Description: A lecture on the role and uses of imagination in analytic therapy, followed by a clinical workshop on imagination and the uses of the self.
Objectives:
1) Gain greater familiarity with the central role of imagination in analytic therapy.
2) Gain greater familiarity with the uses of the therapist’s subjective experience of
the patient in relationally informed therapies.
3) Gain greater familiarity with the analyst’s uses of countertransference in
working with difficult patients.
References:
Bass, A. (2003). “E” Enactments in Psychoanalysis: Another Medium, Another Message... Psychoanal. Dial., 13:657-675.
Bass, A. (2015). The Dialogue of Unconsciouses, Mutual Analysis and the Uses of the Self in Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Dial., 25(1):2-17.
Bass, A. (2001). It Takes One to Know One; or, Whose Unconscious Is It Anyway?. Psychoanal. Dial., 11(5):683-702. […]