Upcoming Courses & Events
Community mental health practitioners are under enormous pressure to deliver more services with fewer resources, while the problems that we are challenged to resolve are increasingly complex. As we strive to provide meaningful interventions that address the social, psychic and justice demands of those who struggle the most, we have an even greater need to carve out spaces, both within our minds as clinicians and within our places of practice, to reflect on our work and connect with one another.
Who was it that said theory is for when we can't think? It gives us a set of conceptual tools and references for when we face the unknown. Our graduate training has been focused on learning theory and putting it into practice, and yet there is a notable unknown that looms as we face the transition from student to professional.
In the therapy hour, time slips, moves, and stops. We go back in time to under - stand the origins of our patient’s psychological organization, use the present moment to understand the past, and work together to create a new future and new experiences. Time acts upon us — in the frame of the 50-minute hour, in the developmental model of the patient and the treatment arc, and in the reality of aging and death. We also manipulate time, as we hold to the frame, interpret to the past and the present, and explore traumatic time in the form of loss, abandonment, and the disruption to time caused by dissociation. This year’s ISG will explore the shifting contours of time in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
In the therapy hour, time slips, moves, and stops. We go back in time to under - stand the origins of our patient’s psychological organization, use the present moment to understand the past, and work together to create a new future and new experiences. Time acts upon us — in the frame of the 50-minute hour, in the developmental model of the patient and the treatment arc, and in the reality of aging and death. We also manipulate time, as we hold to the frame, interpret to the past and the present, and explore traumatic time in the form of loss, abandonment, and the disruption to time caused by dissociation. This year’s ISG will explore the shifting contours of time in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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