65th Annual Conference

Friday, February 22

Morning Workshops

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

Workshop 42

Desire, Metaphor, Stories and Doubt in Group Therapy

Chair:    

Scott Conkright, Psy.D., CGP, Private Practice, Atlanta, Georgia

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience

This workshop includes a didactic and an experiential component as a means of understanding and utilizing the importance of metaphor in creating change in groups. An emphasis will be put on how metaphor is related to desire and doubt, and how these relate to growth and resistance in group work.
didactic-sharing of work experiences-experiential-demonstration
 

Learning Objectives:

1. Specify what types of metaphors are being used in groups.
2. Construct a working hypothesis to understand group functioning in the moment
3. Contrast and critique several group therapy models according to their use of metaphor.

Course References:

1. Chandler, Daniel. (2002). Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge.
2. Lakoff, George and Turner, Mark (1989) More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Sternberg, Robert J. (1998). Love is a Story: A new theory of relationships, New York: Oxford University Press.