5th Annual Conference

Conference Programme

Saturday, 24 March 2007

9.00 - 9.30am

Registration

9.30 - 9.40am

Welcome Address by President EMDR UK & Ireland

9.40 - 10.45am

Main Speaker
The Amit Bhattacharyya Memorial Lecture:
Dr Philip Dodgson: EMDR and Humanitarian Assistance in areas of ongoing turmoil.

10.45 - 11.05am

Morning Coffee

11.05am - 12.15pm

Attend either Symposium 1 or 2 or 3

Symposium 1

Dr Frank Corrigan: Emotions, mindfulness, defence responses: A ventromedial shift hypothesis on the mechanism of action of EMDR.

Symposium 2

Dr Graham Connell-Jones: The role of EMDR in the treatment of personailty disorder in self-harming women.

Symposium 3

David Blore: EMDR Generates Post Traumatic Growth (PTG): Preliminary Results

12.15 - 12.45pm

Lunch

12.45 - 14.00pm

EMDR UK & Ireland AGM

14.05 - 15.15pm

Attend either Symposium 4 or 5 or 6

Symposium 4

Lynn Keenan, Carmel Wright & Paul Keenan: The utilisation of EMDR as an effective treatment intervention for Peri-natal PTSD.

Symposium 5

Philip Dodgeson: Interpreting Trauma: Using EMDR with Interpreters.

Symposium 6

Dr Art O'Malley: The use of EMDR to treat PTSD. A putative neurobiological mechanism of action.

15.15 - 15.30pm

Afternoon Tea

15.30 - 16.30pm

Attend either Symposium 7 or 8 or 9

Symposium 7

Kay Toon & Carrie Horsefield: Using EMDR in a therapy group to simultaneously process the traumas of group members. Preliminary findings.

B Bodill: Measuring outcomes: Using EMDR in the NHS.

Symposium 8

Phil Nottingham: Using EMDR on the road.

Pauline Fulham: Brief therapy in defended systems - control and avoidance: Considerations of experience of sucessful EMDR under adverse conditions.

Symposium 9

Child paper.