2020 Conference

Terror in the Transference, 19-22 March 2020

Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington, Te Whanganui a Tara

Conference handbook (PDF)

Keynote speaker

Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP, began seeing patients in1966 and completed his training in child psychoanalysis in 1973. Since that time his primary occupation has been training and supervising psychotherapists individually and in groups on their most difficult cases at the Listening Perspectives Study Center in Orange, California. Dr. Hedges was the Founding Director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in1983 where he continues to serve as supervising and training analyst.

Throughout his career Dr. Hedges has provided continuing education courses for psychotherapists throughout the United States and abroad. He has consulted or served as expert witness on more than 400 complaints against psychotherapists in 20 states and has published 21 books on various topics of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, three of which have received the Gradiva Award for the best psychoanalytic book of the year. During the 2009 centennial celebration of the International Psychoanalytic Association his 1992 book, Interpreting the Countertransference, was named one of the key contributions in the relational field during the first century of psychoanalysis.

In 2015 Dr. Hedges was distinguished by being awarded honorary membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association for his many contributions to psychoanalysis.

For more information, please visit Dr Hedges’ website.