65th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 21

Afternoon Workshops

2:45 P.M.-6:00 P.M.

Workshop 22

Personal Experience: A Neglected Component of Our Professional Identity

Chair:    

Jerome S. Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 

Personal experiences, and the important lessons we cull from them, become part of our therapeutic core along with what we learn from exposure to theory, teachers, supervisors, mentors and peers. This workshop will provide an opportunity to explore this topic and relate the lessons we have learned from our personal experience to our work as group therapists.

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Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Identify three important personal experiences from which they derived important interpersonal truths
2. List these three important interpersonal truths
3. Give three clinical examples that illustrate the application of these truths
4. Explore resistances to the identification of such important personal experiences
 

Course References:

1. Atwood, G.E. & Stolorow, R.D. (1993). Faces in a Cloud. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
2. Gans, J.S. (2006). My Abiding Therapeutic Core: Its Emergence Over Time. Voices, 42, 3:14-29.
3. Shay, J.J. & Wheelis, J. (Eds.) (2000). Odysseys in Psychotherapy. New York: Ardent Media, Inc.