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The 2008 conference on Adult Attachment in Clinical Context presents leading theorists in the field. Their findings are essential to today’s practitioners.

This conference will be organized around the power of the Adult Attachment Interview, and its roots that spring from psychodynamic tradition, countless hours of attachment observation and research. Drawing from the rich research findings of three longitudinal studies, some of the conference’s presenters will illuminate clinical applications derived from these findings.

This conference brings together many of the leading figures in attachment research and theory. Topics range from mentalization-based treatment and the therapist’s stance; parental frightened-frightening behavior and it’s affect on the offspring; attachment theory’s influence on classification and etiology of psychopathology; links between disorganized, unresolved and cannot classify states of mind, and adult psychopathology. We will explore new ways to understand psychopathology and treatment through the lens of attachment research, and in particular, attachment and its influence on generational transmission.

Friday March 7, 2008
9-12:30 PowerPoint Lecture/Audience Dialogue

Allan Schore: “Regulation Theory and the paradigm shift: From conscious cognition to unconscious affect.”

1:30- 5:30 PM Panels

Panel on Regulation Theory and Relational Trauma

Moderator: Judith Schore

Paula Thomson: “"Mommy and me: shared trauma during prenatal development."

Ruth Newton: “Development derailed: the trauma of chaos in early childhood.”

Stan Tatkin: “Turning the lights back on: Working with the low arousal couple.”

Jane Wheatley Crosbie: “Beyond Impasse in Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Transforming the Body's Silent Stories of Early Trauma.”

Panel on Regulation Theory and Psychotherapy

Moderator: Allan Schore

Pat Ogden: “Implications of Infant Attachment Research for Adult Psychotherapy: Working with the Non-Verbal.”

Sondra Goldstein and Susan Thau: “Resilient couples and how they stay together.”

Terry Marks Tarlow: "Merging and emerging: a nonlinear portrait of intersubjectivity during psychotherapy."

Vicki Stevens: "Creativity and psychotherapeutic technique: Reading the language of the right brain."

Saturday March 8, 2008

9:00 AM Introduction – Marion Solomon

9:15 – 10:00 AM Richard Bowlby – “John Bowlby’s Legacy - a personal perspective by his son Richard”

10:00 – 10:30 AM Chris Heinicke - "The AAI: The Organized Categories, and How it All Began"

10:30 - 10:50 AM BREAK

10:50 - 12:20 PM Mary Main & Erik Hesse- “The Disorganized Categories of the AAI, Frightened Frightening Parental Behavior and Disorganized Attachment"

12:20 – 1:20 PM LUNCH

1:20 - 2:20 PM Dan Siegel, “The AAI and The Mindful Brain”

2:20 – 3:50 PM Alan & June Sroufe “Conceptualizing Disturbance and The Role of Resilience: Classification, Etiology and Intervention”

3:50 - 4:10 PM Break

4:10– 5:30 PM Panel - Findings from Three Longitudinal Studies: Minnesota (Alan Sroufe), London, (Howard And Miriam Steele), Berkeley, (Mary Main and Erik Hesse)

Sunday March 9, 2008

9:00 Reflections on the Presentations Christoph M. Heinicke

9:15 – 10:15 AM Peter Fonagy “Working with the Borderline Brain: Mentalization-Based Treatment, Assessment of Mentalization and the Therapist’s Stance”

10:15 – 11:15 AM Allan Schore – “Integrating Attachment, Affect Regulation and Neurobiology: Implications for Research and Treatment”

11:15 – 11:35 AM BREAK

11:35 – 12:35 PM Arietta Slade "Privileging Fear: Attachment Theory and the Paradigm Shift In Psychoanalysis"

12:35 – 1:45 PM LUNCH

1:45 – 3:15 PM Miriam & Howard Steele “Therapeutic Power of Attachment Theory: The Power of The AAI With Mothers, Fathers and Their Babies”

3:15 - 3:40 PM A Tribute To Mary Main – Speakers: Alan Sroufe and Ruth Goldwyn

3:40 – 4:00 PM Break

4:00 - 5:00 PM Final Panel The Future of Attachment Research and Clinical Practice

REGISTRATION:

UCLA Extension registration:

Phone: (310) 825-9971

Online: www.uclaextension.edu/attachment08

Reg. No.#

#T6679H --- $195 One-day (Fri., Preconference)

#T6680H --- $315 Two-day (Sat.-Sun., Conference)

#T6681H --- $460 Three-day (Fri.-Sun., Preconference & Conference)

HOTEL/TRAVEL

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