The Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis
presents
An EPIC Seminar Series
by Dr Mark Howard
"Here and now: contemporary perspectives that lend
form to the patient’s experience in consultation, brief,
and extended work.”
All seminars are available via videoconference
on different dates from the seminars held at SIP.
In these three seminars we will read and discuss recent accounts
of ‘engaged attention’ that can be offered to patients in different ways in a
single session, in short term work, and in extended therapies.
1. ‘Building a floor for experience’
Tuesday, September 20, 7.30 - 9.30pm (at SIP)
and Tuesday, October 18, 8.00 - 9.30pm (by videoconference)
This paper by Jeff Eaton offers an accessible approach to key ideas
from Bion, the Kleinian tradition, Frances Tustin, and Buddhism. Eaton
provides a framework for thinking about our work and helpful directions to
make emotional contact with patients when we struggle to understand and
reach them.
Seminar participants will receive a copy of Eaton’s paper to read prior to the
seminar and are asked to bring a question, a comment, or a brief moment of
work experience to share with the group for discussion.
This style of seminar will provide a sense of the seminars offered in the
PPC@SIP (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course at Sydney Institute for
Psychoanalysis) program which can be discussed after 9pm in the seminar
held at SIP. As PPC has its next intake in February 2017, and Applications
close at the end of September, 2016, the discussion about PPC will not be
part of the videoconference seminar which is held after the closing date.
2. ‘DIT, the next STePP’
(Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, the next Short Term Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy)
Tuesday, October 11, 8.00 - 9.30pm (at SIP)
and Tuesday, November 8, 8.00 - 9.30pm (by videoconference)
Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy invites the question of what
treatment works for whom and when, and this seminar will outline some of the
opportunities and challenges of brief work for clinicians.
In his book Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy, Peter Hobson suggests an
unmodified technique, and this will be compared with Dynamic Interpersonal
Therapy, another brief (16 session) psychodynamic treatment for anxiety and
depression developed by Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, and Peter
Fonagy.
DIT formulates a central relationship difficulty in terms of an "interpersonal
affective focus” (IPAF), and this becomes the lens through which to view and
discuss the patient’s relationships with others, the therapist, and himself.
The seminar outlines DIT’s development, the practice of DIT including the use
of transference and countertransference to facilitate emergent moments of
understanding and increased ‘mentalisation’ of the patient’s experience, as
well as preliminary research findings about patients’ experience of DIT.
3. ‘The Fate of Pain’
Tuesday November 22, 8.00 - 9.30pm (at SIP)
and Tuesday, December 6, 8.00 - 9.30pm (by videoconference)
This paper by Jeff Eaton relates to his earlier paper, ‘Building a Floor for
Experience,’ and this provides an opportunity to elaborate on the first seminar,
now from the perspective of pain, to consider how to help patients and
ourselves to better bear this frightening and often overwhelming feeling.
Eaton links ‘bearing' pain with the Buddhist idea of ‘softening' to pain to hold
and understand it, instead of ridding the mind and body of pain which reduces
the patient’s capacity to relate and enjoy life.
Seminar participants will receive a copy of Eaton’s paper for reading prior to
the seminar, and you are asked to bring a question, comment, or a brief
moment of work experience to share with the group for discussion.
Location: One series of these seminars will be held at
Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis
5 Penshurst St, Willoughby
and a second series of these seminars will be held via videoconference.
The price for each seminar is $55 including GST, and
$22 including GST for students
Cancellation more than one week before a seminar will allow a 50% refund of
seminar fees, but no refund is available after this time.
Contact person: Mark Howard
[email protected]
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