TheCityTherapist.org http://www.thecitytherapist.org Events of Note for Therapists in the City Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:22:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Trauma, Disruption, Internalization, and Reintegration: A Self-Psychological Approach http://www.thecitytherapist.org/2012/02/09/269/ http://www.thecitytherapist.org/2012/02/09/269/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:33:11 +0000 Jamie http://www.thecitytherapist.org/?p=269 In this presentation Marc Wayne will illustrate how emotional trauma in the infant/caregiver dyad disrupts development of the self and impairs the child’s capacity to pursue healthy object relations. Traumatic experiences damage one’s capacity to pursue adaptive patterns in diverse psycho-biological systems.  Trauma impairs one’s competence in establishing normal intimate relationships and compromises one’s capacity to regulate affect in states of over-arousal. Recent findings in the fields of Attachment and Infant Research, Developmental Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Research have demonstrated the importance of psycho-biological attunement, affect synchrony and interactive repair within the primary caretaker/infant dyad.  Failure in these interdependent systems results in experiences of acute stress and distress ultimately registering as pathogenic trauma.
                                                                                                                                            Traumatic and dissociative states can result from this loss of the existential continuity in the dyad due to mal-attunement on the part of the caregivers.  These early experiences have profound implications with regard to pathological emotional functioning in the future.  Within this presentation, Marc will demonstrate how the therapist’s interventions can begin to repair traumatic ruptures and create new pathways of development as a result of the positive therapeutic dyad.  Case material and excerpts from relevant films will highlight these concepts.

 

Presenter:

Marc Wayne, LCSW, BCD is a training analyst, faculty member, and senior supervisor at the Object Relations Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Training Institute for Mental Health. He was a former faculty member, senior supervisor and training analyst at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health as well as, chairman of the Training Committee at the Object Relations Institute and Director of Supervision at the Bronx Center for Community Services. Marc has extensive experience working with individuals suffering from PTSD and has been a member of the Trauma Response Team of the Training Institute following the 9/11 attacks.  He has conducted numerous professional workshops and classes at training institutes and hospitals on the treatment of schizoid states, multi-modal approaches to annihilation anxiety and disillusionment, self-psychology, and infant research theory.  Marc Wayne has a private practice in psychoanalysis and supervision in Manhattan.

Moderator: Susan A. Klett, LCSW-R, BCD

RSVP: registrar@wsi.org

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