This class has filled. To be added to the waitlist, please contact Terry Hanson.
In this seminar we will look into the processes of mourning that underlay so much of emotional development. We will use as a central text Melanie Klein's classic essay on Mourning and its Relationship to Manic-Depressive States and also read selections from her biography which describe her own intense struggles with depression. Our main focus will be on our own experience with grief in our work with our patients and how this impacts therapeutic growth.
Class Outline:
April 5: The growth of the mind in loss
April 12: The therapist's experience of loss
April 19: Avoidance of loss and grief
April 26: Processing grief in the therapeutic relationship
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.
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.
