Saturday, October 28th, 2017

8:45-9:30 Registration

9:30- 9:50

Welcome and Introduction
Alla Landa, PhD, and Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD

9:50-10:30

The Resilient Brain: Stress, epigenetics over the lifecourse, and how the social environment gets under the skin
Bruce S. McEwen, PhD
Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

10:30-11:10

Mother-Infant Co-regulation and the Origins of Disorganized Attachment
Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA

11:10-11:50

From Etiology to Treatment: Can psychotherapy reverse effects of early interpersonal adversity on the body?
Alla Landa, PhD
Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA

11:50-12:05 COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
12:05-12:45

Mechanisms of Change in Relational Psychoanalysis
Jeremy D. Safran, PhD
New School for Research, New York, NY
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis,
The Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. New York, NY, USA

12:45-1:45

Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapies for Somatic Symptom Disorders: Evidence base and ISTDP as an example
Allan Abbass, MD
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

1:45-2:35 LUNCH (Served in the Kolb Atrium)
2:35-3:15

Psychodynamic-interpersonal Psychotherapy of Somatic Symptom Disorders (PISO): Techniques and mechanisms of change
Peter Henningsen, MD
University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany

3:15-3:55

Wired for Healing: The dyadic repair of attachment trauma in accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
Diana Fosha, PhD
AEDP Institute, New York, NY, USA

3:55-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
4:10-4:50

Treating Somatic Symptoms with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Pat Ogden, PhD
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Broomfield, CO, USA

4:50-6:10

Panel Discussion with All Speakers on Mechanisms of Change
moderated by Harald Gündel, MD, University of Ulm, Germany

Sunday, October 29th, 2017

10:00-10:40

Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and Somatic Experiencing® to Treat Early Adversity: A clinical case illustration
Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, USA

10:40-11:20

Mechanisms of Change in the Psychotherapeutic Treatments of Bodily Distress
Richard D. Lane, MD, PhD
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

11:20-11:35 COFFEE BREAK and transition to workshops
11:35-1:40

Workshops on Psychotherapy Approaches (participants choose one to attend):

PISO: Psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy for somatic symptom disorders
Peter Henningsen, MD
University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany, &
Harald Gündel, MD
University of Ulm, Germany

Burden --> Pain --> Hurt --> Anger--> Joy & Freedom:
The transformation of emotional suffering with AEDP's experiential methodology
Diana Fosha, PhD
AEDP Institute, New York, NY, USA

Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Detecting and treating somatic symptom disorders
Allan Abbass, MD
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Treating the Lingering Impact of Early Pain Memories: An experiential and didactic exploration
Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, USA

Treating Patients with Impairments in Emotional Awareness
Richard D. Lane, MD, PhD
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

1:40-2:30 LUNCH (Served in the Kolb Atrium)
2:30-3:30

Discussion Groups (participants from different workshops meet in new groups)
moderated by faculty of the conference

3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
3:45-5:10

Discussion with All Participants & Panel Discussion with All the Speakers
moderated by Peter Henningsen, MD
University of Ulm, Germany