INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR / 22-06-2023

Serge TISSERON : Psychiatrist, member of the Academy of Technologies, doctor in HDR psychology, member of the scientific council of the CRPMS, University of Paris. He completed his medical thesis in 1975 in the form of a comic strip and discovered Hergé's family secret only from reading the Tintin albums. He has published around forty personal essays, notably on family secrets and our relationship to images, translated into twelve languages. Latest work: The silent influence of talking machines, never alone again (Ed. LLL).

CONFERENCE:
"Managing learning from confinement" During the confinement period, many of us experienced new relationships within the family sphere, but also with extended family and friends, and of course with colleagues. and the professional hierarchy. Each time, new opportunities have been discovered, but unexpected problems have also arisen. How can you take advantage of these opportunities without falling into the mistakes that have sometimes clouded the benefit of these experiences?

Dr. Katarina ANGER: Renowned speaker and co-founder of the Center for Systemic Action. She is a research associate at the MRI in Palo Alto and at the Brief Therapy Center, CAIPSI in Mexico City and at the Erickson Institute in Madrid. She is also a supervisor at the YAI National Institute for the Disabled, an organization that helps people with mental disabilities and their families throughout their lives.

CONFERENCE: "Shared Responsibilities"

Dr. Michael HOYT is an independent psychologist in Mill Valley, CA.  He is the author/editor of numerous books on brief therapy, including "Brief Therapy and Beyond", "Capturing the Moment", and "Single-Session Therapy By Walk-In or Appointment". He was named a Distinguished Lecturer in Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Marriage.

LECTURE: "My half-decameron regarding COVID"
Seven hundred years ago, Europe was struck by the plague and Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a story, The Decameron, about a group of ten women and men from Florence to the time, who retired to a country villa for ten days in the hope of avoiding illness. Each of the ten agreed to tell a story each day, for ten days, to entertain each other. (Decameron is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "10 days.") The hundred stories Boccaccio told give us insight into how different people think and feel, their perspectives and sensibilities - some stories are funny, others are sad, etc.

Edith GOLDBETER-MERINFELD : Doctor of Psychology, honorary professor at the Free University of Brussels, director of training at the Institute for the Study of the Family and Human Systems of Brussels, editor-in-chief of the Cahiers critiques of family therapy and network practices.

CONFERENCE:
"Confined families, confined therapists, confined therapies" In this time of predominance of the danger of contamination by Covid-19, we have experienced the imposition of confinement and then the need to maintain certain aspects of it.
Their impact on families – ours and those who consult us –, the unusual ways of functioning as therapists and the reorientations of therapeutic modalities have led to bifurcations in the various systems involved... Will these modifications of trajectories be reversible or will they lead to to a fundamental change (type II) in our/the interrelational world?

Claude de SCORRAILLE : Psychologist and psychotherapist, co-founder and president of LACT, research associate, supervisor and trainer at LACT and at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administration and Business.

CONFERENCE: " Towards a pragmatic humanism"
In response to Covid-19, we were ordered to confine ourselves and then wear masks. The life that we thought was stable gave way to a world of fear and anguish, generated by paradoxes where isolation could become synonymous with mental torture. The crisis has settled in our lives, shaking up our needs for certainties and uncertainties. She highlighted how vital relationship is for human beings. These needs question the attempts at redundant solutions embodied in a systemic world centered on individualistic values. We present here the principles and strategies that make possible the transition from individual performance to a pragmatic humanism.

Dr. Sophie BARON-LAFORET: Psychiatrist and President of the French Association of Criminology

CONFERENCE: "Relational escape behavior"
In many situations, going out, moving away, is often described as an escape from violent behavior.
For the author of the act, who would thus avoid it. Or for the victim of the act that would limit the acts by leaving. Reconciliation being the condition of the act. We feared that confinement would allow an increase in acts of intra-family and in particular marital violence. It is the word through the means of communication at our disposal that has taken over more importantly than we had thought.
In the absence of face to face, the place of speech has changed. The demand for contacts through this channel has been significant. Which goes in the direction of breaking the isolation and the silence which is identified as a factor of aggravation, encystment, repetition of the victim process, ... The place of speech has changed what we could congratulate ourselves on if we place differently.
The content of the interviews reworked several presuppositions: the importance of physical presence, the place of intimacy and sharing. We must re-examine the place of this word: facilitation of a feeling of sharing, less loneliness of the event. What do we do with these words? I place it in the wake of the Me Too movement which led to a reorganization, with a different social place for speech, demands for justice... Our reflections are partly in line with the place of social networks in our relationships.
Our benchmarks need to be revamped to build on these changes as resources.

Steeves DEMAZEUX is a philosopher of science, Lecturer at Bordeaux-Montaigne University, attached to the SPH laboratory (EA 4574). He is the author of What is the DSM? (Ithaque, 2013) and The eclipse of the symptom (Ithaque, 2019). He is currently directing the Philo-CINAPs project, dedicated to the theory of symptoms at the crossroads between psychiatry and neurosciences.

 CONFERENCE: "What makes a symptom? What does not make a symptom? The limits of psychiatric semiology" "
In this intervention, it will be a question, for me, as a philosopher of science, to reflect on the definition of the symptom in a psychiatric clinic. How was it conceived through the psychiatric tradition? What kind of fact is it? How is it observed? How can we objectify it? It is therefore to the very foundations of the clinic that it is a question of returning, in order to shed light on the way in which the symptoms interact with each other, the way also in which they can lead to the statement or not of a diagnosis”.

Dr. Marie-Christine CABIÉ  : Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, head of the Paris 11 psychiatry center at the Saint Maurice Hospitals, trainer in systemic family therapy, brief therapies and Ericksonian hypnosis. She is also director of the Relations at érès editions.

CONFERENCE: "Emotion and communication"

Claude de SCORRAILLE : Psychologist and psychotherapist, co-founder and president of LACT, research associate, supervisor and trainer at LACT and at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administration and Business.

CONFERENCE "Taking care of situations of emotional distress linked to COVID-19" 

François JULLIEN : Philosopher and sinologist, he is the author of numerous works which propose to shift European philosophy by confronting it with Chinese thought, in particular Philosophy of living (Gallimard, 2011) or A second life (Grasset, 2017). In January, he publishes L'Inouï. Overturning this so boring reality (Grasset, read p. 86 ) and From the gap to the unheard of (Carnets de L'Herne), while a book is dedicated to it: Thinking by gap.  François Jullien's conceptual project (by Jean-Pierre Bompied, Descartes & Cie). He currently holds the chair on otherness created at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. In 2010, he received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in Germany; and, in 2011, the Grand Prize for Philosophy from the French Academy for all of his work.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with François JULLIEN by Grégoire VITRY and Claude de SCORRAILLE: "Emotions in therapy, from overflow to real life"

Dr. Robert ELSNER : Professor and Chair of Psychology, Director of the Counseling Program and Chair of Ethics at Erskine College and Theological Seminary in Due West, SC. He was previously Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University, where he led health care access projects at the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity. Early in his training, he worked at the University of Georgia and on HealthSense at University College Cork.

CONFERENCE "The senses and the emotions" : The senses are intrinsically linked to the emotions through human neurophysiology. Understanding this link provides a more informed approach to clinical interventions. In the workshop, we will discuss sensation and emotion from a lifespan perspective, touching lightly on relevant neurophysiology, optimal aging perspectives, and emotional dysregulation. Suggestions for using sensory stimulation as an adjunct to other therapeutic modalities are included.

Dr. Richard Hill , MA, MEd, MBMSc: He is an international speaker on the topics of human dynamics, communications, brain and mind, and Curiosity, his specialty. His work with Ernest Rossi, PhD, led to the publication of The Practitioner's Guide to Mirroring Hands. He is President of the Global Association of Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS), Education Director of The Science of Psychotherapy, Director of the Mindscience Institute, and Editor-in-Chief of The Science of Psychotherapy magazine. He is the author of numerous books, such as "Choose Hope" and "How the 'real world' Is Driving Us Crazy!", as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

CONFERENCE "A new emotional awareness" : The term "emotion" is a term whose technical definition is often disputed. Recent work by Joseph LeDoux, and others, takes stock of how emotions are represented in mental processes and in the "felt experience" of everyday life. We explore Ledoux and Brown's model of how emotions arise in consciousness and discuss how this model can be applied to our conscious perception of reality. It will be shown that an individual's focus of attention and consequent perception of reality are influenced by the orientation of the individual's emotional, cognitive, and attitudinal framework.

Claude de SCORRAILLE : Psychologist and psychotherapist, co-founder and president of LACT, research associate, supervisor and trainer at LACT and at the IAE of Paris within the Master of Administration and Business.

CONFERENCE "From shame to empathy, how to find the social bond" : What is shame and what is it not? Shame will be approached from the angle of a loss of control where one is not up to what is expected of oneself. A loss of control that pushes to hide and that can end up becoming pathological. It is an emotion that advances masked. We will see how to flush out this “shameful” emotion which isolates, locks up and causes suffering or sometimes a tragic destiny. Finally, we will see how to get out of despair and what strategy to adopt.

Pr. Gérard OSTERMANN : Professor of Therapeutics option Internal Medicine (1983), Specialist in Cardiology, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Psychotherapist-Analyst, graduate of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, EMDR Practitioner Europe. Trained in Narrative Therapy. Founder and President of the Regional College of Alcoologists of Aquitaine (CRAA), Administrator of the French Society of Alcoology, President of the Institute of Food Behaviors of Bordeaux and member of the Scientific Council of the Journal TRANSES Lecturer in the context of Diplomas universities in Bordeaux, Limoges, Lyon, Tours and Clermont Ferrand.

CONFERENCE " Anger and liver" : Of all the palette of our unpleasant emotions, anger is the one that is often the most depreciated, the most criticized, but also the most misunderstood. The French word “anger” comes from the Latin “cholera” meaning, bile. The word "chole" appeared next, (from the Greek χολὴ, bile) and was long used in the sense of outburst. We still speak today of unloading one's bile. Is anger as universal as claimed? How do we distinguish between personal anger and anger that is like a foreign body inside us? We have to distinguish between an anger of imputation ( it's Voltaire's fault, it's Rousseau's fault! ) and the anger of implication by knowing how to recognize that as a subject, the situation where I I find myself is in reality the situation in which I put myself. We cannot manage anger, because anger manages us. It is up to us to digest knowing how to welcome it so as not to make bad calculations!

Dr. Jean-Michel DELILE : Psychiatrist, Ethnologist, Family therapist, Addictologist, Member of the National Narcotics Commission, Director of CEID (Committee for Study and Information on Drugs), Bordeaux and President of the Addiction Federation.

CONFERENCE " Biopsychosocial approach to addictions" : The predictive factors of the onset of addiction, its regulation and its regression are essentially psychosocial factors linked to the history of life, to the fact that one has known painful events during childhood, that we had experiences of rupture, a complicated family environment. If there is a personality disorder, it is also a consequence of this context. This allows us to understand that doctors should not limit themselves to a necessarily reductive unilinear approach but return to a pluricausal model. Our models of reflection around mental health and addiction must necessarily be global and if biogenetic disorders exist, they are vulnerabilities, they are not direct causes.

Julia ALPEROVICH : specialized in marital and family therapy, has worked in the field of mental health for more than 10 years. His work has primarily focused on the treatment of addictions. She is currently a therapist at a residential facility for the treatment of drug and alcoholism in California. She also has a private practice where she primarily deals with sex and pornography addiction.

CONFERENCE " The treatment of addictions in the United States" : In the United States, we start by evaluating three points: the person's ability to function in all aspects of their life (reference on a global scale), their degree of tolerance to distress, his ability to manage anxiety. When the addiction is proven, we have very specific treatment objectives: total abstinence for chemical substances including alcohol, behavioral change in other cases. Risk reduction is still little taken into account; one stays steeped in the 12-step model of Alcoholics Anonymous. Many programs are offered, the major problem remaining in the United States the coverage by health insurance.

Dr. Claudette PORTELLI : Psychologist, psychotherapist and trainer. She practices in Malta and Italy. She is a lecturer at the University of Malta and Dublin City University, where she teaches challenging behaviors in the school context. She is a lecturer at the School of Specialization in Brief Strategic Therapy (Arezzo, Italy) directed by Pr. Giorgio Nadone. Co-author of the textbooks Knowing Through Changing: The Evolution of Brief Strategic Therapy (2010) with Giorgio Nardone and New Addictions (2017) with Matteo Papantuono.

CONFERENCE "Strategic approach and addictions" : Addiction is first used as a tool, an illusion of control that persists for a while, but the more the addiction sets in, the more the addict loses control and the addiction becomes a problem that is added to the initial problem. The first thing we must do is to discriminate in order to understand the function of addiction: is it a means of creating a sensation or of anesthetizing a difficulty or a pain? The answer to these questions determines how we will approach therapeutic work.

Dr. Mario BLAISE : He is a psychiatrist, addictologist, and head of service at the Marmottan Medical Center in Paris, a public care structure for drug addicts.

CONFERENCE "Principles of use of pharmacological treatments in addiction" :   In addictions, drugs are used as tools of care, with an intentionality, an objective, so they really have to be adapted to the situation. And this so that patients can appropriate them. Since the problems are often experienced as shameful, there is a denial on the part of the patients and therefore a brake on the acceptance of the treatment. With drugs, we try to stop the process of addiction, to prevent it from coming back and to limit the damage. Abstinence is a consequence, not necessarily a prerequisite. So we have to ensure that care is integrated because we know full well that if we don't take into account all the psychosocial dimensions at the same time, we risk failure.

Dr. Christophe CUTARELLA : he is an addictologist psychiatrist and tobacco specialist coordinator in SSR addictology. He is President of GRAAP and committed to continuing medical education. He is also a consultant in addictology/smoking in companies and in health establishments (public and private), in the management of problematic situations related to addictive behavior and burnout in the professional environment and in the management of psychosocial risks.

CONFERENCE " Motivational interviewing" : Motivational interviewing is made to bring about change; the person wants, for example, to free themselves from their addiction(s). The behavioral strategy implies that we work to readjust his habits, his rituals. The cognitive strategy will focus on the decisional balance. The advantage of motivational interviewing, which is easy to acquire, is that it is done fairly routinely with the doctor, the psychologist or the nurses. And these are strategies that the person himself will use as adjustments.

Pr. Georges BROUSSE : He is a psychiatrist and addictologist at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital.

CONFERENCE "Psychiatric disorders and alcohol" :  In dual pathologies, psychopathological expressions give pure symptoms of a psychiatric disorder but there are links and a co-influence between the two disorders. We see it for example in the consumption of alcohol in bipolar people where the hypomania associated with alcohol can have a singular tone. One could also consider that addiction is conversely a symptom of mental pathology as seen in schizophrenia. The hypothesis that is adopted today is that of a common vulnerability stemming from genetic factors or the history of the individual.

Dr.William LOWENSTEIN : Former intern, head of clinic, then doctor at the Hospitals of Paris, authorized to direct research, Dr. William Lowenstein, internist and pulmonologist by training, is now a specialist in addictions. He is the author of more than sixty-five medical articles, as well as several books for the general public, including These dependencies that govern us, Ed. Calmann-Lévy, 2005 and Women and addictions, Ed. Calmann-Lévy, 2007, reissued in paperback in 2009 and 2011. He chairs the SOS Addictions association.

CONFERENCE "Decoding addiction with SHAPAS" :  The consumption of psychoactive substances is only the result of problems that have not been treated within the family or more broadly environmental framework. How to approach this question? How to prevent the first consumption? How to reduce the risk? Doctor Lowenstein gives us his clinical approach: SHAPAS, an acronym that allows us to scan with the patient the state of his sleep, his mood, his otherness, his thoughts, his relationship with food, his sexuality .