PF17 WORKING WITH DISSOCIATION: THE CLINICAL THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Sarah Stemp, Ph.D.
(212) 799-5918
98 Riverside Drive, #1C NYC
Saturday, November 4
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
with a 1 hour lunch break
$120
The history of the concept of dissociation will be discussed as it has developed within the world of
psychoanalysis and within the realm of cognitive/ behavioral approaches to the treatment of trauma.
Emphasis will be on a psychoanalytically informed approach to different forms of dissociative disorders and to a variety of clinical techniques used in treatment. Concepts such as “transference/ countertransference enactment”, “integration”, “conscious vs. unconscious conflict”, “repression” and “unformulated experience” will be studied in depth.
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PF20 CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Alan Phelan, Ph.D.
(212) 579-8938
41 West 83rd Street, #1C NYC
November 7, 14, 21 and 28
Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:00pm
$120
Contemporary analytic thinking has given rise to a view of clinical process with dissociation and enactment at its core. In brief, the conception of each other and the process that analyst and patient have constructed needs to be deconstructed in order to bring enacted experience into reflective awareness, and thus moves the patient from a reliance on dissociation to conflict over alternative possibilities. Through readings and examination of detailed process notes, this course hopes to focus the emergent dilemma of what Don Stern has referred to as the “eye seeing itself” on both a conceptual and practical level for how it affects one’s day to day functioning as a therapist.
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PF21 DIFFERENCES THAT MATTER: WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GAY MEN IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
William Lubart, Ph.D.
(212) 627-2134
450 West 24th Street, #1A NYC
February 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2007
Saturdays 1:00 to 2:30pm
$120
This course is intended for any clinician who seeks to better understand the complexities of working in depth with gay men in therapy. Topics will include: the legacy of the historical approach to sexual orientation in psychoanalysis; working with gay identity and lifespan issues; holding the tension between analytic exploration and affirmation; specific uses of interpretation and self-disclosure; working with dissociation; diverse aspects of transference and countertransference. The Instructor will offer case material to illustrate course concepts.
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PS18 COUPLES THERAPY FOR THE
PSYCHOANALYST
Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D. (212) 666-7004
740 West Avenue, (at 96th St.) NYC
March 6, 13 and 20, 2007
Tuesdays 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.
$90
Using videotape analysis, lecture and discussion, therapists learn to integrate psychoanalytic and systems theory in the treatment of couples. We examine mate selection and its relationship to the co-construction of couples’ problems; explore unresolved family-of-origin issues in relation to transferential impasses; and discuss the use of countertransference in relation to couples’ therapy.
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