Making Room Versus Making Aware: How to Promote Acceptance and Diminish Rebuke in Psychotherapy

This has resulted in a more adversarial foundation to psychoanalytic practice than is often appreciated. This workshop will present an alternative to this adversarial approach that enables the patient not just to know the thoughts and feelings she has been defending against, but to make room for them; to reclaim these aspects of self, enabling vitalizing resources to be integrated into one’s daily life and one’s emotional and behavioral repertoire. It builds upon an understanding of attachment that highlights attachment not in terms of fixed categories but as a dynamic, two-person process and on a synthesis of relational and object relational psychodynamic approaches, acceptance-centered humanistic-experiential approaches, and  mindfulness-and-acceptance-centered cognitive-behavioral approaches. The result is a therapeutic approach that retains the insights of psychoanalysis regarding feelings and aims that can differ very substantially from how we consciously think of ourselves, but casts that understanding in a way that highlights not self-deception but how guilt, fear, and shame can lead us to cast out or disavow some of our most deeply held feelings and wishes.

Although this workshop is grounded in a deep conceptual reframing of the essential meaning of core psychoanalytic observations, its central aim is clinical and practical. It examines in concrete detail the implications of this theoretical reframing for daily clinical practice and aims to provide attendees of all theoretical orientations ways of expanding and deepening their clinical work.

Workshop Information

Date

November 16, 2024

Time

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EST

Location

Online, live via Zoom

CEUs

3 CE contact hours available for NYS: Psy, SW, MHC, MFT & Psychoanalysts and APA: Psy

Fee

• $85 – General Admission
• $60 – Derner Alum, Adelphi faculty/clinical supervisor, Non-Adelphi psychoanalytic Candidate/student
• $35 – Derner student/Postgraduate candidate

Registration will close 48 hours before the start of the event.

Speaker

Paul Wachtel, PhD

Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been a leading voice for integrative thinking in the human sciences and was a cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Dr. Wachtel is a recipient of the Hans H. Strupp Memorial Award for psychoanalytic writing, teaching, and research.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.

Disclaimer Statement

This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.

Cancellation Policy

Full refunds are issued for cancellations made up to 7 working days before the event. Cancellations of less than 7 days for any reason, or no-shows are not refunded. Credit towards a future event/workshop are issued for cancellations less than 7 days and up to 24 hours before the event. No credit is issued for cancellations less than 24 hours before the events or no-shows.