This class studies classic papers on countertransference. Beatrice Liebenberg, MSW Middle and Termination Phases of Therapy Treatment impasses, resistances to termination, and treatment goals. Kathryn Patrezia, MSW How Infant Research Informs Adult Psychotherapy Papers on early development, presentations by prominent researchers, and videotapes illustrating new findings in infant research. The basic concepts of the interpersonal approach and how they are used in psychotherapy. Carolyn Shank, MSW Case Conference Group supervision from the Interpersonal perspective.
Therapists learn to use themselves in a more active, participatory, and expressive manner.
The later classical analysts such as Arlow, Brenner, and Loewald. MD The Work and Writings of W.R.D. Fairbairn Study the major writings of Fairbairn. Barbara Wayne, PhD and Nancy Lithgow, MSW Group Conference Group supervision using Fairbairn's object relations theory. Virginia Hendrickson, MSW and Nancy Lithgow, MSW Case Conference Group supervision from a Kleinian perspective. The Work of Guntrip, Balint, and Ferenczi.