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We invite you
to attend an evening seminar
Scaffolding Clinical
Insight:
Affective
Profiling and the Creative Use of Clinical Assessment
Presenter: Dr
Doris McIlwain
Thursday
10 March 7.45 - 9.00pm
Pilone room, Crows Nest Community Centre, 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest
This event follows on from Dr McIlwain's
presentation at the highly successful APS-endorsed POPIG conference on
evidence based psychodynamic psychotherapy, although attendance at this
conference is not necessary in order to benefit from the current seminar.
The seminar will explore the way that the
Schedler-Westen Assessment Procedure [SWAP] assesses the personality
styles of clients. The SWAP uses experience-near descriptions such as
‘fantasizes about finding ideal, perfect love’, or ‘tends to act impulsively,
without regard for consequences’ to assess the personality style of
clients whether borderline, narcissistic, dependent or a combination of
these and/or others. The wider emphasis in this session will be on
Dr McIlwain’s interest in affective profiling. She suggests that it is
the way that affect is experienced and how that experience is handled
that is often central to profiling personality styles.
The first part of the session will be clinically
oriented. Guided by Dr McIlwain, all members of the audience will work
simultaneously but independently to map the profile of one of their own
patients. In the second part of the session Dr McIlwain will look more
generally at how affective profiles map onto personality styles,
theoretically and empirically.
It is important to note that the session does
not offer a training in the use of the SWAP approach to personality
profiling. However it offers insight into what makes the SWAP special
against a more general backdrop of affective profiling and indicates possible
personal and creative uses of the SWAP with individual clients as well as
with couples.
Workshop Leader: Dr Doris McIlwain is a senior
lecturer in psychology at Macquarie University and has a small
private psychotherapy practice. She teaches in personality theory
and the philosophy of psychoanalysis.
Her research areas are personality, movement, emotion and memory. She
researches developmental trajectories shaping personality (with an
emphasis on the dark triad), particularly how the direct and vicarious
experience of emotion shapes morality and memory. This research informs
her writing on charismatic leadership. She also researches how we
mentally colonise our bodies, influence ourselves and are influenced by
the ‘verbal touch’ of others in expert movement practices like
yoga.
Registration:
Seminar
fee is $40 plus GST (total = $44).
Please send RSVP to Jacqui Winship: jacqui@caspc.com.au Mobile:
0423 760162
Cheques can be posted to CASPC, PO Box 49, Belrose 2085
Online Payment can be made by EFT to:
Account name: CASPC
BSB: 032-053 ACC:
246959
Please identify yourself by name.
Numbers
will be limited and you are
required to pre-register.
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