61st Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 26
Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Session 304
Working Relationally in Group: Abandonment in the
Ttransference-Countertransference
Chair:
Richard Billow, Ph.D., Director, Postdoctoral Group
Program, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York
Panelists:
Andrew Eig,
Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Derner
Institute, Adelphi
University,
Garden City, New York
Lisa Stern,
Ph.D., Clinical Supervisor, Derner Institute,
Adelphi University,
Garden City, New
York
Holly White
Gotta, M.S.W., CGP, Private Practive, Northport, NY
Discussants:
Marianne
Robinson, M.S.W., Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst,
Northwestern
Psychoanalytic Scoiety, Seattle Washington
Fred Wright,
Ph.D., Faculty Member, Postgraduate Center for Mental
Health and
Eastern Group Psychotherapy, New York, New York
The basic premise
of the relational approach is that psychoanalytic data are mutually
generated by therapist and patients, co-determined by their
conscious and unconscious organizing activities, in reciprocally
interacting subjective worlds. In these papers, three experienced
group therapists consider the effects of their own evolving
psychologies on their thinking and technique, and on group process,
as their groups struggled with abandonment feelings, fantasies, and
enactments. The respective group issues involved: expressing
negative feelings about treatment; responding to the news that the
therapist was getting married; fantasies about extragroup contacts,
e.g., at a singles' bar. Each presenter will speak for 10-13 minutes,
followed by a discussant and audience participation.
Course References:
1. Aron, L.
(1966).
A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis.
Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
2. Billow,
R.(2003).
Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions
to Passion. London
&
Phila. Jessica Kinsgley Pub.
3. Bion, W.
(1961).
Experiences in Group. London: Tavistock.
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