Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorder Conference
Key note speaker: Kees Cornelissen
Conference details
Date: Friday 9 March 2012
Time: 9am - 5pm
Kedleston Road Campus
Conference Fees
- Early bird: £120
- Full rate: £145
- ISTDP-UK: £95
- Student rate: £95
Please note that the early bird rate finishes on Friday 17 February 2012.
Book your placeKeynote speaker: Kees LM Cornelissen, National Centre for Personality Problems 'De Viersprong' ('Crossroads'), The Netherlands.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a focal, structured psychological therapy with an evidence base across a range of mental health disorders. Specific applications have been developed for the treatment of complex mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, personality and somatic disorders.
During this conference participants will be introduced to the core concepts of ISTDP and how the model is used in the treatment of personality disorder. Videotaped illustrations will demonstrate the treatment process including the early and mid-stages of treatment, and evaluation of treatment at follow-up.
Kees L.M. Cornelissen Soc.D is a trained and registered psychotherapist in The Netherlands, in private practice and in residential treatment. He was educated as a sociologist at the Free University in Amsterdam. During his professional life he was trained in Group Analysis, Client-Centred Therapy, and in Transactional Analysis amongst others and became a teacher and supervisor in several psychotherapeutic modalities. In 2005 he developed and founded the only existing Residential program on ISTDP. Kees was educated in the theory and practice of ISTDP by H. Davanloo in Canada and also trained in ISTDP as a member of the continuing educational program on ISTDP in the Netherlands by Josette ten Have-de Labije among others. He is now a trainer in ISTDP and on the board of IEDTA and the editorial board of the Ad Hoc Bulletin as well as co-trainer in several international core-groups on ISTDP in Norway, England and Poland. He has presented at many national and international conferences, has written several articles on specific topics in the application of the technique of ISTDP and a book on residential treatment with ISTDP, the "R-ISTDP" (2007).He works in the Viersprong, a residential centre for psychotherapy in the South of the Netherlands, and is now developing a centre of expertise in ISTDP in the Netherlands, where people can receive core training and specialize in residential treatment with ISTDP.
