Fall Working Conference: Lives in the Balance: Suicide and Suicidal Behavior at the Austen Riggs Center: 10/16 to 10/17
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Suicide produces significant trauma to families, communities, organizations, and clinicians. It is one of the major unsolved medical crises. Over the past 45 years the global suicide rate has increased by 60 percent, and no social, religious, or geographical group is immune. Despite intensive study, the scientific and clinical community faces major obstacles in accurately assessing, predicting, and intervening with high-risk individuals.
This year’s Fall Working Conference brings together scientists and clinicians to learn about suicide assessment, prevention, intervention, and responding to the aftermath. In a series of presentations and discussions, we hope to increase our shared understanding of the challenges we face when working to understand the suicidal individual in their social context. Participants are invited to bring their clinical experience and questions, and to join in thinking creatively about the problem of suicide in the clinical situation and in the culture.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe research findings on assessment and treatment of self-injurious behavior
2. Identify the challenges faced by clinicians working with suicidal and self-destructive patients
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the social context for suicidal behavior
Conference Co-directors
J. Christopher Fowler, Ph.D. is the Director of Research at the Erikson Institute for Education and Research, treatment team leader, and clinical psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center. He is a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, Consulting Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Fowler has written and co-authored over 45 articles and book chapters on personality assessment, suicide risk, long-term psychoanalytically-oriented residential treatment for severely disturbed patients, psychotherapy outcome studies, and psychodynamic interviewing.
Jane G. Tillman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, treatment team leader, and a supervisor of psychotherapy and psychological testing at the Austen Riggs Center. She is also the Manager of Performance Improvement an Chair of the Erikson Scholar Search Committee. Dr. Tillman is currently the chair of the Ethics Committee for Division 39, on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Psychology and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education (ACPEinc). She has published and presented papers on a variety of topics including: dissociation, psychosis, religion, suicide, erotized transference and impasses in treatment. A psychoanalyst and researcher, Dr. Tillman has studied the effects of patient suicide on psychotherapists, and is currently the Principal Investigator of a study on states of mind preceding a near lethal suicide attempts.
Keynote Presentation
8:00 pm, Friday, October 16
Kai Erikson, Ph.D.
Sociological Reflections on Suicide
Kai Erikson is past president of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a Visiting Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the author of Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance, which won the MacIver Award of the ASA; Everything In Its Path, which won the Sorokin Award of the ASA; and A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community. His research and teaching interests include American communities, human disasters, and ethnonational conflict. He has been Master of Trumbull College, Chair of the American Studies program at Yale, Editor of The Yale Review, and Chair of the Department of Sociology. Dr. Erikson is also a member of the Erikson Council of Scholars, Erikson Institute for Education and Research, Austen Riggs Center.
Saturday, October 17
Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.
Advances in the Understanding, Assessment, and Treatment of Self-injurious Behavior
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Robert King, M.D.
Suicidality in Children and Adolescents
Professor of Child Psychiatry and Medical Director, Tourette’s/OCD Clinic, Yale Child Study Center; attending physician, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Elsa Ronningstam, Ph.D.
Chronic and Acute Suicidality in Narcissistic Personalities – Assessment and Treatment
Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical Psychologist, McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School
John T. Maltsberger, M.D.
What would it be like to be dead?
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Associate, McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School
Conference Schedule
Registration:
Welcome and Opening Keynote Presentation – 8:00pm, Friday, Oct. 16
Conference: 9:00am – 6:00pm Saturday, Oct. 17
Conference Reception – 6:00pm Saturday, Oct. 17
10 CEU Credits
Conference Fees
Up to September 16, $150.00
After September 16, $175.00
Conference Fee includes breakfast, lunch, and conference reception.
Scholarship
Limited scholarship funds are available on a first-come, first served basis. Send a brief letter of request outlining financial need and your interest in the seminar.
Refund Policy
Pre-registered participants may cancel in writing and receive a refund less a $25 processing fee. No refunds will be made after Friday, October 2, 2009.
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Location: Large Conference Room (wheelchair accessible)
Contact Information
Nadine Desautels
413-931-5236
erikson@austenriggs.net