Agents of Psychodynamic (Second-Order) Change: Knowledge, Experience, and Relationship
$15.00
Presented by Martha Stark, MD
Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
Dr. Martha Stark will present a comprehensive approach to deep and sustained (second-order) change that integrates three psychodynamic paradigms –(Model 1) the interpretive perspective of classical psychoanalysis (a 1-person psychology with a focus on “interpreting resistance,” “developing insight,” and “resolving internal conflict”); (Model 2) the deficiency-compensation perspective of self psychology (a 1½-person psychology with a focus on “absence of good,” “grieving heartbreak,” and “filling in deficit”); and (Model 3) the intersubjective perspective of contemporary relational theory (a 2-person psychology with a focus on “presence of bad,” “negotiating the in-between,” and “resolving relational conflict”).
Ever appreciating the importance of translating theory into practice, Martha will highlight the ways in which the therapist’s ongoing attunement to the level of the patient’s anxiety can be used to construct “optimally stressful” interventions that offer just the right balance between anxiety-provoking challenge of the patient’s defensive structures (in order to provide impetus for their destabilization) and anxiety-assuaging support of them (in order to provide opportunity for their restabilization at a more robust level of resilience and adaptive capacity).
Snippets of clinical material will be offered that demonstrate how judicious, strategic, and ongoing use of these growth-incentivizing “mismatch experiences” will generate iterative healing cycles of disruption and repair and, ultimately, evolving of the patient from “resistance” to “awareness” (Model 1), “relentless hope” to “acceptance” (Model 2), and “re-enactment” to “accountability” (Model 3).
The material presented will be based upon Martha’s award-winning Modes of Therapeutic Action book (which is “required reading” – both in the US and around the world – for candidates in psychoanalytic training institutes and students in psychodynamic psychotherapy programs).
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists, 1.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSW, and LMFTs.
Description
Presented by Martha Stark, MD
Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
Dr. Martha Stark will present a comprehensive approach to deep and sustained (second-order) change that integrates three psychodynamic paradigms –(Model 1) the interpretive perspective of classical psychoanalysis (a 1-person psychology with a focus on “interpreting resistance,” “developing insight,” and “resolving internal conflict”); (Model 2) the deficiency-compensation perspective of self psychology (a 1½-person psychology with a focus on “absence of good,” “grieving heartbreak,” and “filling in deficit”); and (Model 3) the intersubjective perspective of contemporary relational theory (a 2-person psychology with a focus on “presence of bad,” “negotiating the in-between,” and “resolving relational conflict”).
Ever appreciating the importance of translating theory into practice, Martha will highlight the ways in which the therapist’s ongoing attunement to the level of the patient’s anxiety can be used to construct “optimally stressful” interventions that offer just the right balance between anxiety-provoking challenge of the patient’s defensive structures (in order to provide impetus for their destabilization) and anxiety-assuaging support of them (in order to provide opportunity for their restabilization at a more robust level of resilience and adaptive capacity).
Snippets of clinical material will be offered that demonstrate how judicious, strategic, and ongoing use of these growth-incentivizing “mismatch experiences” will generate iterative healing cycles of disruption and repair and, ultimately, evolving of the patient from “resistance” to “awareness” (Model 1), “relentless hope” to “acceptance” (Model 2), and “re-enactment” to “accountability” (Model 3).
The material presented will be based upon Martha’s award-winning Modes of Therapeutic Action book (which is “required reading” – both in the US and around the world – for candidates in psychoanalytic training institutes and students in psychodynamic psychotherapy programs).
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists, 1.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSW, and LMFTs.
