Psychotherapy and its benefits in attachment trauma treatment
(2-part program)
Dr. Subhra Bhattacharyya
Date 1: 19th March 2021
Date 2: Will be declared soon
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm, India Time
Venue: Zoom
Trainer: Dr. Subhra Bhattacharyya
Eligibility: Mental Health Professionals
Fees: INR 2,000 (For members of the EMDR Association, India)
INR 2,500 (For non-members)
How to enroll: Fill the Registration Form attached in the following sections and mail it to mdpurandare@yahoo.co.in and if your eligibility is confirmed by the Association, you can go ahead with payment.
*Please note: We have LIMITED REGISTRATIONS for the program.
About the program:
Conversational Model (CM) is an adapted psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder, intractable depression or somatisation. It was developed by Russell Meares in Sydney and Robert Hobson in Manchester.
It is a practical treatment, with an emphasis on understanding and responding to very small shifts in the client’s emotional experience, as well as exploring the client’s difficulties in close relationships that arise out of attachment difficulties as a child.
Outline of the lecture:
- Brief introduction to various attachment states
- Brief summary on the concept of self-psychology
- Russell Meares’ description of self
- An introduction to Conversational model psychotherapy.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Mrinalini Purandare
Dr. Sushma Mehrotra
Dr. Parul Tank
Dr. Dushyant Bhadlikar
Dr. Deepak Gupta
Dr. Usha Verma Srivastava
Mr. Chintan Naik
Rev. Chilton George Fernandez
Contacts Person
Ms. Srishti Agrawal
Email ID: team.chintanaik@gmail.com
About the trainer:
Dr. Subhra Bhattacharyya is a practicing psychiatrist working across the public and private hospitals in the Hunter New England Local Health District, NSW, in Australia.
She has completed her MBBS and MD (Psychiatry) from Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai and after her DNB examinations she worked as a senior resident in NIMHANS, Bangalore for a few months following which she returned to Mumbai and worked as a lecturer in KJ Somaiya Medical college and hospital for a couple of years. She moved to Australia in 2003 where she completed the Fellowship Examinations and Advanced Training in Psychotherapies from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Bhattacharyya is trained in Conversational Model psychodynamic therapy, Dialectical behaviour Therapy, EMDR therapy and Imagery Rescripting therapy. She works at the Centre for Psychotherapy which is the one of the largest public health psychotherapy outpatient centre in Australia offering psychotherapy programs to patients with Borderline Personality disorder and Eating disorders. She also works in General Adult outpatient psychiatry unit in Newcastle Mental health service and is a Consultant Psychiatrist in two of the large private psychiatry hospitals in the Hunter region. She is a Conjoint Lecturer in Newcastle University and is actively involved in the psychiatry training program of the registrars in Hunter New England LHD.
Dr. Bhattacharyya has extensive experience and expertise in treatment of patients with Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorders as well as Borderline Personality Disorders. She regularly supervises registrars for their psychotherapy long cases as part of their RANZCP training. She is also a RANZCP examiner for the psychotherapy cases.