Expected learning outcomes
After this masterclass, participants will be more confident managing acute psychiatric problems that pose difficult clinical and ethical dilemmas
By attending participants will:
- Learn how to better communicate in difficult situations
- Develop strategies to handle uncertainty and professional anxiety
- Understand how to build and maintain constructive therapeutic relationships
- Develop ways to cope with conflict and guilt
- Learn to support patients through major crises such as COVID
- Develop strategies to deal with paraphilic disorders and violence
- Understand consciousness and uncertainty from different perspectives
Programme can be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.
DAY 1 Wednesday 14 June 2023
SESSION 1: Wednesday afternoon
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| 12.30 13.00 | Registration | |
| 13.00 13.10 | Welcome (Ursula Werneke) | |
| Chair: Jessica Yakeley | ||
| 13.10 14.00 | 50 min | Opening lecture: Case presentation 1: Shame and humiliation (Julian Stern) |
| 14.00 15.30 | 90 min |
“Dealing with the awful” – psychodynamic theory and treatment principles with difficult/challenging/psychosomatic patients (Joram Ronel)
Therapy lab No. 1: I just want this patient to go away – A first encounter with our patient actress (Joram Ronel/Judith Gorgass) |
| 15.30 16.00 | Fika / Coffee break | |
| Chair: Ursula Werneke | ||
| 16.00 17.00 | 60 min | Special Lecture: Is life fundamentally fuzzy? From quantum physics to quantum biology (Jack Tuszyński) |
| 17.00 17.45 | 45 min | The many dimensions of consciousness: psychiatrists and physicists discuss (Joram Ronel, Julian Stern, Yessica Yakeley, Jack Tuszyński) |
DAY 2 Thursday 15 June 2023
SESSION 2: Thursday morning
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| Chair: Ursula Werneke | ||
| 08.30 08.40 | Day briefing (Ursula Werneke) | |
| 08.40 10.10 | 90 min | Case presentation 2: A psychoanalytic view of the psychopath: The man who hated women (Jessica Yakeley) |
| 10.10 10.40 | Fika / Coffee break | |
| 10.40 11.55 | 75min | Case presentation3 : Uncertainty and obsessionality Patients who struggle with obsessionality and inhibitions (Julian Stern) |
| 11.55 13.15 | Lunch | |
SESSION 3: Thursday afternoon
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| Chair: Ursula Werneke | ||
| 13.15 15.15 | 120 min | Therapy lab No 2: I just want these symptoms to go away – Psychosomatic/psychotherapeutic work with a Long-Covid patient (Joram Ronel/ Judith Gorgass) |
| 15.15 15.45 | Fika / Coffee break | |
| 15.45 16.45 | 60 min | Case presentation 4: Who is more dangerous? Psychopathic/narcissistic versus antisocial impulsive personalities (Jessica Yakeley) The man who lost his children The man who killed his neighbour |
| 16.45 16.55 | Short break | |
| 16.55 17.45 | 50 min | Bring your case: Live supervision from the faculty (Delegates with Joram Ronel, Julian Stern, Yessica Yakeley) |
| 19.30 | Dinner at Restaurant Nine, Clarion Hotel Sense | |
DAY 3 Friday 16 June 2023
SESSION 4: Friday morning
| Teaching time | Topic | |
| Chair: Ursula Werneke | ||
| 08.15 08.20 | 5 min | Day briefing (Ursula Werneke) |
| 08.20 09.50 | 90 min | Therapy lab No. 3: “Let’s act!” – Bringing to life your case/patient at Masterclass Psychiatry (Joram Ronel/ Judith Gorgass) |
| 09.50 10.20 | Fika / Coffee break | |
| 10.20 11.20 | 60 min | Case presentation 5: Will action follow fantasy? The psychodynamics of paraphilic disorders (Jessica Yakeley) The man who loved children The man who exposed himself to the moon |
| 11.20 11.50 | 30 min | Dealing with uncertainty – a survival guide for psychiatrists in the 21st century (Julian Stern) |
| 11.50 12.00 | 10 min | Close |