Community Events (non-Alliance)

Body Rhythms and the Unconscious: Toward an Expanding of Clinical Attention

The Seattle School is excited to partner with the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study to host an evening lecture with Dr. Steven Knoblauch. Each year, The Seattle School and the Northwest Alliance work together to host clinicians and thought leaders who are contributing innovative, compelling work to the fields of psychology and therapy.

Symbol Formation and Therapeutic Action: Discovering the symbols in your patient's material

Our goal as depth psychotherapy practitioners is to help clients bring unconscious material into conscious awareness. Because unconscious material is always in symbolic form, it is essential that we are able to perceive what seems to be concrete in our client's narrative as symbolic. It's not always an easy task! This study group is an opportunity for us to not only expand our theoretical understanding of symbolic formation, but also practice interpreting the concrete into the symbolic. We will be reading Winnicott, Segal, and Lacan.