Community Events (non-Alliance)

This program will examine modern psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of addiction. We will consider the nature of addiction, the relative importance of psychological and non-psychological (physical, genetic) factors, the relationship of addictions to compulsions, the statistical effectiveness and psychology of self-help groups, treatment of couples, distinguishing addiction from non-addiction abuse, the addiction inpatient rehabilitation industry, and commonly held myths about addiction.

Learning Objectives

We will consider race, class and culture from a psychoanalytic perspective, and why attention to these social categories is important in psychotherapy.  RELEVANT THEORY WILL BE PRESENTED, ALONG WITH CASE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE PRESENTER AND PARTICIPANTS.              

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Brought to you by the Jungian Psychotherapist's Association

"Healing Trauma: The Lost and Recovered Soul in Depth Psychotherapy" – Presented by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.

Brought to you by the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Andrea Celenza Ph.D., a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the author of "Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios" and "Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Academic, and Supervisory Contexts", will be the speaker at an ethics conference with time allotted for audience discussion. This all-day conference will fulfill continuing education requirements for relicensure.

Metaphor is inherent in every patient hour, including the first one. There is always deep unconscious meaning. Understanding the deeper levels allows the therapist to know the developing relationship to the transference. The transference contains, among other things, anxiety that begins even as the patient thinks about making their first appointment.

Brought to you by Wellspring Family Services

Starting Friday October 2nd, 2015: 9:00am – 4:15pm

We will read from Sandra Buechler’s book "Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis" (2015). Using examples from literary works, Buechler grapples with what it means to live with such challenges as paranoia, grief, shame, narcissism, and more. Buechler gives the reader illustrations of complex human conditions followed by a discussion of how we, as clinicians, can sufficiently meet human suffering in our practice. What do our clients need from us?

Brought to you by the Center for Object Relations (nwfdc.org)

This class will focus on the essential elements of British Object Relations theory, especially its clinical implications. Issues such as transference, countertransference, projective identification, container/contained and real self/false structures will be explored. Certain landmark papers will be read but the focus will be largely clinical and students will be encouraged to reflect on their own clinical experience in class.

Brought to you by the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Nathan Kravis, M.D., a training and supervising analyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC, will speak about the origins and meanings of the use of the couch in psychoanalysis, followed by a clinical presentation and discussion.

Registration: SPSI Members: $50 (Before 9/11/15), $60 Thereafter Non-Members: $60 (Before 9/11/15), $70 Thereafter Students: $20 (Before 9/11/15), $25 Thereafter