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| Workshops - Seminars - Presentations |
| The Borderline Dynamic and the Body |
Dates: Saturday, 3 December 2011
Venue: London
Fee: £95
Register | Synopsis:
Borderline
personality disorder (BPD) is an elusive and puzzling phenomenon.
Borderline patterns of organisation are active across the continuum of
intrapsychic and interpersonal fields and borderline relationships
appear equally challenging for clients and therapists alike. Both may
feel attacked, invaded, helpless, misunderstood or unappreciated by the
other. But the borderline dynamic is also particularly apparent as a
bodily experience for both client and therapist.
Hyper arousal
and catastrophic anxieties, both cardinal features of BPD, suggest
disturbances of very basic functions and indicate that the organism is
in a state of somatic disorganisation. Chronic dis-regulation of the
autonomic nervous system, a lack of muscular ego and inadequate surface
boundaries reflect deficiencies in psycho affective maturation and
failures to develop a differentiated psyche-soma relationship. In the
therapeutic relationship, body and psyche of the therapist are impacted
by and respond to such disorganized or dissociated psyche and body
states.
This seminar explores clinical perspectives to
psychological and somatic phenomena and disturbances commonly
experienced by borderline individuals and their therapists from a
relational perspective. Participants are invited to contribute clinical
case material for exploration. |
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