Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association   Program Description This course for mental health professionals begins with the awareness that our ability to predict suicide is little better than chance and that at present there are no consistently reliable empirically validated treatment techniques to prevent suicide. However, Dr. Hedges will demonstrate that in the past three […]

Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association   Program Description This discussion will explore the frame and setting of sessions; that which is constantand that which is tailored to each patient. Examples from clinical and supervisory work willbe used to explore both the firmness and flexibility required of the therapist to allow thepatients' themes and conflicts to […]

Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association   Program Description Working with borderline states is extremely challenging because we often feel invaded, overwhelmed, and helpless to make sense of what is happening with the patient. Language, both ours and the patient’s, seems inadequate to capture the experience in the room. In this workshop, I will use Bion’s […]

Sponsored by The WILA Alumni Association   Program Description The interpretive process is potentially the therapist’s most powerful tool for stimulating personal growth through emotional integration. But, since an interpretation is aimed to destabilize some aspect of the patient’s neurotically organized internal world, it can readily be experienced as a threat and therefore warded off. […]

Co-Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association &New Center for Psychoanalysis   Program Description Appreciating the clinical implications of personality differences has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Our patients are unique individuals, with specific, personality-related strengths and weaknesses, and although we may focus on a particular “disorder” that […]