PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE BODY

4 Sunday meetings/ 3 hours & 15 minutes each includes 15-minute break. Sessions will combine readings, discussion, exercises and activities. Focus will be on tuning into the resonance with our patients, tracking both self and other, and attending to moment-to-moment awareness. We will explore how to more effectively support a patient in finding resources within themselves, create more flexibility within their system and develop more ability to manage emotional dysregulation. We will survey different practices that engage the body in treatment. These will include EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Experiencing Touch and Vipassana Meditation. Content will interweave with relational psychoanalytic practice and transference/counter-transference dynamics. The goal of this class is to enhance the use of self and tune into the alchemy of engagement through bodily awareness.