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8
Mondays: 3:45-5:15 pm.
Fall
2009-Winter 2010, 11/23, 11/30. 12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 1/4, 1/11, 1/18/10
APA/NASW
CE Credits: 12
$400
($425 after August 15)
For the clinician
working with trauma, self-care includes attunement to our own shame states
and vicarious traumatization. This course offers BOTH a comprehensive
exploration of shame in patients AND also a safe and empathic space to process
our own shame reactions.
We will examine the treatment of patients with early relational trauma,
who frequently experience dysregulated states of shame. The perspective
offered in this course is that the therapist must not only be able to use the
attachment relation to help regulate these states in patients, but must also
be able to work through his or her own (often reactive) dissociated shame.
This is a key to unlocking therapeutic impasse.
Within a group supervision format, brief lectures and readings will be
offered for the purpose of grounding this challenging task.
Jennifer
Leighton, LCSW, has been in psychoanalytic practice in New York City for over
35 years. She has presented workshops on such topics as relational and
political trauma, EMDR, shame, gender, and women’s issues. She has taught,
supervised and been a training analyst at the Training Institute for Mental
Health, Harlem Family Institute and the Women’s Therapy Center Institute.
Recent publications relevant to this course include “The Analyst’s Sham(e):
Collapsing into a One-Person Psychology” (2004, Progress in Self
Psychology), and “Enhancing Psychoanalysis: A Case of EMDR”,
published in the NIP journal, Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
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