Description of the Workshop Presented by Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D. The relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalysis has long been a central question in the literature. Most analysts now believe that although insight has clear value, it isn’t normally sufficient to produce structural change in most patients. Alternatively, the tide has shifted strongly […]
Presentation:Beth Feldman, Ph.D. Discussants:Lynn Higgins, LCSW andAmira Simha-Alpern, Ph.D., ABPP Description of the Workshop When our patient takes their own life, how do we go on with the same confidence in our ability to heal, the same willingness to face each hour with an open heart? How do we understand the devastating choice that they have […]
Description of the Workshop Presenter: Dr. Madeline Hirschfeld This workshop focuses on the unique clinical dilemmas that clinicians are facing as we attempt to meet our patients needs for continuity and connection, while still protecting our own needs for safety and/or privacy. Ways to manage the challenges to the therapeutic relationship and the frame of treatment […]
