Psychoanalytic Practice in the 21st Century:
Seminars in Contemporary Self Psychology
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.
Introduction to Basic Concepts in Self Psychology
The development of a healthy 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. Basic concepts in self
psychological thinking and treatment will be explored using 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 as
they apply to the material.
Option 1
6 weeks on Wednesday mornings.
Date: September 9, 16, 23, 30 October 7, 14
Time: 9 a.m - 10:30 a.m.
Instructor: Midge Breslin
Location: North York
Fee: $ 360.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Option 2
6 weeks on Tuesday evenings.
Date: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & April 6
Time: 7 p.m - 8:30 p.m.
Instructor: Dr. Marsha Hewitt
Location: Toronto
Fee: $ 360.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Empathic Understanding
An Introductory Course
One of Kohut's most important contributions to Psychoanalysis was his
return to the centrality of empathy as a mode of knowing what is
clinically relevant about the patient.
The concept of empathy has passed through many conceptualizations and
remains controversial even amongst experienced Self Psychologists.
Basic theoretical principles will be reviewed and put into practice
using video moments in which patients describe experiences of increasing
complexity and challenge. Participants will then learn how to
communicate their understanding to the patient.
Date: September 26
Time: 9 a.m - 12 p.m
Instructor: Dr. Alan Kindler
Location: Downtown Toronto
Fee: $ 120.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
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.
Option 1:
6 weeks on Wednesday mornings.
Discussions will focus on facilitating a deeper understanding of Self
Psychological values and principles.
Date: October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25 & December 2
Time: 9 a.m - 10:30 a.m.
Instructor: Midge Breslin
Location: North York
Fee: $ 360.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Option 2:
6 weeks on Wednesday mornings.
Discussions will focus on facilitating a deeper understanding of Self
Psychology and Intersubjectivity Theory.
Date: February 24, March 3, 24, 31 & April 7, 14
Time: 9 a.m - 10:30 a.m.
Instructor: Midge Breslin
Location: North York
Fee: $ 360.00
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:
6 weeks on Wednesday mornings.
Date: January 13, 20, 27 February 3, 10, 17
Time: 9 a.m - 10:30 a.m.
Instructor: Midge Breslin
Location: North York
Fee: $ 360.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
Option 2:
6 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.
Date: April 13 - May 18, 2010
Time: 7 p.m - 9 p.m.
Instructor: Sonia Singer, MEd
Location: Central Toronto
Fee: $ 450.00
Download registration form here (PDF)
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