Psychoanalytic Practice in the 21st Century:
Seminars in Contemporary Self Psychology
Seminars in 2010-2011
If you are a mental health professional working in private practice
or a hospital, agency or educational setting and are interested in
learning more about Contemporary Self Psychology and its application to
your work, The Institute For The Advancement of Self Psychology has a
seminar program that will interest you.
A knowledge of Self Psychology and its contemporary developments
allows one to achieve a particular sensibility to empathic
understanding, the elaboration of subjective worlds, and the impact of
relationship on development and therapeutic process.
These introductory seminars will provide a guide to the basic
theoretical ideas of Contemporary Self Psychology and their clinical
application using group discussion of published writings and the
clinical work of participants.
You may register for one or as many as you would like.
Download registration form here (PDF) and send to:
76-2192 Queen Street East
Toronto, Ontario M4E 1E6
For more information or to request the registration form please contact info@iasptoronto.com.
The Fundamentals of Empathic Understanding
One of Kohut's most important contributions was his insistence on the
centrality of empathy as a mode of knowing what is clinically relevant
about the patient for psychoanalysis. In fact, for Kohut, it defined the
field of psychoanalytic inquiry.
The concept of empathy has different meanings for each of us and
remains controversial as a concept even amongst experienced Self
Psychologists.
In this seminar we will review the basic principles underlying
empathic understanding. These principles will be illustrated in video
moments in which patients describe experiences of increasing complexity
and challenge. Participants will learn how to grasp the subjective
content of these moments and then practice how to communicate their
understanding to the patient. In the afternoon session we will put these
ideas into clinical practice utilizing clinical material provided by
those participants who wish to do so.
Date: Saturday, September 25
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Alan Kindler, MBBS, FRCP(C)
Location: mid-Toronto
Fee: $ 155.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
New Perspectives on Development: What We Are Learning from Infant Research
Part 1: Development in Self Psychology and
Intersubjectivity
In this introductory seminar we shall survey and review several major
theories that form the foundation of psychoanalytic understanding of
development. Beginning with Freud, and moving through Klein, Erikson
and Mahler, we'll spend time on Bowlby's thinking regarding attachment
theory, the observations of Rene Spitz, Daniel Stern, and the ideas of
Heinz Kohut and Robert Stolorow. These will be discussed with regard to
their relevance to theoretical formulations and clinical approaches in
Self-Psychology and Intersubjectivity.
Part II: Infant Research in Self Psychology and
Intersubjectivity
In this subsequent seminar, we'll initially survey highlights from
the early and recent work in infant and early childhood, and
parent-child interaction research, including that of Target, Fonagy,
Schore, Beebe, Lachmann, Knoblauch and others. Their relevance to
understanding development and relatedness from Self-Psychology and
Intersubjectivity will be examined and their importance to clinical work
within these frameworks will be illustrated and discussed.
Dates: Monday evenings, October 18 and 25
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Instructor: Taras Babiak, MD
Location: mid-Toronto
Fee: $ 150.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Basic Concepts In Self Psychology: Kohut And Beyond
The development and maintenance of a cohesive sense of self which was
central to Heinz Kohut's thinking about problems in living and clinical
treatment will be the cornerstone of this course. There will be special
emphasis on the values inherent in Self Psychology and a therapeutic
process which focuses on empathy, the elaboration of subjective
experience, selfobject transferences and disruption and repair.
Attention will also be paid to advances in contemporary Self Psychology.
We will study the text Treating The Self by Ernest Wolf
(1988).
Class members will be invited to raise questions and ideas from the
readings and should come prepared with their own short case
vignettes.
Dates: November 3, 10, 17, 24; December 1, 8
Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Midge Breslin, MEd
Location: North York
Fee: $ 360.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Working Psychoanalytically: What We Do And Why We Do It?
Self psychology emphasizes the importance of promoting development in
the therapeutic process. In this seminar, we will explore how
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts decide on what to do in order to
facilitate a developmental process by discussing together material
presented by the instructor, including a paper that will be circulated
prior to the seminar as well as case material.
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: Sam Izenberg, M.D. FRCP(C)
Location: North York
Fee: $ 75.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
An Introduction to Intersubjectivity Theory
Heinz Kohut strongly advised that we need to acknowledge the
analyst's influence as a human presence on the analytic situation. (How
Does Analysis Cure, 1984). Robert Stolorow and his colleagues expanded
on this idea with the development of Intersubjectivity Theory. They
laid out the importance of recognizing that people develop in the
context of emotional and relational experience and that they organize
that experience into principles that have affect at their core. Each
participant in the analytic pair contributes to what is created
together—the intersubjective field. According to Intersubjective Theory the
primary activity in a psychoanalytic treatment is the development of a
relationship in which there is a dialogical inquiry into the patient's
subjective world, an attunement to affect, and an exploration of the
interfacing subjectivities of therapist and patient.
We will study Intersubjectivity Theory by reading the text Making
Sense Together: An Intersubjective Approach To Psychotherapy by Peter
Buirski and Pamela Haglund (2001). Class members will be invited to
regularly raise questions and ideas from the readings and should come
prepared with their own short case vignettes as they apply to the
readings.
Option 1:
7 weeks on Wednesday mornings.
Dates: January 12, 19, 26; February 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Midge Breslin, MEd
Location: North York
Fee: $ 420.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Option 2:
7 weeks on Tuesday evenings.
The evening seminar on Intersubjectivity Theory will be divided into
two portions. The first hour will be devoted to a seminar format
covering the assigned reading material. The second hour will provide the
partcipants with an opportunity to bring and discuss clinical/case
material employing a Self Psychological/Intersubjective approach.
Dates: April 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Instructor: Sonia Singer, MEd
Location: mid-Toronto
Fee: $ 450.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
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Case Consultation Group
The instructor will encourage the development of a safe environment
in which participants will present material from their clinical
practices for discussion by the group. Discussions will focus on
facilitating a deeper understanding of Self Psychological values and
principles and Intersubjectivity Theory.
Dates: March 23, 30; April 6, 13, 20, 27; May 4, 11
Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Midge Breslin, MEd
Location: North York
Fee: $ 480.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
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