Workshop Description:
Countertransference is an essential source of information which enables therapists to understand their clients and formulate curative interventions. Utilizing didactic and experiential formats, this weekend training will discuss and demonstrate the unique ways in which countertransference feelings manifest and are used therapeutically in the group setting. Topics will include: recognizing induced feelings, defining and working with subjective and objective countertransference, tolerating and working with negative countertransference, and techniques for formulating maturational interventions. Case examples and clinical supervision will be used to demonstrate key technical and theoretical themes.
Learning Objectives:
This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Summarize different types of countertransference;
2. Explain the concept and experience of induced feelings;
3. Apply Modern Analytic theory to formulate and time interventions using induced feelings;
4. Demonstrate how countertransference feelings can be used to reconstruct group members’ early experiences;
5. List the reasons why it is critically important for group therapists to be comfortable with negative countertransference;
6. Utilize aggressive countertransference to further group progress.
7. Observe how regression in the group therapy setting offers opportunity for growth.
8. Explain how induced feelings are used to identify an anaclitic countertransference.