The digital recording will be released to all participants 48 hours after the live session. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
Early Affect Confusion, Cumulative Trauma and Attachment Disruptions: Relational Psychotherapy for the Borderline Client – Dr Richard Erskine
The digital recording will be released to all participants 48 hours after the live session. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
Anger and dependency, elation and despair, idealization and hate. For many psychotherapists clients who enact such behaviour present a professional challenge because they frequently engage in relational conflicts, enact varying developmental levels of transference, and polarize both their emotions and relationships. Their affect, behaviour, and relationships reflect an Early Affect Confusion.
Dr. Erskine will present a Developmentally-based, Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy in working with clients who’s life story is characterized by affect confusion and attachment disruptions –- where their behaviour alternates between blaming others and self-criticism, where the client seeks justification for felt rage, and harbours explicit confusions about how others treat them.
In a relationship-focused psychotherapy, the therapist is focused on assisting the client’s understanding the affect confusion of a young child, how this early affect confusion in enacted in relationships, the significant of relational needs, and process of developing and integrating full internal and interpersonal contact. Of particular importance is the process of attunement to the client’s affect and physical sensations, their process of thinking, as well has how their behaviours impact their relationships. Specifically, we consider the interpersonal needs which may often have been absent in our client’s significant relationships. Read More
TRAINING information
Anger and dependency, elation and despair, idealization and hate. For many psychotherapists clients who enact such behaviour present a professional challenge because they frequently engage in relational conflicts, enact varying developmental levels of transference, and polarize both their emotions and relationships. Their affect, behaviour, and relationships reflect an Early Affect Confusion.
Dr. Erskine will present a Developmentally-based, Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy in working with clients who’s life story is characterized by affect confusion and attachment disruptions –- where their behaviour alternates between blaming others and self-criticism, where the client seeks justification for felt rage, and harbours explicit confusions about how others treat them.
In a relationship-focused psychotherapy, the therapist is focused on assisting the client’s understanding the affect confusion of a young child, how this early affect confusion in enacted in relationships, the significant of relational needs, and process of developing and integrating full internal and interpersonal contact. Of particular importance is the process of attunement to the client’s affect and physical sensations, their process of thinking, as well has how their behaviours impact their relationships. Specifically, we consider the interpersonal needs which may often have been absent in our client’s significant relationships. Read More
Learning Objectives
At this workshop, participants will:
1) assimilate and comprehend a series of therapeutic interventions that reflect relational, intersubjective sensitivity in the psychotherapy of clients with Borderline Personality traits;
2) differentiate between various forms of therapeutic inquiry and apply the skills of acknowledgement, validation and normalization;
3) formulate a therapeutic perspective that will include the significance of attunement to the client’s affects and rhythm while resonating with the client’s level of emotional development;
4) identify eight relational needs and contemplate therapeutic responses to both archaic and current needs;
5) understand and use in therapy the relational functions of stabilization, regulation, reparation, and enhancement;
6) identify when to use a bifurcated question to resolve the client’s transference based questions;
7) to develop a developmentally-based, relationally-focused psychotherapy for clients with Early Affect Confusion.
About the Speaker
Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy (New York City and Vancouver). Originally trained in client-centered child therapy, Dr Erskine also studied Gestalt therapy with both Fritz and Laura Perls. He is a certified clinical Transactional Analyst and a Licensed Psychoanalyst who has specialized in psychoanalytic self-psychology and object-relations theory. His work is an integration of these concepts and fifty years of clinical experience, which has included working with disturbed children, inmates in a maximum security prison, borderline and narcissistic clients, post-traumatic stress and dissociative identity disorders. Recently his research and clinical practice have focused on the treatment of the schizoid process and on the psychotherapy of obsession. His most recent book (2023) is Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process (2023) Phoenix Publishing www.firingthemind.com
CPD/CE
CPD / CE / NBCC credits available: 6
How do I receive these credits?
The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.
The post-test is included in the price of the training.
Does my regulatory body accept the credits?
The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.
Our trainings are accredited by:
– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association
– National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
