Kees Cornelissen
“The Spirit Eater: A Case of Mental Cannibalism and How to Survive”
Kees L.M. Cornelissen is a trained and registered psychotherapist in The Netherlands in private practice and in residential treatment. He was educated as a sociologist at the Free University in Amsterdam. During his professional life he was trained in Group analysis, Client-Centered therapy, and in Transactional Analysis amongst others and became a teacher and supervisor in several psychotherapeutic modalities. In 2005 he developed and founded the only existing residential program on ISTDP and successively several day-treatment programs. Though educated in the theory and practice of ISTDP by H. Davanloo in Canada he was trained in ISTDP as a member of the continuing educational program on ISTDP in the Netherlands by Josette ten Have-de Labije among others. He is now a trainer in ISTDP and on the editorial board of the Ad Hoc Bulletin and co-trainer in several international core-groups on ISTDP in Norway, England and Poland. He has presented on many national and international conferences, has written several articles re specific topics in the application of the technique of ISTDP and a book on residential treatment with ISTDP, the R-ISTDP (2007).He works in the Viersprong, a residential centre for psychotherapy in the South of the Netherlands.