Working with Clients with Depressive and Self-Defeating Psychologies


AGENDA
Thursday, Ocotber 5, 2017
The Brattleboro Retreat
Brattleboro, Vermont
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee 
   
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Depressive and self-defeating conditions and                          personality patterns.
Introjective versus anaclitic orientations. Implications of Blatt’s research on major depression. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed.:                            conceptualization, transference and                                  countertransference, and clinical approaches to          clients with depressive psychologies.
   
10:00 AM -10:15 AM Break & Refreshments
   
10:15 AM - 11:30  AM
Self-defeating personality patterns in depth, with                   attention to level of severity of personality                       organization.
“Relational masochism” versus “moral masochism.”
Transference, countertransference, and implications           for treatment, both short- and long-term.
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Clinical case example of the long-term treatment of a          self-defeating patient, questions, discussion.
 
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Video of an intake interview with a notably self-                    defeating woman.]
Application of material covered during in the                          morning.
Questions, discussion of the case.
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM  Questions and Answers