Bpf Trainee Conference

This is a day event for any bpf trainees and has been specially designed to welcome bpf trainees on the Exeter Doctorate training into the bpf house.

Two simulated clinical cases will be presented by actors in the format of shortened assessment sessions. Three senior clinicians will respond to the case material, talking about how they might go about working with each presentation. The three clinicians come from different theoretical standpoints across psychoanalytic and Jungian traditions and work in various clinical settings. Trainees will hear the clinicians talking about how they would approach the work and will listen to them talk to each other about their approaches. Trainees will be able to ask questions and take part in the discussions.

Due to the restricted numbers that we can accommodate in the bpf house, in-person tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with some in-person tickets held back for international students who are flying in for their residential week at Exeter University the following week.

The clinical presenters are:

Dr Badenhorst is a consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Deputy Medical Director of Grespi, a provider of occupational mental health services. He is a General Medical Council (GMC) registered specialist in general psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Alongside his work in the private sector, until 2020 he also held an NHS consultant psychiatrist post as Clinical Lead for Psychotherapy in Westminster.

Jay Barlow is a Jungian Psychoanalyst member and Director of Training at the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP), London. As a Training and Supervising Analyst, he supervises and teaches various analytic trainings in the UK and in IAAP developing groups outside the UK. He holds an MA in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies and has worked as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the NHS. In 2022 he was the recipient of the BPC’s Diversity in Training Excellence Award for further developing a psychoanalytically-informed training programme for “Diversity and Otherness” from a developmental perspective. Jay teaches clinical seminars on unconscious fantasy, early relational trauma, and human development about early states of mind in the consulting room. He co-leads an SAP Infant Observation group and supervises developing analytic groups in Eastern Europe. He is in full-time private practice in South London.

Dr Joanne Stubley is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She joined the Tavistock Trauma Service in 1998 and has been the lead clinician since 2004. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society and is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (tf-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. Dr Stubley is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and co-chair of an Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse. An honorary lecturer at University College London, she has also written widely on trauma and teaches nationally and internationally. She is co-editor of “Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model” with Linda Young, published in 2022. 

Timetable

10.00am coffee and welcome

10.30am First presentation by one actor as ‘patient’ and one actor as ‘practitioner’ conducting ‘assessment’

11.00am Panel of 3 experts discuss the presentations.

11.45am Q&A from trainees

12.30 pm lunch

1.30 pm Second presentation by actor and practitioner

2.00pm Panel of 3 experts discussing the presentations

2.45pm Q&A from trainees

3.30pm Plenary

4.30pm Close of conference

*If you are a psychotherapist or counsellor residing in an active conflict zone, you are eligible to attend this event free of charge (regardless of whether you are a bpf member or not). Please email membership@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.