Breaking the Trauma-Bond Between Your Patient and Their Family
Recorded Friday 18 September 2020
An Object Relations Approach to Resistance in Treatment - Led by Dr David Celani - Chaired by Alice Waterfall
CE Credits: 4 hours
This workshop will address one of the most frustrating and often repeated events in a psychotherapist’s daily practice, when a client, who seems to be making progress, suddenly begins to aggressively defend his family of origin and angrily abandons treatment. This sudden resistance to therapy is provoked when the patient realises that s/he is pulling away from their family of origin, both internal and external, and cannot imagine surviving alone.
READ MORE...W.R.D. Fairbairn recognised that “attachment to bad objects” was a formidable source of resistance to treatment: as the patient develops emotionally in relation to the therapist, their unconscious bond to the parents who neglected them in childhood is threatened by the new relationship, and by the discoveries inherent in the treatment. The loss of their dysfunctional family appears to the patient to be catastrophic because they will have to confront the reality of their mistreatment in childhood. These unconscious loyalties are harboured in two mostly dissociated pairs of ego structures that developed from relational events between parent and child. These were (and are) intolerable for the child or even the adult to remember. Our speaker will demonstrate how to identify and respond to the two pairs of unconscious structures along with the patient’s developmental deficits, while minimising resistance and early termination.
Continuing Education (CE) credits for 4 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
Access to the Talks On Demand runs for 365 days from the date of purchase.
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FEES (USD)
Includes: 1 year’s access, test and CE Certificate of Attendance, subtitles and transcript
INDIVIDUAL
$78 (or $39 Confer member)
CE
Continuing Education (CE) credits for 4 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate. You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.
This Talk On Demand is accredited by:
- NBCC
This Talk On Demand is NOT accredited by the following organisations:
- ASWB
- NYSED (Psychology)
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SCHEDULE
00:02:23
The Extreme Dependency of the Child on Mother and the Consequences of Rejection
00:54:20
Q&A
01:04:31
The Development of the Unconscious, the Emergence of Sub-Egos, and the Hidden Attachments that Prevent Separation from Bad Objects
01:53:50
Q&A
02:05:05
A Fairbairnian Approach to Change: Minimising Patient Resistance, While Maximising the Therapist’s “Introjectability”
02:47:03
Q&A
02:55:55
Understanding and Tolerating Patient Resistance, and Repetition Compulsions
03:34:56
Q&A