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Explore Challenging Therapeutic Issues in Five Workshops Presented by Members of the TRISP Faculty
Friday evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
at 17 East 96th Street, Suite 1A, New York City
(between Madison and Fifth)Fees: One workshop: $25. Series of five: $100.
To register:
E-mail: trispnyc@email.msn.com
Telephone: 212-828-1042
1. January 19, 2001
The Self Psychology of Despair and its Treatment
Peter B. Zimmermann, Ph.D.In the face of challenges from biological psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Zimmermann reasserts the importance of a psychoanalytic formulation of depression. This workshop offers self-psychological guidelines for treating depression that will increase participants’ theoretical knowledge and clinical skills.
2. February 16, 2001
Finding Room for Spirituality in the Self-Psychological Dialogue
Doris Brothers, Ph.D.Although Kohut placed great emphasis on the need for self-cohesion, he paid little attention to the longing for self-transcendence, an important aspect of spirituality. In this workshop, Dr. Brothers attempts to show how such matters are compatible with the intellectual foundations of self-psychological theory. Participants are invited to share therapeutic experiences related to spirituality.
3. March 9, 2001
Sticking Up For Ourselves Without Sticking It To Our Patients: The Struggle for Empathy in the Belly of the Beast
Lynn Preston, MA, MS & Ellen Shumsky, M.S.W.The concept of “decentering” has often been used in attempts to guide analysts who complain of feeling “abused,” “up against the wall,” or “at the end of their rope” in their clinical encounters. In this workshop, Ms. Preston and Ms. Shumsky question the sufficiency of decentering. Relying on their clinical experience, they attempt to deconstruct and revision empathic participation in the immediacy of an embattled treatment.
4. April 20 , 2001
The Analyst’s Vulnerability and Issues of Self-Disclosure
Martin Livingston, Ph.D.Many analysts are concerned that careless self-disclosure may overwhelm or burden patients. However, an approach that seeks to control or eliminate the analyst’s personhood may reduce emotional availability, responsiveness, and spontaneity. In this workshop, Dr. Livingston demonstrates that the capacity to facilitate and deepen the vulnerable moments that arise for patients depends heavily on analysts’ willingness to permit, tolerate, and make use of their own vulnerability.
5. May 11, 2001
The Self Psychology of Addiction and its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland
Richard B. Ulman, Ph.D. & Harry Paul, Ph.D.In this workshop, Drs. Ulman and Paul offer an overview and summary of their work on addiction as formulated in their forthcoming book, The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland, to be published by Brunner-Routledge. First they explain their self-psychological understanding of addiction. Next, they present their intersubjective approach to therapy with an addicted patient. Finally, they facilitate an informal discussion based on participants’ own clinical experience with addicted patients.
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