"Innovative approaches for dealing with defense & resistance in

Danish Society for ISTDP presents
"Innovative approaches for dealing with
defense & resistance in psychotherapy”
September 17 – 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Speakers:
Patricia Coughlin & Torben Palmer Hansen
Patricia Coughlin will present will the case of a 55 year old woman with a
life long history of impulse control problems, affecting every area of her life,
from self care to relationships and employment. While she had been sober
for 25 years, with the help of AA, many attempts at therapy had failed to
help her get to the cause of her emotional difficulties.
Videotaped segments from 9 hours of therapy will illustrate the importance
of understanding defense and resistance within the context of the conflict of
which they are a part. In particular, the ability to identify and strengthen the
conscious and unconscious alliance, driven by the patient's healthy strivings,
will be emphasized as an essential ingredient in healing.
This case will highlight the need for therapist flexibility; understanding how
what might appear to be resistance, can also be an expression of an
emerging sense of self
Torben Palmer Hansen will present a case showing a traumatized, fatigued,
and deeply tormented woman, and demonstrate how to deal with
pathological reaction to severe trauma using short term psychodynamic
interventions (ISTDP), and lay out ways of understanding psychosomatic
symptoms in the light of identification with other or with the suffering of
other.
Using the case as example Torben Palmer Hansen will look at how to
promote the relationship with the inner Self through understanding the role
of resistance to the unwanted emotions underneath the crippling symptoms and to see how that in turn can give rise to positive expressions of Self:
energy, flowing emotions, intuition, peace, courageousness, and bonding.
Practical
informations
Price:
Member:
d.kr1650,Non-member: d.kr 2000,Student:
d.kr 1300,Includes small breakfast, juice,
fruit, lunch, coffee-tea & cake
Registration:
1) Send email with your name,
adresse, telephone & profession to
[email protected]
2) Pay to the Danish Society for
ISTDP:
Account: 2253 – 8978535632.
IBAN: DK5420008978535632.
BIC: NDEADKKK
If you pay from abroad include
35,- d.kr for bank fee
Registration until August 10.
We look forward to seeing you at:
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, from 8-17
Address: Islands Brygge 18, 2300 Copenhagen S. Coffee & Registration from 8-8.30.
www.istdp-danmark.dk
About the speakers
Patricia Coughlin, clinical psychologist We are happy to welcome Patricia
Coughlin, who over the last 10 years has been kept on inspiring us with
several presentations in Denmark.
Dr. Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist
with over 30 years of clinical experience. In addition to seeing patients in her
private practice, Dr. Coughlin conducts training and supervision groups for
mental health professionals around the world. She has held faculty positions
at Northwestern University Medical School and Albany Medical College, and
now at Clinical Faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Her office is in Albany, NY.
Over the past 20 years she has written professionally, given presentations at
professional conferences and conducted workshops for mental health
professionals around the world. She is working on her third book,
“Maximizing Therapeutic Effectiveness", due in 2016. Currently, she is
conducting supervision groups and training workshops in Current training
groups in New York, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Torben Palmer Hansen, clinical psychologist We are very proud to be able
to show the work of Torben, who last year did his first international
presentation at the IEDTA International Conference at Washington School
of Psyciatry
Torben Palmer Hansen has had a private psychotherapy practice in Silkeborg,
Denmark since 1996. He graduated from the University of Aarhus, Denmark
in 1994. Between 1994 and 1996, he worked at Aarhus University Hospital
providing individual and group psychotherapy in the in- and out-patient
departments. He has treated cronic and long-term pain patients using the
methods of John E. Sarno, since the late nineties. Between 2002 and 2007 he
trained in the individual dynamic psychotherapy methods of James
Masterson and the couples therapy methods of Harville Hendricks. In 2007
he began his ISTDP core training with Patricia Coughlin, which he
completed in 2010. He has studied with Jon Frederickson in 2013
On behalf of
the Danish Society for ISTDP
Jeanne Isaksen – chair of ISTDP-board
Brian Kok – boardmember of ISTDP
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