to our web site! Our Mission The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research, Inc. was established for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and research in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis. We are a group of Baltimore-Washington area organizations interested in promoting excellence in psychoanalytic research. The Consortium stresses the importance of investigating through innovative scientific research the power of psychodynamic treatments. Each year we sponsors a day-long Research Conference which features formal presentations by an outstanding researcher, discussions, and a workshop ("lab session") in which all participants have an opportunity to learn and use a research tool. Our Research Conferences provide Continuing Education credit for physicians, psychologists and social workers. Full information is available in the brochures of individual conferences. Members of health care professions other than these three are most cordially invited to attend; and they will receive a certificate attesting to their participation.

Patrick Luyten, Ph.D. Mentalization as a Multidimensional Concept: Implications for the Treatment of Patients with Trauma-Related Psychopathology Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:30 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Ernst Auditorium Sibley Memorial Hospital Washington DC 20016 . . . Patrick Luyten, PhD is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at the Department of Psychology, University of Leuven (Belgium). His main research interest focuses on the role of personality, stress and interpersonal processes in depression, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. He is also involved in studies on mentalization-based treatment of patients with personality disorders. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology, University College London, London (UK), a Visiting Research Scholar at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven (USA), and member of the Research Advisory Board and the Conceptual and Empirical Research Committee of the International Psycho-analytical Association.

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