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Working with Pathogenic Beliefs: A Powerful Method
of Overcoming Impasses in Psychotherapy
Irwin Gootnick, MD
Date: March 13, 2010
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Location: Corte Madera Town Center
The objective of the course is to advance the diagnostic
and clinical psychotherapy skills of the participants.
The day's program will offer discussion of Freud's early
and later theories of anxiety and repression, how they
are in conflict with each other and the implications
of this conflict for psychotherapy technique. We will
examine a revised view of defense in the therapeutic
relationship. The seminar will also cover: How the patient
uses the relationship with the therapist to overcome
pathogenic beliefs responsible for self defeating behavior,
(examples from clinical practice will be presented)
and the origins of pathogenic beliefs in family experience.
We will discuss how responses to parent and sibling
flaws lead to ongoing self-defeating patterns that remain
in force even after children grow up and leave home.
We will examine the two powerful affects which make
it difficult to change. Also covered will be how and
why patients provoke strong negative and positive feelings
in the therapist making it more difficult to do the
right thing, how these provocations are useful diagnostic
clues, and how to know if your patient is getting better
or worse, and how to correct for mistakes.
Dr. Gootnick is a Board Certified Psychiatrist
who has been in private practice for 40 years. He is
an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of California in San Francisco and is a leading
member of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group.
Dr. Gootnick was the Executive Director and the Director
of Psychiatry at the Psychiatric Day Center of San Francisco.
Dr. Gootnick has lectured to audiences around the country
on a variety of popular topics. His audiences have included
university students (including Duke University, Columbia
University, University of California San Francisco,
and others), the California Association of Marriage
and Family Therapists, the California Society of Clinical
Social Workers, and the Annual Bay Area Psychological
Association Conference.
CIP Members: $100 or $120 if received after February
26
Non-members: $120 or $140 if received after February
26
6 CEUs approved for MFTs and LCSWs and 6 CEUs submitted
for approval by the MCEPAA for Psychologists.
Register
on-line
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