to self-harm
Dr Tom Dalton, Specialist Registrar in Medical Psychotherapy
Previous delegates who found this conference useful have included nurses, HCAs, social workers, psychiatrists, therapists, psychologists, workers in CMHTs, HTTs and crisis teams.
Places are £60 or £20 for students.
CPD certificates available on request.