63rd Annual Conference

Friday February 24

All-Day Workshops

10:00 A.M. –1:15 P.M. & 2:45-6:00 P.M.

Workshop 36a

When the Therapist Leaves: Meaning for Both Patient and Therapist

Chair:     

Nina Diamond Fieldsteel, Ph.D., FAGPA, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts

This workshop is designed to help the therapist confront his/her own concerns about endings, separation and loss before they can begin to work successfully with their patients on these issues.  We will also examine the gains that  occur as we work together with our groups on the meanings of separation and individuation.  There will also be some examination of the varieties of endings and their particular demands on both group and therapist.

Sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration

Course References:

1. Kauff, P. (1977). The Termination Process: Its relation to separation-individuation phase of development. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 27, 3-18.

2. Novick, J. (1997). Termination Conceivable and Inconceivable. Psychoanalytic Psych., 14, 145-62.

3. Fieldsteel, N. (2005). When the Therapist Says Goodbye. International Journal of

Group Psychotherapy, 55, 245-279.