Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

The Contemporary Freudian Society Presents Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma
Sunday, October 21, 2018 1:00-4:00pm
PRESENTERS: Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman (Chairs).
Part I – Nancy R. Goodman, Janice Lieberman, and Carolyn S. Ellman
Part II – Paula L. Ellman, Batya Monder, and Arlene Kramer Richards

Nancy Goodman and Paula Ellman chair the two parts of this program introducing discoveries from their new book, Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide (publisher, Routledge 2017. The presentations by contributors in the book demonstrate the way Trauma and Body Pain join and interweave with Narrative in discovering dimensions of unconscious life causing pain and conflict for patients. Emphasis is on the processes involved to make contact with the patient and with unconscious fantasies appearing as scenes in the “theater of the mind”. Continue reading Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS

Heartspace: Convergence and Divergence in Religion and Psychotherapy – Interconnections and Differences Between Religion and Psychotherapy at MITPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

2018 SUMMER INSTITUTE MINI-COURSE: HEARTSPACE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY – INTERCONNECTIONS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Instructor: Robert Gunn, Ph.D.

In his Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud was deeply critical and skeptical about religion. Jung, on the other hand, saw some positive possibilities as well as destructive ones in religions’ capacity to stimulate and support the process of individuation. Is there such a thing as a healthy religion? What is an unhealthy religion? What do religion and psychotherapy have in common? Are there clear distinctions to be made between the two processes? How do we evaluate the differences as well as similarities between the spiritual and the Continue reading Heartspace: Convergence and Divergence in Religion and Psychotherapy – Interconnections and Differences Between Religion and Psychotherapy at MITPP

Book Review: Frank Putnam’s The Way We Are
By Categories: Books

ISSTD Member, Pam Stavropoulos PhD, has written a book review of Frank Putnam’s The Way We Are, which was featured in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal of Australia (PACJA) Vol.5(1) in August, 2017. This detailed book review introduces the concepts of a dissociative mind to a broader audience of counsellors and psychotherapists, and makes for great reading, of interest to those who have not read Putnam’s book, as well as those who already have.

Pam commences with this opening paragraph:

In an age of hyperbole and incessant demands on our attention, recommendation of a ‘must read’ book can seem an imposition as well as a cliché. Yet I do not hesitate to make that endorsement in this case. Frank Putnam’s The Way We Are is his magnum opus after years of service to the field of psychotherapy in general and study of the dissociative disorders in particular. It is a ground-breaking work that proposes what amounts to nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualise and respond to the workings of the mind per se.

Click Here to Purchase the Book: The Way We Are: How States of Mind Influence Our Identities, Personality and Potential for Change by Frank W. Putnam from IPBooks.

Click Here to Read the Full Review: The Way We Are: How States of Mind Influence Our Identities, Personality and Potential for Change by Frank W. Putnam.
Reviewed by: Pam Stavropoulos on the Psychotherapy and Counceling Journal of Australia website.