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treating the highly resistant patient:         a videotape presentation

Presenter:  Jon Frederickson, MSW

Saturday & Sunday, January 24 & 25, 2009

Saturday, 9:30 AM–5:00 PM

Sunday, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM

 

“I’m not an emotional person.”  “I don’t want to be close to my wife.”  “Other people tell me I am passive aggressive.”  “Maybe I’m not able to do this.”  Highly resistant patients present unique challenges to therapists.  Their defenses, resistances, and lack of involvement sabotage their relationships and therapies.  The patient to be presented failed in six previous therapies.  His defensive manner of relating remained untouched.  This videotape presentation will study the initial session with a highly resistant patient with obsessional defenses.

Attendees will learn how to identify defenses and how to help the patient see and turn against defenses.  Videotapes will also illustrate common transference resistances of passivity, non-involvement, helplessness, and defiance, which can sabotage any therapeutic alliance.  Attendees will learn how to identify subtle signs of these resistances and how to intervene effectively.  Videotapes will show how effective work with resistances helped a patient develop a genuine, collaborative therapeutic alliance. 

Rather than a pure lecture format, the presentation will be supported by moment to moment analysis of videotaped sessions to provide detailed examples of how to work with highly resistant patients and build a successful therapeutic alliance.

Objectives

This workshop is designed to help you:

 1.     Identify defenses quickly.

2.     Identify forms of resistance which prevent the establishment of a therapeutic alliance.

3.     Intervene effectively with defenses.

Presenter

Jon Frederickson, MSW is co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry.  He also trains groups of therapists in England, Norway, and Poland.  The author of two books and over twenty articles, he has presented videotapes of his work to clinicians in Italy, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, London, Oxford, and Derby, England.

Schedule - Saturday

9-9:30             Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:30- 11:00     Theory presentation: Typical defenses and forms of transference resistance.

11-11:15         Coffee break

11:15-12:30    Microanalysis of Session Videotape:  Opening of the initial session: assessment of anxiety and defense.  Clarification of defense.  Resistance appears in the therapeutic relationship

12:30-1:45      Lunch (off site)

1:45-3:00        Microanalysis of Session Videotape: Turning the patient against his defenses and resistance: identifying the price his resistance will cost in the therapeutic  relationship.

3:00-3:15        Coffee break

3:15-4:30        Microanalysis of Session Videotape: Deactivating the omnipotent transference (where therapists usually get in trouble).  Helping the patient turn against his resistance.

4:30-5             Discussion

Schedule - Sunday  

9-9:30             Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:30     Theory presentation: Resistance to emotional closeness in therapy. Interventions and their rationale.

10:30-10:45   Coffee break

10:45-12:00   Microanalysis of Session Videotape:  Turning against the resistance.  Breakthrough to unconscious feelings and impulse.  Working with complex transference feelings.

12:00-1:15     Lunch (off site)

1:15-2:30       Drop in resistance: breakthrough to deeper complex unconscious feelings.

2:30-2:45       Coffee break.

2:45-4:00       Progress and shift in defenses and resistance.

4:00-4:30       Discussion


Location

The Washington School of Psychiatry
5028 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC, 20016
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CE/CME Award - 11   

Fee - $330.00

continuing education

The Washington School of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists. The Washington School maintains responsibility for the program.

The School is approved by the Social Work Board of the State of Maryland as a provider of continuing education for social workers.

The School is approved by the Medical Society of Maryland (MEDCHI) for continuing education for psychiatrists.

Registration

Please call the School at 202-237-2700 to register. You can also use the conference registration form to register for this seminar by faxing it to WSP at 202-237-2730, or mail the form to: Washington School of Psychiatry, 5028 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20016.

Cancellations and Refunds

Refunds will be made for cancellations received at the School office in writing prior to     January 16 and are subject to a non - refundable administrative fee of $50.

 

Disclosure of Commercial Support and the Unlabeled use of a commercial product.  No member of the planning committee and no member of the faculty for this event have a financial interest or other relationship with any commercial product(s) discussed in this educational presentation.