The Truman Show Delusion: Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Attitude Toward Psychosis
This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness.
Navigating the Pornscape: Contemporary Pornography and Clinical Practice
Pornography affects many people in therapy and analysis, directly or indirectly. Clinicians can struggle with countertransference reactions to pornography and lack a clear framework for working with this material.
Timelessness, the Repetition Compulsion and the Problem of “Reversibility” in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Severely Traumatized Patients
The paper discussed deals with the problem of reversibility and the limits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in severely traumatized patient.
Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?
In this 90 minute 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 Other Patient: Understanding the Role of Parents in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Clinical work with children and adolescents never involves just one patient and one clinician. Understanding the child’s experience in the context of the family means the clinician must also become deeply familiar with the functioning of the parents, not just from the perspective of the child, but also from the vantage point of the parents.
Making a Recommendation for Therapy: What, Why, and How?
We will learn the factors that determine our choice and how we present our recommendation to the patient.