63rd Annual Conference
Thursday, February 23
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M. & 2:45-6:00 P.M.
Workshop 1a
Dreams,
Affect, Memory, and Creativity in the Group: Freud, Winnicott and
Modell
Chair:
Walker Shields,
M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Clinical Instructor
in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
When group members
attend to their dream material and/or group-as-a-whole phenomena and
connect it with conscious affective experience in the evolving
group, there is a unique opportunity for re-transcription of memory
and creative change. Through study group experience and discussion,
we will explore this hypothesis.
sharing of work
experiences-experiential
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Appraise the
recent revival in neurobiology of Freud's early theory for memory
re-transcription with change in old, obstructive, and resistant
patterns of perception and behavior.
2. Apply these
parallel theories, (Freud and Edelman), in the group context with
particular attention to the significance of negotiation and
development of the group as a holding environment to promote
re-contextualization of memory.
3. Cite the
importance of affect as the trigger to open categories of memory, (Modell),
with associated unconscious yet influential phantasies and thereby
to invite new freedom in unconscious cognitive metaphoric processes
within the self.
4. Describe how
recognition of group-as-a-whole phenomena may lead to the discovery
of influential unconscious memory and phantasy with affective
here-and-now significance for individuals within the group and
thereby promote re-contextualization of memory with new creative
solutions for engaging with others.
Course References:
1) Edelman, G.
(1998).
Building a Picture of the Brain Daedalus. 127(2), 37-70.
2) Modell, A.
(2003).
Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge:
Bradford/MIT
Press.
3) Shields, W.
(1999). Aliveness in the work of the group: A subjective guide to
creative character change. International Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, 49, 387-398.
4) Winnicott, D.
(1971).
Playing and Reality. New York: Basic Books.
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