Chair:              

Rick Tivers, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP, Private Practice, Northbrook, Illinois

This three-hour interactive course will assist male clinicians to understand and help men work through fears associated with intimacy. Fears such as abandonment, sexuality, engulfment, shame and exposure will be addressed and demonstrated during the working through process. Males emotional cravings and defenses will also be processed.

didactic-experiential-sharing of work experiences-demonstration

Course References:

1. Gans, J. & Alonso, A. (1998). Difficult Patients: Their Construction in Group Therapy.

    International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 48, 311-326.

2. Tillich, P. (1952). The Courage to Be. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.  

3. Kipnis, A. (1991). Knights Without Armor. New York: GP Putnam’s Sons.