Community Events (non-Alliance)

The Puget Sound Group Therapy Network presents “Treating Insecure Attachment in Group Psychotherapy”

Presented by Aaron E. Black, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

This presentation traces a parallel between the psychoanalytic method, which facilitates the emergence of painful, transformative, at times terrifying, experiences in the here-and-now relationship between patient and analyst, and ‘Cruelty’ discussed by Artaud in his First Manifesto of The Theatre of Cruelty initially published in 1932.

In March 2016, award-winning anthropologist Alex Hinton, faced off with a genocidal extremist, Pol Pot’s “Brother Number Two,” while serving as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia. A year and half later, white power extremists wreaked havoc in the streets of Charlottesville. Professor Hinton’s talk will bring these two events into conversation to answer the question asked about both: why? -- as well the question that began to be asked in the U.S., could it happen here?

Title: “Intuition: An Emotional Foundation of Analytic Transformation” 

Presenter: Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA

Christof Koch   Maxine Anderson   Karl Brunnhölzl

This will be the fifth in a series of conversations representing these three views, where we have explored and learned that natural science’s objective knowledge and the subjective understanding of inner science are not mutually exclusive.

“Protecting our Humanity in the midst of Tribal Warfare: Thoughts for our Time”

Presented by Maxine Anderson MD

In this class we will explore the various interactions between these two perspectives on human experience.  We will read selections from Meltzer and Bion, working to listen to what they might have to say about Christian experience, and we will read the Gospel of Mark and selections from Romans, trying to listen emotionally and psychologically. The intention is not to integrate the two perspectives but to explore how each might shed some light on meanings in the other. 

Dates:  March 3, 10, 17, 24

Fee: $180

Scholarships available to COR members

This online course will explore the evolution of internal objects in analytic literature. The tradition of British Object Relations is solidly grounded in their psychic existence as organizers of internal life. This course will focus on how different authors have conceptualized, enriched, transformed, and used the notion of the internal object, with attention dedicated to our own clinical work. We will read authors such as Klein, Bollas, Winnicott, Eaton, and Grotstein. 

Dates: Mondays:  January 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 27, 24, Mar 2

Fee: $360

The Oregon Health and Science Universtiy's 2019 Woodcock Lecture speaker will be Adam Phillips, one of Britain’s leading psychoanalysts and literary critics. He has written more than 20 books about psychoanalysis, literature and culture on subjects ranging from Freud and DW Winnicott to Proust and Houdini. He is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classic Freud series and a visiting professor at the University of York.

This symposium is an introduction to Joseph Newirth’s work, and will be based on his most recently published book. The class will trace the evolution of concepts of symbolization, alpha function, reverie, the container-contained, and the use of transitional experiences to integrate these concepts with the relational paradigm emphasizing the transformation of concrete experiences and enactments within the transference-countertransference relationship into metaphorical symbolic experiences.