Friday, February 26

All-Day Workshops

10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 - 5:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 37a

States of Intersubjectivity: Member, Leader, Group

Chair:

Richard M. Billow, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, Director, Group Program, Derner Institute (Adelphi University), Garden City, New York

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience

The therapist's (inter)subjectivity is the context within which the group is experienced and understood.  Attendees will learn about and become sensitive to “primitive” and “sophisticated” levels of self/other experience--interacting constellations of basic affects, thoughts, fantasies, emotions, and action tendencies--how to utilize subjectivity to foster group process/development.

didactic-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-experiential

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Employ a way of thinking, processing, and formulating that is useful in leading and reflecting on groups of all types.

2. Develop a conceptual framework to understand how group members--including the therapist--interact at preverbal levels. 

3. Increase their repertoire of therapeutic interventions by making use of information from paranoid-schizoid, manic, melancholic, and depressive-adaptive levels of self/other experience.

4. Link to relational concepts involving the "3R's" (resistance, rebellion, and refusal).

Course References:

Billow, R. (2003)  Relational group psychotherapy:  From basic assumptions to passion.  London:  Jessica Kinglsey.

Racker, H. (1964) Transference and countertransference. Madison, CT:  IUP.

Segal, H. (1988) Introduction to the work of Melanie Klein.  London:  Karnac Classics.