Attachment research tools for clinicians and practitioners – A workshop with Dr Sonia Gojman de Millán and Dr Salvador Millán in Stockport on Friday 29th June 2018 – 09:30 – 16:00
Mindsite is partnering with the International Attachment Network to bring a number of unique and special events to Stockport. This is our first collaboration, and it will feature two pre-eminent researchers and therapists from the field of attachment theory. Dr Sonia Gojman de Millán and Dr Salvador Millán will describe the main attachment research tools, and show their relevance to clinicians and practitioners.
The workshop presenters write ‘We plan to start with a brief summary of John Bowlby’s original attachment theory as a basic background. Then we will describe the Infant Attachment categories of Mary Ainsworth; including the Strange Situation Procedure, and the subsequent links to the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). The scales for coding and classifying AAI transcripts will be covered as well as the main classification categories.
The introduction will be supported by a Powerpoint presentation, illustrating the most important aspects; which will be developed verbally. Participants can ask “burning questions” as they go along.
We then want participants to share a brief experience using some of the questions from the AAI, so they can vividly appreciate some of its coding procedures. Because of its particular importance to clinicians, we will present some examples of resolved and unresolved loss and trauma as seen through the AAI.
We will illustrate the points made with video-taped excerpts of the Mary Ainsworth Strange Situation Procedure. These will include the four infants’ patterns of attachment: Secure, Avoidant, Resistant-Ambivalent and Disorganized.
If appropriate , we will also include a brief description of our Attachment and Social Character Research in urban and rural Mexico.’
To download a flyer for the event click here.
The workshop leaders
Sonia Gojman de Millán has a PhD in Psychology and is a Psychoanalyst. She was formerly a clinical professor and head of the Social Psychology Department of the Mexican National University (UNAM). She was Secretary General of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) from 2000-2008 and is an Executive committee member of the Ibero-American network of Attachment (RIA). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Seminario de Sociopsicoanálisis A.C. (Semsoac). On the research side, she is a certified trainer on the Adult Attachment Interview (from the University of Berkeley, California) and a certified coder of the Ainsworth Infant Strange Situation Procedure (from the University of Minnesota). She co-directs the Attachment Research project of Mexican Indian Dyads and their Social Character; and has been an active social character researcher in various community and inter-cultural projects since 1974.
Dr Salvador Millán is a Medical Doctor, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst. He is co-founder, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Seminario de Sociopsicoanálisis A.C Semsoac. México City. He co-directs (with Sonia Gojman de Millán} the Attachment Research Project of Mexican Indian Dyads and their Social Character. As part of this work, he has filmed all strange situations and most home observations of the Attachment research project. He has been an active social character researcher in various community and intercultural projects since 1964 (some of which have had the participation of Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby). In addition, he was the Medical director of the Floresta Psychiatric Sanatorium, of the Mexican Health Institution (IMSS). He is co-editor and principal of Espacio Psicoanalítico (Psychoanalytic Space) for the romance Languages (Spanish, Portuguese and Italian) – the online journal of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies www.semsoac.com/Espaciopsicoanalitico
Practical arrangements
The event will start at 09:30 and finish at 16:00.
The cost is £95 per delegate. There will be a discount of £15 for members of the International Attachment Network.
The event, which includes lunch, will be held in the comfortable surroundings of the Friends Meeting House in Stockport.
6 hours CPD. An individually signed certificate of attendance will be provided to all registered delegates. Those who have lost the original or wish to obtain a duplicate, can order one from the website.
To register and pay online click on the Eventbrite ‘Register Now; button. Bookings are made through Eventbrite, and you can pay by PayPal or card. To register and pay offline – email events@mindsite.co.uk , or call Jonathan at 0161 439 7773. To view our cancellation policy click here.
You can also attend this event on Saturday 30th June in London at the International Attachment Network. To visit the event webpage on the ian website click here.
References
Gojman-de-Millán, S., Herreman, C., & Sroufe, L. A. (Eds.). (2017). Attachment across clinical and cultural perspectives: A relational psychoanalytic approach. Abingdon: Routledge.