6524 North Carrollton Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46260
7:30-9:00 p.m.
OBJECT RELATIONS STUDY GROUP SERIES 2019-2020
Essential Concepts in Psychodynamic Thinking & Practice
Participants will be able to Identify two aspects of analytic psychotherapy practice that are supported by empirical research.
Fall Series: Sexual Development
Monday, Sept 16, 2019 -- Gender as a Social Construct
Monday, October 21, 2019-- Sexual Development
course objectives:
1). Distinguish between core morphological or core gender identity, gender role identity, and sexual partner orientation. Give one example of each.
2. List 1 reason that essentialism is problematic in understanding gender
3. List 1 reason that constructivism is problematic in understanding gender
4. Name 2 of the components of the developmental line of gender identity according to Tyson and Tyson
November 18, 2019 -- Therapeutic Blunders
course objectives:
1. List 3 reasons a psychoanalyst/therapist is often going to make mistakes or “get it wrong.”
2. Name the 4 forms a patient uses to express criticism.
Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 --Ethical Considerations for Clinical Practice
course objectives:
1. Name 2 aspects of a countertransference enactment.
2. List 3 ways in which Dr K’s analyst violated analytic boundaries.
Spring Series: Infant Trauma
Monday, February 17, 2020 -- Infant trauma in the Adult Clinical Encounter
course objectives:
1. Name 2 organizing principles of interaction based on Beebe’s concepts using infant research to inform adult treatment.
2. Name 2 features of “interactiveness” in a psychodynamic treatment based on infant research integrated with adult treatment.
Monday, March 16, 2020 -- Waiting to be Born: The Adult Infant in Psychoanalysis
course objectives:
1). Name 3 traumatic experiences of an infant which mark the personality.
2). Describe 2 ways unbearable psychic pain is defended against in the infant.
3). List 2 ways a second skin protects the infant.
Monday, April 20, 2020 -- Infant Birth Trauma: When Things Aren't Quite Right
course objectives:
1). Describe 2 components from Winnicott’s theory on the significance and function of the mother/infant dyad.
2). Identify 2 developmental, psychological or relational occurrences that are related to early, prenatal or birth trauma.
Register for individual sessions or for entire series
$30 per session
$210 for entire series
Readings will be distributed upon registration.
1.5 CE’s provided for each session