61st Annual Conference

Workshop 103
The Theater of Symbolic Communication: Act I-Money

Chairs:            

Patti Cox, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, New York, New York

Michael Hegener, M.A., LPC, CGP, Private Practice, Austin, Texas

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience

Money is an area of primary vulnerability in our lives. Our relationship with money reveals important information about patterns of relating that are enacted in symbolic communication between group members and the leader. This workshop will help therapists explore their relationship with money and assist their groups in translating the symbolic messages in these transactions.

didactic-experiential-sharing of work experiences-demonstration

Course References:

1. Cohen, P. (1996). Symbolic Communication in Modern Group Therapy. Modern Group,

    1(1), 19-31.

2. Gans, J. (1992). Money and Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy. International Journal of Group

    Psychotherapy, 42(1), 133-152.

3. Forward, S. & Buck, C. (1994). Money Demons: Keeping Them from Sabotaging Your

    Relationships and Your Life. New York: Bantam Books.