In the face of rising oppression, authoritarianism, and climate breakdown, keeping space for social, political, and environmental concerns in psychodynamic therapy may be more important than ever. With this in mind, we will consider the impact of macro system-level social harms on our clients, the potential benefits of helping them integrate emotional impulses related to these harms, and the place of political action in mental health and psychotherapy. We will also consider suggestions, inspired by critical approaches to psychotherapy, for how we may better help our clients with these concerns… without introducing an agenda or changing what we value about psychodynamic work. Our exploration will be informed by the concepts of intrapsychic conflict, as used in experiential dynamic therapies such as Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and emotional hegemony—the ways in which people with power teach us to fear the emotions of political resistance and solidarity (i.e., rage and love) while also steering us towards defense mechanisms that serve their interests. The didactic portion of this presentation will be complemented by recorded video of a case example to illustrate points and stir discussion.
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Gather with your fellow clinicians for casual chats about psychoanalysis (or whatever's on your mind) over food and beverages. We'd love to connect with you! |
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Dr. Michael Garrett will challenge the validity of the concept of “schizophrenia” as a genetically determined brain disease and review research suggesting that chronic psychosis is a trauma-related disorder best characterized as a particular phenotypic form of complex PTSD. He will review research showing that childhood trauma increases the risk of psychosis and that fragmented trauma memories are often embedded in the content of psychotic symptoms. Dr. Garrett will trace the developmental origin of psychotic symptoms from implicit behavioral knowing that in infancy provides a template for relationship with caregivers, through pre-verbal fantasy, to conscious and unconscious object-related fantasy, to the emergence of florid psychotic symptoms in adolescence. Dr. Garrett will differentiate non-psychotic, near-psychotic, and psychotic manifestations of transference as seen from an object-related point of view, illustrating each form of transference with a brief clinical vignette and offer clinical suggestions about how to recognize and deal with a psychotic transference.
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Regardless of conference attendance, we welcome you to join us afterward at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches beginning at 1:00 PM. |
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