64th Annual Conference

Friday, March 9

Early Bird Open Sessions

7:15 A.M. – 8:15 A.M.

Session 207

Master’s Circle—Attachments and Their Role in Individual and Redecision in Group Therapy

Chair:     

John Gladfelter, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, Dallas, Texas

This presentation is designed to give a brief overview of how recent theory suggests the importance of addressing the issues in individual and group psychotherapy from an analytic and redecision approach. The work of Allan Shore has shed light on the nature of brain function as it relates to relationship issues and how dysfunctional affect becomes the focus of therapeutic interventions. The importance of relating cognitive processes to affect and how it might be more effectively influenced is discussed.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Pay attention to the affect of the patient.

2. Define carefully the cognitive interventions and their relation to possible affect changes.

3. Conceptualize the patient's dysfunction rather than diagnose.

Course References:

1. Gans, J.S. and Alonso, A. (1998). Difficult Patients: Their Construction in Group Therapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 48, 311-326.

2. Tillich, P. (1952). The Courage to Be. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.