A theoretical and practical approach to working with this extremely interesting and challenging age group.
In each class we will discuss a different psychoanalytic approach to female development beginning with Freud, Helene Deutsch, Phyllis Greenacre, Ruth Lax, Ethel Person and others.
Aristotle declared that all human action is rooted in one or more of the following causes: Chance, Nature, Compulsion, Habit, Reasoning, Anger, and Desire. His proposition predated Freud’s Pleasure Principle by over 2000 years. We examine how each impulse – and their interrelationship – has come to be understood over 100 years of psychoanalytic inquiry and how to apply Aristotle’s foundational thinking to our practices and lives.
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One of the most important distinctions between Modern Psychoanalysis and most other approaches to psychoanalysis is the emphasis on whose verbal contribution is more important to help people change. Most of the other schools of thought emphasize what the analyst says: what and how to interpret. The Modern idea is what helps people change is for the person in therapy to say everything with the analyst’s role limited to helping the person who has come to him or her for help to say everything. When I was in training, the most important tool we were taught to help people say everything was the use of joining techniques — what my colleague Jacob Kirman calls agreeing with the patient. After many years of experience, I’ve developed a whole repertory of techniques that I find help the people I work with talk about an ever-expanding range of things. One of these techniques is to tell a story that suggests a new way of looking at the person’s problem — what I call the plausible hypothesis. Sometimes the plausible hypothesis takes the form of a story taken from classical Greek myths, like Freud’s fondness for Oedipus, but it can be anything else, often suggested by the patient’s own frame of reference and sometimes drawn from my own storehouse of knowledge, and can include song lyrics, allusions to popular culture, jokes, historical events, and so forth. In this workshop, I will work with the participants to help them find plausible hypotheses that might help the people in therapy with them find a story that will give them tools to say things that they might not have been able to say without the new hypothesis.
One of the most important distinctions between Modern Psychoanalysis and most other approaches to psychoanalysis is the emphasis on whose verbal contribution is more important to help people change. Most of the other schools of thought emphasize what the analyst says: what and how to interpret. The Modern idea is what helps people change is for the person in therapy to say everything with the analyst’s role limited to helping the person who has come to him or her for help to say everything. When I was in training, the most important tool we were taught to help people say everything was the use of joining techniques — what my colleague Jacob Kirman calls agreeing with the patient. After many years of experience, I’ve developed a whole repertory of techniques that I find help the people I work with talk about an ever-expanding range of things. One of these techniques is to tell a story that suggests a new way of looking at the person’s problem — what I call the plausible hypothesis. Sometimes the plausible hypothesis takes the form of a story taken from classical Greek myths, like Freud’s fondness for Oedipus, but it can be anything else, often suggested by the patient’s own frame of reference and sometimes drawn from my own storehouse of knowledge, and can include song lyrics, allusions to popular culture, jokes, historical events, and so forth. In this workshop, I will work with the participants to help them find plausible hypotheses that might help the people in therapy with them find a story that will give them tools to say things that they might not have been able to say without the new hypothesis.
This course will help clinicians identify, understand specific dynamics of, and treat Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
Each class indicates which options are available.
Please contact the instructor for call-in information.
Requirements for self-study credit to be discussed with instructor.
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