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This class has filled.  Please contact the instructor at dschimmel@comcast.net to be added to the wait list.  

Julia Kristeva’s theory of sublimation is woven through many of her works and relies upon Lacanian theory and cultural studies to create one of the most powerful, persuasive, and embodied depictions of the emergence of creative agency within the analytic couple.

Please note the correct class date is January 9, 2021. 

The presenter’s paper illustrates a series of dreams emerging in the last year of a ten-year analysis with the survivor of long-term childhood sexual violence. Their dream work foreshadowed the potential collapse of traumatic and dissociative defenses, producing both the ‘re-membering of the unbearable,’ and a profound rearrangement of traumatic memories through the process that Freud called Nachträglichkeit.

In 1972, Harold Searles, one of the first analysts to write on ecological issues, posed the question:

"Is not the general apathy in the face of pollution a statement that there is something so unfulfilling about the quality of

This class has filled.  Please contact Dr. Barsness at rbarsness@theseattleschool.edu if you would like to be added to a wait list.  

This class has filled.  Please contact Andrew Bryant (info below) to be added to the waiting list.

Overwhelming scientific evidence warns us that unchecked human consumption is threatening the stability and safety of the ecosystem that sustains us. Whether we face it consciously or not, each of us (therapist and client alike) lives with an awareness of this existential threat; yet most continue to live as though it were not the case.

The class is now full and registration is closed. 

How do you use play in your work with children and adolescents that feels natural and spontaneous?  For example, how would you play with children when they cheat in a game, tell you a lie or threaten to destroy toys in your office?

This class has filled and Dr. Barsness will be offering it again in February.  Registration will open soon.  

Note: the first class date has been moved to Monday evening to avoid coinciding with Election Day.  

Philosophy and psychology have a long history together. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates considered philosophy the practice of caring for the soul, psyche, and himself the soul’s physician. The Buddha was called the Medicine King, with his four noble truths as a kind of life-therapeutics.

^{Sorry, the class has filled.  If you would like to be added to a waiting list in the event of a cancellation, please send an email to evcarruth@gmail.com.}  

Teaching psychoanalysis, like practicing psychoanalysis, is both an art and a science. This 5-week course, taught by psychoanalysts, is designed to educate, enhance and encourage the people who teach psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically- informed psychotherapy in our community.