69th Annual Conference

Thursday, March 8
8:30 – 9:45 A.M.

The Use and Impact of Empathic and Other Listening/Experiencing

Perspectives in Group Psychotherapy

 

Featured Speaker: James Fosshage, PhD

 

The purpose of this presentation is to assess, through a conceptual and historical lens, the considerable controversy generated by the empathic listening perspective. Dr. Fosshage will propose and illustrate two additional listening/experiencing perspectives and their use and impact within group psychotherapeutic process.

Dr. James Fosshage has a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy (individual, couples and group) in New York City and Tenafly, New Jersey. He is a Co-Founder, Board Director and Faculty Member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NYC), Founding Faculty Member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC), Clinical Professor of Psychology at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (where he was a co-founder of the Relational Track), and Faculty Member, Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis. Dr. Fosshage has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and is an Advisory Board Member and/or on the faculty and supervisory analyst of five other psychoanalytic institutes across the United States, Canada, and Europe.