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The Impact of the Psychotherapist's Subjectivity on the Patient and the Treatment

November 15, 2014 | Silver Spring, MD

Presented by Washington DC Chapter
Program

Presenter: Steven Kuchuck, L.C.S.W.
Date: Saturday November 15, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring Library
8901 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD [ MAP ]

This workshop will explore the impact of the psychotherapist's life experience and psychological make-up on the treatment. By expanding psychoanalytic study beyond theory and technique to include a more careful examination of events in the clinician's childhood and adult life, participants will have an opportunity to focus on ways in which these experiences and crises affect both clinical choices and the tenor of the therapist's presence in the consulting room.  We will also explore areas of overlap and differentiation between two phenomena that are often confused: the larger issue of the therapist's subjectivity, and self-disclosure.

 

After a formal presentation by Steven Kuchuck, AAPCSW member Rebecca Mayahag, MSW, LCSW-C will present a case for discussion by Mr. Kuchuck and participants.

About the Presenters

Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, is Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Associate Editor, Routledge's Relational Perspectives Book Series; on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and faculty/ supervisor at several Psychoanalytic institutes, including the Stephen Mitchell Center and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. His writing focuses primarily on aspects of the analyst's subjectivity; Steven is a contributor to and editor of Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Routledge, 2014), and a contributor to and co-editor with Adrienne Harris of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (forthcoming; Routledge, 2015). Steven is in private practice in NYC, where he also runs ongoing study and supervision groups.

 

Rebecca Mahayag, MSW, LCSW-C is in private practice in Rockville, Maryland where she treats older adolescents and adults with an interest in young adults struggling with the transition to adulthood. She is currently completing training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.

 

For information and registration email: Joel Kanter at joel.kanter@gmail.com

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