Influencing motivation is often key to achieving behaviour change. That may mean shaping people’s plans, values, desires, and/or habits. Robert West, a founder of the PRIME Theory of motivation and the COM-B model of behaviour will guide participants step-by-step on a tour of human motivation and how it can be influenced through education, persuasion, reward, punishment, imitation, social norms, rules, environmental cues, providing support and by training habits and self-regulation skills.

It will also address how we can build resistance against to attempts at manipulation by vested interests.

The module will be interactive and include plenty of time for discussion. It will cover practical examples of motivational influence in a range of areas relating to health, wellbeing, and sustainable development. It will also offer participants an opportunity to discuss motivational interventions in their areas of interest.

The session will run from 10am to 4pm (UK time) with 30 minutes for lunch and 15-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon.

Places are limited with the course capped at 36 participants.

For information on other Advanced Modules, see here

The French newspaper Le Monde announced the death of Catherine Dolto in August 1988 with an article that began: “She was France’s favourite granny, the only psychoanalyst whose language was accessible to everyone, the ‘wise granny’ everyone dreamt of.” And yet she is curiously unknown in the English-speaking world and ignored by the IPA-affiliated French psychoanalytic schools. Starting to work analytically as a Paediatrician in 1937, she belongs to the second generation of French analysts, and like Winnicott, worked intensively in Paediatric liaison. From the beginning of her career, she linked psychoanalytic theory with her own ideas about the body, its functioning and its psychic representations. Her book The Unconscious Body Image espouses a completely original view of the links between physical and psychic development, providing fresh insight into our understanding of psychosomatic symptoms and child development. Using numerous case studies drawn from her decades of work with children and parents, Dolto shows both how parent-child interactions impact on the development of the unconscious body image, which forms the basis of the elaboration of thought and influences the functioning of the real body. She shows how the mind develops in relation to unconscious body images generated at each stage of development (oral, anal, genital, latency and puberty), and details how psychic castration at each developmental stage influences the child’s socialisation, thereby filling a significant gap in psychoanalytic understanding of the mental integration of social law.

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Training with Dr Catrina Craig

Online Course

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 9:00 – 15:45 BST Online via Zoom

What is Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)?

CST is an evidence-based group treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia. It involves 14 or more sessions of stimulating, themed activities, based around more complex principles including learning theory and person-centred care. CST can be extended into a longer-term treatment and can be offered to a range of clients including outpatients and people in residential or day care.

What does the training involve?

Training is interactive, involving group exercises, role-play and video observation as well as some ‘teaching’. It is aimed to equip people with the knowledge required to deliver group CST in their work setting.

Who is the trainer?

The training is led by Dr Catriona Craig, a principal clinical psychologist who works with older people with dementia and those with mental health problems in Buckinghamshire (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust). She has extensive experience setting up and delivering CST groups, plus training staff to run CST and supervising their practice. She has delivered CST in community and inpatient settings, delivering and adapting the groups to those with mild cognitive impairment to those who have more moderate to severe cognitive impairment.

You will receive a booking confirmation upon registration. We will contact you closer to the time of the event with updates and instructions. If you have any other queries, please contact [email protected].

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Training with Dr Helen Donovan

Online course

Tuesday 10 October and Wednesday 11 October 2023, 9:00 – 12:15 BST

Online via Zoom

What is Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)?

CST is an evidence-based group treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia. It involves 14 or more sessions of stimulating, themed activities, based around more complex principles including learning theory and person-centred care. CST can be extended into a longer-term treatment and can be offered to a range of clients including outpatients and people in residential or day care.

What does the training involve?

Training is interactive, involving group exercises, role-play, and video observation as well as some ‘teaching’. It is aimed to equip people with the knowledge required to deliver group CST in their work setting.

Who is the trainer?

The training is led by Dr Helen Donovan, a consultant clinical psychologist who has held senior positions since 2004 in the NHS in Bedfordshire & Luton including developing and providing services to people with dementia. She has been involved in CST and Maintenance CST research projects with UCL and has extensive experience of supervising and delivery of CST groups, and providing CST training in the UK and internationally.

This UCL Psychoanalysis Conference will consist of papers and presentations describing in detail psychoanalytic work with children and adults in whom language approximates to what is deemed normative, as well as with others in whom divergences or abnormalities in language and symbolic functioning are manifest. Other papers will track the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking about language and meaning, innovations in literary representation, and the uncertain impact of psychoanalytic utterances in relation to deeper currents in world events.

Friday afternoon (15:00-17.30 GMT) and evening (18:00-19.45 GMT) Clinical Seminars.

Please note that tickets for David Tuckett’s clinical seminar, and the clinical seminars that are taking place on the evening of Friday 1 December will need to be added to your booking when purchasing a main conference ticket. They are only available to those attending the main conference.

David Tuckett’s clinical seminar will be in-person only. The evening clinical seminars will take place in various locations. Please look carefully at the seminar leader names to check which seminars will take place in person.

Space is limited for the clinical seminars so early booking is advised to avoid disappointment. The clinical seminar groups are closed groups and attendees must have registered in advance. Please note that there is a possibility that you will be invited to present at the seminar that you have chosen to attend.

Booking for the main conference and clinical seminars will close 12.00 (GMT) on Thursday 30 November 2023.

In-person: UCL, Cruciform Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London, and online via Zoom.