Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Risk Assessment and Violence

This full-day training workshop will be delivered across two sessions:

• Morning session: Forensic risk assessment - the added value of the psycho-dynamic risk factor
• Afternoon session: A new perspective on violence: primitive mental states

Registration

• Non-ANZAPPL Members: $350
• ANZAPPL Members: $300

Price includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

For further information about the event and to purchase tickets, please click here to register.

Presenter

Timothy Keogh PhD is a training and supervising analyst with the Australian Psychoanalytical Society (APAS) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He is the past President of APAS, founding President of the newly formed Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association, a member of the IPA Violence Committee, Co-Chair (Asia-Pacific) of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (COFAP), and Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Australasian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies (ACPP). Dr Keogh was previously Director of Inmate Services and Programs with the Department of Corrective Services (NSW) and also held other Director positions within that service. He has authored many articles on forensic psychotherapy, adolescent and sexual offending, and has written several books, including The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender: Through a Glass Darkly then Face to Face, and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss (Mourning, Melancholia and Couples (Karnac). He is currently the senior editor of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss (Routledge) and Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (Routledge). Dr Keogh is also the President of Penthos (penthos.org.au - a psychoanalytic charity providing a brief intervention for parents experiencing prolonged grief).