Section of Psychotherapy 2014 Conference

2O14 Conference

STIRRINGUP PREHISTORIC TIME: EPIGENETICS, TRAUMATIC RUPTURE AND REPAIR

ANNOUNCEMENT& CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Epigenetics is the paradigm in which we explore the persistence of ancient traumatic rupture in current relationships. It in turn reframes our understanding of rupture and repair in interpersonal relationships.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, the third elegy

Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (www.hkam.org.hk)

Situated at 99 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang on Hong Kong Island South, the 10-storey building of the Academy occupies 4,300 m2 of land area and 15,000 m2 of gross floor area. Named after the Jockey Club, the building contains a multipurpose grand hall, an auditorium, two function rooms, and seven meeting rooms.

The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine is the highest academic organisation in Hong Kong, established by statute in 1993. It has the mandate to maintain the standard of specialist training and specialist continuing medical education (CME) and continuous professional development in the territory. The Academy has 15 Medical and Dental Colleges and over 5,000 Fellows who have gone through at least six years of structured training in accredited centres, and have passed the intermediate and the exit examinations. Within these 15 Colleges, there are currently 62 specialties and subspecialties.

In its 62-year history, the hotel was the centre of charm, chic and the Charleston. Not only was it a popular holiday spot for locals, it was also a favourite haunt for expatriates working in the Far East and a choice destination for international travellers.

Royalty and celebrities found refuge at the hotel including George Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward. Actor Marlon Brando was a guest in the 1950’s. Spain’s Crown Prince Juan Carlos and Crown Princess Sofia spent their honeymoon here while other royal guests included Prince Axel of Denmark and Prince Peter of Greece. The hotel was immortalised in the Hollywood classic "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" and the Oscar-winning "Coming Home" which was partly filmed in the hotel’s Reading Room.

It is anticipated that the registration fee, including the Welcome Reception and Dinner, will be AUD$740 for Members of RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy, retired RANZCP Fellows, Asian delegates and speakers, AUD$640 for psychiatry trainees and full-time students, and AUD$780 for others.

Participants in the RANZCP CPDProgram may claim credits for CPDactivities that are in accordance with his/her CPDPlan and that are in line with the principles and obligations of the RANZCP CPDProgram. Evidence of attendance should be retained for use in the case of an Audit of Claim.

Accommodation will be available for delegates at two reasonably priced hotels that are a short walk from the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. You will be able to book accommodation when you register for the conference.

All sessions will be in English. Translating services will not be provided.

Salman Akhtar, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His more than 300 publications include 16 books – most recently, Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy (2009), The Damaged Core (2009), Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009), Immigration and Acculturation (2011), Matters of Life and Death (2011), The Book of Emotions (2012), Psychoanalytic Listening (2013), Good Stuff (2013), and Sources of Suffering (in press), – as well as 42 edited or co-edited volumes in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar has delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures and is the recipient of many awards and prizes, most recently, the highly prestigious Sigourney Award (2013), for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis. Dr. Akhtar is an internationally-sought speaker and teacher, and his books have been translated in many languages. His interests are wide and he has served as the Film Review Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is currently serving as the Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published seven collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

LOUISE NEWMAN AM

Louise Newman, BA(Hons) MBBS(Hons) PhD FRANZCP Cert. Child Psych. RANZCP, is the Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology. Prior to this appointment she was the Chair of Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle and Director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. In January 2011 she was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

She has published in the areas of infant mental health, attachment disorders trauma, and prevention of child abuse. She is co-author of the textbooks Clinical Skills in Infant Mental Health and Contemporary Approaches in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

She is the Convenor of the Alliance of Health Professions for Asylum Seekers and an advocate for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. She is Vice-President of Doctors for Refugees and was a member of the Immigration Health Advisory Group an independent body providing advice to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection on the health needs of asylum seekers. She has been involved in research into the impact of immigration detention on child asylum seekers.

Moshe Szyf received his Ph.Dfrom the Hebrew University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, joined the department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University in Montreal in 1989 and currently holds a James McGill Professorship and GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Chair in Pharmacology and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the founding co-director of the Sackler Institute for Epigenetics and Psychobiology at McGill and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program.

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