Jack Nathan
Jack Nathan is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Maudsley Hospital Psychotherapy and Self-Harm Out-Patients Service. He is particularly interested in how to work with this patient group, which was once openly referred to as 'the patients psychiatrists dislike' - what countertransference difficulties they arouse and the meaning attached to their self-destructive behaviours.
He is author of numerous papers including, 'Self-harm: a strategy for survival and nodal point of change' (2006) and co-authored with Dr. Duncan Mclean, 'Treatment of Personality: Limit Setting and the use of Benign Authority' (2007).
MASTER CLASS
'The Use of Benign Authority with Borderline Patients:
the Need for Attunement and Limit Setting'
The speaker will initially explore the nature of borderline patients’ viscerally disturbing experiences. We will then consider what makes them different from the ‘normal-neurotic’ via the way this difference is embodied by the psychotherapist, for whom the counter-transference reactions cause profound disturbances that resonate with those of the patient. Because losing one’s therapeutic equilibrium is axiomatic, he will detail the way in which benign authority, through attunement and limit setting, can support the therapist, especially when confronted by their own idiosyncratic limitations.
The day will be structured so that there will be opportunities for discussion and some group exercises to explore in detail counter-transference reactions in the group. Finally, he would like participants who have experience with borderline patients to feel free to bring vignettes, especially around clinical problems, such as impasse in the therapy, for us to explore together
10am to 4pm
Saturday 30th June 2012
9.30am REGISTRATION & COFFEE
at St. Mary’s School, Battenhall, Worcester
Attendance fee £90 (£75 if booked before 1st March 2012)
includes buffet lunch and all refreshments
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