Mapping transference in supervision: the key to analytic CAT

This workshop offers a chance to explore a distinctively CAT approach to the dynamics and therapeutic uses of transference and countertransference.  Its focus is on the push and pull of the emotions 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 of sample maps and use these to map out their own unique experience. The workshop concludes with a provisional mapping of and writing to our own 'counter-transference driven' therapist's style.  

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