Learn with TPP: "What Kind of Therapist Am I?" Who are you and How do you really work with patients?

Synopsis

I always ask my new supervisees. “Tell me how you work in therapy". The answers are usually couched as therapeutic technique. For example, “I use CBT”, or “I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist” or “I apply ACT” or “Mindfulness” and others. But my question actually is asking “How do you really work?”. Often our publicly espoused therapeutic orientations are different from what actually happens between therapist and patient in the sanctity of the consulting room. And this is related to who we are as people.

Among other qualities – which I will describe in this seminar - I have come to understand that I am a therapist who offers a mind to another for their psychic survival. Who can be simultaneously immersed in sometimes disturbing and sometimes frightening states of mind and yet remain personally and interpersonally tethered to reality in such a way that transformative meaning can be made between two minds.

In this seminar I will also explore in dialogue with the participants, "What kind of therapist are you?”

Guest Speaker Bio

Dr. Allan Shafer MA (Clinical Psychology), D Lit et Phil

Dr. Allan Shafer originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist and has over 45 years’ experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. For a significant period, he has also been a socioanalytic consultant to organisations, predominantly in the mental health sector. He is a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and has served as a past President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of Western Australia, as well as a director of its training program.

Dr. Shafer was an executive member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia. He is a founding member and former president of Group Relations Australia. He has directed or consulted on psychoanalytically informed group relations experiential conferences in Australia, the UK, India, China, Israel, Poland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Notably, he was the associate director of the 2019 “Leicester Conference” of the Tavistock Institute, London and he has been appointed Honorary Consultant to Group Relations Taiwan.

Dr. Shafer has contributed extensively to conferences and publications in both psychoanalytic psychotherapy and socioanalysis. He has conducted seminars and workshops in the UK, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Taiwan, the USA, and throughout Australia. He has a passionate interest in applying psychoanalytic thinking to the consulting room and to the socio-political world.

Format
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer

Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).

Fee
Standard - SGD$76.30 ; Students - SGD$32.70 (All paid fees are incl. 9% GST and non-refundable).

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students.

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