Classes
Dream Life with Terry Hanson, PhD
This class has filled. To be added to the waitlist, email Dr. Hanson, terryllhanson@yahoo.com
Working with narcissistically-vulnerable clients through the lens of contemporary Self Psychology with Don Schimmel, PhD
This class has filled. Please contact the instructor at dschimmel@comcast.net to be added to the wait list.
Healing is Political: A Radicalized Reading of Julia Kristeva’s Notion of ‘Sublimation’ with Robin McCoy Brooks, MA, LMHC
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.
“Clemency on the Way to the Gallows” -- Dream Work, Trauma & Dissociation with Ken Kimmel, LMFT
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.
Climate Psychology Study Group
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
Intersubjectivity: The work of Jessica Benjamin with Roy Barsness, PhD
This class has filled. Please contact Dr. Barsness at rbarsness@theseattleschool.edu if you would like to be added to a wait list.
Analytic Approaches to the Climate Crisis with Andrew Bryant, MPH, LICSW and Robert Berley, PhD
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.
Psychoanalytic communication through play with children and adolescents with Don Schimmel, PhD
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?
Intersubjectivity: The work of Jessica Benjamin with Roy Barsness, PhD
This class has filled and Dr. Barsness will be offering it again in February. Registration will open soon.