Course Description:

Relational Self Psychology is committed to expanding our understanding of human experience by connecting with important findings and concepts from other psychoanalytic perspectives and, most importantly in this instance, from other related disciplines in order to expand our ability to help our patients. I will present a clinical case in which I have used findings from brain research, attachment research, and studies of imagination and memory to facilitate my work with a patient whose flashbacks and dissociation were the result of severe traumatic experience. I believe that the findings from brain research, in particular, generate an understanding of the momentary disruptions in comprehending present reality and its distinction from past traumatic experience as emergent in dissociative flashback states. Applying these conceptualizations to the treatment of my patient over an extended period resulted in the alleviation of the effects of a disabling early childhood spent within a highly inadequate, cruel or absent, parental surround.

Course Link:
http://www.mcpp.online

CE Value (credits): 2
CE Type: Standard
 

Michigan Counciel for
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Contact Information:
Karen Weber, MSW
734-769-2183
kkweber01@gmail.com