PENINSULA EXTENSION DIVISION
Sharon Levin , L.C.S.W and Mark Snyder, M.D., Co-Chairs
Michael Smith, Ph.D. and Susan Yamaguchi, L.C.S.W., Committee Members
YEAR LONG PROGRAM (SEPTEMBER 2009 - MAY 2010)
* Everything Old is New Again: Transference and Countertransference in the 21st Century
SATURDAY SEMINARS: ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON TRAUMA
* Blunders and Bloopers: Countertransference Reactions to Patient Pressures
* Hidden Shame and Its Re-Emergence in the Clinical Setting
* Promoting Depth and Expanding The Container in Once-or-Twice Weekly Psychotherapy
* Why a Theory of Mind?
YEAR LONG PROGRAM
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Far from being an obstacle to effective psychotherapy, the intense thoughts and feelings evoked in patient and therapist provide unique opportunities to understand and modify dysfunctional patterns of experience and behavior. Please join us as we consider the various ways that transference and countertransference are manifested, and how the therapist can work with these phenomena to enhance the effectiveness of psychotherapy. We will also consider the diverse social, cultural and political influences and concerns that interface with current psychoanalytic practice. * The seminar series consists of the following classes:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
We will examine the development of the concepts of transference and countertransference beginning with Freud and trace the gradual changes of emphasis as the field has embraced differing conceptual frameworks, including Object Relations, Self Psychology, and Intersubjectivity. We will conclude with an attempt to pull the various strands together into a way of thinking that integrates the various discoveries over the years and informs psychoanalytic treatment issues.
Eugene Woods, M.D., Member, SFCP
Fridays: September 25, October 2, 2009
FEELING AND NOT FEELING: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE WITH TRAUMA PATIENTS
Working with traumatized patients often evokes very powerful feelings in the analyst. Using theories from Freud, Winnicott, Klein, and Bion, we will explore transference/countertransference phenomena in our patients and in ourselves, including clinical discussions.
Lynn Alexander, Psy.D., Personal & supervising Analyst, PINC; Community Member, SFCP
Fridays: October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2009
RESUMING LIFE: ADULT TREATMENT FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
Clinical observation and research are identifying more explicitly what allows for development to resume for adults when it has been arrested. This class will explore the internal and external conditions that impel the fundamental processes of human experience — wishing, feeling, imagining, thinking — to go from halted, inhibited, and undeveloped states to more flexible, complex and enriching functions. We will outline a number of perspectives — from those focused on the transference and countertransference in the therapeutic relationship, to more cognitive processes, to intrapsychic processes — to illustrate what helps adults resume development.
Cheryl Goodrich, Ph.D., Child & Adult Psychoanalyst, Member and Faculty, SFCP
Friday, November 6, 2009
MOVING DEVELOPMENT FORWARD: WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
Therapists who treat children are presented with a myriad of potential transference and countertransference difficulties. The unconscious meaning that the child has to his or her parents is often intertwined with the symptoms. Countertransference feelings are aroused in the therapist, such as blame, or a wish to rescue the child or be the “better parent.” A child’s attachment to the therapist or the success of the therapy may also present a threat to the parents, and, by extension, to the treatment. The therapist must traverse these reactions within himself and in working with both the child and parents.
Nancy Peters, L.C.S.W., Child Psychoanalyst, Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: November 13, 20, 2009
STRAINS ON MAINTAINING BOUNDARIES
Frames and boundaries make therapeutic exploration possible. Often enough, however, pressures in both parties impinge on the capacity to understand. We will explore various transference/countertransference constellations that may lead to enactments resulting in frame disruptions or boundary crossings. We will examine how ethical and technical issues are interwoven in many common clinical situations.
Paul Ransohoff, D.M.H., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: January 15, 22, 29, 2010
TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN PERVERSION
Certain phases in the treatment of perverse patients can become painful and stuck because any genuine emotional contact is dreaded and corrupted. In this seminar we will explore the perverse mode of being and relating as it is lived out in the transference-countertransference through clinical illustrations and a close reading from the works of Joseph, Ogden, and Meltzer.
Era Loewenstein, Ph.D., Child Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: February 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010
WHAT ATTACHMENT THEORY CONTRIBUTES TO UNDERSTANDING TRANSFERENCE/COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
Attachment researchers have identified four categories of attachment through observation of young children and their parents: 1) secure, 2) anxious avoidant, 3) anxious resistant and 4) disorganized/disoriented. Thinking about the myriad of transference/countertransference configurations encountered clinically in light of these four categories can be a powerful way of organizing our thinking about patients. This course will use readings and clinical vignettes to explore the usefulness of attachment theory in clinical practice.
Karen Johnson, M.D., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010
BEING IN A SESSION WITH BION
In this class we will explore some of Bion's ideas and their implications in clinical work. We will explore such concepts as container/contained, projective identification as an unconscious communication , and the notion that the analyst should be able to suspend memory, desire, and understanding. Participants are encouraged to share their own clinical experience relevant to the discussion.
Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D., Personal & Supervising Analyst, PINC
Fridays: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2010
NAVIGATING THE ANALYTIC FIELD WITH FERRO
The analytic field according to Ferro is "more extensive than the relationship,” and offers a new perspective on transference/countertransference phenomena. The bi-personal field is the space, time, and setting in which the mental lives of the analyst and patient come alive. Developing a model of the mind that draws on Bion, Klein, Winnicott, and the Barangers’ concept of field theory, Ferro develops new approaches to listening and technique. In addition to reading Ferro, we will use clinical material to look at the way he conceives of the therapeutic process and intervention.
Meryl Botkin, Ph.D., Affiliate Member, SFCP
Fridays: April 30, May 7, 14, 2010
Class meetings: Fridays, from 12 p.m.—1:30 p.m.
All class meetings will be held at Stanford University Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Building, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford;
27 sessions; 40.5 CE credits; $1000 ; cost of readers is not included in tuition. For complete fees and refund policies, see Fees and Payment Policy. Enrollment: min 8, max.16.
This Yearlong Program is designed at an intermediate level and it is recommended that participants be post-graduate clinicians. If you have any questions about your level of preparation, please contact one of the SFCP Extension Program Co-Chairs: Milton Schaefer, Ph.D., at 415/776-3400 or Patricia Marra, M.F.T., at 415/668-0767.
* A small number of participants with academic or artistic backgrounds may apply to audit the seminar series with permission of the Co-Chairs of the SFCP Extension Division. The Chairs will consider these applications case-by-case and offer the option to audit as space allows. In addition, anyone offered this auditing option must meet with the Chairs to discuss confidentiality rules for handling clinical material and sign an agreement to uphold confidentiality.
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SATURDAY SEMINARS
BLUNDERS AND BLOOPERS: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE REACTIONS TO PATIENT PRESSURES
We will look at predicaments therapists get into when they speak too quickly, act too quickly, or remain silent too long. We will examine the meanings of these enactments through the lens of the therapist's countertransference, considering ethnic and cultural issues, and look at ways to use these blunders to further the treatment. Clinical examples will illustrate these dynamics.
Sharon Levin, L.C.S.W., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Susan Yamaguchi, L.C.S.W., Affiliate Member, SFCP
Saturday, October 24, 2009
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HIDDEN SHAME AND ITS RE-EMERGENCE IN THE CLINICAL SETTING
We will examine the interplay of transference and countertransference shame, reviewing and how transference shame can take the form of early developmental shame themes. We will explore how to avoid collusion with the patient in the therapy setting as well as how to recognize shame-related enactment in the transference/countertransference interchange.
Mali Mann, M.D., Child Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Saturday, November 21, 2009 *Date Changed
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PROMOTING DEPTH AND EXPANDING THE CONTAINER IN ONCE-OR-TWICE WEEKLY PSYCHOTHERAPY
This seminar is offered to help participants develop skills in thinking and working psychoanalytically and to promote depth in their treatments. Drawing upon readings and case material, we will discuss how to conceptualize transference and countertransference, and how to creatively make use of them in the context of a therapeutic relationship regardless of frequency of meetings or level of disturbance of the patient.
Beth Steinberg, Ph.D., Affiliate Member, SFCP
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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WHY A THEORY OF MIND?
[ Course Cancelled on 03/08/2010 ]
Through their work, all psychotherapists represent a theory of what a mind is and how it can benefit from the kind of help they are offering. In this seminar we will draw upon discussion, readings, and clinical examples to clarify what we mean by a psychoanalytic theory of mind, and how it can guide the therapist in helping a patient to develop in new ways.
Michael Smith, Ph.D., Affiliate Member, SFCP
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Class meetings: Saturdays, from 9 a.m.—12 noon.
All class meetings will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos;
Fee is $75 per seminar; 3 CE Credits per seminar; the cost of readers is not included in tuition. For complete fees and refund policies, see Fees and Payment Policy.
