Paul Renn - RTS
Registration No: RTS00026

Credentials/Professional Experience/Training

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Membership

• Supervisor and Training Therapist – Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CAPP)

• Teacher – CAPP

• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Registration

• 1998-2002 CAPP – Four year training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

• 1994-1995 Institute of Psycho-Analysis – Theory and Practice Seminars

• 1993-1994 Portman Clinic – Clinical Seminars

• 1990-2005 National Probation Service

• 1988-1990 Kingston University – Diploma in Social Work

• 1966-1988 Service in the British Army

I have presented papers at international conferences, facilitated CPD workshops on attachment and trauma, and had articles published in professional books and journals in this country and abroad on the subjects of trauma, violence, attachment and abuse. (See below for details of publications). For several years I taught a seminar on relational perspectives on psychosis and anxiety to fourth year post-graduate psychotherapy trainees, drawing links between trauma and mental ill health.

Practice Addresses:

Contact details

Telephone: 020 8894 3696; 07986 745902

paul_renn2003@yahoo.co.uk

Specialities:

Post-traumatic stress and complex PTSD, both childhood and adult onset, deriving from loss, abuse, accidents (RTA/Work), combat stress, domestic violence, violent assault, rape, murder, manslaughter, torture and political asylum. Symptoms co-morbid with PTSD – depression, suicidal ideation, relationship violence and abuse, addictions, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, self-injurious behaviour, affect regulation, anger, impulse control, anxiety disorder, hyper-vigilance (startle reactions), sleep disorder, identity problems, intrusive memories (flashbacks), dissociation, derealization, depersonalization, panic attacks and psychosomatic symptoms. Psychiatric disorders, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, gender identity disorder, personality disorders, bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, sexual identity and sexual problems, career issues, parent-child conflict, attachment traumas.

Publications:

In press: Attachment, Affect Regulation and Trauma: The Transmission of Patterns Across Generations, and The Relational Past as Lived in the Interpersonal Present: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Early Trauma and Later Troubled Relationships. These two chapters are for inclusion in a book based on the Separation and Reunion Forum Annual Conference that was held in 2005. The book is to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

(2007). Stop Thief! But What Has Been Stolen and By Whom? ATTACHMENT: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1, 71-77.

(2006a). Russian translation of paper published in 2003 in A Matter of Security: Using Attachment Theory in Forensic Psychotherapy. This paper was published in a Russian language internet journal: http://psyjournal.ru/j3p/pap.php?id=20060401

(2006b). Attachment, Trauma and Violence: Understanding Destructiveness from an Attachment Theory Perspective. In Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, C. Harding (Ed.). Hove: Brunner-Routledge.

(2006c). Gewalttätige Männer: Wie Traumatisierung und desorganisierte Bindung zusammenhängen. Recht & Psychiatrie, Vol. 1 (4), 18-25.

(2003). The link between childhood trauma and later violent offending: the application of attachment theory in a probation setting. In A Matter of Security: Using Attachment Theory in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, F. Pfäfflin & G. Adshead (Eds.). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

(2002). The link between childhood trauma and later violent offending: the application of attachment theory in a probation setting. Journal of Attachment & Human Development, Vol 4 (3), 294-317.

(2000). The link between childhood trauma and later violent offending: a case study. In Violent Children and Adolescents: Asking the Question Why, G. Boswell (Ed.). London: Whurr Publishers.

Professional Memberships:

• Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

• International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

• International Attachment Network

• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

• International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy