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Four Sessions Basic Concepts: Projective Identification, Unconscious Assumptions, Marital Fit Learn by Video Observation Sponsored By The Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy Training Program Washington Center for Psychoanalysis Course Overview This introductory experience is designed to expose clinicians already skilled in psychotherapy or psychoanalytic practice to work deeply with couples and families. It is [...]

Speaking to the inherent value enactments provide, Sandor Ferenczi once stated “You must catch your hare before you can cook him.” This seminar will explore why enactments are an inevitable result of being unbearably caught in “the grip of the field” until that field is destabilized by an unanticipated action. A relational perspective on the [...]

Sally Bloom-Feshbach, Ph.D. will present on the topic: Negotiation, Spontaneity and Authenticity: Relational Co-Construction. This workshop will explore the contemporary psychoanalytic perspective known as Relational Psychoanalysis, with a primary focus on how this perspective may be used clinically. The movement from a classical one-person drive/structure model toward an intersubjective two-person model of mutual influence between [...]