Beyond Words: Exploring Countertransference Through Art & Sensory Expression
Scientific Presentation by Professor Robert Irwin Wolf, DPsa, LP, LCAT
An Experiential Workshop for Clinicians on Navigating Unconscious Responses
Saturday December 7 2024, 9:30am - 12:30p CST
Presented by the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
?Please join us at Imagine Recovery New Orleans (details below) or via Zoom for this upcoming scientific presentation. Participation is open to all.?In-person space is limited?so please register early and use the early registration discount through November 8.
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Facing the rise of pre-neurotic patients, often presenting early developmental character disorders, dissociation, or internalized trauma, clinicians often experience intense countertransference inductions.
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This experiential workshop provides a supportive environment to explore and process countertransference feelings and inductions through nonverbal, expressive modalities, and sensory motor techniques like drawing, role-playing, visualization, and somatic exploration, to help understand how our unconscious constantly collects information without our overt awareness. To prevent being completely inundated by this information, our brain selects information necessary to respond to present situations and filters out the rest, delegating it to our unconscious.? We will explore how we can access this data by using a variety of non-verbal sensory and motoric forms of communication. Non-verbal experience precedes verbal development and continues to evolve throughout our life, often without our conscious awareness.
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Volunteers will be asked to think of a difficult patient in their current practice and present this patient to the group by imitating the posture and gait, drawing this patient, and using other forms of sensory exploration.? Volunteers will be selected from the physical audience to participate in this group and present patients for exploration through these processes. Virtual audiences will be encouraged to follow the instructions with a patient of their own.?
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By externalizing these inductions, participants can identify and resolve inductions, so they no longer interfere with treatment flow. The group format provides a 'community of peers”, crucial for addressing practice isolation and encouraging deeper explorations to identify where personal issues of the clinician may intersect the inevitable inductions experienced through projective identification.
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Learning Objectives:
· Identify countertransference reactions by using expressive?modalities
· Describe how a group experience helps to process countertransference material
· List nonverbal, expressive techniques that can be utilized in processing countertransference inductions
Dr. Robert Wolf received his degree, Doctor of Psychoanalytic Studies, from the Parkmore Institute after completing a course of study at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. As a member of the NPAP Neuro-Psychoanalysis Study Center Steering Committee he continues to integrate his interests in art and psychoanalysis with contemporary neuropsychological concepts. He is a Fellow at the Parkmore Institute and a Training Faculty member at NPAP.? He is Professor Emeritus at the College of New Rochelle.
He is a licensed psychoanalyst and creative art therapist in NY State and has conducted a private practice in NY since 1975.
registration information
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Advance registration is required.?If you prefer to pay by check, please email?[email protected].
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Virtual (Zoom) registration closes December 6 at Noon Central Time.
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In person at?Imagine Recovery
728 Nashville Ave
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New Orleans, LA 70115
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Early Registration Discount by November 8, 2024:
NOBPC Members:?$40
Non-members: $85
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program): No CME?$25
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AFTER November 8, 2024 and before November 28:
NOBPC Members:?$55
Non-members: $100
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program): No CME?$25
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Week of Registration Fees:
NOBPC Members: $70
Non-members: $115
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) $25 (No CME)
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)?. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Psychologists, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.
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3624 Coliseum Street New Orleans, LA 70115, USA
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