Conference preliminary programme
Friday, 21 March 2014
FIGI, Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
8.00 – 9.00
Registration
9.00 – 10.45
Plenary Session - Opening of the Conference
Celia Taylor, President elect IAFP (UK)
Frans Koenraadt (NL)
Chair: Celia Taylor (UK)
Speakers:
Leticia Castrechini (D) - The promotion of a transitional space in which to
overcome transference issues when treating personality disorders
Francesco Spadaro (I) - Human, all too human: the communications of criminal
patients
10.45 –11.15
Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30 Parallel Session 1 - Mental condition in institutional life
Chair: Carine Minne (UK)
Reena Kapoor (USA) - Justifying the Continued Use of Solitary Confinement in U.S.
Prisons
Pleun van Vliet & Gert Slettenhaar (NL) - The Blind Spot of Forensic Mental Health
Care
Parallel Session 2 - Psychopathology and treatment in forensic mental health
Chair: Markus Feil (D)
Antoine Mooij (NL) - Perversion as a key figure of personality disorders
Cleo van Velsen (UK) - Perversion of truth in forensic personality disorders
Theunis van den Hazel (NL) - People with ID and personality disorders - an
impossible combination
Parallel Session 3 – (Neuro)scientific role
Chair: Jessica Yakeley (UK)
Leslie M. Lothstein (USA) - Understanding and Treating Sexual Violence in
Personality Disordered Men: Group Therapy in the age of the Social
Neurosciences
Marcel Schmeets (NL) - Epigenetics and (forensic) Psychotherapy
Sudhir Kumar Gupta (India) - Criminal behaviors and the forensic aspect of the
Narco Test
Parallel Session 4 - Round table discussion
Training and teaching therapists
Chair: Jochem Willemsen (B)
Niels Habermann (D) - How to become a forensic psychologist (or better not?)
Gabriel Kirtchuk, Richard Ingram, Gill McGauley (UK) - Multi Disciplinary
Forensic Psychotherapy Career Pathway in the UK
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Plenary Session
Chair: Frans Koenraadt (NL)
Keynote speaker: Abram de Swaan (NL) - Genocidal perpetrators and the
compartmentalization of personality
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 17.00 Parallel Session 5 - Case histories
Chair: Colin Campbell (UK)
Gerben Meynen (NL) - Norwegian Breivik case from a Dutch perspective
Thaddeus Muller (NL) - Lou Reed’s Walk on the wild side
Jaap Bos (NL) - Van Gogh and his suicide
Parallel Session 6 - Media, Mind and Message
Chair: Leslie M. Lothstein (USA)
Rachel Cohen (UK) - We Need to Talk… (Re)Introducing Media Audience Studies to
Criminology and Forensic Psychotherapy
Lisa Firestone (USA) - Does the Media Play a Role in Perpetuating Incidents of
Mass Violence?
Cleo van Velsen (UK) - The good, the bad and the ugly psychopath
John Woods(UK) - The Gang Mentality, a hiding place for criminality
Parallel Session 7 – Therapeutic approaches
Chair: Anne van den Berg (NL)
David Millar(UK) - The canary down the coal mine
Marcus Feil (D) - Standing on a knife edge. Managing confidentiality in Forensic
Psychotherapy
Celia Taylor (UK) - Fostering a psychodynamic understanding of offending in
London Probation Officers: A joint project between the London Probation
Trust and the London Pathways Partnership
Parallel Session 8 – Deviance
Chair: Pieter Ippel (NL)
Ronald Doctor (UK) - Delusion of Normality: understanding justifications and
excuses of criminal behavior
Christoff Hanzig (D) - The justification of euthanasia killings in the National
Socialism and afterwards
Karl Weilbach (Sw) - Deviance and Dangerousness as Constructs? Meaning and
Abuse in Forensic Psychotherapy
17.00 – 18.00 Large Group
Convener: John Schlapobersky (UK)
20.00 – 23.00 Conference Dinner
Conference Programme
Saturday, 22 March 2014
FIGI
8.30 – 9.00
Registration
9.00 – 10.00
Plenary Session
Chair: Friedemann Pfäfflin (D)
Keynote speaker: Leslie M. Lothstein (USA)
The Corporate Bureaucracy of the Catholic Church as a Major Contributor to
the Priest Sexual Abuse of Minors Scandals: or Justification and Excuses of
Criminal Behavior on a Huge Scale
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.30 Parallel sessions
Parallel Session 9 - Round table discussion
Comparative Forensic Psychotherapy for arsonists
Chair: Frans Koenraadt (NL)
t.b.a. (UK)
Ricardo Weewer (NL)
Karel ‘t Lam (NL)
Titus van Os (NL) - case presenter
Martin Wiznitzer (NL) - case presenter
Tillman Kluttig (D)
Parallel Session 10 - Film session
Forensic mental health assessment and treatment
in private and public practice: the role of the media
Chair: David Millar (UK)
Ditteke Mensink (NL)
Eline Muller (NL)
Michael van Eekeren (NL)
Parallel Session 11 - Sexual issues
Chair: Richard Curen (UK)
Bradley Hillier (UK) - Intrafamilial pedophilia
Ellen Gunst (B) - From Self-in-Prison to Self-in-Presence. Why and how
enhancing emotional functioning in sex offenders?
Jochem Willemsen (B) - Cognitive distortions and the construction of truth in
treatment programs for sex offenders
Jessica Yakeley (UK) - Paraphilias, perversions, and personality disorder
Friedemann Pfäfflin (D) - Prognostic evaluation of a man propagating egosyntonic pedophilia - A case study
Parallel Session 12 – Therapeutic interventions
Chair: Reena Kapoor (USA)
Moeneke Nijkamp (NL) - Body awareness and emotion recognition in reactive
aggressors
Emma Allen & Pauline Souflas (UK) - Fire & the Phoenix. Working with the
symbolic element of fire in Individual Arson Treatment in a High Secure
Setting – a Case Presentation
Bovenschen et al (NL)- An application of attachment theory and Mentalization
Based Treatment
Carine Minne (UK) - Rationalisation and Denial; the most popular psychotic
symptoms
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.15 Plenary Session
Chair: Jan van der Leeuw (NL)
Keynote speakers: Paul Verhaeghe (B) – Our problem with authority and its
effects on criminality
Marieke Liem (NL/USA) - Post-Incarceration Syndrome among
Lifers
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30 Annual General Meeting IAFP
Chair: Celia Taylor (UK)
16.30 – 17.30 Large Group
Convener: John Schlapobersky (UK)
17.30 – 18.00 Closing ceremony – Invitation to Boston 2015
including Farewell Drink
Celia Taylor, President elect IAFP (UK)
Frans Koenraadt (NL)
Reena Kapoor, Boston, Mass (USA)