67th Annual Conference

Friday, February 26

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.

Workshop 46

What I Did Not Know I Knew: Using Writing in Groups to Recapture Lost Memories

Chair:

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, New York, New York

Writing is a great way to explore links to personal fragments that pain or oblivion have scattered. Although it uses verbal organization, writing resembles other art forms that offer pathways to non-verbal experiences. The workshop will demonstrate how, with active group participation, writing can build bridges to what we did not know we knew.

experiential-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-didactic

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Use group participation to support writing.

2. Use writing to for active focus on indistinct memories.

3. Integrate dissociated self-states.

Course References:

Grundy D. (2007) What is a writing group? Dilemmas of the leader. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 57 (2), 133-151.

Lepore, S.J. & Smyth, J. M. (Eds.) (2002). The writing cure: How expressive writing promotes health and emotional well-being. Washington DC: APA.

Modell, A. H. (2006). Metaphor, memory and unconscious imagination [chapter 2]. In Imagination & the meaningful brain (pp.25-48) Cambridge MA: MIT Press.