Psychevisual.com, Dr Joan Haliburn, conversational model of psychotherapy, Borderline personality disorder, CM, BPD, Russell Meares

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Bridging research and practice in the conversational model of psychotherapy
Dr Joan Haliburn

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The core pathology in borderline personality disorder is dissociation, according to Russell Meares, and that BPD involves failure of higher order, prefrontal inhibitory mechanisms, particularly evident in the right hemisphere. Trauma causes stress to the mind-brain system and a descent down the hierarchy of mental life. the implicit memory system influences behaviour and is not available for immediate recall; exerting a self-perpetuating bias for interpreting later experiences in a light consistent with past experiences. Consciousness is no longer continuous, or singular - it does not flow; coherence is no longer present. The therapist in the Conversational Mode aims to reverse this hierarchical descent, foster the emergence of a larger a-dualistic consciousness i.e. the ability to be aware of one's effect on others and others' effect on self. How does the therapist do this? This presentation will describe using the model in borderline and dissociative pathology.

WORLD DREAMING: WORLD CONGRESS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
24-28 August 2011 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Darling Harbour, Australia.
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Bridging research and practice in the conversational model of psychotherapy	Joan Haliburn	12'47
Bridging research and practice in the conversational model of psychotherapy	Joan Haliburn
Bridging research and practice in the conversational model of psychotherapy	Joan Haliburn

Dr Joan Haliburn

Joan Haliburn is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. She has 30 years experience working in the field, in both hospital and private practice. She works with seriously disturbed adolescents and young adults, with psychotherapy being the primary focus along with pharmacotherapy. She is a senior clinical lecturer, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, senior supervisor with the psychotherapy program there, and was until 2009 the Director of Training ANZAP.

She was part of an international delegation of psychiatrists who visited Russia in 2009 under the auspices of the International People –to- People Educational & Humanitarian Program, to study the state of Psychiatry in Russia – she found this experience unique- particularly the primary importance given to psychotherapy in the treatment of mental illness. She currently offers psychotherapy supervision to all disciplines, singly and in groups.