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February 2022 Theme:

The Neurotic,Borderline, Psychotic Continuum & Countertransference Dynamics

PAYMENT 

         $90.00

READINGS 

  • Review – INTIMACY & SEPARATENESS – CHAPTER 6 – ‘The Analyst’s Approach & The Patient’s Psychic Growth’ – pages 60-72.
  • SELF-EXAMINATION – CHAPTER 4 – ‘Failure’ – pages 49 – 59.  CHAPTER 2 – ‘Stumbling In the Shadows’ – The case of David, pages 31 – 97.
  • PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS  – CHAPTER 3 -‘Developmental Levels Of Organization’ – page 52 – 55, pages 63 – 67.  CHAPTER 4 -‘Implications of Developmental Levels Of Organization’ – pages 83 – 95.  Splitting – pages 116-117.   CHAPTER 5 – ‘Primary Defensive Processes’ – pages 108-117.

LECTURE NOTES 

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BOOK CHAPTERS 

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Audio Recording

 

“Characterological patterns contain a constant, living tension between unconscious restraint of self and others on the one hand, and the spirit of unconscious communication to the other, which seeks to permeate the mental lives of one another, hoping to make their mark, come to be understood, and thereby find new freedoms of experience and expression.”

Bill Cornell

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

– William Butler Yeats

 

 

You can hold back from the

suffering of this world

and you have permission to do so,

and it is in accordance

with your nature,

but perhaps this very holding back

is the one suffering

you could have avoided.

 

– Franz Kafka