Boundary Violations: Traversing the Minefields of Sex and Love in the Consulting Room Presenter: Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00-2:00pm
How does that rare, but disturbing, case of psychoanalytic treatment fall down the slippery slope into a flagrant sexual boundary violation? How can an analyst therapeutically manage treatments highly charged with erotic transference? While the powerful affects of love and hate are core to in-depth therapy, their potential for abusive enactments make this territory challenging and anxiety provoking for even the most skilled therapist.
These questions and the therapeutic dilemmas surrounding issues of counter-transference, self-disclosure, and distinguishing help from harm will be the focus of this program. A brief review of the literature and case illustrations will be presented, and followed by discussion of Glen Gabbard’s paper, “Cyber-Passion: Erotic Transference on the Internet.” Participants will be encouraged to share their own clinical experiences and perspectives.
Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD, is on the faculty of the NYU Postodoctoral Program and Pace University Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She has published, taught, and presented on the clinical, ethical and theoretical aspects of sex, trauma, and technology in psychoanalysis. Her most recent book is Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Community: History and Current Reappraisals by Routledge. She is a practicing psychoanalyst, sex and couples therapist, in Manhattan and Brooklyn [here at 26 Court Street!].
Optional Reading: Glen O. Gabbard (2001), Cyberpassion: E-rotic Transference on the Internet, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 70:719-737
Location: CFS Brooklyn, 26 Court Street #1412, Brooklyn, NY
Program Fee: $60 General/$50 CFS Members/$25 Candidates & Students
REGISTER ONLINE: https://www.instituteofcfs.org
Learning objectives:
At the end of this program, participants will:
1) Have increased their knowledge of patient and therapist risk factors for sexual boundary violations.
2) Learn about the complexities and nuances of therapeutic interaction as pertaining to sexuality, including interpretation and implicit process with their potential for abuse.
3) Be more comfortable and skilled in providing and seeking clinical consultation with countertransference issues.
Who Should Attend: The instructional level for this activity is advanced. Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g. LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Continuing Education Credits:
Social Workers: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form. No partial credits will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
Psychoanalysts: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form. No partial credits will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
Important Disclosure Information:
None of the planners and presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.