Community Events (non-Alliance)

Our workshop focus, will center on areas of discussion in support of developing a deeper understanding and relationship, with ethnic differences in the clinical work.  We will  explore individual and cultural complexes pertaining to Jungian theory as well as within analytical practice.  This exploration is viewed within the context of historical depth psychology principles, and how a Eurocentric theory and practice can and has shown itself within American Jungian clinical work.

The language that we use within ourselves as an aspect of the inner dialogue as well as external dialogue to our members of the collective carries a powerful energy and force that defines us from childhood. The American collective with its multiplicity of ethnic groups have created and used language that has oftentimes been racially divisive, psychologically harmful and served as historical identifiers in ways that have supported racism.

Interactive Webinar

In order for the analyst to listen closely and be moved by the analysand, the analyst must be open, particularly to what is most foreign in the analysand’s discourse. In his previous visit to OPC, Anton Hart presented the concept of “radical openness”, a dispositional stance that involves the analyst’s “taking to heart” the things that the analysand experiences and formulates in relation to the analyst, both familiar and strange, as if there is likely to be truth within them no matter what.

The Tavistock model offers a useful foundational theoretical framework for thinking about the emotionally challenging and complex work with couples.  This workshop will offer an overview of some of the central theoretical cornerstones of the theory, including Morgan’s ‘couple state of mind’, the application of Britton’s concept of the “third” as it applies to couples, the structuring role of shared unconscious anxieties and defenses, and how projective identification can be usefully thought of in terms of couple communication.  We will think about what constitutes a healthy, funct

This program will consist of two complementary lectures, each followed by discussion with attendees.  In the first, “What Goes Around Comes Around:  The Place of Dissociation in the Contemporary Theory and Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,” Dr.

A Three Part Program

The 42nd Annual IAPSP International Conference:

“Engaging Difference and Sameness: Pathways to Empathic Dialogue” 

Click here for the full program brochure. 

Relational Psychoanalysis 101 is a class ideal for psychotherapists interested in exploring how to work and think clinically and theoretically in a manner that incorporates the subjective ways the experience of relationships forms our minds, personalities, and lives.  This class is essential to diving deeper into relationally-oriented psychoanalytic work, and will bring the participant into contact with some of the historical and contemporary writings and thoughts in the field.

Franco Scabbiolo, of Oxford, UK, will be coming to Seattle in September 2019 to give three talks at The Center for Object Relations on his revolutionary psychotherapeutic way of working with patients. Scabbiolo, long-time student of Donald Meltzer and rebel within the psychoanalytic community, has disavowed psychoanalytic dogma, exchanging it for a creative, spontaneous, and lively connection with his patients.