Extension Division
How Psychotherapy "Cures"
Instructor:
Training Analyst, LAISPS
The therapist is empowered to make more focused interventions when he/she is clear about what is “curative” about therapy. Controversies about the role of insight and integration versus the role of the relationship with the therapist have been present from the beginning of psychoanalysis and continue today. What is curative also depends on how regressed the patient is. Regressed patients listen more to the tone of the therapist’s voice than the content of an interpretation. This course will explore these issues and will address curative factors in psychotherapy.
Course Objectives:
- To familiarize the clinician with why it is difficult to speak of “cure” in psychotherapy.
- To help the therapist learn more about the importance of remembering past trauma versus reliving the past in the present without remembering.
- To assist the therapist in understanding that in regressed states the tone of the therapist’s voice and his/her emotional presence is often more important than the content of any interpretation in helping the patient recover.
- To give the clinician an appreciation of the importance of regression in cure if a new foundation is to be provided for a "new beginning."
- To give the therapist an understanding of why therapeutic impasses may arise in regressed states and how to avoid them.
Date: 2 Saturdays, March 8, 22
Location: 450 N. Bedford Dr., #301
Fee: $ 160.00
This course is under review for 8 CME/MCEP units.
