63rd Annual Conference

Thursday, February 23

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M.

Workshop 17

Bridging the Gender Gap:  A Countertransference Workshop

Chairs:    

Alice Byrne, M.S.W., Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Postgraduate

Center For Mental Health Group Department, New York, New York

Lois Kennedy, Psy.D., Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Postgraduate Center For Mental Health Group Department, New York, New York

Jerome Leff,   M.S.W., Senior Faculty, Training Analyst, Postgraduate Center For Mental Health Group Department, New York, New York

Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., Senior Faculty, Training Analyst Postgraduate Center For Mental Health Group Department, New York, New York

Mars and Venus? We will examine participants’ gender biases by exploring the impact of same and opposite gender parents and siblings on the group leader.  This workshop will be primarily experiential.  Participants will investigate their relationships and gender issues via writing exercises, kinetic family drawings and group process.

Experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic-demonstration

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Recognize gender related countertransference.

2. Distinguish different reactions to male and female patients.

3. Evaluate the therapist’s contribution to a therapeutic impasse related to gender bias.

4. Define the term sexual harassment in group interaction.

Course References:

1. Epstein, L. & Feiner, A. (1979). Countertransference: The therapist’s

contribution to the therapeutic situation. New York: Jason Aronson.

2. Gilligan, C. (1983). In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

3. Renik, O. (1993).  Analytic Interaction: Conceptualizing technique in light of the analyst’s irreducible subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 62, 553-571.