2013 — Scottish Personality Disorder Network

07 March 2013

Event: SPDN Meeting

Venue: The George Hotel 19-21 George Street, Edinburgh

Presentations:

"Welcome and Introduction" (Linda Treliving, Chair, Chair of SPDN)
"From a Vision to a Reality: Developing a personality disorder day service in partnership with service users in the Highlands" (Sarah Roy, Specialist Practitioner in Personality Disorder/DBT Therapist, Margaret MacKechnie, Margo Neilly & Mags MacDonald, CAS Planning Group Members)
“Structuring Treatment and Services for People with Personality Disorder" (Timothy Agnew, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist, Inverness)
“Social and emotional processing in Borderline Personality Disorder ” (James Cusack, Post-Doctorate Research Fellow, Aberdeen University)
"Working with personality disorder in forensic settings – them and us? " (Jon Patrick, Consultant Psychiatrist & Forensic Psychotherapist, The State Hospital)

Event: Aberdeen

Venue: The Copthorne Hotel, 122 Huntly Street, Aberdeen

Speakers:

Penny Curtis (Head of Mental Health Unit, Mental Health and Protection of Rights Division, Scottish Government)
Jon Patrick (Consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy, Royal Edinburgh Hospital and The State Hospital). Jon will give us a perspective on working with people who have a diagnosis of personality disorder and offend.
Angus MacBeth (Clinical Psychologist, NRS Career Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen). Angus has an interest in mentalization and attachment and is currently co-investigator on a trial of antenatal group psycho education for women with complex health and social needs which he will be describing at the meeting.
Dan Warrender (Staff nurse, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen). Dan will be looking at the challenges during admission to psychiatric hospital for patients with a diagnosis of Borderline personality disorder and staff working with them.

Event: Glasgow

Venue: Thistle Hotel Cambridge Street, Glasgow

Speakers:

Penny Curtis (Head of Mental Health Unit, Mental health and Protection of Rights Division, Scottish Government)
Dr Cathy Cahill (Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Glasgow)
Group of service users from Glasgow talking about their experiences.
Professor Andrew Gumley (Professor of Psychological Therapy, Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Dr Richard Taylor (Specialty doctor in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, NHS Grampian)