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Scholarly Dialogues: Stephen Purcell "Un-Thinking Technique: The Analyst’s Presence in Treating Early Trauma"

Scholarly Dialogues: Stephen Purcell "Un-Thinking Technique: The Analyst’s Presence in Treating Early Trauma"

Stephen Purcell will lead discussions of two of his papers that address the analyst’s way of being: “Psychic Song and Dance: Dissociation and Duets in the Analysis of Trauma (2019) and “Un-thinking Technique: On Being, Not Doing in the Psychoanalysis of the Sequelae of Trauma” (2026).

Sex, Death and the Superego: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

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Sex, Death and the Superego: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

In this recent book, Ron Britton, a British psychoanalyst in the object relations tradition, explores his experience working in psychoanalysis and what he has come to see as most important. We will read selected chapters from his book on these topics of sex, death and the superego. Britton especially explores the erotic transference-countertransference experience and the problem of the destructive superego. Please contact the instructor to enroll.

Working With Adolescents and Their Parents with Don Schimmel, PhD

Working with adolescents poses challenges that differ in important ways from those encountered with adults. Adolescents are often resistant to therapy and struggle to articulate their internal experience. Parents, in turn, are often anxious or uncertain and may exert conscious or unconscious pressure on the therapist. This three-part seminar examines the technical and developmental complexities of working with adolescents and their parents in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Off the Couch and Into Contact with Lindsey Walker, MA, LMFT

Lindsey Walker, MA, LMFT

“Started seven years of useless couch life. Felt I was stupid.” -Fritz Perls 

Fritz Perls was a trained psychoanalyst who (with others) created gestalt therapy in the context of the rise of the authoritarian Nazi regime, and in part as antidote to the authoritarian nature of analysis. Gestalt therapists took patients off the couch, and sat them face-to-face with their therapists, in a move to make the patient an equal, as knowing a participant as the therapist. 

A Basic Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy: Clinical Issues with Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD

This seminar is open to all beginning and experienced clinicians looking to fortify their theoretical and clinical understandings as related to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 

While this CLINICAL ISSUES seminar is a continuation of the Fall 2025 THEORETICAL seminar on A Basic Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy, it is not a prerequisite to have taken the fall 2025 seminar.

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Working with Narcissistically Vulnerable Clients through the Lens of Contemporary Self Psychology with Don Schimmel, PhD

Join me for a three-part course exploring the clinical challenges of working with narcissistically vulnerable clients. We will examine both traditional Kohutian and contemporary perspectives in Self Psychology, beginning with Freud’s original theory of narcissism and progressing to Heinz Kohut’s radical redefinition.

An Encounter with the MAMAL Model of Group Supervision with Tyson Conner, MA, LMHC

The MAMAL model of group supervision/consultation is an affect-focused, experiential consultation model based on Relational Psychoanalytic theory and technique as outlined in Roy Barsness' text Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research. The consultation model was developed by Barsness and others and is described in Barsness’ most recent book Psychodynamic Supervision: In a New Key.

A Basic Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy with Daniel Benveniste, PhD

This is a seminar for those that are just starting out in the field of psychotherapy as well as for those who have been in the field for a while but want to consolidate their understandings of Freud’s basic concepts.  We will be discussing basic psychoanalytic theory and technique. A text for each session will be sent to students. The instructor has a special interest in psychoanalytic history and will historically contextualize many of the ideas presented.   

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