08.30 | Registration. |
09.00 |
Goals of psychotherapy in terms of overall mental
health and not simply symptom reduction: Assessing areas of capacity and incapacity; orienting patients to the process and focus of treatment. Introduction to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. |
10.30 | Coffee break. |
10.50 |
Assessment of areas that cannot be changed,
developmental issues, defenses, and individual affective patterns. Implications for therapy. Clinical examples. |
12.00 | Lunch. |
12.45 |
Assessment of identifications, relational patterns,
selv-esteem sources and regulation, problematic beliefs. Implications for psychotherapy. Clinical examples. |
14.20 | Coffee break. |
14.40 |
Video of 45-minute session of presenter interviewing
a self-defeating woman. Discussion in terms of what was covered in the lectures. |
09.00 |
The continuum of mental health: Thinking about
psychopathology and personality in terms of level of severity rather than the either-or categories of the ICD and DSM. Clinical implactions. |
10.30 | Coffee break. |
10.50 |
Some particularly challenging psychologies:
shizoid and paranoid styles and disorders and their implications for psychotherapy. |
12.00 | Lunch. |
12.45 |
More challenging psychologies: narcissistic and
pscychopathic styles and disorders and their implictions for pscyhotherapy. |
14.20 | Coffee break. |
14.40 |
Video of 45-minute session of presenter with
a schizoid man. Discussion in terms of what was covered in the lectures. |
16.00 | End of course. |