Alliance Events

The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind: Russell Meares on Borderline Experience and Therapeutic Conversation with Carol Poole, MA LMHC

Russell Meares is an Australian distinguished emeritus professor of psychiatry and innovator of psychotherapeutic approaches for complex developmental trauma. His work is appreciated by thinkers including Thomas Ogden and Allan Schore as a contribution toward neuroscience-informed psychoanalytic theory which offers a complex yet affirming view of human creativity and the development of a reflective, robust sense of self. 

Working with Narcissistically Vulnerable Clients through the Lens of Contemporary Self Psychology with Don Schimmel, PhD

Join me for a four-part course where we delve into the challenges of working with narcissistically vulnerable clients. We will explore both traditional Kohutian and contemporary perspectives on Self Psychology, beginning with an overview of Freud's original theory of narcissism and moving on to Kohut's radical redefinition. I will address critical questions such as how to empathically meet the psychological needs of clients who experienced deficits in mirroring, mutual idealization, or twinship in childhood.

The Difficult Superego - the Work of Harold Searles

One of the most challenging aspects of our work is a pervasive perfectionism that can so dominate our own minds as therapists and greatly inhibit the emotional growth of our patients. The pressure to get it right and have the answers can undermine therapeutic work with both participants.  One of the psychoanalytic writers who has most directly addressed these problems is Harold Searles, an American psychoanalyst greatly influenced both by the British object relations tradition, especially Bion, and the American interpersonal tradition.

Hike in Discovery Park

Hike in Discovery Park with your colleagues.

Let’s welcome the first signs of spring and continue our time outside taking in the natural PACNW beauty with colleagues on a monthly Sunday hike in Discovery Park. The series schedule is as follows:

March 17th at 1:00 PM

April 14th at 9:30 AM

May 19th at 9:30 AM

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