In this session, we will discuss the evidence base connecting meaning and medication. We will consider the patient’s psychology, the role of the placebo/ nocebo effect as well as the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in optimising prescribing outcomes. We will discuss the psychodynamics of pharmacologic treatment-resistance. Finally, we will explore the prescriber’s characteristics and the unconscious processes exerted on the prescriber to “get it right”.
Chair: Dr Dimitrios Chartonas, Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service
The science of the art of pharmacotherapy and the pharmacotherapeutic alliance - Dr David Mintz, The Austen Riggs Centre, MA,USA
The psychodynamics of pharmacologic treatment - resistance - Dr Haroula Konstantinidou, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, MRCPsych, Leicestershire Partnership Trust
Trying to get it right: guidelines and the unconscious processes of prescribing - Mr David Rogalski, Lead Pharmacist, Islington Practice Based Mental Health Team (PBMHT) and Core Mental Health Team
Prices
Non-Member: £34
Member: £23
Higher Trainees/SAS Doctors: £18
Core Trainees/Subsided*/Retired/Medical Students/FY Doctors: £12
