Resparking: Working With the Challenge of Energyless Patients

He will discuss the impact not only of trauma, but also of emotional flatness and lack of energy, on patients and in our countertransference, the variety of forms this can take, and how aliveness may return after it. New science will be combined with psychoanalytic understandings to suggest what can help to shift people from ‘desparked’, lifeless, unenergised states, linking ideas such as Symington’s ‘lifegiver’ and  Alvarez’s ideas about ‘reclamation’ with newer thinking about ‘danger responses’ and ‘nervous system whispering’, and a specific focus on the body. The talk will use video clips and slides, as well as clinical examples.

Workshop Information

Date

March 7, 2025

Time

1:00 p.m.-4:00 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 prior to the start of the event.

Speaker

Graham Music

Graham Music is a psychotherapist, trainer, author and supervisor. He is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre where he has worked for over 20 years, and he has been an adult Psychotherapist for about 35 years. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock Clinic’s Child and Family Department, he has developed many innovative programs, including setting up services in over 40 schools and a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect. His clinical specialty for decades has been understanding and working with trauma. He supervises and teaches nationally and internationally and has a particular interest in linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice. His publications include Nurturing Natures: Attachment and children’s emotional, sociocultural and brain development (2023, 2016, 2010), Respark: Igniting hope and joy after trauma and depression (2022), Affect and Emotion (2022, 2001), Nurturing Children: From Trauma to hope (2019), The Good Life: Wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness, and immorality (2014), as well as co-editing From Trauma to Harming Others (2022).

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.