Extension Division
Working in the Here and Now: An Object Relations Approach to the Clinical Hour (Revised and Revisited)
Instructor:
Training Analyst, LAISPS
Pivotal concepts and technical suggestions are introduced to guide the therapist in daily work. Listening to clinical material as a reflection of internal object relations helps to locate psychic pain, understand pathological love relations, conceptualize omnipotent thinking, and identify sources of aliveness and deadness in the clinical encounter.
Course Objectives:
- Formulating the dynamics of the patient’s internal object world
- Detecting and addressing crucial transference - countertransference paradigms.
- Deciding if, when, and how to interpret.
- Identifying negative therapeutic reactions and the role of the bad object.
- Treating sadomasochistic love relations, i.e., mutual captivity.
- Formulating the inner world in merger/autonomy conflicts.
- Formulating schizoid, narcissistic, obsessive, and borderline states.
- Conceptualizing, distinguishing, and treating depression, emptiness, and isolation.
**This offering is in response to many students of the long-standing and popular course who requested a sequel. All readings are new. Having attended the earlier course, however, is not required.
Dates: 8 Fridays, April 4 - May 23
Location: LAISPS Classroom
Fee: $ 320.00
This course is under review for 16 CME/MCEP units.
