Boston
Institute for Psychotherapy
presents
Thinking About Feeling
The Central Role of Affect in the
Therapeutic Process
2008 - 2009
Introduction
The Boston Institute for Psychotherapy is offering our year-long course
on affect in psychodynamic clinical work to the professional community.
Our belief is that affect is central to clinical work, though not adequately
conceptualized in the analytic theories of development and treatment which
constitute our training. This seminar will integrate theory and practice,
using clinical vignettes or presentations for illustration and grounding
of theory. The curriculum addresses affect from different perspectives,
i.e. historical conceptions of affect; neurobiological findings, from
a developmental perspective, and through contemporary papers. Participants
enjoy sharing their work in a supportive and collegial atmosphere.
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The four 9-week segments will be:
I. Affect and the Brain.
Will include a survey of historical affect studies (Darwin, Silvan Tomkins)
and current neurobiological understanding of brain structure and function
with respect to affect.
II. Building a Child:
The Vital Role of Affect in Development. This segment will focus on developmental
research and theory that highlights and explicates the role of affect
in the early development of self through parent-child interactions; work
on affect regulation and repair; affect and brain development; attachment
and affect. Developmental studies will be related to clinical work with
adults.
III. Affect in Contemporary Psychodynamic Theory.
Works by writers such as Paul Russell, George Fishman, Gerald Stechler,
Peter Fonagy, Irwin Hoffman, Owen Renick; the centrality of affective
transactions in transference-countertransference dynamics; the place of
affect in intersubjective process.
IV. Working with Affect in Adult Clinical Problems.
The course returns to considerations of adult therapy, and the role of
affect in treating clinical problems such as dissociation, eating disorders,
trauma, depression and rage. Techniques of addressing affects in treatment
will be discussed at length.
Course
Duration
The course meets for 36 weeks, divided into 4 segments of 9 weeks each,
held at the BIP on Tuesdays, 8:45am -10:00am beginning
September 16, 2008. (no class November 25th and December 30th)
2008-2009 Course Faculty (Projected)
Dorothy Richardson, Ph.D.; Barbara Schildkrout, M.D., Adam Silk, M.D.,
David Sloan-Rossiter, Ph.D.; Lisa Sutton, Ph.D., LICSW.
Course Registration
We are accepting registrations for 2008-2009 year. The course is open
to licensed mental health professionals.
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Course Fee: $300 for each course. $1,110 (includes readings)
for entire program. Seminar will be limited to 15-20 participants on a
first-come, first-served basis.
The Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Inc. is approved by the American
Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists.
NASW and MMCEP have authorized CE credits for social workers and mental
health counselors. The Institute maintains responsibility for this program.
Participants receive 45 CE credits.
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