This 2 day conference is co-sponsored by the Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study.
This conference will highlight the sea change in our understanding of the mourning process, informed by relational theory and practice. The loss of a significant attachment figure can lead to a sense of estrangement, and may unleash a range of primitive affects, identity confusion, and the restriction of meaning and joyful experience. Alternately, group connects the mourner with others, opens pathways to express longings and often addresses “unfinished business”. The group therapist can actively help facilitate the member’s creative reworking of the lost relationship while deepening the connection with other group members. Readings of excerpts from the comedian, Billy Crystal’s autobiographical book, 700 Sundays, will be used interactively to highlight the above. A demo process group will deepen the work.
Mary Sussillo, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA is the Director, Center for Bereavement, NY, NY; Adjunct Faculty & Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute (NIPTI); Coeditor Emeritus, Psychoanalytic Perspectives: An International Journal of Integration and Innovation; Board Member, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. Sussillo is a psychoanalyst in the private practice of individuals, groups and couples. She has a bereavement specialty with a focus on the adult treatment of childhood parental loss, parental & sibling loss in adulthood, and partner loss. Sussillo has authored, “Beyond the Grave —Adolescent Parental Loss: 'Letting Go' and 'Holding On, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2005, 15(4). She was born in Newfoundland, Canada, and spent her early childhood years living in the Tucson desert, Arizona. Sussillo is also an avid landscape painter.
Schedule
Friday, May 13, 9 am - 5 pm: All Day Process Group
Saturday, May 14, 9 am - 4:30 pm: Workshop and Demo Group with Mary
Registration
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CE: Continuing education credits (6 units) will be available for all masters level clinicians for each day of the conference.
