61st Annual Conference

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

Master Workshop 67
Zeitgeist: Time, Timing and Anniversary Reactions in the Practice of Group Psychotherapy

 

Chairs:            

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, Board Director & Faculty, Blanton-

Peale Institute, New York, New York

Werner Knauss, DIPL.PSYCH., Past President of the Group Analytic

Society, Heidelberg,Germany

 

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience

 

This workshop will first explore cultural and economic dimensions in the perception of time, then the unconscious resistances evoked by anniversary reactions; all within the group setting. The necessity for therapeutic awareness will be examined and techniques for elucidating hidden 'time blocks' will be shared.

sharing of work experiences-experiential-didactic-demonstration

 

Course References:

 

1. Schutzenberger, A. (1998). The Ancestor Syndrome:Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree. New York: Routledge.

2. Gabriel, M. (1992). Anniversary Reactions: Trauma revisited. Clinical Social Work

    Journal, 20, 179-193.

3. Hilgard, J. & Newman, M. (1952). Anniversaries in Mental Illness. Psychiatry, 22, 113-

   121.