Weekend I
Relational Perspectives: Origins, Growth, and Frontiers
Friday October 9, and Saturday October 10, 2009
Featured Speaker: Lewis Aron, Ph.D.
Weekend II
Relational Perspectives On Therapeutic Action
Friday December 4, and Saturday December 5, 2009
Featured Speaker: Donnel Stern, Ph.D.
Weekend III
Relational Perspectives On Clinical Interactions
Friday, February 26, and Saturday February 27, 2010
Featured Speaker: Margaret Black, L.C.S.W.
Weekend IV
Countertransference Dilemmas: On Knowing and Being Known
Friday May 7, and Saturday, May 8, 2010
Featured Speakers: Steven Cooper, Ph.D. and Karen Maroda, Ph.D.
Registration
Weekend Conferences
Weekend I
Relational Perspectives: Origins, Growth, and Frontiers
Friday October 9, and Saturday October 10, 2009
Featured Speaker: Lewis Aron, Ph.D.
This weekend will provide the participants with a broad overview of the developmental history of Relational Psychoanalysis. The theoretical and technical movement away from Freud's positivistic, one person, drive/structure model toward a two-person, intersubjective, mutual influence model, will be traced from Ferenczi to Mitchell and the contemporary relational perspectives. In addition, Dr. Aron will trace the historical polarization between conceptions of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and the connections to the relational perspectives.
Detailed schedule for Oct. 9 and 10, 2009
Weekend II
Relational Perspectives On Therapeutic Action
Friday December 4, and Saturday December 5, 2009
Featured Speaker: Donnel Stern, Ph.D.
Understanding the evolution of theories about therapeutic action over time and in response to the modern and post-modern movement will be the focus of this weekend. Areas to be addressed include the impact of infant observational studies, advancements in neurophysiology as related to therapeutic action, and the connection between theories of the mind and theories of psychopathology. Relational concepts in this weekend will include: intersubjectivity, multiplicity or multiple self states, the analytic third, agency, enactments, paradox, the social-constructivist view, and unformulated experience.
Detailed schedule for Dec. 4 and 5, 2009
Weekend III
Relational Perspectives On Clinical Interactions
Friday, February 26, and Saturday February 27, 2010
Featured Speaker: Margaret Black, L.C.S.W.
The clinical interaction between patient and therapist has been profoundly altered by the introduction of the relational perspectives. This weekend will focus on the "techniques" or "ways of being" with our patients that reflect the introduction of such critical understandings as: enactments, intersubjectivity, mutuality, negotiation, play, spontaneity and surrender. The creation of analytic space, working with dissociation, and the formulation of out-of-awareness experience will also be examined in the context of clinical material.
Detailed schedule for Feb. 26 and 27, 2010
Weekend IV
Countertransference Dilemmas: On Knowing and Being Known
Friday May 7, and Saturday, May 8, 2010
Featured Speakers: Steven Cooper, Ph.D. and Karen Maroda, Ph.D.
Perhaps no other concept in psychoanalytic theory has the potential to provoke debate and discourse more than the questions regarding how to understand and make use of countertransferential experiences. Relational theory has made important contributions to both the theoretical and technical questions regarding the therapist's use of countertransference. This weekend will focus on these contributions, as Drs. Steven Cooper and Karen Maroda explore their views on the therapist's use of countertransference and its direct expression to the patient.