Psychosis, Trauma, and Psychotherapy with Michael Garrett, MD
Join us for an in-person, half-day, 1pm-5pm, pre-conference workshop at The Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Ave, Chicago.
- Conference attendees receive 20% discount. Please register for the conference first to receive your discount code.
- 3.5 hours CE credits available, for ACCME, ANCC, APA, ASWB
- Limited number of $50 scholarship places available for people with low income, unwaged, on benefits, or otherwise in financial hardship. Visit: www.isps-us.org/scholarships to apply
- This event in IN-PERSON ONLY and strictly limited to 50 spaces
Event Description:
Not only is childhood trauma associated with psychosis, but psychotic symptoms often contain fragmented de-contextualized memories of trauma. Symptoms frequently embody narrative themes that echo the person’s trauma history. These findings mark psychosis as a trauma-related disorder in which psychotic symptoms constitute disguised representations of a person’s trauma history. This presentation expands the definition of trauma to include the symbolic meaning of events and relates psychosis to a neuropsychoanalytic model of the mind as a self-organizing system in which affect plays a central role, a conceptual lens through which delusions can be seen as meaningful adaptive attempts to maintain affective homeostasis in the face of traumatic experiences. The presentation also includes a neuropsychoanalytic developmental model of the origins of the particular cast of characters and plot lines often encountered in delusional narratives, commonly the patient beset by a persecutor. The workshop offers suggestions about how clinicians might add a neuropsychoanalytic perspective to their work which might improve outcomes for some patients.
Presenter Bio:
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 the 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.
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