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SUMMARY:A Depth Psychological Perspective on the Somatic Dimensions of Trauma\, Transference\, Countertransference and Enactments: Working with Trauma and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm - Presented by Barbara Holifield [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”12978″ img_size=”medium” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]NARRATIVE \nThis six-hour intensive explores how bodily felt experience serves as a fundamental source of knowledge in depth psychotherapy\, shifting meaning-making beyond language and symbolization alone. While somatic approaches are gaining prominence\, many depth psychotherapy traditions continue to prioritize verbal and symbolic processes. This course integrates body-centered awareness with classical depth psychological concepts of transference\, countertransference\, and the analytic third. \nFrom a somatic depth psychological perspective\, the body is not separate from\, but rather an integral aspect of psyche or mind. We will explore the neuroscientific perspective of the  body as foundational to affect. In the wake of developmental trauma the body holds the unformulated affects and their unlived meanings—such as grief\, anger\, terror\, shame\, and the vulnerabilities inherent in intimacy and attachment. When brought into sensorial awareness\, undifferentiated experience stored in implicit memory begins to clarify into distinct emotions. As sensations and feelings emerge and are tolerated\, images and memories often surface\, generating meaning that contributes to healing psychological wounds and processing trauma. \nContemporary neuroscience illuminates the relational field through discoveries of mirror neurons\, adaptive oscillators\, and other neurological functions activated in intimate encounters. These findings provide a biological foundation for understanding how the therapist’s nervous system resonates with and is shaped by the patient’s embodied experience\, and vice versa. The transferential-countertransferential field can be understood as a dynamic psycho-neurobiological process in which two living systems engage in reciprocal regulation\, implicit communication\, and co-created states of consciousness. This neurological perspective deepens our appreciation of Jung’s insight that a “third thing” is created in analysis—a lived\, embodied phenomenon arising from the interplay of two psychobiological systems. \nThis course examines how somatic awareness\,  and attention to the creative unconscious deepens access to the co-created relational field. We will explore how bodily sensation and a wealth of sensorial perception including kinesthetic\, and proprioceptive awareness \, contribute to reverie and comprehending somatic countertransference to inform clinical interventions.  We will explore how dreams and psyche’s mythopoetic expressions emerge from and illuminate the embodied dimensions of the therapeutic encounter. Recognizing the body as an aspect of psyche fundamentally transforms our understanding of countertransference: what arises in the analyst’s body is not secondary information about the psyche\, but direct psychic communication. \nParticular attention will be given to enactments as moments when previously unformulated experience presses toward consciousness through the lived relational encounter. A somatically informed and sensitive approach may not only lessen the inevitability of enactments between therapist and patient\, but can deepen understanding and healing when somatic inquiry becomes part of processing the lived experience as it unfolds in the therapeutic relationship. \nThe course will address clinical decision-making regarding when to speak from versus about countertransference experience\, how the analyst’s capacity to hold and metabolize patients’ unformulated affective experience relates to somatic presence\, and how active imagination serves as a paradigm for engaging both imaginal and embodied contents emerging from the therapeutic field. Through this weaving of somatic\, neurobiological\, and depth psychological perspectives\, participants will gain practical tools for working with trauma\, developmental wounds\, and the transformation that occurs in the unspoken realm of therapeutic encounter.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]LEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants at this workshop should be able to: \n \n\nDescribe at least three ways the body functions as an aspect of psyche within the therapeutic field and identify one clinical implication for each.\nExplain how mirror neurons and adaptive oscillators contribute to the transferential–countertransferential process and link each concept to one observable clinical phenomenon.\nIdentify at least two examples of somatic countertransference in clinical work and demonstrate how each can inform an intervention.\nApply work with dreams and mythopoetic material by articulating at least one connection between symbolic content and embodied experience in a clinical formulation.\nDifferentiate between speaking from versus speaking about body-based countertransference by describing at least two distinguishing features and indicating appropriate clinical use of each.\nIdentify at least two indicators of enactment and describe how somatic attunement informs intervention in each instance.\nExplain the neurosensory basis of emotional experience and identify at least two underlying physiological processes involved.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]COURSE OUTLINE—6 hours \n8:30 – 9:00 am \n     Registration \n9:00 – 9:15 am  \n     Introduction of presenter and course overview \n9:15 – 10:00 am \n     The body as psyche: somatic knowing and the therapeutic field \n10:00 – 10:15 am \n     Neuroscience perspectives on affect the relational field \n10:15 – 10:30 \n     Break \n10:30 – 11:00 am \n     Neuroscience perspectives on affect in the relational field \n11:00 am – 12:00 pm \n     Somatic countertransference and the analytic third \n12:00 – 1:00 pm \n     Lunch Break \n1:00  – 2:00 pm  \n     Enactments and unformulated experience \n2:00 – 3:00 pm  \n     Dreams\, active imagination\, and the embodied unconscious  \n3:00 – 4:00 pm  \n     Clinical decision-making and somatic awareness  \n     Integration: trauma and transformation \n4:00 pm  \n     End of Conference[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Content Curriculum: \nThis program builds on doctoral-level training in psychodynamic theory\, including transference\, countertransference\, and unconscious processes\, as well as core clinical skills. It extends this foundation by introducing a somatic framework that emphasizes embodied experience as a source of clinical data\, enhancing participants’ ability to work with implicit\, affective\, and nonverbal processes in treatment. \nThe content is directly applicable to clinical practice by providing frameworks and interventions for working with somatic experience\, trauma\, and relational processes. It integrates contemporary neuroscience with psychodynamic theory\, supporting the application of research-informed perspectives to clinical work and training. \nThe target audience includes licensed psychologists\, licensed mental health professionals\, postdoctoral fellows\, and advanced trainees. The instructional level is intermediate to advanced and assumes prior familiarity with psychodynamic or depth-oriented psychotherapy. \nThe material integrates established psychodynamic theory with contemporary research in neuroscience and trauma\, including implicit memory and affect regulation. The content is clinically oriented and designed to support practical application. \nLimitations include the evolving empirical status of certain constructs and variability in clinical interpretation. Risks include overinterpretation of somatic experience and premature intervention. The course emphasizes clinical judgment\, pacing\, and maintaining appropriate boundaries. \nThe program emphasizes culturally responsive practice by recognizing that embodied experience and relational dynamics are shaped by sociocultural context. Participants are encouraged to consider the impact of race\, ethnicity\, gender identity\, sexual orientation\, and systemic factors\, and to engage in ongoing self-reflection and cultural humility in clinical work.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]BIO: \nBarbara Holifield is a training analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. With decades of experience in somatic psychology\, including Somatic Experiencing\, she has synthesized somatic work into a relationally based Jungian and Depth psychotherapeutic approach. A deep feeling for the body pulses through her work. Barbara taught Somatic Psychology to graduate students at the California Institute of Integral Studies for over twenty years and continues to facilitate Authentic Movement internationally. Published in The Jung Journal\, Psychological Perspectives\, The Journal of Analytical Psychology\, The Body in Psychotherapy\, and Authentic Movement: Moving the Body\, Moving the Self\, Being Moved\, her writings explore the relationship of trauma\, body\, self\, and our participation with the dream of the earth. Her book Being with the Body in Depth Psychotherapy: Development\, Trauma\, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm is available through Routledge.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]COST: \nCIP Members: \n$150 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $180 after \nNon-Members: \n$180 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $210 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCCs and 6 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.  \nRequirements for the successful completion of the activity are attending the program in it’s entirety\, and completing an evaluation form. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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