Chairs:            

Alice Byrne, M.S.W., CGP, Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Group

Department, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, New York

Lois Kennedy, Psy.D., Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Group

Department, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, New York

Jerome Leff, M.S.W., CGP, Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Group

Department, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, New York

Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Senior Faculty and Training Analyst

Group Department, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, New

York

Family experiences, myths and emotional investments have a profound impact on our counrertransference responses. This workshop will be primarily experiential. Participants will investigate their relationships with parents and siblings through phases of life via writing exercises, kinetic family drawings and group process.

experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic-demonstration

Course References:

1. Renik, O. (1993). Analytic Interaction: Conceptualizing Technique in Light of the Analysts

    Irreducible Subjectivity.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 62, 553-571.

2. Epstein, L. & Feiner, A. (1979). Countertransference: The Therapist's Contribution to the

    Therapeutic Situation. New York:  Jason Aronson.

3. Furth, G. (2002). The Secret World of Drawings: A Jungian Approach to Healing Through Art.