Clinical Education Meeting

Candidates present their psychoanalytic and/or psychotherapy cases during this 90-minute weekly Clinical Education Meeting. Attendees–who include faculty, graduates, candidates in analytic training, and students in our psychotherapy programs–are encouraged to question, explore, and deepen the clinical material. During some of the meetings, faculty and, at times, outside speakers, present scientific papers that typically integrate theory and technique.

At a Glance

Candidates are required to present one psychoanalytic case during their training with the option to present a psychotherapy case as well. During some of the meetings, faculty and, at times, outside speakers, present scientific papers that typically integrate theory and technique. These meetings may be open to a wider audience of mental health professionals.Moderated by Director of Clinical Education, Sumru Tufekcioglu, Ph.D.

Who Is It For

Open only to WAWI faculty, graduates, candidates and students due to issues of patient confidentiality.

Curriculum

Length & Expenses

Tuesdays: 10-11:30 a.m.

  • Learning Objectives

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Utilize faculty input to improve clinical skills.

    2. Constructively critique candidate presentations with the goal of improving ongoing treatment.

    3. Experience listening itself as an active process, responsive to various forms of engagement and disengagement with the patient.

    4. Plan a case presentation with the goal of presenting accurate clinical material and obtaining useful feedback from faculty.

    5. Experience enhanced ability to examine the minute-to-minute interaction in a session.

    6. Explain how diverse theoretical positions affect how one views clinical material.

    7. Describe unconscious ways the patient’s emotional responses (ie, transference) can be manifest in the clinical material.

    8. Describe unconscious ways the analyst’s or therapist’s emotional responses (ie, countertransference) can be manifest in the clinical material.

    9. Notice variation in pacing and word-flow in relation to diverse cognitive and affective states.

    10. Describe clinically how different analysts’ styles can address comparable core problems in living.

    11. Assess the changing quality of analyst-patient collaboration as manifest in clinical moments.

    12. Experience listening itself as an active process, responsive to various forms of engagement and disengagement with the patient.

    Clinical Case Conference References:

    Abend, S. M. (2018). Countertransference and psychoanalytic technique. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 87(3), 497–515.

    Altstein R. (2016). Finding words: How the process and products of psychoanalytic writing can channel the therapeutic action of the very treatment it sets out to describe. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 13(1), 51–70.

    Bernstein, S.B., (2024), The Process of Case Writing: A Fourth Pillar of Analytic Training,17.2,pp. 267–294

    Bernstein, S. B. (2008). Writing about the psychoanalytic process. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 28(4), 433–449.

    Bromberg, P. M. (2009). Truth, human relatedness, and the analytic process: An interpersonal/relational perspective. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90(2), 347–361.

    Cabaniss, D. L. (2008). Becoming a school: Developing learning objectives for psychoanalytic education. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 28(3), 262–277.

    Cabaniss, D.L., Havel, L.K., Berger, S. et al.*, (2017) The Microprocess Moment: A Tool for Evaluating Skills in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Acad Psychiatry 41, 51–54 (2017).

    Cooper, A. (1985). Difficulties in beginning the candidate’s first analytic case. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 21(1), 143-150.

    Eells, T. D. (Ed.). (2022). Handbook of psychotherapy case formulation. Guilford Publications.

    Hartman, J. (1971). The case conference as a reflection of unconscious patient-therapist interaction. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 8(1), 1-17.

    Hazanov, V. (2012). Fear of doing nothing. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48(4), 512-533.

    Hoffman, L. (2019). Analytic process from the perspective of conflict and interpersonal/relational theory: A potential linguistic indicator. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 55(4), 349-372.

    Holland, N. (1993). Psychoanalysis and literature: Past and present. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 29(1), 5-21.

    Jones, E. E., Windholz, M. (1990). The psychoanalytic case study: Toward a method for systematic inquiry. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 38(4), 985–1015.

    Kernberg, O.F.(2021(, Challenges for the Future of Psychoanalysis. Am J Psychoanal 81, 281–300

    Levenson, E. A. (2003). On seeing what is said: Visual aids to the psychoanalytic process. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 39(2), 233–249.

    Schachter, J. (2012). The Analysis of failure: An investigation of failed cases in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 42(2), 584-590.

     

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