Events and Seminars
| Event | : | The Disintegrating Self Understanding and working with adults with ADHD and/or Autistic Spectrum traits: A 1 day presentation by Phil Mollon |
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| Venue | : | NCVO, Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL |
| Date | : | 06/06/2015 |
| Duration | : | 9.30am - 5.30pm |
| Extra Info | : | Traits of both Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autistic Spectrum are common, and often occur together. Many of those who seek help from psychotherapists suffer from such problems – but often neither they, nor their therapists, are aware of these brain-based conditions. Despite the misleading emphasis upon attention in the name, ADHD is essentially a disorder of impaired self-regulation, including affect regulation. Associated with emotional instability, storms of affect, impulsivity, novelty-seeking, rage, panic, volatile relationships, and general chaos, ADHD is often a hidden core in ‘borderline’ or ‘emotionally unstable’ personality disorder.
The person with such a neurobiologically-based condition has an enhanced need for Kohutian self-object responses from others, to help regulate his or her brain state – and will tend to experience and express rage when these needs are not met. By contrast, a person with predominantly Autistic Spectrum traits will tend to experience the world of other people as overwhelming and disorganising, and so will tend to turn to non-human or inanimate objects and systems for soothing and affect-regulation. ADHD and Autistic Spectrum constellations are vivid examples of the interplay of the neurobiological, the psychodynamic, and the interpersonal – and, as such, are of intense interest to the psychotherapist. |
| Organised By | : | Confer |
| Web Link | : | http://www.confer.uk.com/disintegrating.html |