2023 Psychotherapy Workshops
25 May 2023, THURSDAY (6.00pm - 8.00pm SGT)
An evening with Dr Marc Joffe, Clinical Psychologist
Conceptualising OCD through a psychoanalytic Lens
Synopsis
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is regarded in mainstream psychology as a simple anxiety disorder. In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, it is regarded both as a simple disorder and a complex disorder often associated with significant pathology and even, in complicated cases, with schizophrenogenic phenomena.
This workshop seeks to explore the more complicated treatment regimes for the condition in psychodynamic psychotherapy to go beyond the ridiculously simple Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the underpowered Response Prevention Therapy, and other more linear therapy technologies. The workshop will include a lot of case material including obsessions related to violence; sexuality/ sensuality; relationships; harm to others; harm to infants; germs/cleanliness/contamination. The workshop will unpack a tight and complex way of formulating OCD; the targets of intervention with OCD; and the basics of a patient therapeutic approach to this very challenging condition.
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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; has 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
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$64.80 ; Students - SGD$32.40 (All paid fees are incl. 8% GST and 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.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
16 MaRCH 2023, THURSDAY (6.00pm - 8.00pm SGT)
An evening with Dr Allan Shafer, Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, & Socioanalytic Organisational Consultant
UNSEEN WORLDS: Exploring the phenomena and mechanisms of unconscious communication in close relationships
Synopsis
While it is conventionally referred to as “the unconscious”, I find it more useful to think of unconsciousness as a process of unawareness of certain emotional experiences rather than as having a topographical location.
Unconscious communication - at the core of psychoanalytic work - can be understood as a universal process at the heart of all intimate or close human relationships: parent/baby, in couples, and in groups.
In this seminar, I will investigate some ideas about the mechanisms of unconscious communication; how we might demystify it; how it emerges in awareness between people, and how we make use of it in our work as psychotherapists.
Psychotherapist Bio
Dr Allan Shafer, Clinical Psychologist, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and socioanalytic organisation consultant in private practice in Melbourne with 45 years experience.
He is a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Australia, and a past Executive member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia. He is also a past President of Group Relations Australia and of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia.
He has directed or consulted on the staff of group relations conferences in Australia, the UK, India, China, Israel, Poland, Hong Kong and Taiwan and was appointed Honorary Consultant to Group Relations Taiwan. He was associate director of the Tavistock Institute’s 2019 “Leicester Conference”.
He has published widely in both the psychotherapy and socioanalytic fields and given seminars and workshops in New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and around Australia.
Format
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$64.80 ; Students - SGD$32.40 (All paid fees are incl. 8% GST and 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.