67th
Annual Conference
Friday, February 26
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 - 5:00 P.M.
Workshop
62
Aggressive Enactments and Intolerable Pain in Group Therapy:
Embracing Conflict to Create New and Transformative Solutions
Chairs:
David Dybdal,
M.D., Ph.D.,
Attending Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Myrna L.
Frank, Ph.D., Private Practice, Highland Park, New Jersey
Aggressive
enactments in group can be extremely destabilizing and destructive
to both individual members and to the group as a whole. We will
consider the theoretical underpinnings of enactments and will use
psychodynamic-relational concepts and Aikido-derived applications to
create transformative solutions for these very challenging
situations.
sharing of work
experiences, didactic, experiential, demonstration
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1.
Define what an
enactment is.
2.
Understand what
purposes enactments may serve.
3.
Explore and
articulate his/her reactions to aggressive enactments.
4.
Identify effective
interventions and creative resolutions.
Course References:
Dobson, T. &
Miller, V. (1993).
Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving in to Get Your
Way. Blue Snake Books, Ca.
Frayn, D. H.
(1996). Enactments: An evolving dyadic concept of acting out.
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 50, 194-207.
Russell, P. L. (2006). The theory of the crunch.
Smith College Studies in Social Work, 76(1/2), 9-21. |
