Leader: Paul Steinberg, MD
January 12, March 2, March 16, May 11, 2018
~ This course is a continuation of the course with the same name offered in the fall of 2017. Having attended Part 1 of this course is not necessary to benefit from attending Part 2.~
This seminar series consisting of four three-hour seminars will focus on the importance of hearing and using feedback from our psychotherapy patients, especially when there is a difficulty or impasse in the work. Casement combines a relational approach with the theories of Winnicott and Bion. He expresses himself in plain English, free of psychoanalytic jargon. Casement outlined many important practical psychotherapeutic applications of the above theories. He consistently encourages the therapist to put her- or himself in the patient’s shoes, and try to see things from the patient’s point of view.
The seminar leader will begin each seminar by briefly summarizing some of the important points in the reading material assigned for that seminar. The major part of each seminar will consist of participants presenting clinical material for discussion, with a focus on the theme of the course, “learning from the patient”, attempting a specific focus on the assigned reading material. It is expected that 2 or possibly even 3 presentations will be made in each seminar.
This course is not focused on didactic teaching, but on the interaction between participants and leader, based on the notion that “many heads are better than one”, and that the experience of thinking together about our patients can generate ideas that we would be unlikely to come up with on our own. The Talmudic idea that if one wants to study, “First get a friend”, applies. An ongoing emphasis will be to explore what message or supervision the patient may be unconsciously providing us with, and looking at what may make it difficult for us to hear the patient. Of course, this will include a consideration of countertransference.
Location:
Arbutus Club – 2001 Nanton Avenue
Date & Time:
Fridays from 4:00 pm – 7:00 p.m.
January 12, March 2, March 16, May 11, 2018
Cost
Non Members $180
Members and Guests $120
Students, Residents and Candidates $100
Overall Course Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will better be able to:
- Use techniques which help us to use our patients’ “supervision”;
- Apply some ideas of Bion and Winnicott in clinical situations; and
- Apply relational psychoanalytic ideas in clinical situations.
Participants are encouraged to bring as detailed as possible narratives of clinical sessions, and histories with adequate detail of patients’/clients’ relationships (past and present) and early development. Presentations and discussion are expected to be informal and interactive. An important goal of this seminar series is the establishment and maintenance of a mutually supportive and trusting learning atmosphere.
Organizing Committee: James Fabian, MD, FRCPC, Paul Steinberg, MD, FRCPC, Darren Thompson, MD, FRCPC
Withdrawal Policy: The withdrawal policy of the Extension Program allows refund minus 10% administration cost, up to one week before each workshop. There will be no refunds after January 1, 2018.
Registration: Click button below to register. After registering you will be asked to pay online. If you have trouble paying online email info@wcpsi.digitalswan.com
Readings:
This series of seminars will utilize the fifth to tenth chapters of Casement’s first book, On Learning from the Patient. All page references are from the Routledge Mental Health Classic Edition of On Learning from the Patient, 2014 (originally published by Tavistock Publications in 1985).
The following readings are assigned:
- January 12: Chapter 5, Listening from an interactional viewpoint: a clinical presentation, pp. 88-112.
- March 2: Chapters 6 & 7, Key dynamics of containment, and Analytic holding under pressure, pp. 113-144.
- March 16: Chapter 8, Processes of search and discovery in the therapeutic experience, pp. 145-163.
- May 11: Chapters 9 & 10, The search for space: an issue of boundaries, and Theory rediscovered, pp. 164-189.