Where the Action Is: The Art of Psychoanalytic Listening
Instructor: Joseph Bobrow, Ph.D.
Course Description
Listening is at the heart of what the psychoanalyst does. The patient too becomes increasingly able to, and grateful for listening. Listening is an active ingredient in therapeutic action. But how do we listen? To what do we listen? Who listens to whom? Analytic listening plumbs beneath the surface content to the music, and the psychic depths. Can the body listen? Can the psyche? In this workshop we will examine how a number of psychoanalysts construe analytic listening: Freud, Bollas, Faimberg, Bion, Schwaber, Reik, Volkan, and Ogden. Then, using participants' vignettes, we will explore how models, conscious and unconscious, of listening inform analytic process.
Listening is an analytic activity that is often taken for granted in professional education and training. Delving more deeply into the process and a palette of models can enrich the therapist’s capacity to listen to the unconscious dimensions of the session, and deepen the analytic process for both analyst and analysand.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to:
Identify a range of models of analytic listening.
Compare and contrast the models’ overlap and divergence, as well as their utility for clinical practice.
Describe how attention to bodily sensations can be an important component of analytic listening.
Identify one's own unconscious working model of listening, how it operates in one's work, and how expanding it might enrich the analytic work.
Licensed Professional — $50
Pre Licensed/Student — $402 CEs offered
Program Committee
Thomas P. Helscher, Ph.D., Chair
Lisa B. Crilley, M.F.T., Co-Chair
Committee Members
Scott Shapiro, Psy.D.
Sandra Wilder-Padilla, Ph.D.
Rachel Katz
Keith Bernstein
Simone Kiboudi, LPC
Target Audience
This program is on an advanced level and meets the needs of all mental health professionals, including Psychiatrists,Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists. CE Credit is offered for licensed psychologists, social workers, and marriage and family therapists.
CE Credit Information
Important Disclosure: All planners, faculty, staff and others involved with this activity have reported no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
This activity has not received commercial support.
Accreditation Statements
Psychologists: LAISPS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. LAISPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists can earn a maximum of 9 CE credits for this program. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines. Psychiatrists: CME credit will not be offered for this program.
Board of Behavioral Sciences: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts courses approved by the APA for Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC and LEP licenses.
To Earn Credit: Participants must complete an online evaluation within two weeks of completing each session of this CE activity in order to receive credit.
Attention Psychologists: Psychologists can earn a maximum of 2 CE credits for this program. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines
Refunds/Cancellations: Refunds, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made if cancellation notification is phoned or postmarked three (3) business days in advance of this program. There will be no refunds on requests received after the refund deadline. Full refunds are made in the event that LAISPS must cancel this program.
Returned Checks: A $35.00 service charge will be assessed for checks returned by the bank.
Confidentiality: By registering for this educational event, attendees agree to strictly maintain confidentiality of any clinical material shared and will not distribute or convey such confidential material outside of the conference.
Covid-19 Protocol: Attendees are requested to have a negative home test the morning of or evening before class, and to stay home if they are experiencing symptoms or have recently been socially exposed
Instructor Bio
Joseph Bobrow, a teacher, Supervisor and Training analyst at LAISPS, is also an author and Zen teacher. He has long been creating innovative communities for transforming individual and collective anguish.
His books include Waking Up from War; Zen And Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberation; After Midnight: Collected Poems; and A True Person of No Rank: Awakening Buddha's Dream to Save the World.
Joseph practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Studio City, and teaches widely.