The 3rd International CAT Conference
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1st Jul 2009 - 4th Jul 2009

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The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) is pleased to host the 3rd International CAT Conference

Celebrating the Past - Creating the Future Together.....

1-4 July, 2009
University of Bath, UK

Guest Speakers:
Rupert Sheldrake, Michael Holquist and Valerie Sinason

FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD - PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO ACCESS THE FULL PDF DOCUMENT

·The major CPD opportunity for CAT therapists and trainees

·A great chance to meet your colleagues from all over the world and to share ideas and developments

·Contribute to a choice of eight Dialogue streams on key CAT topics including:
CAT in Groups, eating disorders, narcissism, arts and creative approaches and many more

·Hear the latest CAT research including:
The Melbourne and Maudsley Groups

·Select from a range of Satellite and Special Interest meetings including:
Liz McCormick's popular workshop, CAT in Bipolar Disorder and many more

· Hear about the launch of the International CAT Association

· Join in lively debates about the nature of mind and dialogue with some leading and controversial guest speakers including:
Rupert Sheldrake, Michael Holquist and Valerie Sinason

· Enjoy a relaxing campus venue, conference dinner and great band (Lou Brown) until late!

It is 25 years since Cognitive Analytic Therapy was first named by Dr Anthony Ryle following the observation that: 'Working with patients to find the best descriptions of what it was we were trying to change as part of outcome research, demonstrated to me the power of collaboratively arriving at such descriptions...’ This early joint reformulation has remained the key feature of CAT, offering both the early creation of a non-authoritarian working relationship and yielding increasingly powerful tools of understanding and change.   

In 2009, ACAT is one of the largest psychotherapy training organisations in the UK and, overseas, CAT trainings and/or supervision structures are in place in Finland, Eire, Australia, New Zealan, Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Chile. Interest and passion for CAT has grown and evolved on the basis of its dialogic heart and its human way of reaching out to a wide range of clients. In the NHS, CAT now has a growing evidence base and active research programme and is named in NICE guidelines for personality and eating disorders.

The 3rd International CAT Conference aims to bring together those from around the world who have something to say about CAT or who simply want to find out more in a relaxed and enjoyable way at the BathUniversity campus. The Programme will include some internationally known speakers, present the latest CAT research (including RCTs) but, most importantly, will allow plenty of space for getting together in led dialogue streams and joint activities (both academic and social) in order to both celebrate the past and create the future of CAT together.

Guest Speakers

Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is a Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project and one of the world’s most innovative biologists best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.

Professor Michael Holquist
Michael Holquist is one of the world’s leading Bakhtin scholars and Chair of Comparative Literature at YaleUniversity.  He is best known for his book ‘Dialogism – Bakhtin and his world’.

Dr Valerie Sinason
Valerie Sinason is a psychoanalyst and a consultant research psychotherapist at the Psychiatry of Disability Department at St George’s Hospital Medical School and also Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London.  Valerie specialises in work with abused/abusing and dissociative patients including those with a learning disability.

Brief Summary of Schedule (full programme now available to download - please scroll down this page):

19.30: Conference Dinner followed by music and entertainment with Lou Brown

Saturday 4^th July
08.30: Registration
09.00 - 13.00: Conference programme

Karnac Books will be providing a book store during the conference. You can visit their website in advance here. http://www.karnacbooks.com/default.php

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Conference Programme Conference Programme - this will be available in delegate packs	168KB
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Travel Directions Travel Directions	383KB

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