Further Explorations on the Application of Attachment Theory

Format: Zoom (via Eventbrite)

Speaker: Dr Mario Marrone & Dr Nicola Diamond

Date: Saturday 2nd October 14.00 – 15.30 BST

IAN & AGIP Members fee £35 (enter members discount code at point of purchase) | Non-members fee: £50

This Seminar is also Week 18 of our PG Certificate in Attachment Theory. Registered PG Cert students will be given a code to access free tickets on the Eventbrite page on the day of the seminar.

This seminar is an addition to our 2021 program. The seminar previously advertised for this date, Attachment and Memory Systems, will now be held on Saturday 13th November.

In this seminar Dr Mario Marrone and Dr Nicola Diamond explore the way the attachment informed clinician puts theory into clinical practice. They make a critical analysis of “decontextualisation”, and in contrast to the latter, propose “contextualisation”, meaning taking due account of the patient’s attachment history and intergenerational transmission of trauma as well as working with cultural differences. They examine the role of free association in the therapeutic process, detecting episodic, semantic and procedural memories and explore re-enactment in the interplay between transference and countertransference.

The seminar will run from 14.00 – 15,30. A CPD certificate for 90 minutes will be issued to attendees.

IAN & AGIP Members fee of £35 is available by entering the IAN members discount code at check out. Full price is £50.

About the Speakers:

Dr Mario Marrone founded in the International Attachment Network in 1992 having been directly supervised by the founder of Attachment Theory, John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic in London for more than ten years. He remains a very active member of the IAN Executive Committee and is the coordinator for the IAN International Liaison Committee. Mario was a co-founder of the Journal for Attachment and Human development and has published and lectured extensively across the world on the subject of attachment theory. Formerly a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS Mario is now a psychotherapist in private practice. His training spans multiple disciplines, having trained in group analysis at the Institute of Group Analysis (London), in psychodrama in Buenos Aires, and in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London). He has also trained in family therapy, tantra and meditation in the UK and has participated in multifamily therapy groups in (Elche) Spain. He has extensive experience in treating a variety of psychological, emotional and relational difficulties. Mario currently lives between the UK and Spain. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.

Dr Nicola Diamond is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic (London). She has been Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, Lecturer at the University of Exeter and Director of PhD Studies in Psychotherapy at Regent’s University (London). She has also worked as a psychotherapist for The Helen Bamber Foundation (for survivors of torture and trauma) and at the Women’s Therapy Centre in London. She is the author of Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis -Contemporary Developments; Wiley & Sons (2013) and co-author of Attachment and Intersubjectivity with Mario Marrone; Whurr publisher (2003). She is founder member of the International Attachment Network. She has taught in the UK, USA, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain. She has also given an online lecture for IAN India. She has published many articles and book chapters, including most recently ‘A case of Mistaken Identity: Countertransference and Multiple Dissociation’ (co-authored with Mario Marrone) in Introduction to Countertransference, edited by Paola Valerio.