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8 Wednesdays 2-3:30pm;
Winter, 2009-2010. December 2, 9, 16 ,23, January 6, 13, 20, 27
$400 ($425 after Nov.2)
APA/NASW CE Credits: 12
Dissociation is gradually emerging as an important alternative model of mind to replace earlier psychoanalytic models that assume a singular Self. Contemporary theory views dissociation as a normal and necessary process that enables us to select and organize the flood of experience generated from internal and external sources, and formulate our experience of self-in-the-moment. Our dissociative mind can at times pull apart affect from thought, and memory from identity. It also segregates self-other matrixes of experience into what we call multiple self-states. This human ability to fragment and dissociate can work fluidly as the psyche organizes itself in response to shifting realities, but can also become calcified into psychic structures as the result of repeated trauma.
In this course we will focus on the assessment and treatment of a spectrum of dissociative disorders, ranging from softer forms such as Depersonalization, to the more severe Dissociative Identity Disorder. We will be reading contemporary literature, by authors such as Bromberg, Stern, Rivera, Chefetz, Messler-Davies, and Howell, as well as by the instructor, and work on applying theory to clinical practice. Participants will be encouraged to bring in relevant clinical work, and the instructor will present some of her relational psychoanalytic work with patients who are struggling with dissociation.
Orna Guralnik, Psy.D., trained as a clinical psychologist at Tel Aviv University and at Ferkauf Graduate School (Albert Einstein). She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at St Lukes Roosevelt and is currently an advanced candidate in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Orna is Adjunct Professor in the graduate psychology programs of NYU & John Jay College, CUNY, and an instructor for IARPP. She has been on the supervisory faculty for NIP and for Mt Sinais Internship program. Orna was one of the founding researchers and grant recipients of the Program for the Study of Dissociative Disorders at the Mt Sinai School of Medicine. She has published extensively on the topic of dissociation and is currently studying the role of social discourse in the structuring of the dissociative mind. |