Chronic Depression and Trauma in Childhood: The Role of Long-Term Psychotherapy – Evidence and Effectiveness

FLi is delighted to host a much-needed INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE of psychoanalysis with psychiatry and the psychotherapies looking at recent evidence supporting the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapy (PAT) in the treatment of chronically depressed adults who have experienced adverse childhood events.

Recent comprehensive research shows that people who suffer from ongoing chronic depression as a result of adverse childhood experiences are shown to have better outcomes, including lasting structural change when they undergo frequent, long-term psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112 open access

THIS SYMPOSIUM focuses on the implementation, findings and implications of this major research. Together we will give psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other stakeholders in mental health services provision, the chance to hear about the research from Dr Lina Krakau, one of the lead authors reporting the work, and to ask questions, to discuss and to get to grips with the significance of the findings, and to reflect on what future actions might be indicated. We will be joined also by Prof. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Dr Jane G. Tillman, as well as a host of discussants and respondents.

This event will be of interest to the fields of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychotherapy, general medical practice, and to stakeholders in mental health services provision.  

For more information and booking please visit Research Symposium 2025 - Freud Lacan institute

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