Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) CPD Day: Attachment and DIT

The course is geared towards DIT practitioners, however, it would also be relevant to psychodynamic/analytic therapists who have an interest in working with attachment related issues in psychotherapy.

The course is recognised CPD for DIT therapists. It is relevant to DIT Supervisors who would find it helpful in their supervision of DIT clinicians as well as for DIT Complex Care practitioners.

• To situate attachment in the context of object relations and mentalization theories

• To provide ways of integrating attachment styles into your DIT practice, including recognising, formulating and working with attachment related defences

• To provide strategies for responding to hyperactivating and deactivating attachment styles, including fostering embodied mentalizing in patients

Prof Patrick Luyten is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) and Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK).

His main research interests are disorders from the affective spectrum (i.e. depression and stress- and pain-related disorders), and personality disorders. In both areas he is involved in basic research and in interventional research.

Dr Luyten is Director of the PhD is Psychoanalysis Programme at University College London, UK. He received the 2015 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship.

The online platform Zoom will be used to deliver this training. Prior to booking on, please ensure you meet the system requirements so you're able to join this training. 

Before the training, please test your equipment is working by going to Zoom.us/test and follow the instructions.