Micro-traumatic Experience

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Therapeutic Approaches to Healing its Cumulative Toxic Effects

Micro-traumatic Experience: Therapeutic Approaches to Healing its Cumulative Toxic EffectsThe course will draw on but go beyond the theoretical framework offered by Dr. Crastnopol in her book, Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury (Routledge, 2015.) Certain subtle types of psychic injury--"micro-trauma"-- can mount up over time, eroding a person's sense of well-being, while distorting character development and interpersonal functioning. This course focuses on and helps clinicians identify some specific patterns of micro-traumatic functioning and their impact as they play out in everyday life and in the analytic engagement itself. Some examples of these patterns are "connoisseurship gone awry," "uneasy intimacy," "unkind cutting back," and "psychic airbrushing."  Participants will explore their own clinical experiences with micro-trauma and gain a detailed understanding of how to identify and work to resolve such problematic patterns in their practice. This course is intended for psychoanalysts at all levelsThe course is taught on Fridays, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2021Learning ObjectivesBy the completion of this course, students will be able to:   I. Enumerate and describe certain specific mechanisms of toxic functioning, including "unkind cutting back," "connoisseurship gone awry," "little murders," etc.II. Describe how such micro-traumatic mechanisms can generate collateral damage in one's significant others.III. Identify signs within the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic relationship that such patterns are being replayed.IV. Articulate and implement various effective strategies for repairing micro-traumatic damage to the patient's sense of well-being and self-worth.Reading ListCrastnopol, M.  Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, New York: Routledge, 2015. (select chapters) and also: Margaret Crastnopol (2018): Getting Better: Impediments and Aids to Psychic Change, Contemporary PsychoanalysisMargaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D. is faculty, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and supervisor of psychotherapy and faculty, W. A. White Institute, New York. She is an associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis  Dr. Crastnopol is on the Executive Committee of the IARPP. She authored Micro-trauma:  A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, Routledge, 2015. Dr. Crastnopol treats individuals and couples, in person and remotely, for those in Seattle, WA and elsewhere.Continuing EducationThis class is approved for 6.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts:The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 #SW-0018.The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 #Psyan-0004.Personalized CE certificates will be emailed at the end of this event after completing and passing an online quiz and evaluation form (as required by NYSED). Attendance on all days are mandatory for CE credits.Refunds, &amp; Cancellation PolicyCancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the first day of the event or for no-shows on any of the days event take place.

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