What I wish to convey at my workshop devoted to my book New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning is a new way of thinking about and treating experiences of mourning. I myself have had much bereavement in my life and recognized that my experience was not consistent with the standard view of mourning. In addition in my clinical...
Read MoreUsing Forward and Trailing Edge Perspectives in Working with Dyads
Why are the “forward edge” and “trailing edge” important? While traditionally psychoanalysts focused on what was wrong with the patient, Heinz Kohut, the founder of Self Psychology, focused instead on listening to his patient’s inner experience. Listening this way, he heard patients’ strivings which he came to understand as the...
Read MoreTrauma-Centered Psychotherapy – March 18th, 6pm – 8pm
Why is focusing on trauma so important for today’s therapists? All you have to do is pick up a newspaper or glance at your smartphone to be reminded that trauma is everywhere in our world. And its hard to imagine that any of us who choose this tough way to make a living haven’t experienced trauma in one form or another. I hope you’ll come to our...
Read MoreApplying Kohut’s Major Contributions to the Treatment of Parents and Children – February 19, 2016
We all know the tender and sometimes fraught dance between parent and child that shapes the family relationship as well as each individual within it. When each person’s hopes align with the other’s there is great opportunity for developmental leaps in the child and great satisfaction for the parent. When dreads are in the foreground, or when trauma...
Read MoreOn the Therapeutic Action – November 13, 2015
In most forms of psychotherapy the therapeutic action has been tied to the provision of insight. In classical psychoanalysis it is interpretation in the service of resolving transference that is thought to be therapeutic. Even Kohut, when defining what is curative in self psychology, resorted to the tried and true, meaning the provision of insight. Self...
Read MoreThe Intersubjective Field – October 30, 2015
What is the intersubjective field? Through the lens of intersubjectivity, we understand that our own subjectivity is a part of the patient’s world, and the interplay of the two subjectivities becomes the focus of empathic and sensitive exploration. No longer a one-person intrapsychic psychology, we are now exploring the field created by two...
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