Metaphor is inherent in every patient hour, including the first one. There is always deep unconscious meaning. Understanding the deeper levels allows the therapist to know the developing relationship to the transference. The transference contains, among other things, anxiety that begins even as the patient thinks about making their first appointment.
Brought to you by Wellspring Family Services
Starting Friday October 2nd, 2015: 9:00am – 4:15pm
We will read from Sandra Buechler’s book "Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis" (2015). Using examples from literary works, Buechler grapples with what it means to live with such challenges as paranoia, grief, shame, narcissism, and more. Buechler gives the reader illustrations of complex human conditions followed by a discussion of how we, as clinicians, can sufficiently meet human suffering in our practice. What do our clients need from us?
Brought to you by the Center for Object Relations (nwfdc.org)
This class will focus on the essential elements of British Object Relations theory, especially its clinical implications. Issues such as transference, countertransference, projective identification, container/contained and real self/false structures will be explored. Certain landmark papers will be read but the focus will be largely clinical and students will be encouraged to reflect on their own clinical experience in class.
Brought to you by the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Nathan Kravis, M.D., a training and supervising analyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC, will speak about the origins and meanings of the use of the couch in psychoanalysis, followed by a clinical presentation and discussion.
Registration: SPSI Members: $50 (Before 9/11/15), $60 Thereafter Non-Members: $60 (Before 9/11/15), $70 Thereafter Students: $20 (Before 9/11/15), $25 Thereafter
The Seattle School is excited to partner with the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study to host Dr. Steven Knoblauch. Each year, The Seattle School and the Northwest Alliance work together to host clinicians and thought leaders who are contributing innovative, compelling work to the fields of psychology and therapy.
The Seattle School is excited to partner with the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study to host an evening lecture with Dr. Steven Knoblauch. Each year, The Seattle School and the Northwest Alliance work together to host clinicians and thought leaders who are contributing innovative, compelling work to the fields of psychology and therapy.
Brought to you by the Center for Object Relations – www.nwfdc.org
Our goal as depth psychotherapy practitioners is to help clients bring unconscious material into conscious awareness. Because unconscious material is always in symbolic form, it is essential that we are able to perceive what seems to be concrete in our client's narrative as symbolic. It's not always an easy task! This study group is an opportunity for us to not only expand our theoretical understanding of symbolic formation, but also practice interpreting the concrete into the symbolic. We will be reading Winnicott, Segal, and Lacan.