ROBERT KAYTON
Affect-Rescripting Therapy (ART)
Date of Presentation: Friday October 15th at 3:45 pm
Length of Presentation: 2 hours
Presentation Description: ART focuses on two treatment goals, functioning and well-being. Successful functioning is attained by optimizing affect-regulation strategies through a linear, skills-based approach that focuses on the body (affect), ideoaffective complexes (cognition and emotion), and behavior. Well-being is based on the reordering and integration of self-scripts using such nonlinear models as chaos and self-organizing complexity theories. The goal is the continual emergence of self-agency (affluence) scripts and their integration into a more coherent, congruent and cohesive megascript we call the well-integrated self. This can be attained, for example by rescripting negative past scripts, and proscripting optimal future scripts, first by identifying them, and then living them out in the present.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Dr. Kayton has recently retired after 40 plus years of private practice. He still maintains an Associate Professorship at the George Washington University Medical School and is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He was a charter member of the Tomkins Institute and helped initiate the idea of developing a system of study groups, as well as chair the Bethesda, Maryland group for about 7 years. He has given many talks on ART and is writing a book.
ANDREAS AAMODT
Understanding and treating people with severe mental disorders:
A promising and validated psychotherapy model based on Affect Script Psychology.
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 10:15 am
Length of Presentation : 1 hour
Presentation Description: The Affect Consciousness Model was developed by Professor Dr. Jon T. Monsen as a central idea for living mindful, fulfilling and meaningful lives. It is a psychotherapy model based on Silvan Tomkins's Affect Script Psychology. It has been shown that many people with severe mental disorders such as personality disorders, psychoses and schizophrenias can grow and recover if the therapy focuses on affect integration. Therapists using the Affect Consciousness Model focus primarily on establishing a more cohesive sense-of-self by validating the patient’s affects. There is also focus on identifying the patient’s scripts for each of the main affects, and then an attempt to identify the patient's maladaptive nuclear scripts. All scripts are understood and explained with reference to formative contexts. As a part of the treatment, the therapist both encourages patients to break out of negative scripts and trains them to recognize, appreciate, reflect upon, utilize and express affect when it is appropriate to do so. The therapist also encourages patients to engage in emotional relationships.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Psykologspesialist Andreas Aamodt studied at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen and received an advanced degree in psychology. He has specialized in clinical psychology and has mostly been working in different hospital settings such as psychiatric wards and outpatient clinics. Andreas Aamodt has a clinical seat at the Special Outpatient Unit of Solvang Psychiatric Hospital treating patients with severe forms of psychopathologies, and an academic seat at Southern Norway Trauma Center. He has been the leader of a project to enhance the understanding and treatment of people with personality disorders in different mental health institutions in Southern Norway. He is collaborating with Professor Dr. Jon T. Monsen at the University in Oslo and the Institute for Affect Theory and Psychotherapy. They are working on enhancing the mental health professional's knowledge of Affect Script Psychology focusing much on Affect Consciousness Therapy and a special Affect Consciousness Interview. Monsen, Aamodt and their group are planning a new Randomized Controlled Treatment outcome and process study for personality disorders.
JONATHAN GRINDLINGER & BRETT SCHUR
The Philadelphia System
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 11:30 am
Length of Presentation : 1 hour
Presentation Description: This presentation utilizes clinical material to help clinicians and others further understand how the general principles of Affect Script Psychology are applied in clinical settings for diagnosis and treatment. Those attending will learn more about what motivates behavior, how scripts are formed, and how they are modified in psychotherapy.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Dr. Schur is a Licensed Psychologist in private practice in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He is also Staff Psychologist at Project Transition, a residential program for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Dr. Schur has been an integral member of the Tomkins Institute since 1994. He has run previous conferences and has held the title of Chief Psychologist.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Dr. Grindlinger is a psychiatrist in full-time private practice specializing in intensive affect script-based psychotherapy with individuals and couples. His involvement with affect script psychology began early in his career as he increasingly realized that what he had been taught as the standard theories did not explain what he saw happening in his office. During his subsequent search for better theoretical explanations, a journal arrived in the mail. In the October 1993 issue of Psychiatric Annals, he was introduced to a completely new theoretical framework for understanding emotion in the work of Tomkins, Nathanson, and Kelly. From that point on he became increasingly involved in the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute. He became an indispensable member of the Institute and was appointed Training Director in 1998 by Executive Director, Donald L. Nathanson, M.D.
JEANETTE WRIGHT
A Simulated Experience in Modulating Emotional Overload Using Music and Drawing with Short Movies Showing the Effects of Fear-Terror on Brain Development
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 1:45 pm
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Presentation Description: Short movies relating to the treatment of childhood abuse and neglect in adults show the making of the drawn image and how to understand it. A simulated experience in lowering affect overload uses music and drawing. Fear magnification and fear-based scripts are addressed. The handout incorporates Nathanson's Affect Pattern Chart with a self-rating scale for assessing affect amplification and magnification. No drawing skills necessary.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Jeanette Wright is an experienced clinician having worked for more than 30 years with individuals who use dissociation as a defense against chronic childhood abuse and neglect. Her model of Imagery-Oriented Psychotherapy uses affect and imagery to create consciousness, teach affect modulation and assist in the development of new pathways in the brain for the experience and expression of human emotion. She is a former associate professor at Drake University and currently in private practice in Des Moines, Iowa.
Her fascinating book The Art of Attention: Chronicles of an Imagery-Oriented Psychotherapist is currently available through our website in conjunction with Amazon.com. (click here)
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