Film & Discussion Series: "In Treatment"

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:30:10 +0100

This Event is Full

Discussion led by: Mary Hogan-Finlay, Ph.D., C. Psych

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Over a nine month period, we will follow weekly therapy sessions with the client, Laura, in treatment with her psychologist, Paul, as well as the psychologist’s consultations with his own therapist, Gina.

“In Treatment” is an HBO drama film series produced by Rodrigo Garcia. It was based on the original work, “Be Tipul”, an Israeli series by Hagai Levi that has won many awards, including from the Israeli Film Academy.

This film series provides us with a peek into the ‘clinical room’ and the intimate encounters between the client and therapist. Although the psychologist, Paul Weston, (acted by Gabriel Byrne) follows four different clients and makes reference to them during his private therapy, this nine month Film and Discussion Series will follow Laura (acted by Melissa George), an anesthesiologist who falls in love with her therapist, Paul, through nine therapy sessions. We will also follow her psychologist, Paul’s, meetings with his therapist, Gina (acted by Diane Wiestend) as he struggles with his personal and professional issues.

The nine sessions reveal the complexity of current issues that are inevitably influenced by one’s past. As the client and therapist grapple to understand the nuances of the clinical issues and the complexity of their relationship, we are faced with the twists and turns of the human condition: the yearning to be heard, special, loved or rescued. Watching from the sidelines you will be pushed to examine your own dilemmas as therapists, as well as the rewards and pitfalls of your career.

You will be exposed to the frailty of the therapist’s psyche as he struggles with ethical and moral challenges, boundary blurring, impasses as well as involvement of many significant figures (family and friends) that are not in the clinical room. You will have an opportunity to observe the client’s personal dilemmas and how the therapeutic relationship has such significance to advance or impede the healing process.

This series is so riveting that it will be difficult to wait for the next installment or session. After viewing the therapy session, you will have an opportunity to share your perspective, hear your colleague’s opinions on these interesting issues, and learn from our shared experiences.

Come out and join your colleagues for lively discussion in a relaxed atmosphere with only 20 participants!

Who: Intended Participants: Psychologists, Psychological Associates, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Counsellors and Students.

Where:The Theatre, Lord Lansdowne Retirement Residence at 920 Bank St [Corner of Bank & Holmwood in the Glebe]

When: Second Sunday of each month, starting Sept 12, 2010 to May 8, 2011

Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Early bird fee=$180.00 before August 15, 2010
Late registration fee= $225.00 after August 15, 2010

Dates of monthly meetings:
September 12,
**October 17,
November 14,
December 12,
January 9,
February 13,
March 13,
April 10,
May 8.

**This date is the third Sunday in October due to Thanksgiving weekend.

For further information on this series you may contact:
Shandy Reill, Co-ordinator at 1-613-233-4929

The Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma,

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:30:10 +0100

Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve

a one and a half day workshop

on NOVEMBER 5TH AND 6TH, 2010.

Presented by:

MARTHA STARK, M.D.

Intended Audience:

Psychologists, Psychological Assistants, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists, Social Workers and Counselors.

Description of the Workshop:

Dr Martha Stark’s particular interest has long been in the client’s “relentless pursuit of the (bad) object”. The client’s relentless hope (which fuels her self-destructive or self sabotaging behaviour) is a stance to which she desperately clings in order to avoid confronting - and grieving - certain intolerably painful realities about the love/hate object to which she is intensely attached; and her relentless outrage (which fuels her desire to hurt and punish) is the stance to which she resorts in those moments of dawning recognition that the longed-for relationship may never be forthcoming after all. And relentless despair and profound hopelessness is the stance to which she retreats when attachment itself has become intolerable - attachment and withdrawal the only viable option for such clients. The masochistic defense of relentless hope, the sadistic defense of relentless outrage, and the schizoid defense of relentless despair and hopelessness all speak to the client’s refusal to grieve. Drawing upon four models of therapeutic action (enhancement of knowledge “within”, provision of corrective experience “for”, engagement in authentic relationship “with” and facilitation of flow “throughout”), Dr Stark will offer a number of prototypical interventions. These are specifically designed to facilitate transformation of the client’s “defensive” need to possess and control the object (and, when thwarted, to punish the object by attempting to destroy it) into the “adaptive” capacity to relent, grieve, accept, and internalize what “good” there was - in order to separate and move on. Dr Stark will also offer a number of clinical vignettes that speak to the power of an integrative approach that focuses on accountability and development of the capacity to relent (on the parts of both client and therapist). The ultimate goal is to transform defensive need into adaptive capacity - the need to have one’s objects be other than who they are into the capacity to accept them as they are.

Specific Learning Goals:

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

explain the relationship between the refusal to grieve and relentlessness;
appreciate the distinction between relentless hope, relentless outrage, and relentless despair,
speak to the importance of transforming the need to possess and control the object (and, when thwarted, to attempt destruction of it) into the capacity to relent, accept, grieve, forgive, internalize, separate, and move on.

Biographical Sketch:

Martha Stark, MD is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in Boston. She is on the Faculty at Harvard Medical School (where she is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry) and a Teaching/Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. In addition, she serves on the Faculty of the Continuing Education Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School), is Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School), and teaches in the continuing education programs at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and the Smith College School for Social Work. Dr Stark is the author of three award-winning textbooks on psychoanalytic theory and technique - Working with Resistance, A Primer on Working with Resistance, and Modes of Therapeutic Action - all three of which have earned the top rating of five stars on amazon.com.

Workshop Schedule:

November 5, 2010

12.30 - 1.30pm Registration

1.00 - 2.30pm Relentless Hope/Relentless Outrage/Relentless Despair

2.30 - 2.45pm Break

2.45 - 4.00pm Challenging/Supporting the Client's "Defensive: Refusal to Greive"

November 6, 2010

8.30-9.00am Coffee and muffins

9.00-10.30am Specific Interventions designed to Facilitate Transformation of Defensive Need into Adaptive Capacity.

10.30-11.00am Break

11.00-12.00noon Three Modes of Therapeutic Action: Wisdom, Acceptance, Accountability

12.00noon-1.30pm Lunch on your own

1.30-2.30pm Tranference/Countertransference Considerations and the Capacity to Relent.

2.30-2.45pm Break

2.45-4.15pm Relenting, Accepting, Forgiving, Grieving, Internalizing, Separating, and Moving On.

Bibliography:

Stark M (1999). Modes of Therapeutic Action. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.

Stark M (1994). The attainment of mature hope. In Working with Resistance, pp.281-287. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.

McLaughlin JT (1991). Clinical and theoretical aspects of enactment. JAPA, 39:595-614.

Kopp S (1969). The refusal to mourn. Voices, Spring, pp. 30-35.

Searles H (1979). The development of mature hope in the patient-therapist relationship. In Countertransference and Related Subjects: Selected Papers, pp. 479-502. New York: International Universities Press.

Continuing Education Credit:

This workshop has been approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association for six hours of CEU credit for psychotherapists and counselors.

This workshop will be held at the RA Centre, Ottawa, ON.

For further information on this series you may contact: Shandy Reill, Co-ordinator at 1-613-233-4929

Centre For Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma Products

Film & Discussion Series: "In Treatment"

This Event is Full

Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve

MARTHA STARK, M.D.

Intended Audience:

Description of the Workshop:

Specific Learning Goals:

Biographical Sketch:

Workshop Schedule:

November 5, 2010

November 6, 2010

Bibliography:

Continuing Education Credit:

$325.00 before October 8th 2010
$350.00 after October 8th 2010
15% off for Students
15% off for groups of 5 or more

Centre For Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma Products

Film & Discussion Series: "In Treatment"

This Event is Full

Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve

MARTHA STARK, M.D.

Intended Audience:

Description of the Workshop:

Specific Learning Goals:

Biographical Sketch:

Workshop Schedule:

November 5, 2010

November 6, 2010

Bibliography:

Continuing Education Credit:

$325.00 before October 8th 2010 $350.00 after October 8th 2010 15% off for Students 15% off for groups of 5 or more

$325.00 before October 8th 2010
$350.00 after October 8th 2010
15% off for Students
15% off for groups of 5 or more