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12/4
Frank Lachmann, PhD
Treating the Difficult-to-Treat Patient
Psychotherapists are encountering and are often stymied by an increasingly diverse patient population in which character pathology rather than symptoms predominate. Hence traditional psychotherapeutic techniques have to be stretched to treat this challenging population. This seminar will enrich the therapist’s repertoire by increasing an understanding of, and treatment of this group of patients. The focus will be on two sources: one, the contribution from empirical studies of mother-infant interactions that document the co-creation of later entrenched relational difficulties and self-destructive and self-limiting behaviours. Two, Self Psychology which offers a conceptual base that embraces these findings. This theory and its treatment implications offers therapists a way of framing interventions that are well suited to emotionally engage this difficult-to-treat patient group.
Frank M. Lachmann, PhD is a teacher and supervisor as a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 150 journal publications. He has been a co-author with Joe Lichtenberg and Jim Fosshage on five books including: Self and Motivational Systems (Analytic Press, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (Analytic Press, 1996), A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002), Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look (Routledge, 2010}, and Enlivening the Self (Routledge, 2015). With Beatrice Beebe he wrote Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002) and The Origins of Attachment (Routledge, 2014). He is sole author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient (Aronson, 2000) and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008). He is a member of the Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and an Honorary member of the Vienna Circle for Self Psychology, the William Alanson White Society, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
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Contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com or Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com for information or to register.
The Registration Form is posted on this blog.
All lectures are Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.
Location: ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)
Payment must be received 1 week before the lecture. After that time, please email sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com and we will reserve your seat and add you to the “pay at the door” list. There is a $10 charge for payment at the door. Refunds are available until 1 week before the event.
