65th Annual Conference

 

Thursday, February 21

Early Bird Open Sessions

7:15-8:15 A.M.

 

Session 204

Fathers and Daughters: Passion, Power and Politics

 

Presenter:          

Shelley J. Korshak, M.D., CGP, Group Psychotherapy Instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

 

This session presents a psychoanalytic model for understanding and facilitating the father-daughter relationship and exploring the painful experience of dysfunctional patterns, the misuse of power and the development of addictive behaviors. Highlighting the politics of the family, we will address both functional and dysfunctional family dynamics and explore the therapeutic implications and the particular applications to group psychotherapy.

 

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Understand and identify three stages of development of the father-daughter relationship.
2. Recognize the dynamic of abuse in a dysfunctional relationship, and identify the three roles of enabler, perpetrator and victim.
3. List three communications that may be useful for a daughter to make to her father, and useful ways for her father to respond.
4. List three or more therapeutic interventions to facilitate forward movement when a patient is stuck in the separation-individuation stage.
 

Course References:

1. Carnes, Patrick, The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships, Health Communications, Inc., Deefield Beach, Florida, 1997.
2. Erikson, Eric H. Childhood and Society, Norton, New York. 1963.
3. Horney, Karen. Neurosis and Human Growth. Norton, New York. 1950.
4. Miller, Eric, The Politics of Involvement," in Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality and Social COmplexity: Group Relations Reader 3, ed. by Solomon Cytronbaum and Debra Noumair, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Jupiter, Florida, 2004, pp. 383-398.