61st Annual Conference

Friday, February 27
Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:00 P.M

Session 310
Evoking and Integrating Strong Affect:  Two Approaches, Two  Improvisation Demonstration Groups

Chair:              

Geraldine Alpert, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Calif School of Medicine, San Francisco, California             

Panelists:           

Dannielle Kennedy, Ph.D., Executive Development Consultant, KRW

International, New York, New York

Elliot Zeisel, Ph.D., M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, Faculty, Center for Modern  Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, New York

Both in Modern Analytic and Tavistock Groups, strong feelings are rapidly evoked,  providing  rich opportunities for insight and personal growth. Through the use of  an improv trained group of AGPA members, both approaches will be demonstrated, along with discussion by each  leader of their  theory and technique.

Course References:

1. Ormont, L. (1991). Use of Group in Resolving the Subjective Countertransference, International

    Journal of Group psychotherapy, 1, 433-448.

2. Spotnitz, H. (1976). Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions, chapter 31, "Training in the use of

    Feelings". New York: Jason Aronson.

3. Banet, A. & Hayden, C. Tavistock Primern The 1977 Annual handbook for Group Facilitators. New

    York: University Associates.