Distinguished Speakers Series

All Talk - No (Therapeutic) Action: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Model of Change - Kenneth A. Frank, PhD

Traditionally, psychoanalysts and other psychotherapists train in and practice a single approach. Based on a multidisciplinary model of therapeutic change, Dr. Frank takes the position that it is unnecessarily and artificially limiting to follow one therapeutic approach exclusively.

CANCELED - Annie Rogers, PhD - Revisiting a Shining Affliction

On behalf of the Alliance and the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, we regret to announce that Dr. Annie Rogers will no longer be able to be with us for the Relational Perspectives Lecture Series on September 16, 2016, due to unexpected health concerns. Her work has had a profound impact on our community and her presence will be greatly missed. We hope to reschedule her as soon as she is able, and we wish her the very best. 

Jean Petrucelli – Interpersonal Treatment and the Relational Montage of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders present particular treatment challenges to clinicians in how they engage with and welcome bodies – their patients and their own – into the therapeutic dialogue. Interpersonal treatment with patients struggling with eating disorders involves an ongoing complicated negotiation. This negotiation is between attending to the direct intervention of the symptom while simultaneously stepping away from the pull to do so.