Masterclass Psychiatry 2025
To deal with the uncanny
Interactive case-based winter workshop 20 – 21 February 2025
Clarion Hotel, Sense, Luleå
Region Norrbotten in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic London, UK, and Barmelweid Clinic/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Programme Director: Ursula Werneke
Accreditation
LIPUS (Sweden): event no: 20240117, EACCME: LEE/2024/01611 (11.5 credits)
FACULTY OF SPEAKERS
Julian Stern, BA (Hons), MB ChB, FRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalyst
Previously Director of Adult and Forensic Services, and currently Visiting Lecturer, at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Jessica Yakeley, MB BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych, PhD
Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalyst
Director of the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Cleo van Velsen, MD, FRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalyst
Currently Consultant Psychiatrist in the Family Trauma Team at Anna Freud Centre, London
Previously Responsible Clinician in a forensic personality disorder service
Joram Ronel, PD, Dr. med.
Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Clinic Barmelweid, Switzerland. Senior Lecturer for Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Judith Gorgass
Actress and playwright. CLOWNESS Theater.
Simulated actors’ team of Technical University and Ludwigs-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany as well as for numerous advanced training courses for psychologists and physicians of all specialties
Boris Dietschi, BSc, MSc
Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Clinic Barmelweid, Switzerland
Ursula Werneke, MD, MSc, PgDip (LSHTM), FRCPsych (Organizer/ Facilitator)
Consultant psychiatrist, Sunderby Hospital, Luleå and Adjunct professor of psychiatry, Umeå Univeristy, Sweden
Masterclass Psychiatry URL: https://masterclasspsychiatry.se/
Venue: Clarion Hotel Sense, Luleå: https://www.clarionsense.se/en
DAY 1 Thursday 20 February 2025
SESSION 1: Thursday morning: When things are not quite right – creepy feelings explained
Chair: Jessica Yakeley
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| 08.30 – 09.00 | Registration | |
| 09.00 – 09.05 | 5 min | Welcome (Ursula Werneke) |
| 09.05 – 10.20 | 75 min | Opening lecture and Case presentation 1: A brief introduction to the Uncanny: Encounters with the uncomfortably strange and the strangely uncomfortable. (Julian Stern) |
| 10.20 – 10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50 – 11.50 | 60 min | Case presentation 2: Dissociation and denial: The woman who let her adolescent son die of starvation (Cleo van Velsen) |
| 11.50 – 12.00 | 10 min | Thoughts and reflections |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |
| Total teaching time | 150 min |
SESSION 2: Thursday afternoon: Skeletons in the cupboards
Chair: Cleo van Velsen
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | 60 min | Playing with the uncanny: Understanding and making the most of countertransference phenomena (Joram Ronel)
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| 13.45 – 15.30 | 90 min | Tales from the Edge: An unusual case of bodily distress syndrome – Therapy Lab No. 1 (Joram Ronel/ Judith Gorgass) |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | 60 min | Case presentation 3: Hidden aggression and psychosis: A case of double infanticide (Jessica Yakeley) |
| 17.00 – 17.10
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10 min | Thoughts and reflections |
| 17.00 – 17.15 | Short break | |
| 17.15 – 18.15 | 60 min | Keynote lecture The good, the bad, and the ugly: Movie portrayals of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (Cleo van Velsen) |
| 19.30 | Conference dinner Restaurant Nine/ Skybar (separate booking) | |
| Total teaching time | 280 min |
DAY 2 Friday 21 February 2025
SESSION 1: Friday morning: Crime and punishment – what makes people criminals
Chair: Joram Ronel
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| 08.05 – 08.10 | 5 min | Welcome back (Ursula Werneke |
| 08.10 – 09.00 | 50 min | Case Presentation 4 Haunted by guilt: The man who was trapped in a pathological psychic retreat (Cleo van Velsen) |
| 09.00 – 09.50 | 50 min | Case presentation 5: When primitive fantasies meet extreme mindsets. Confessions of a gang criminal (Jessica Yakeley) |
| 09.50 – 10.20 | Coffee break | |
| 10.20– 11.00 | 50 min | Doomsday – an experience of the Last Judgement in the treatment of a patient with severe personality disorder” (Boris Dietschi) |
| 11.10 – 12.00 | 50 min | Talk: The compulsion to repeat and acting out (Julian Stern) |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |
| Total teaching time | 205 min |
SESSION 2: Friday afternoon: Behind closed doors – insights into borderline personality disorder
Chair: Julian Stern
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| Chair: | ||
| 13.00 – 14.30 | 90 min | Behind Closed Doors: Insights into Borderline Personality Disorder – Therapy Lab No. 2 (Joram Ronel/Judith Gorgass) |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | 15 min | Final thoughts and reflections |
| 14.45 – 14.50 | 5 min | Close (Ursula Werneke) |
| Total teaching time | 110 min | |