'Mutual recognition' as a basis for considerations in choosing various therapeutic interventions.
Moderator
Ms. Naama Greenwald
What's in the workshop?
The psychodynamic approach, in its various streams, emphasizes the exploration of an inner world, and tends to be suspicious of behavioral or other interventions that have no connection to inner meaning and that satisfy urges instead of recognizing, processing, and containing them. Giving advice, behavioral practices, and breaking the setting are seen as the 'not-me' of psychoanalysis. In the workshop, we will examine the possibility of expanding the range of interventions based on various psychoanalytic ideas, and we will mainly rely on the concepts of 'recognition' and 'mutual recognition' of Jessica Benjamin, a central thinker of the relational approach in psychoanalysis.
Workshop objectives:
· Understanding the problems of integration from a psychodynamic perspective.
· Deepening familiarity with the concepts of 'recognition', 'mutual recognition' and 'dedication', as a basis for a unique, one-off therapeutic creation. This is done out of mutual curiosity about the subjectivity of the partners in the process - therapist and patient - and out of an inner openness to creating a shared reality.
· Discussion of psychodynamic concepts as a basis for considerations in choosing various therapeutic interventions: ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic, balances between poles (mentalization), and the creation of 'Thirdness' triads.
Learning methods:
In the first part of the workshop, the theoretical ideas will be presented, and in the second part, we will discuss examples that will be brought by the participants and prepared before the workshop by one or two volunteers from among the workshop participants.
About the moderator
Ms. Naama Greenwald - Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst. Engaged in psychotherapy and organizational counseling. Lecturer at the Hebrew University in the educational-clinical direction of the child and in the programs for administrators at the School of Public Policy and Government. Coordinates the 'Afikim' seminary at the 'Nafshim' Institute at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic for teaching psychoanalysis in an integrative spirit. Lecturer and instructor at the 'Ogen' School of Psychotherapy at the 'Nafshim' Institute.