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2023 - 7th
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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFYING WEB-CONGRESS
4 half-day conferences, training and certification workshops that bring together psychologists, doctors, philosophers, researchers and therapists in brief therapies, family therapy, hypnosis, NLP, systemic and strategic approach.
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Professor of therapeutics option Internal medicine. Specialist in cardiology and angiology. Graduated in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Pharmacology. Psychotherapist-Analyst. Specialist in addictive behaviors, anorexia and the management of pain and trauma.
Session details
05 October 2023
from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Editorial
In the beginning is the relationship
“In the beginning was the relationship”, this is how François Jullien describes the importance of the relationship in the perpetual movement that we maintain with ourselves, others and the world. In a society where relationships are often mistreated, where men have withdrawn into themselves, how can we define relationships? How to analyze dysfunctions, often the cause of deep psychological problems? How to treat the relationship?
Reminding us that relationships are at the heart of every human enterprise, Jean-Paul Gaillard will present the central role of relationships and the systemic approach in the field of education and mental health. At the same time, Professor Gérard Ostermann will address the links between hypnosis and brief therapies, approaches which he compares to the "widening of the world" of which Henri Michaux speaks when he describes the poetic experience or to the "Erlebnis", this verification exact existential within which the patient discovers himself active and holder of unsuspected resources which he gradually appropriates without the therapist "inoculating" them, himself expanding his aptitude for change as a real datum (learning) .
Then three reflection workshops will follow:
The first workshop will bring together François Balta and Julien Betbèze on the question of the clinical dimension of the relationship. How to move from a strategic approach to an ethical systems approach? The speakers will reveal the difficulty of moving from the individual to the family or group collective in their practice. François Balta thus reflects on his experience: “if it seemed easy to ally with compassion and kindness to the speech of a single person, this position proved much more difficult to maintain in the face of a divided group, in which everyone is thirsty for recognition and support: a permanent invitation to coalitions and betrayals. While it is easy to say that we must “ally with the system,” it is more difficult to actually achieve this alliance. Especially since the system is then seen as “resistant”, attached to its problems, refusing change. ". Another look at the history of the evolution of the systemic approach which can be told as the evolution from this posture of initial distrust to a posture of trust vis-à-vis systems. A story still in progress, a path, from distrust to trust, to be reinvented each time.
Workshop no. 2 will focus on the place of relationships within the company with interventions from Damien Richard (Management and Occupational Health Chair) and Antoine Hayau, CERFRANCE Mayenne HR Director.
Workshop No. 3 will focus on the system in the field of education with former MP Bénédicte Pételle, Claudette Portelli (CTS) and Matteo Papantuono. In this period when situations of harassment and violence are increasing, how can these conflict situations be resolved? How can we re-teach our children to communicate and to be? How can we prevent the development of psychological disorders among students and among teaching and supervisory staff? How can a systemic approach contribute to respecting diversity at school? Does the training of teachers in the systemic approach, in particular via the DU Systemic and Strategic Approach to Education (LACT/) make it possible to prevent and intervene in difficult situations at school?
Speakers and program
Opening conference
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
“Introductory Conference on Education”
| Jean-Paul GAILLARD | Psychoanalyst, systemic family and couple therapist, Honorary University Professor. Full member of the SFTF and EFTA, member of the AEMCX board of directors. For his works and articles, see his site: www.gaillard-systemique.com CONFERENCE: “On tuning, its societal conditions, the effects of its failures: emergence of a barbaric time” For more than twenty years, Jean-Paul Gaillard has worked on the ongoing societal change and its effects of discord between parents and children. In this conference, he discusses his most recent work on the two registers of attunement: societal on the one hand, and relational on the other. It highlights that the collapse of societal harmony is combined with the emergence of a barbaric time, identifiable in all documented societal mutations, a time during which societal constraints on our two primary instincts – aggression and sexuality – disappear. , with the deleterious consequences that we are currently experiencing, of a total lack of protection for our children. |
| Gerard OSTERMANN | Professor of therapeutics option Internal medicine. Specialist in cardiology and angiology. Graduated in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Pharmacology. Psychotherapist-Analyst. Specialist in addictive behaviors, anorexia and the management of pain and trauma. CONFERENCE: “Hypnosis as an activator of resources” The processes involved in brief therapy are those of hypnosis and the trance is therefore there, but somehow invisible. The central principle of hypnotherapy consists of amplifying certain psychobiological mechanisms specific to the trance state, by soliciting both the conscious and unconscious registers of mental functioning. In a state of hypnotic trance, the past and the future, pain and well-being, the part and the whole, activity and reactivity, movement and immobility, strength and gentleness, adventure and comfort, risk and security, nomadism and sedentary lifestyle... It is a paradoxical experience, this "widening of the world" that Henri Michaux speaks of when he describes the poetic experience. This experience, this Erlebnis, this exact existential verification (as Roustang says, citing Heidegger's “es stimmt”), within which the patient discovers himself active and possessor of unsuspected resources, he appropriates them without the therapist having to “inoculate” them. He verifies his aptitude for change as real data (learning) – certainly thanks to the requests of the therapist. |
| Olivier BROSSEAU | Therapist, coach, supervisor and trainer in strategic systemic approach, associated with LACT. He teaches at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administrations and Companies the module "Organizations and behaviors". |
Clinical Workshop
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Moderator: O. BROSSEAU
| Olivier BROSSEAU | Moderator |
| Julien BETBEZE
| Hospital psychiatrist, head of the Loire-Atlantique Therapeutic Family Reception department, Blain CHS. Lecturer in Nantes at the Faculty of Psychology (DESS Cognitive and Clinical) and at the UER of Medicine: DU Addictions, DU Therapeutic Hypnosis, DU Pain. Family therapist, Addiction Department at Nantes University Hospital. Educational manager and trainer at the Arepta-Institut Milton Erickson in Nantes. Trainer at CHTIP in Paris. Co-author with Y. Doutrelugne, O. Cottencin, L. Isebaert and D. Megglé of Brief interventions and therapies: 10 concrete strategies, crises and opportunities, Masson editions, 2016. Editor-in-chief of the journal "Hypnosis & brief therapies". CONFERENCE: “Relational autonomy and self-esteem” In our culture, more and more people consult with the feeling of not being good enough, or of not having value. In this workshop, we will show with clinical examples how to allow a subject to once again become the author of their life. We will emphasize the central role of intentionality as a condition of a living relationship. The question of the link between value and relationship will be developed to escape from processes of idealization and access embodied values, in which the subject can once again be in relationship with himself and with others. Understanding the process of relational autonomy will be at the center of this clinical workshop. |
| Francois Balta | Doctor-psychiatrist, trained in the Systemic Approach in 1979 with Mony ELKAÏM. www.frbalta.fr - www.efilia-conseil.com BALTA F., FOUREST E. VICTOR C. Support with the cooperative systemic approach.
CONFERENCE: "From a strategic approach to an ethical systems approach" The history of the evolution of the systemic approach can be told as the evolution of this posture of initial mistrust to a posture of trust vis-à-vis the systems that challenge us. A story still in progress, a path, from distrust to trust, to be reinvented each time. |
Business Workshop
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Moderator: G. VITRY
| Gregoire VITRY | Doctor-researcher in psychology, graduated from the Palo Alto school, he has worked for several years with Giorgio Nardone, Nathalie Duriez, Michael Hoyt, Teresa Garcia, Jean-Jacques Wittezaele, Wendel Ray and the MRI in order to promote research and training in systemic approach. Since 2016, he has been developing SYPRENE a PRN network (Thurin et al., 2012) using a systemic approach, allowing in particular to improve his practice in close collaboration with the academic world. He is also in charge of the LACT international school and the International Webinar Brief Therapy congress. He also graduated from EM Lyon and has a master's degree in Applied Mathematics. Co-author “When work hurts”, “Strategies for change, 16 therapeutic prescriptions”. Moderator |
| Damien RICHARD | Damien RICHARD is a teacher-researcher at INSEEC Grande École and an associate researcher in the Management & Occupational Health chair at Grenoble Alpes University. He teaches in organizational theory, management and leadership, business ethics at the Grande École and in continuing training with managers. His research focuses on new forms of organization, well-being at work and the overall performance of organizations. He regularly publishes articles in national and international scientific journals. Also a certified professional coach, he supports teams within public and private organizations in the diagnosis and implementation of actions aimed at linking well-being at work and sustainable performance by mobilizing the Palo Alto systemic model. CONFERENCE: “SLAC: the systemic game! On the road to well-being at work!” The SLAC model proposes a modeling of well-being and efficiency at work through four dimensions: Meaning of work, Connection, Activity and Comfort (Abord de Chatillon and Richard, 2015). This conference aims to share a systemic game to raise awareness and train managers in a systemic and dynamic understanding of QVCT. I will present the creative game which will be available from October 15 on the site of the Management & Occupational Health Chair at Grenoble Alpes University to train managers and HR managers in the issues of preventing RPS and lead initiatives to promote QVCT with a playful dimension (Serious-game) and at the same time which is based on the most recent scientific work. The intention of this systemic game is twofold: to allow data to be collected within the framework of collaborative action research and to contribute to equipping and better appropriation of the dimensions of well-being at work for an audience of managers, executives, professionals of Human Resources, consultants and work psychologists, prevention specialists… through this serious SLAC game. |
| Antoine HAYAU |
CONFERENCE: “The importance of people and the quality of social relations” |
Education Workshop
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Moderator: V. ENNES / S. SAISON
| Sandrine SAISON-MARSOLLIER | Passionate about science and education, I have been working in these two fields for almost 30 years. Holder of a master's degree in life and earth sciences and an adult trainer diploma, I worked as a school teacher and then as an educational advisor within the French National Education. I then joined other institutions such as Planète Sciences and Universcience in Paris, then CERN in Geneva to promote the investigation approach among young people aged 9 to 18. Today, I work for the Seeds of Peace Foundation as an educator and trainer. As a team, we develop and implement programs to promote quality education in Switzerland and internationally. My desire to discover new approaches and improve my practice led me to Lact in September 2020. For 3 years, I have been training in the strategic systemic approach and problem-solving according to the Palo Alto school. I see this approach as a way to change educational practices. Meeting the needs of new generations makes a lot of sense to me. It seems to me that this contributes to building a world that is more just, equitable and respectful of living things and the planet. Moderator |
| Veronique ENNES | After a 23-year career as a manager of health establishments, I committed myself in 2017 to learning the strategic systemic approach at LACT. I am qualified as a relationship systemician-clinician; I work in a private practice in Martinique and I collaborate with LACT within the training department. I participated in the creation of the SYPRES union - Syndicate of Systematic Practitioners, of which I am treasurer and responsible for member relations. Moderator |
| Bénédicte PETELLE | Biography to come CONFERENCE: "coming soon" |
| Matteo PAPANTUONO | Matteo Papantuono Ph.D is a psychotherapist and coach specialized in brief strategic psychotherapy at the Strategic Therapy Center of Arezzo. He collaborates as a professor with the University of Macerata and with academic institutions abroad. It organizes workshops for teacher training in Italy and abroad. He is co-founder of the Coaching Clinic and carries out consulting and coaching activities in the business sector for individuals and groups. He directs the OCD Clinic in Italy (Ancona), a center specializing in the treatment of socio-emotional and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, obsessive-compulsive disorders and addictions with or without substances. Author of articles and texts published in Italy and abroad. CONFERENCE: “Winning without fighting” Based on the book Vaincre sans combat (Matteo Papantuono and Claudette Portelli – Enrick B. Editions), Matteo Papantuono Ph.D will illustrate, using concrete examples, techniques and strategies for overcoming social, emotional and behavior of children and adolescents. |
| Claudette PORTELLI | Lecturer and practitioner of systems thinking - PhD in Psychology, CTS psychologist, trainer and coach (Italy - Malta). Author of "Knowledge through change", "Obsessions, compulsions, manias: understand them and overcome them quickly" and "Le nuove dipendenze". CONFERENCE: “Winning without fighting” |
Session details
June 22, 2023
from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Editorial
Turn feelings of helplessness into resources
Lack of self-confidence, low self-esteem, pathological shyness, doubt, shame, are often part of the feeling of powerlessness that prevents us from acting, paralyzes us and can be rooted in a belief confirmation of our weakness. How to transform this feeling of powerlessness into a resource to better understand a situation and our posture to face it. We all know this feeling of powerlessness that can appear in a professional or family context or in the face of a violent or unexpected situation, this feeling sometimes at the origin of the installation of a psychological disorder, post-traumatic stress or depression.
Claude de Scorraille, psychologist, trainer, president of LACT, will explore with us this feeling of powerlessness by presenting us with the profile of the “winner who loses” locked in a dysfunctional process that prevents him from acting.
Following this conference, two workshops will be offered. The first will be devoted to the feeling of helplessness in business with Catherine Delmarle (CANAL+), Béatrice Nahmias (Le Monde Group), Marc Missud (DILA) and Carlos Erazo-Molina (ADEO).
The second workshop will address the specific question of the feeling of helplessness linked to the fear of rejection, of criticism... of paranoia in all its forms, with Emanuela Muriana, author of the book "If you are paranoid you are never alone”, and Claudette Portelli.
Speakers and program
Opening conference
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Introduction
 Gregoire VITRY | Doctor-researcher in psychology, graduate of the school of Palo Alto, he has worked for several years with Giorgio Nardone, Nathalie Duriez, Michael Hoyt, Teresa Garcia, Jean-Jacques Wittezaele, Wendel Ray and the MRI in order to promote research and systemic approach training. |
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
CONFERENCE: " Who loses wins"
The feeling of powerlessness is for the human being as much an existential pain as a myth in which he can quickly lose his footing and sink.
Claude de Scorraille will present the situation of a patient tied up in a feeling of helplessness and in an alcohol use disorder. You will discover the tragic destiny of a teenager, a top athlete who encounters a defeat from which he cannot recover and who for over forty years has affected his relationships with women as if he were under the yoke of a rule of game: “who loses wins”.
Claude de Scorraille will shed light, with the strategic systemic approach, on how our limits, which have become limitations, can be transformed into resources and free our creative potential and our vitality.
It will be based on the revolutionary and yet surprisingly little-known words of Shoma Morita (1874-1938), a Japanese psychiatrist who was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud, and William James, an early precursor of strategic systemic thinking.
 Claude de SCORRAILLE | Psychologist, psychotherapist and co-founder of LACT, of which she is the president. She runs the OCD and Anxiety Disorders Clinic in partnership with the European center the OCD Clinic. She teaches and trains via the web at the relationship clinic within the international school LACT. Within the CSAPA of Montreuil, she has a consultation specializing in addiction disorders and supervises the team. She is the co-author of several books and regularly gives conferences. |
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Information & Research
 Olivier BROSSEAU | Therapist, coach, supervisor and trainer in strategic systemic approach, associated with LACT. He teaches at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administrations and Companies the module "Organizations and behaviors". |
Workshop n°1 - Clinic
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Moderator: Olivier BROSSEAU
 Emanuela MURIANA | Psychologist and psychotherapist, specialized at the CTS of Arezzo directed by Giorgio Nardone, and at the MRI of Palo Alto with Paul Watzlawick. She is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Specialization in Strategic Therapy and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Siena. She is also responsible for the affiliated practice of Strategic Therapy in Florence, where she carries out clinical and consulting activities. CONFERENCE: "When impotence is paranoia" Paranoia is expressed by protecting oneself from others (Attempts to Solution) in two ways: either the person adopts pathologically aggressive and vindictive behavior, the result of an existence of frustrations, or the person adopts avoidant behavior at the level of relationships, believing that whatever she does, everything will go wrong and that she will in any case be condemned to suffer either the Others or the Enemy. The person defends himself in advance, builds the initial prophecy by setting up a series of preventive defenses to avoid the worst, which ends up happening. The person has the certainty that he cannot expect any self-efficacy from him and therefore remains completely helpless |
| Claudette PORTELLI | Lecturer and practitioner of systems thinking - PhD in Psychology, CTS psychologist, trainer and coach (Malta). Author of "Knowledge through change", "Obsessions, compulsions, manias: understand them and overcome them quickly" and "Le nuove dipendenze". CONFERENCE: "Self-coaching" As Aldous Huxley said, “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you make of what happens to you”. It is how we perceive and react to an event that determines whether we resolve or complicate the situation. We will observe how we can find ourselves trapped in redundant relational patterns and in which we trap ourselves. Recognizing your own "psychopies" is essential to allow you to push your own limits and go beyond them. |
Workshop n°2 - Company
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Moderator: Grégoire VITRY
 Catherine DELMARLE | 57 years old, Masters in Clinical Psychopathology, Paris V, 1989 Professionnal career : 2 years in a recruitment firm, before joining the INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE LA MODE in 1991, Head of Corporate Relations and Alumni Career Monitoring, then HRD of Agnes France (Ready to wear) from 2000 to 2008, then HRD of 'Eurodif (textiles, clothing and furnishings), before joining CANAL+ in 2012, where I am currently HRD Canal+ France Business, and in charge of cross-functional HR topics for the Group. CONFERENCE: "3 different angles that can be encountered / practiced in HR in business" 1/ transform your own feeling of powerlessness as an HR actor, in the case where for example you have to apply / implement an instruction or an operation that you are undergoing 2/ as an HR player, manage an employee's feeling of powerlessness 3/ as an HR actor, implement the conditions to get an organization out of a situation of powerlessness and put it into action (Sometimes organizations are in a phase of 'slump' which can be assimilated to a form of collective powerlessness) |
| Beatrice NAHMIAS | Responsible for managerial systems and support for managers within the HR department of a large independent press group. Trained as an occupational psychologist, I have always worked in HR departments, first in insurance, then in the press. During my experience, I felt that I lacked the skills to get out of certain complex situations and support people who really wanted to get out of them. I then trained in the systemic approach with Lact from 2016, and in 2020 created the position I currently hold with managers. CONFERENCE: "Accompaniment of a manager desperate that her team does not want to evolve, or how to make a clean sweep of the present to find a new virtuous balance for all?" What is an opportunity for some can be a disaster for others. It is sometimes difficult to imagine and accept that what delights us can worry or distress the other. Faced with what we do not understand, we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. Through a situation of accompaniment in company, we will walk from astonishment to impotence, will go through discouragement, before taking the path of reconstruction, and lead to the emergence of a new system. |
| Marc MISSUD | Trained in environmental sciences and biology, I worked as director of a science popularization organization before joining the public service where I held various management positions in the field of administration. electronics and the relationship with the user. More recently I trained in the coaching of public bodies and systemic in order to best invest my experience in supporting the transformation of the public service. I am the RPS/QVT coordinator, as an internal expert, at the DILA (Legal and Administrative Information Department) in the Prime Minister's office. CONFERENCE: "Collective interventions to transform the feeling of helplessness in public service into soft skills" In order to better understand the evolution of the public service, and to manage our own feeling of helplessness in the face of bureaucracy, I suggest that you explore the hidden face of the Administration through the experience of a modest civil servant who decided one day to put on systemic glasses and observe the virtuous effects of change on the members of the system... Let's discover the professional daily life of a central administration department which decided, in the midst of a pandemic, to initiate a QVT approach and an animation of the collective where silos are kings, and professional frustration at its highest level... |
| Carlos ERAZO MOLINA | Solutions Design Practitioner certified by Hasso Plattner Institute. Currently in charge of the Symmetry of experiences between employees and customers at ADEO. Previously “Digital Workplace” business leader, member of CODIR RH, architect of information systems for major international accounts and intrapreneur in information systems consulting. Passionate about solution design, cooperation & community management. CONFERENCE: "Sharing experience / The attention paid to customer-collaborator relations as an essential lever for creative cooperation" You may be wondering if it's a good idea to get your company's customers and employees to cooperate in understanding the same problem and designing a successful solution. Perhaps you have already tried this, under the force of focus groups or design sprints for example, but you feel that this asymmetry, this imbalance between customers and employees is too great for a truly viable solution to appear. since “the customer is always right”. If this is the case, or if you are interested, I would be delighted to share with you some experiences that we have carried out and which have enabled us to understand that this is possible, useful and efficient, but under certain conditions, in particular that of the attention paid to the nature and quality of the relationship between clients and collaborators during creative interactions. |
Session details
January 26, 2023
from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Editorial
Faced with an addictogenic society dictated by individualism and performance, pleasure and the instantaneous, how does the educational function of families adapt? Separations, addictive behaviors and ambiguous loss of the loved one who is there without being there, absorbed by a life which oscillates between pleasure and boredom, between digital and consumption of products: what are the risks of this addictogenic society on family ties? What skills should families develop to deal with these new addictions?
Jean-Pierre Couteron, author, clinical psychologist in CSAPA, former President of the Addiction Federation, will open this new session by presenting the challenges of prevention practices and support for change in this addictogenic context.
In a first workshop, we will be interested in the intervention of the therapist and the dialogue with the families with Stéphane Bujold, a psychologist in Canada who will rely on the work of Guy Ausloos. Samuel Shannon, doctor in human development and family sciences with a specialization in couple and family therapy, and researcher at the University of Monroe in Louisiana will question the notion of loyalty within families with addictive behavior.
In a second workshop, Georges Brousse, Professor of Addictology and Psychiatry in charge of the Department of Addictology and dual pathologies, CHU of Clermont Ferrand - Clermont Auvergne University will present the situations of dual pathologies. Anne Gouyon, PhD will take a look at the links that are woven between addiction and the addictogenic society.
Speakers and program
Opening conference
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"From preventive education to recovery support, families in times of addiction"
More than ever, in a society whose many dimensions are highly addictive, families are called upon, from the beginning to the end of the different trajectories encountered; whether they are educational or therapeutic, whether they concern their children or involve couples. At the opening of this new Lact symposium, we will try together, without claiming to be exhaustive but with the ambition to shed light on the issues that concern the various professionals involved in the broad field of the use and risks of addictive objects, to describe professional practices that bring us together, whether we are doctors, psychotherapists, educators, peer helpers or expert patients or simply close to a user.
The richness of the palette of therapeutic tools, cognitive remediation, therapies in all its forms, narrative, systemic family, CBT, schema therapies, therapies focused on emotions, EMDR, mindfulness, respiratory control and many others its full usefulness only in a layout that gives families a suitable place. And in preventive education, the same diversity must also make sense to allow families to take their place. We will try together to see how everyone can contribute.
 Jean-Pierre COUTERON | Author, clinical psychologist at the CSAPA, "the hyphen" association Oppelia Boulogne Billancourt. |
| Gregoire VITRY | Doctor-researcher in psychology, graduate of the school of Palo Alto, he has worked for several years with Giorgio Nardone, Nathalie Duriez, Michael Hoyt, Teresa Garcia, Jean-Jacques Wittezaele, Wendel Ray and the MRI in order to promote research and systemic approach training. |
Workshop 1
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: Grégoire VITRY
 Stephane BUJOLD | Clinical psychologist, clinical advisor in an addiction center, trainer and supervisor of several teams, coordinator of an addiction prevention program for adolescents and speaker. LECTURE: "Dr. Ausloos' concepts in working with families struggling with addiction" At first, Guy enjoins us to tame the families who are affected by the diseases of control. To do this, the transition from guilt to responsibility will allow the construction of this alliance essential to work with precarious families. By restoring the family's competence to make changes, they will be able to find their own solutions and thus avoid being dependent on the services or the therapist. Secondly, the techniques of reframing, positive connotations, favorable hypotheses, the like after and working on the rules will be useful in our work supporting families struggling with addiction. |
 Samuel SHANNON | Samuel Shannon , Doctor of Philosophy, was born in Oceanside, California, and moved several times before spending most of his childhood in a small town in northern Virginia. He is the eldest of five children. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, and his master's and doctorate degrees from Ohio State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy Programs at Louisiana Monroe University, where he teaches, supervises research and therapy, and participates in the therapeutic process whenever he can. He is the proud father of 4 children, whom he raises and educates with his wife from their home in Monroe, Louisiana. CONFERENCE: "The loyal dependency: Seeing more than a dependent" Addiction is often seen as an individual problem, but it has ramifications for the whole family, and addiction itself plays a role in how the family functions. Regardless of the type of addiction, the family process works together to create the situation in which the addictive behavior occurs. In this sense, dependency is an expression of both loyalty to the family system and destructive entitlement within the family system. This creates an imbalance in which the dependent family member seemingly provides fewer resources in the relationship while demanding more resources. If it persists, this exchange is unfair and harmful to all parties involved. Paradoxically, the carrier of the symptom of addiction is easy to pathologize and label as the problem, despite their position of loyalty to the family member and the system as a whole. A more contextual view is to understand the larger system that created the conditions under which destructive law makes sense. A contextual response recognizes how each member gives and takes. Recognizing how each family member succeeds and fails in giving and taking frees family members to change the way they share. |
Workshop 2
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: Olivier BROSSEAU
 Georges BROUSSE | Psychiatrist and addictologist at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital. CONFERENCE: "Addictive pathologies and mental pathologies, a double penalty: how better, well, finally, to talk about it with those around you?" Mental pathologies and addictions are, as we know, often linked. A third of people suffering from psychic disorders present addictive behaviors and more than half of people suffering from addictive behaviors present psychiatric disorders. Too often, diagnoses are not made. Too often, the accompaniments are not put in place. But in a society where the question of “addictions” is put forward, the elaboration and the possibility of exchange around what could accompany consumption or underlie it is not done. Therefore, a comprehensive care integrating both the environment, psychological suffering and addictive behavior must be the subject of work with patients and families. It is a question of helping to identify the symptoms and the responses that we can build, on a logic of decision of care shared with the patients, according to an approach capacitance, including the reduction of the risks. We should help patients to define with their families and friends the place they can take in this journey. |
 Anne GOUYON | Anne Gouyon combines a course in agronomy, ecology and social sciences (Engineer and Doctor AgroParisTech), supplemented by training in clinical psychology and systemic therapies (Univ. Paris 8-LACT). Consultant, researcher, therapist and trainer with 30 years of international experience, she is President of AgroParisTech Alumni, administrator of AgroParisTech and its Foundation, at the heart of the challenges of the future of our societies and our ecosystems. CONFERENCE: "How to live in an addictogenic society?" “We will have to live together like brothers, or die together like fools”. This African adage reminds us that our future and our freedom are played out at the societal level. The social environment plays a major role in addictive dynamics, well beyond the family, which is both the plaything and the actor. The disintegration of ties, rituals, institutions and collective “containers”, stress, injunctions to perform, conform and consume, and now systemic crises and eco-anxiety, create suffering in need of appeasement. Everyone is also offered, or even permanently imposed, something to soothe, anesthetize, stimulate and distract themselves compulsively: psychotropic drugs, junk food, consumption, travel, overwork, series, social networks or video games -- which in turn feed permanent stress, the destruction of social ties and ecosystems. Psychology, sociology, economy, ecology, so many knowledges, views and practices to cross in order to resist, and find the path to a free, conscious, psychically autonomous, united and sustainable life. |
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