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Consciousness: It's Mystique and Emerging Clinical Importance

Ever since Freud uncovered the unconscious, it has been the hallowed domain of psychoanalytic conceptualization in the continuing workplace of psychoanalytic treatment. The internal world of psychical reality still remains as the main focus of psychoanalysis today. Now trends are beginning to develop which seem to counterbalance that point of view.

Consciousness, the once less prominent counterpart to the unconscious, is recently being accorded the same interest that Freud once accorded to the unconscious. Cognitive and neuroscience studies are now alerting us to what may be called the uniqueness and the mystique of consciousness, an entity which we have taken too much for granted in the past.

Doctors Antonio Damasio and Christof Koch will present convincing evidence of its intrinsic nature from the neuroscience perspective. Dr. Daniel Stern, the infant developmentalist, will present a new form of ontological psychotherapy whose foundation is consciousness. Dr. James Grotstein will integrate all the presentations with a psychoanalytic perspective.

Program CD Price: $55.00
Homestudy Price: $75.00
Homestudy Credit: 6 Continuing education hours
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Growing Importance of Affects for Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic practice, and by extension, much of psychotherapeutic practice, had long been dominated by Freud’s instinctual drive theories and their derivatives. Object-relations concepts improvised upon Freud by stating that the drives were always object-dedicated, that is, never free from the consideration of an object.

This is the fourth in a series of conferences dedicated to issues that lie on the cutting edge of psychoanalysis and infant development research. The Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) is the sponsor of this conference.

Presentations:

Emerging Themes in Affect Therapy - Peter Fonagy, PhD

Affect Regulation and the Right Brain - Allan Schore, PhD

Panel Discussion - James Grotstein and Panel

This program includes the following tapes:

(476) Emerging Themes in Affect Therapy from Attachment Research
(477) Affect Regulation and the Right Brain: Linking Neuroscience to Psychoanalysis
(478) Panel Discussion and Audience Interaction

Program CD Price: $55.00
Homestudy Price: $75.00
Homestudy Credit: 6 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 6

New Developments in Analytic Technique Applications to Therapy

This conference presents a sampling of psychoanalysis as conducted in England, South America, and the United States from the Kleinian/Bionian perspective.

Dr. Michael Feldman, a distinguished London post-Kleinian analyst, discusses and demonstrates how he and his London colleagues listen to their analysands today. He is the author of numerous, and significant contributions on post-Kleinians theory and technique.

Dr. Shelley Alhanati, who was trained at PCC, shows how a Los Angeles trained Kleinian listens to her patient. Because of her unique intuition and sensitivity, she also demonstrates the technical use of Bion's theories and recommendations.

Dr. James Grotstein, himself a Kleinian/Bionian, discusses the presentations from the other contributors, and integrates their application to all forms of therapy.

PRESENTATIONS:

The Problem with Conviction - Michael Feldman, MD

The Babies of Klein and Bion - Roberto Oelsner, MD

Call and Response - Shelley Alhanati, PhD

Contrasting Analytic Techniques and Their Applications

to Therapy as Practiced by Analysts in Different Venues - James Grotstein, MD

Discussion - James Grotstein, MD

This program includes the following tapes:

(400) The Problem with Conviction
(401) The Babies of Klein and Bion
(402) Call and Response
(403) Contrasting Analytic Techniques and Their Application to Therapy

Program CD Price: $48.00
Homestudy Price: $68.00
Homestudy Credit: 6 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 4