The Victoria chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a series of four seminars designed to investigate the topic of “Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the Therapeutic Setting”. This course will highlight the work of various psychoanalysts who have written on this subject. We are especially pleased to include papers and teaching by our esteemed Western Branch member, Elizabeth M. Wallace, MD.
Photo credit: Janet Oakes | “Repercussions” 2019 | Acrylic on Canvas
This course has two primary objectives:
1) To review a range of psychoanalytic perspectives on boundaries and boundary violations in the therapeutic setting.
2) To provide examples of various psychoanalytic views of the issues such as how and why these violations happen, the impact on the patient, other patients, candidates, the larger community and profession as well as the analysts and other health care professionals who commit the offences.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe components and functions of the therapeutic frame
2. Differentiate boundary crossings from boundary violations.
3. Describe common characteristics of practitioners who commit sexual boundary violations.
4. Appreciate the inherent power imbalance in the therapeutic relationship.
5. List elements in the prevention of sexual boundary violations.
The faculty will act as facilitators of group discussion of the theoretical material, clinical cases and clinical vignettes of class participants. The first segment of each session will be the didactic seminar to discuss the readings and the second segment will focus more on clinical material from the readings and from participants’ experience.
VICTORIA:
Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the
Therapeutic Setting
Thursdays 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
September 10, September 17, September 24, October 1, 2020
LOCATION:
Due to current public health concerns around the corona virus
the meetings will be held online via Zoom.
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Cost:
Members/Guests/Non-Members:
$160.00 for seminar series
Student/Candidate: $ 100.00 seminar series
(with valid student identification)
All course readings will be provided upon payment of tuition fees.
Registration for this course is now closed.
Please email info@wcpsi.digitalswan.com if you are interested in late registration.
CANCELLATION POLICY: The withdrawal policy of the Extension Program allows a refund minus a 20% administration cost, up to one week before the first class, and no refund after the first meeting.
CONFIDENTIALITY: Confidential clinical material and commentary will be presented which registrants agree to treat with confidentiality.
PLANNING COMMITTEE: Catherine Young, Ph.D., F.I.P.A, and Janet Oakes, M.A., BC-ATP, F.I.P.A.
FACILITATORS: Catherine Young Ph.D., F.I.P.A., Janet Oakes M.A., BCATP, F.I.P.A., and Elizabeth M. Wallace FRCPC, F.I.P.A.
Course Outline:
Seminar 1: September 10, 2020
Faculty: Elizabeth M. Wallace MD, FRCPC, F.I.P.A .
Readings: Class notes by Elizabeth Wallace, Wallace, E.M. (2007). Losing a Training Analyst for Ethical Violations: A Candidate’s Perspective. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 88(5):1275-1288. Wallace, E. (2010) Collateral Damage: Long term Effects of Losing a Training Analyst for Ethical Violations. Canadian J. Psychoanal. 18(2): 248-254.
Optional: Wallace, E.M. Collateral Damage: Grief and Recovery after Losing a Training Analyst Due to an Ethical Violation. 91(4): 963-965. Ruskin, Ron. (2011) Sexual Boundary Violations in a Senior Training Analyst: Impact on the Individual and Psychoanalytic Society. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 19(1) 87-106.
Seminar 2: September 17, 2020
Faculty: Catherine Young, PhD, FIPA and Janet Oakes, MA, BC-ATP, FIPA
Readings: Gabbard, G.O. Peltz, M.L. (2001) Institutional Reactions to Boundary Violations by Training Analysts. Sexual Boundary Violations: A Century of Violations and a Time to Analyze. Judith L. Alpert, PhD and Arlene (Lu) Steinberg, PsyD
Optional: Blechner, M.J.(2014) Dissociation among Psychoanalysts about Sexual Boundary Violations.
Seminar 3: September 24, 2020
Faculty: Catherine Young, PhD, FIPA and Janet Oakes, MA, BC-ATP, FIPA
Readings: Celenza, A. (1991) The Misuse of Counter-transference Love in Sexual Intimacies Between Therapists and Patients. Psychoanalytic Psychol., 8(4): 501-509. Ogden T. H. (2007). Reading Harold Searles. Int. J, Psycho-Anal., 88 (2) 353-369. Too Close to Home: Counter-Transference Dynamics in the Wake of a Colleague’s Sexual Boundary Violation. Shierry Weber Nicholsen.
Optional: Searles, H.F. (1958). Oedipal Love in the Countertransference. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 40:190-190.
Seminar 4: October 1, 2020
Faculty: Catherine Young, PhD, FIPA and Janet Oakes, MA, BC-ATP, FIPA
Readings: Margolis, Marvin. (2012). ‘Analysts who have sexual relations with their patients: The central role of masochism.’ in The Clinical Problem of Masochism. Gabbard, Glen (2017) Sexual Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis: A 30- Year Retrospective. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2017. Vol.34: No. 2, 151- 156.
Optional: Dimen, M. (2016). Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations through a Psycho-cultural Lens. J. Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 64(2): 361-3 Levin, C. (2016). Fear of Breakdown in the Psychoanalytic Group: Commentary on Dimen. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 64(2):381-388