I will be facilitating a thirteen week reading and consultation group for psychotherapists at any stage of their career who are interested in learning more about psychodynamics and psychoanalysis.

 

We will spend the first 45 minutes of class discussing readings on transference, countertransference, social media, queerness, race and racism in the therapy room, and other relevant topics. The second half of class will be a case conference where you will be invited to present a therapy case so that we can discuss the case together. Each person is invited to present two times in a row. Case conferences are not supervision, but a chance to learn to think psychoanalytically together.

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This group is limited to six clinicians so that we can have an intimate and hopefully fun learning experience.

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Cost is $75-$125 per week, sliding scale, billed weekly (a thirteen week commitment is required, and I will bill regardless of attendance). You are welcome to miss 1-2 classes. 

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Potential syllabus (but subject to change)

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Who’s Afraid of Psychoanalysis? 

Claire Greenwood, LMFT

 

Week One: Introducing Psychoanalysis

The Psychoanalytic Sensibility– from Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, by Nancy McWilliams 

“What I would not part with”– Thomas Ogden

 

Week Two: Transference

“Transference” in Essential Psychodynamic Therapy, by Teri Quatman 

Optional: “Transference: The Total Situation,” by Betty Joseph

 

Week Three: Countertransference

“Countertransference,” in Essential Psychodynamic Therapy, by Teri Quatman

 

Week Four: Race and Racism

“Surviving Hating and Being Hated”– Kathleen White

“The Police, Black and Hispanic Boys: A Dangerous Inability to Mentalize,” Vaughans, K. C., & Harris, L. (2016)

 

Week Five: Queer eroticism and creativity 

"Blocked Creativity and Inhibited Erotic Transference," by Dianne Elise

 

Week Five: Enactments

“Whose Bad Object Are We Anyway?” By Jodie Davis

 

Week Seven: Social media and psychotherapy

Kaluzeviciute, G. (2020) Social Media and its Impact on Therapeutic Relationships. British Journal of Psychotherapy 36:303-320

 

Week Eight: Childhood trauma 

“The Dead Mother,” Andre Green

 

Week Nine: Fascism 

“The Fascist Mind,” Christopher Bolas 

 

Week ten: more on the unconscious dynamics of racism

“Observations on the Use of the N-word in Psychoanalytic Conferences,” Jyoti Rao

 

Week Eleven: Money and fees

“Show Me the Money: (the “Problem” of) the Therapist's Desire, Subjectivity, and Relationship to the Fee,” by Kachina Myers

 

Week Twelve: Transness and gender identity 

Gender Without Identity, excerpts 

 

Week Thirteen: Endings

“Termination Never Ends”- Bonovitz 

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