What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know About Divorce: Know the Factors that Create Healthy Break Ups – Presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer, J.D., PhD [Class]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

NARRATIVE:   Divorce has long been seen as a battle fought by adversarial attorneys, often leaving both partners—and especially their children—as casualties. Ample research has explored the emotional and developmental toll of such high-conflict divorces, and clinicians must be conversant with this body of work. Since the rise of divorce mediation in the 1970s, the…

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Patients with Paranoia: Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Paranoid Psychologies and their Clinical Implications – Presented by Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP and Michael Garrett, MD [Seminar]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

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 separation from caregivers. Although most visible in psychosis, nonpsychotic paranoid states of mind are common. Dr. McWilliams will review scholarly literature and implications for treatment of nonpsychotic paranoia.…

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Here/Not Here: The Function of Dissociation in Everyday Life and the Clinical Encounter – Presented by Peter Goldberg, PhD [Seminar]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

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 solely as pathological, we will consider its role in facilitating transitions between self-states in both daily life and clinical settings. Particular attention will be paid…

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The Social Origins of Wilfred Bion’s Theories and Praxis – Presented by Karim G Dajani, PsyD [Seminar]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

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 very inception of our field (1924) by the first formally trained American Psychoanalyst – Trigant Burrow. It was intensely resisted and eventually erased from our…

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Clinical Case Discussion Workshop – Treating Challenging Patients: From Case Formulation to Shared Treatment Focus – Presented by Jonathan Shedler, PhD [Seminar]

FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael 1010 Northgate Dr, San Rafael, CA, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

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 case formulation, and (2) developing a shared treatment purpose with clients. When therapy stalls or loses direction, the difficulty almost always traces back to one…

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