2025-01-18 08:30 AM 2025-01-18 01:00 PM OPA Psychotherapy Day 2025 Virtual America/New_York
Organization: Ontario Psychiatric Association
CME Accreditation: TBC
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2025
Time: 8:30am - 1:00pm ET
Format: Virtual Event
Early Bird Pricing available until October 31, 2024
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the registrants following the event barring any technical issues.
Session 1: Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatment
Speaker: Dr. Michael Garrett
Time: 8:30am - 10:30am ET
Dr. Garrett will present a psychological model of psychosis that features an integration of cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) and psychodynamic treatment in which CBTp offers a superior method to help patients understand the literal falsity of delusional beliefs while a psychodynamic approach helps patients explore the figurative truth of delusions - the meaning of psychotic symptoms seen as expressions of the person's life history and state of mind.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Provide at least one example of a "persecutory psychological object" in psychosis;
- Identify CBT techniques a therapist might use in psychotherapy with a psychotic person; and
- Explain how even when a delusion is literally false it may be a figuratively true expression of the patient's life history and mental state.
Session 2: Psychological Trauma, Schizophrenia, and Psychotherapy
Speaker: Dr. Michael Garrett
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Dr. Garrett will review research that describes the encoding and recall of memories of trauma and discuss how a variety of clinical conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dissociative identity disorder (DID), borderline personality, psychosis, and substance abuse all involve different phenotypic reactions to life adversities based on different biological, psychological, and social predispositions in any given individual. The presentation will include an extended clinical case example of the successful psychotherapeutic treatment of a chronically psychotic man who every day feared he would be arrested.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Appreciate the relevance of childhood adversity in a patient with schizophrenia;
- Differentiate between a horizontal psychological split and a vertical split in response to trauma; and
- Explain how trauma memories influence the content of psychotic symptoms.
About the Speaker
Michael Garrett, MD is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is also on the faculty of Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and is a consultant to several first-episode for psychosis teams in the United States and elsewhere. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis, as detailed in a Chapter in Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 11th Ed titled Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis, and in his recent book, Garrett, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press/New York.
Registration
| Category |
Early Bird Rate (before October 31, 2024) |
Regular Rate (after October 31, 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OPA Full Member | $145.00 + tax | $195.00 + tax |
| OPA Licensed Associate | $145.00 + tax | $195.00 + tax |
| OPA Unlicensed Associate | $85.00 + tax | $105.00 + tax |
| OPA Member-in-Training | $85.00 + tax | $105.00 + tax |
| Non-Member | $295.00 + tax | $315.00 + tax |
An additional $10 processing fee will be charged to each registration.
If you have any questions about this event or about your registration, please contact registration@eopa.ca.
