Working with the difficult super-ego: Readings in Harold Searles with Terry Hanson, PhD
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Terry Hanson's Office 7056 18th Ave NE Seattle, WA United States
Sponsored by: Alliance and COR
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One of the problems all therapists continually face in their work is the punishing and overly critical superego, both in our patients and in ourselves. However much we work to create an atmosphere of openness and acceptance, we find our patients so often hostile and self hating toward many aspects of themselves. Frequently this self hatred in our patients is mirrored in our own attitude toward our work, chronically struggling with feelings of failure and inadequacy. Harold Searles was an American psychoanalyst who pioneered in developing ideas about how therapists can use their countertransference, particularly their feelings of aggression and guilt, constructively in the therapy work. We will read two of Searles' articles as background to exploring our own clinical experiences in this area.
Class Outline:
Session 1. Reading H. Searles "Feelings of Guilt in the Psychoanalyst" Focusing on the problem of guilt and aggression in the therapist.
Session 2. Applying Searles article in our actual clinical experience.
Session 3. H. Searles "The Dedicated Physician in the field of psychotherapy" Focusing on the gap between our self image as caring therapists and the reality of our feelings toward our patients.
Session 4. Applying this article again to our work.
Instructor: Terry Hanson is a clinical psychologist in practice in Seattle. He has been involved in the Alliance and COR since their beginnings, and has been very active for many years with the Alliance Board and education committees and in offering classes. He has served a term as President of the Alliance.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to define Searles understanding of the countertransference experience in psychotherapy.
Participants will be able to apply this definition to their real experience with work with patients.
Fees: $100 Members / $120 Non-Members
To register, please contact the instructor.
This presentation has been approved for a total of 6.00 CE’s for licensed mental health counselors and associates, marriage and family therapists and social workers by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.
