Altered States of Body and Mind

from $1,575.00

This 30-week course reflects on both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory to create a foundational, conceptual awareness of substance abuse, eating disorders and process addictions. We explore the perils of affect dysregulation, anxious attachment strategies, psychotic defenses, personality disorders, social and cultural constructs, and the relational and sexual trauma that often underlie the symptoms of addiction and eating problems.

This course is limited to 20 attendees.

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This 30-week course reflects on both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory to create a foundational, conceptual awareness of substance abuse, eating disorders and process addictions. We explore the perils of affect dysregulation, anxious attachment strategies, psychotic defenses, personality disorders, social and cultural constructs, and the relational and sexual trauma that often underlie the symptoms of addiction and eating problems.

This course is limited to 20 attendees.

Psychoanalytic theory posits that substance abuse, eating disorders and other addictive behaviors are ways of coping with intensely distressing states of body and mind. The person is searching for a way to protect and restore the self or to be immune to narcissistic injury, abandonment, rage and, in some cases, the terror of coming apart.

This 30-week course uses both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory to create a foundational, conceptual awareness of substance abuse, eating disorders and process addictions. We identify common developmental traumas and attachment strategies often found in our substance abusing and eating disordered clients. We use Object Relations theory to understand the complex interpersonal and intrapersonal representations of self and other in both food and substance use. Binge eating, bigger bodies, cultural anxieties pertaining to excess, personality disorders, enactments and finally, our work with families is examined for special and often challenging dynamics.

Students will learn to interpret their clients’ self-protective/destructive behaviors, narrate their clients’ unspoken suffering, and feel into their clients’ distress in ways that capture what the eating disorder or substance abuse is trying to communicate. And we are very excited to offer our students, as an integral part of the course, ample opportunity to present their own clinical work to experts in the field during the latter half of the evening.

Altered States of Body and Mind is designed for both the beginner and the experienced clinician. Your tuition includes your reading materials which will be delivered to you electronically.

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Requirements

A minimum of a B.A. is required.

Pre-licensed individuals must provide either a transcript OR a copy of your diploma with their registration.

Licensed individuals must provide their license number.

Participants must complete an online evaluation within two weeks of completing each five or ten week class within this CE activity in order to receive continuing education credit.

Psychologists can earn a maximum of 45 CE credits for this program. For psychologists to receive credit for any given section, all classes of the section must be attended. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines