International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy

The IAFP's 19th International Conference: "Tales of Transgression - Narratives in Forensic Psychotherapy" was held from 25th-27th March, 2010 at Keble College Oxford, United Kingdom. On this page you will find information and links to further information about the conference.
You can also now download our conference flier and registration form.

2010 CONFERENCE
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	ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The theme of this year’s conference was the importance of narrative and story in the lives of forensic patients and other offenders. Forensic patients are surrounded by descriptions of their transgressions, from depositions and psychiatric court reports, to police statements and newspaper articles outlining sensationalist accounts of their crimes. Once engaged in therapy further narratives emerge, including their own accounts of their motivations, histories, reasons and fantasies, and the therapists’ expositions of the offences, and of the tale of therapy itself. Visual narratives may emerge many forms, including artwork, self-harm scarification, photographs of the offender’s victims and become one aspect of the complex picture of the trajectory of transgression. Dramatic reconstructions, repeated enactments and serial offences act out these destructive narratives. Somewhere within the narrative structure truth and fantasy converge and one of the tasks of the forensic psychotherapist is to disentangle these and uncover the meaning at the heart of an offence, distorted and violent as it might be. The conflicting narratives of expert witnesses and miscarriages of justice are among the topics we addressed. We invited delegates to consider the different narratives of offending and trauma that they hear and construct in the psychotherapeutic treatment of forensic patients. Presentations are invited on the theme of narratives. Keynote speakers include practitioners from psychotherapy, criminology and the arts. The conference started on 25th March with a study day on the work of Isabel Menzies Lyth. A flier with information about the conference can be downloaded here.
	PROGRAMME The conference started on 25th March with a study day on the work of Isabel Menzies Lyth Speakers were Anne Aiyegbusi, David Morgan and Cleo van Velsen, from the disciplines of nursing, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis. Keynote speakers for the conference itself (26th-27th March) were Franziska Lamott, Gill McGauley, Jean Motte dit Falisse, Marina Warner and Estela Welldon. Further information about the conference programme can be found here.
	REGISTRATION The conference has now ended.
	TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION Accommodation for the conference was at Keble College itself. Further information about the College and how to get there can be found here.
	FURTHER INFORMATION To sign up for email updates about the conference and IAFP's future events and activities, please click here. For queries about the 2010 conference, please contact the conference organiser, Dr. Gwen Adshead: . (You will need to copy this email address into your email programme manually.) 2010 CONFERENCE HOME PROGRAMME TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION