About this event

  • Date and time Tue 20 May 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Sleep Medicine
Join us for an update on the different components of Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and its emerging use in mental health populations. Explore the different sleep diagnoses that may come up when people attend CBT-I  courses with some case examples and a summary of “what we know currently about CBT-I and what we still need to learn” and the effectiveness of the mode of delivery of CBT-I.  Finally, there will be discussion on the provision of CBT-I in the UK. 

By attending this event, you will get an update on:

  • Different techniques within CBT-I and their effectiveness. 
  • Bidirectional relationship of insomnia and mental health and how to use CBT-I to tackle this. 
  • CBT-I provision in the UK and mode of delivery. 

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We would like to thank our sponsors Idorsia Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd and Leith Healthcare for their financial support of this event. Please note they have no input or involvement over the organisation, agenda or speakers for the event. 

Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 07 April 2025.

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£77.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

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£141.00 £84.00 £46.00 £44.00

Agenda

View the programme 20 May 2025

Registration, tea, and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Chair: Dr Jane Hicks, Consultant Psychiatrist, and President of Sleep Section of the Royal Society of Medicine

CBT-I techniques and their clinical effectiveness

How does sleep restriction treat insomnia disorder?

Dr Simon Kyle, Professor of Experimental and Clinical Research, Oxford

Should we do sleep compression instead? A randomised controlled trial comparing sleep restriction and sleep compression

Dr Ann Rosen Psychologist, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed

Tea and coffee break

Bidirectional relationship of insomnia and mental health

Sleep in psychosis

Dr Bryony Sheaves, Clinical Psychologist, Oxford

Novel developments in psychotherapy for insomnia and an update on SLEEPexpert

Dr Elizabeth Hertenstein, Psychologist, University of Geneva

Panel discussion
Lunch

Case presentations on topics in CBT-I

Chair: Dr Ute Stead

Imagery rehearsal techniques for nightmares

Dr Catherine Ouraich, Clinical Psychologist, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (RHLIM)

CBT-I and sleep paralysis

Dr Hugh Selsick, Consultant in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, RLHIM

CBT-I and parasomnias

Dr David O'Regan, Consultant in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital

Sleep in general hospital patients

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Consultant Neurologist, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

"What we know about CBT-I and what we still don’t know”

Virtual speaker: Dr Colin Espie, Professor of Sleep Medicine, Oxford

Panel discussion

Including a discussion about setting up a UK insomnia group to link in with the European Insomnia Network

Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration will close on 19 May 2025 1:00am (BST). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

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