The International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy

19^th Annual Conference

Tales of Transgression

Narratives in Forensic Psychotherapy

Keble College, Oxford, England

25^th – 27^th March 2009

Welcome to the 19^th Annual IAFP Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is the importance of narrative and story in the lives of forensic patients and other offenders.

Forensic patients are surrounded by descriptions of their transgressions, from depositions and psychiatric court reports, to police statements and newspaper articles outlining sensationalist accounts of their crimes. Once engaged in therapy further narratives emerge, including their own accounts of their motivations, histories, reasons and fantasies, and the therapists’ expositions of the offences, and of the tale of therapy itself. Visual narratives may emerge many forms, including artwork, self-harm scarification, photographs of the offender’s victims and become one aspect of the complex picture of the trajectory of transgression. Dramatic reconstructions, repeated enactments and serial offences act out these destructive narratives. Somewhere within the narrative structure truth and fantasy converge and one of the tasks of the forensic psychotherapist is to disentangle these and uncover the meaning at the heart of an offence, distorted and violent as it might be. The conflicting narratives of expert witnesses and miscarriages of justice are among the topics we will address.

PRE-CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

THURSDAY MARCH 25 ^TH 2010

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP:

Applying the Work of Isabel Menzies Lyth to forensic settings: Current Developments

The work of the late Isabel Menzies Lyth (1917-2008), the distinguished psychoanalyst and social scientist, has continued to have a profound influence on the practice of care by informing our understanding of the tremendous emotional impact on staff working in mental health and other institutional settings.

Her insights are very much alive in current research, and have great relevance for practice in forensic settings. This pre conference workshop aims to draw on her ideas, and the experience of participating members, to provide illustrations of the defences and difficulties that arise in the complex tasks of treatment within forensic organisations.

09:00am           Coffee and Registration

09:30am            Opening

09:45am           Anne Aiyegbusi

10:55am           Coffee

11:10am           Cleo van Velsen

12:10 pm           Lunch

13:20pm            David Morgan

14:30 pm            Coffee

14:45 - 15:45pm  Large Group

CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION (For main conference delegates only)

THURSDAY MARCH 25 ^TH 2010

18:30pm         Main Conference Welcome Reception (Keble Hall)

CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

FRIDAY MARCH 26^TH 2010

8.00 am         Registration COFFEE

9.30 am        Opening of Conference

10.00 am      Plenary Session: Attachment Narratives in Forensic Settings

Speaker 1:    Gender Constructions: Analysis from Sex Offender Narratives

          Prof Dr Franziska Lamott, University of Ulm

Speaker 2:    From Attachment to Offence: reaching the Representational System through Forensic Narratives

                   Dr Gillian McGauley, University of London

Discussant:    Anne Aiyegbusi, Head of Nursing, West London Mental Health Trust

12noon         LUNCH

1.00 pm        Parallel Sessions 1 for Workshops and Presentations

2.30 pm        COFFEE

3.00 pm        Parallel Sessions 2 for Workshops and Presentations

4.30 pm        Plenary Session: From subject’s credulity to the credibility of word

                   Dr Jean Motte dit Falisse, University of Poitiers

5.35 pm       Large Group

7.30 pm       CONFERENCE DINNER

SATURDAY MARCH 27^TH 2010

10.00 am       Coffee

10.30am        Parallel Sessions 3 for Workshops and Presentations

12noon         IAFP Annual General Meeting

1.00 pm       LUNCH

2.00 pm      Plenary: Narratives of Evil in Women

                 Speaker 1: Prof Marina Warner, UK: The wicked (step)mother and the fairy godmother: The many mothers of fairytale

                 Discussant: Dr Estela Welldon

4.15pm      Large Group

5.15pm     CLOSING REMARKS

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