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1.5
Event Type
Recorded Event
Location
Your TR Together account
Standard
£45.00
Trainee/NHS
£38.25
Intergenerational Transmissions in Clinical Impasse
Clinical Impasse Series
With Jill Sallberg & Zack Eleftheriadou (Chair)
In this five-part series we explore why, with some clients, the therapy ‘gets stuck’.
A therapeutic impasse can lead to self-doubt among therapists, as well as concerns that the client may terminate the therapy prematurely. We aim to demonstrate that these challenging moments can offer great insights for both client and therapist, if they can be worked through.
More recently impasses, collisions, and collusions have been acknowledged as inherent and valuable aspects of clinical practice. This means that the experience of getting stuck or encountering a therapeutic impasse can actually help the therapist to understand more about the client's inner world and potentially shed light on how the histories of both the client and therapist are interacting unconsciously. Identifying, naming, and making sense of these clinical impasses can serve as a way forwards
Our speakers cover themes including the recognising unconscious dynamics between therapist and patient which maintain a stasis in the therapy, the impact of intergenerational transmissions on progress, the phenomenon of "othering" within the context of relational psychoanalysis and racialized enactments, and the delicate art of being affected by the therapeutic process without becoming overwhelmed by it.
The primary objective for this series is to support therapists' capacity to navigate and work through these challenging phases. By participating in this series, therapists can gain the confidence and skills necessary to effectively address moments when they and their clients find themselves in the challenging position of feeling "stuck."
Programme
Jill Salberg - Clinical Impasse as an Inevitable part of Therapeutic Action
Perhaps the greatest shift in clinical practice and literature is organised around a shared understanding across theoretical divides regarding the inevitability of impasses, collisions, and collusions in the treatment relationship. In this session, Jill will consider how inter-generational transmission affects both patient and analyst, infiltrating the treatment, disrupting alliances and blocks forward movement. Jill will discuss clinical material that illustrates how a mother’s early death came to haunt the lives of subsequent generations of mothers and daughters. I will address the impact of attachment rupture, trauma, envy, and shame as they reflect transgenerational transmission phenomena and how they were worked on, repaired, and utilised as therapeutic action.
Discussion with Zack Eleftheriadou
Zack will discuss the presentation with the speaker and draw out some themes for exploration inspiring the group discussion.
Q&A with participants
End
Zack Eleftheriadou
Dr Zack Eleftheriadou MSc MA, Dip NCFED, Dip Psychopathology, is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Chartered Scientist, Supervisor and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (HCPC reg). She has trained as an adult, child and parent-infant psychotherapist (UKCP) and is a member of CPJA/UKCP as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She lectures and has published in the following areas: developmental issues, cross-cultural work; including the text ‘Psychotherapy and Culture’. She has been working as a psychotherapist and an infant observation tutor for 30 years. She is currently supervising infant observation students and infant observation tutors. She is a guest lecturer and a member of The Bowlby Centre and is a visiting external examiner for Doctoral projects across the UK. Zack runs the consultancy service ‘Noema’, providing psychotherapy and supervision. She feels passionate about early intervention and presents on the psychology of the baby for midwives and paediatric nurses.
Jill Salberg
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP is a clinical associate professor and clinical consultant/supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and a member of IPTAR. Her articles have been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, (2017), both books won the Gradiva Award (2018). Their co-written book Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction is forthcoming this Spring 2024 published by Routledge. She has conceived of and co-edits a book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge. She is in private practice in Manhattan and online.
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
- Participants will be able to identify aspects of transgenerational transmissions in the fragmentary ways in which they can enter the treatment as clinical impasses.
- Participants will learn to identify how transmissions occur through attachment abandonment and ruptures.
- Participants will learn how these transmissions become enacted in different ways for the patient and for the therapist and how to work on repair.
Standard Registration: £45
Trainee, NHS staff and Third Sector: £38.25
Group Rates (for 4 or more): Contact makeritafaumui@trtogether.com for customised pricing.
Trainee discount: To qualify for this offer you need to be taking a course which provides core practitioner training in counselling or psychotherapy that is at least 1 year full time or two years part time and recognised by the BACP or UKCP. TR Together reserve the right to ask to see evidence of training being undertaken.
Alumni: If you are a TR Alumni (TRAPC member) please email anitabruz@tavistockrelationships.org for a discount code to add at checkout
Your CPD Certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account within 48 hours of purchase.