2022 Psychotherapy Workshops
11 NOVEMBER 2022, FRIDAY (6.00PM - 8.30PM SGT)
An evening with Sarron Goldman, Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
“Thoughts about what might be the most worthwhile aspects of psychoanalytic practice”
CHASING HORIZONS
Synopsis
Everyone has strong feelings about Psychoanalysis. We either love it or hate it. For those who opt to work in this way it is likely that somewhere along the way, they have discovered a helpful way of thinking about their own difficulties or the difficulties of those they love. What the most worthwhile elements of psychoanalysis are, is a big topic. In this presentation, I try to conceive the most worthwhile features of psychoanalytic practice as a series of horizons - aspirations where we might direct our greatest efforts. I would hope to engage you in conversations about what these most important elements might be. Specifically, I hope to direct myself to how we best might work, what we are trying to do (what we should be talking about and how we might speak it), and to matters of internal setting (optimal therapeutic stance), inter alia.
Psychotherapist Bio
Sarron is a clinical psychologist / psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Hailing from Johannesburg; he cut his clinician teeth in a variety of anti-apartheid psychological service organisations e.g., Detainees Support Group, Organisation for Appropriate Social Service in South Africa (set up in opposition to the dominant, apartheid-supportive Psychological Association of South Africa), etc. He has also long been involved in the training of mental health professionals be it in tertiary training institutions or through a range of supervisory contexts. Most recently heading up the psychoanalytically-oriented Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes at Edith Cowan University. Since 2018, Sarron has been a candidate psychoanalyst with the Sydney Branch of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society.
Format
150 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer/ Discussion.
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$60; Students - SGD$30 (All paid fees are non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation (PayNow/Bank Transfer).
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students. Singapore Association of Counselling Approved two and a half (2.5) CPD hours.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
25 AUGUST 2022, THURSDAY (6.00PM - 8.30PM SGT)
An evening with Marc Joffe, Clinical Psychologist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
UNDERSTANDING EATING DISORDERS THROUGH A PSYCHODYNAMIC LENS
Synopsis
It is deeply regrettable that the treatment of Eating Disorders has, in Western Australia and elsewhere, become such a contested and tricky arena. There is a lot of modern dogma about how these complex conditions ought to be treated, with the fashion at the moment being that these conditions are often best treated with FBT or CBTe. There is a lot of associated chatter that suggests that these are the evidence-based interventions for these conditions and that not to use them is somehow ‘wrong’. The workshop that is being offered is a 2.5 hour meeting space where more complex and sophisticated ideas about the management of these complex and sophisticated conditions will be thought about and unpacked.
Specifically, the workshop will attend to at least the following:
Formulating these complex conditions in deep and thoughtful ways;
Considering the role of attachment in eating disorder aetiology and treatment;
Considering the role of trauma in eating disorders;
Considering the role of co-morbid conditions in the formulation and management of eating disorders which necessarily means that treatment cannot be seductively simple;
Exploring psychodynamic approaches to the treatment of these conditions; and
Exploring transference, counter-transference and projective identification as compelling management tools in treatment for patients, clinicians and treatment teams.
If you want the new dogma about the simple management of eating disorders, this workshop is not for you. If you are interested in a space for examining the parameters of the complex struggles we face as clinicians when trying to help these patient groups, this workshop may be of interest.
Psychotherapist Bio
Currently, a Clinical Psychologist with more than 30 years of experience in independent private practice in West Perth. Previously, Dr. Marc Joffe has consequential experience in the teaching, training and clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists. Over time, he has held roles in both the public and private sectors; have done considerable consultant work in the industry; and has worked at a number of universities, primarily executing clinical training and teaching functions. He was a visiting supervisor at Perth Children's Hospital Eating Disorders Unit, CAMHS.
Format
150 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer/ Discussion.
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$60; Students - SGD$30 (All paid fees are non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation (PayNow/Bank Transfer).
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students. Singapore Association of Counselling Approved two and a half (2.5) CPD hours.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
27 May 2022, Friday (6.00pm - 8.00pm SGT)
An evening with Allan Shafer, Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
“Confronting and dealing with destructiveness within ourselves and in the outside world: living and working as psychotherapists in a world under threat”
Synopsis
We are all currently living under the traumatic threat of a pandemic, of a European war, the rise of far-right fascism & climate destruction. In this talk I will explore the questions :”How does this affect our patients and our work in the consulting room and can we contain and use our own destructive feelings?
Psychotherapist Bio
Dr Allan Shafer, Clinical Psychologist, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a socioanalytic organisation consultant in private practice in Melbourne, Australia.
He is a former Executive member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia, a past President of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia and a past President of Group Relations Australia. He is a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists where he has served on the Training and Ethics Committees.
He has directed or consulted on the staff of group relations conferences in Australia, the UK, India, China, Israel, Italy, Poland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He was associate director of the Tavistock Institute’s 2019 Leicester Conference. He has published widely in the psychotherapy and the group relations fields and given seminars and workshops in New Zealand and around Australia.
He has a passionate interest in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the social and political spheres.
Format
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer.
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$60; Students - SGD$30 (All paid fees are non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation.
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students. Singapore Association of Counselling Approved two (2) CPD hours.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
1st April 2022, Friday (6.30pm - 8.00pm SGT)
An evening with John Wright, Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalyst
“When rough winds shake the darling buds of May.”
A Psychoanalytic Exploration on the issues of Ageing, Narcissism and Loneliness.
Synopsis
“Psychoanalysts find themselves confronted with severe narcissistic patients frequently when patients are middle-aged and later, because, the very nature of their disorder has not allowed them to seek help earlier. It is only after their attempts at 'self cure' have failed that they reluctantly turn to therapy. Having built a precarious equilibrium around an omnipotent and idealised self, which hides excessive envious and destructive feelings, the onset of features of ageing such as the decline of both psychological and physical capacities, the loss of loved objects and the necessity of facing death as a reality, reinforces underlying envy and destructiveness and threatens the dissolution of whatever stability they have built up for themselves. Although they may approach treatment with a sense of urgency, it is also with a sense of failure, shame and humiliation. Their expectations of analysis present difficulties for themselves and the analyst, in that their conception of treatment is more in the realm of immediate relief of psychic distress rather than a need for internal change. If change is conceived of, it is more to do with a re-establishment of their previous narcissistic organisation, rather than the promotion of psychic growth.” (Cohen, 1982).
The presentation will explore the tripartite issues of ageing, narcissism and loneliness from a psychodynamic perspective. We will be using a paper by Cohen as a springboard to focus reflections on salient clinical aspects encountered in everyday practice with clients.
[download pre-session reading here] [download event flyer here]
Psychotherapist Bio
John Wright has practiced in mental health for over 30 years. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist with children and families in North of England, then worked as a psychotherapist in adolescent and adult departments at Tavistock Clinic in London before locating to rural Devon and holding several posts in the local NHS and university sites as a clinician and lecturer. He subsequently completed his training as a psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and now mainly works in private practice.
Format
90 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer.
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$60; Students - SGD$30 (All paid fees are non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation.
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students. Singapore Association of Counselling Approved 1.5 CPD hours.