Mapping transference in supervision (Melbourne): the key to analytic CAT
Mon 19 Aug
|Webinar workshop
Develop your skills in working with transference and counter transference. Two one and half hour small group webinars with a manual of exercises to try between the sessions. Monday19th August and 2nd of September (5.00-6.30 Melbourne time)
Time of Event
19 Aug 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+10
Webinar workshop
About the Event
This workshop offers a chance to explore a CAT approach to the dynamics and therapeutic uses of transference and countertransference. Its focus is on the push and pull of 'feelings in the air' and in the search for shared understanding of the emotional roles in the interpersonal relationship between client and therapist. These are often hard to notice, name and negotiate in session and need their own space in supervision. The temptations are: to bypass thinking about them; give them lipservice only; or rush to formulation and resolution too quickly.
Mapping can help stay long enough with the uncertainty and push and pull of the pre-transfence emotions (that are 'in the air between us') to make sense and good use of them.
Participants will work with a transference checklist and use these to map out their own unique moments of transference experience. The workshop concludes with a provisional mapping of and writing to…