Twenty Fourth C. Philip Wilson, MD, Memorial Lecture Rethinking Analytic Encounters with Patients Suffering from Eating Disorders: On the Need for a Specific Analytic Presence
Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical work with patients suffering from obesity, bulimia and anorexia, this presentation explores the necessity of a shift away from models centered on lack in its classical sense.
Barriers to Closeness: Is Race an Obstacle? Or a Bridge?
Dr. Shirke conceptualizes racism and prejudice as the consequence of intergenerational transference of experiences and attitudes about the identities of self and of others. Two analytic theories of mind can be applied to grasp this intellectually, prior to integrating emotionally this sensibility.
Examination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique Fundamentals
Transference, countertransference, resistance, neutrality, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar.
Bringing Clarity to Confusion, Buddhist Basics for Clinicians
As meditation and other contemplative practices derived from Buddhist practice become more common, there is a need to understand the fundamental tenets of the Buddhist view, and the way meditation and other practices follow from those tenets.
Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?
In this offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem.
The Impact of Medication on the Psychotherapeutic Situation
The Impact of Medication on the Therapeutic Situation
How do psychoanalysts work with medication? What is the significance to both patient and analyst of an analyst prescribing medication? Dr. Garza will address these topics and provide clinical examples from his psychoanalytic practice.