With Guest Psychoanalyst Professor Glen Gabbard USA, Keynote Speaker
The APAS is excited to invite you to a thought provoking, challenging and interesting conference to discuss what is difficult to talk about – boundaries and ethics.
Confidentiality is fundamental to the practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. However, many challenges lie in maintaining the boundaries essential to providing that confidentiality. The Conference speakers explore the challenging issue of navigating boundaries in various therapeutic contexts.
Glen Gabbard explores maintaining professionalism in a digital world and the intrusion of the digital world into the therapeutic space. What happens when anonymity of the therapists doesn’t exist?
Glen Gabbard in conversation with Elizabeth Kerr and Kaye Nelson discusses the aftermath of boundary transgressions on the ‘larger family’/the professional body that the therapist belongs to and the challenges of managing the complex organisational and personal fallout.
Matt McArdle explores the relationship between internal boundaries and its expression in the external world.
Lastly, a panel comprising of Tim Keogh, Teresa Russo and Cathy Ladbrook, attempt to answer the questions – how do we work in situations where the criminal law comes into play or when working with children where parents or the
protection agencies are added to the mix? And how do we work when the patient has other systems’ involvement for example a mental health service.
On Sunday, three sessions will be offered: Ken Istraelstam is presenting a paper on couples therapy work; Louise Gyler is presenting a paper on the role of the frame with special reference to child work; and Leonie Sullivan is offering a Balint Group.
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Australian Psychoanalytical Society is a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), together we are here to raise the profile of psychoanalysis and set the standards for practitioners.
