Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance
Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D. is a full Professor of Psychology at New School University where he was previously Director of Clinical Psychology. He is also Senior Research Scientist at Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr. Safran and his colleagues have conducted research on the topic of therapeutic impasses for the last two decades and he is considered one of the leading experts in the area. Dr. Safran is also known for his pioneering work in collaboration with Dr. Leslie Greenberg on the topic of emotion in psychotherapy, and for his integration of principles from Buddhist psychology into Western psychotherapy.
This workshop provides a systematic framework for negotiating impasses and ruptures in the therapeutic alliance and transforming them into clinical breakthroughs. The therapeutic alliance is reconceptualized from a relational perspective as a process of intersubjective negotiation. Dr. Safran will map out different types of ruptures in the alliance and outline relevant intervention strategies.
Particular attention is devoted to ways that therapists can harness and work constructively with intense, conflictual and often painful feelings during difficult therapeutic moments. Special emphasis will be placed on the cultivation of the type of “inner skills” that therapists require in order to work through difficult therapeutic impasses.
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