9TH MAY 2015 10AM–3.30PMANNA FREUD CENTRE

12 MARESFIELD GARDENS, LONDON NW3 5SU

£35 FOR INDTC MEMBERS, £50 FOR NON INDTC MEMBERS

CONTACT: MAI TASSINARI mt@cht.org.uk

ADVANCES INTHERAPEUTICCOMMUNITIESREFLECTIONS ON BRITISH ANDITALIAN EXPERIENCES

International Network of Democratic Therapeutic Communities

ADVANCES IN THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIESREFLECTIONS ON BRITISH AND ITALIAN EXPERIENCES

REVISED SCHEDULE

10AM Welcome: John Gale

10.10AM Introduction: Rex Haigh

MORNING SESSION: CHAIR MARINO DE CRESCENTE

10.30AM Christopher Scanlon: Shame, shamelessness, grief, grievance, refusal andother forms of psychosocial disease in groups, teams and communities. 

11.15AM Raffaele Barone and Simone Bruschetta: The therapeutic community in thelocal community. The limits, resources of partnership and democracy.

12.00 NOON Discussion: Chris Nicholson

12.30PM LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION: CHAIR TBC

1.30PM Alistair Black: Psychoanalytic clinic for the psychoses - beyond psychiatry andpsychotechnics

2.15PM Luca Mingarelli: Taking care of the staff and the management of boundariesand rules: what kind of leadership is there in Italian TCs?

3.00PM Discussion: Anne Worthington

3.30PM Concluding remarks: John Gale

ADVANCES IN THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIESREFLECTIONS ON BRITISH AND ITALIAN EXPERIENCES

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EVENTThe origins of the therapeutic community in England are most often associated with the work of and W.R.Bion, Richman, Harold Bridger, S.J. Foulkes, Maxwell Jones and Tom Main. In Italy with FrancoBassaglia and Diego Napolitani. But while it is true that psychoanalytic thinking only ever takes placewithin a specific tradition of thinking, there is always scope for a cross over. This conference – the secondin a series – aims precisely at a mutual sharing of ideas between clinicians and academics acrossdivergent discourses, dialects and traditions.

In the last two years over 1,500 professionals from 65 different countries have joined INDTC. Why isinterest in therapeutic communities growing so fast? What is the experience of international cross culturalcooperation like? Is it relevant for you - should you be getting involved? This is a day for anyone wantinganswers to these questions, and suitable for psychiatrists, psychologists, students and others in the fieldof mental health, for those who commission services, people with personal experience of mental ill health,family members, and anyone trying to support people experiencing mental ill health.

DR CHRIS SCANLON is Consultant Psychotherapist in GeneralAdult and Forensic Mental Health in the NHS and a TrainingGroup Analyst at Institute of Group Analysis (London). He is alsoVisiting Professor and Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies,University of East London; Founder member of the Associationfor Psychosocial Studies (APS); member of the International

Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO)

and associate member of Organisation for Promotion of the

Understanding of Society (OPUS). He is also a non-executiveDirector for EMERGENCE - a National organisation that aims tomake a life changing difference for everyone affectedby ‘personality disorders’ and was Professional Adviser toDepartment of Health’s Personality Disorder Expert Advisory

Group and ‘Social Inclusion Unit’ in the Department forCommunities and Local Government (CLG). 

MARINO DE CRESCENTE is a member of the Italian association of coach professionals (IACP), an organisational consultant andtherapeutic community supervisor. He is also a foundingmember of Comunità Passaggi, a therapeutic community forpsychotic patients, of the Association Françoise Dolto in Romeand the scientific secretary for central Italy of the Istituto di StudiAvanzati in Psicoanalisi (ISAP) which is the Italian Section of theInstitut des Hautes Études en Psychanalyse. He is the lead forvisiting central Italy of the Association Mito e Realtà.

PROF RAFFAELE BARONE is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist andgroup analyst. He currently works as the National Secretary ofthe Laboratorio Italiano di Gruppo Analisi. Raffaele is the VicePresident of COIRAG (the confederation of Italian organisationsfor the analytic research of groups). He is the HonoraryPresident of AIRSAM (the Italian association for residences formental health), and Vice President INDTC and a member of itsinternational advisory panel.

DR SIMONE BRUSCHETTA is a clinical psychologist and groupanalyst doing post-doctoral research at the University of Catania.He is a therapeutic community specialist and Project Director

SPEAKERS’ AND SESSION CHAIRS’ BIOGRAPHIESfor Quality Accreditation for Sicilian therapeutic communities.Simone is member of the international Advisory Panel of INDTC,a board member of the Laboratorio Italiano di Gruppo Analisi

and the author of numerous books and scientific papers.

DR ALISTAIR BLACK is a psychoanalyst and CHT’s TrainingDirector. He has a background in continental philosophy. Since gaining his PhD and finishing his thesis on Heidegger andthe human sciences, he has worked in the field of the psychosesand completed a Lacanian psychoanalytic training. As well asbeing CHT’s Training Manager, Alistair maintains a privatepsychoanalytic practice. He has published papers on thepsychoses and their treatment.

LUCA MINGARELLI Is a social entrepreneur, psychotherapist andorganisational consultant. He is the President and owner of theRosa dei Veneto foundation, the director of a therapeuticcommunity for adolescents and Vice Chairman Il Nodo Group.Luca is also a member of OPUS (an Organisation for PromotingUnderstanding of Society), an international group relations staffmember and Director of Learning from Action conferences.

DR CHRIS NICHOLSON is a lecturer at The Centre forPsychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and the CourseDirector for Therapeutic Communication and TherapeuticOrganisations. Before joining the Centre, Chris worked in a rangeof children’s services for over 10 years. His book, co-edited withProfessor Michael Irwin and Dr Kedar Nath Dwivedi entitledChildren and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic

Approaches was published in 2010. In his doctoral thesis heexamined the life and writings of Robert Graves in the light of histraumatic war experiences.

DR ANNE WORTHINGTON is a psychoanalyst and a senior lecturerat the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University. She isalso the Chair of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research,on the Board of Governors of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK,and on the training committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.