NARRATIVE Although DSM criteria for diagnosing paranoia involve externally observable traits, the speakers construe it as an intrapsychic process of disavowal and projection, often related to trauma and inadequate psychological…

NARRATIVE This workshop explores dissociation as a universal and often adaptive feature of mental life—one that is functionally and phenomenologically distinct from both repression and splitting. Rather than viewing dissociation…

NARRATIVE This workshop will present original work on the social unconscious and its application to Wilfred Bion’s theories and praxis.  The conception of a social unconscious was introduced at the…

NARRATIVE This clinical workshop will help therapists navigate the treatment challenges and impasses that inevitably arise in psychotherapy. It focuses on two linked, core skills: (1) developing a sound clinical…