About this course

Learning Objectives

• Describe the concept of relational disruption.
• Explain the impact that our immediate response to shame has on the patient.
• Discuss different ways to be receptive of who the patient is.
• Discuss Shabad's concept of passion to give ourselves to others.
• Discuss the foundations for a human conscience.
• Describe the implications of self-shaming in the person.
• Describe the implications of remorseful guilt in the person.
• Discuss the importance of engaging in a democratic manner with the patient.

Course Instructor(s)

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  Cathy Hicks, PhD

  Australia

  Cathy Hicks PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a founder member and past president of the Australian Chapter of IARPP, and a former Board member of the IARPP. She was co-chair of the 2017 IARPP Annual Conference, held in Sydney, and is one of the current co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee.

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  Peter Shabad, Ph.D.

  Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP) and the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, spite, and regret. Dr. Shabad has a new book in press entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion, Shame, and Mourning to be published by Routledge.

• Koichi Togashi, PhD, LP

  Private Practice
• Elizabeth A. Corpt, MSW, LICSW

  Private Practice
• MARGARET I. CARLEY, PHD

  Private Practice
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  Sandra Silverman, LCSW

  LCSW

  Sandra Silverman, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is Faculty, Supervisor and a member of the Executive Committee at The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. Sandy has written and presented on topics including analytic vulnerability, gender and trauma. Her recent publications include, “Did You Say He Has a Hitler Mustache? Vulnerability and Destabilization in the Face of Trauma,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2019, and “The colonized mind: Gender, trauma and mentalization” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2015. She is in private practice in New York City.

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  Dr. Micha Weiss

  Ph.D

  Dr. Micha Weiss is a senior clinical psychologist and supervisor from Tel-Aviv, member of IARPP since its inception. Micha is a senior clinical lecturer at Colman Academic Institute and he teaches Ethics and Relational Psychoanalysis, and leads various experiential workshops that deal with the Ethical Presence of the psychoanalytic therapist. He has written various papers, among them 'Ethical Presence in the Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Role of Apology' (AJP, 2018). He is a member of the board of directors of IARPP, and member of the Ethical Committee of the Israeli Psychological Association.

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  Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD

  PhD

  Adriana Cuenca Carrara is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in private practice in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, United States. She has a doctorate degree in Psychology from Mexico and she is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She is faculty member and supervisor of the Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master Program at Universidad Marista de Mérida, Mexico. She is a member of CAMFT California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and a member of IARPP since 2013. She has lived and worked for the past 30 years between Tijuana and San Diego.

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  Duncan Cartwright, PhD

  PhD

  Duncan Cartwright, Ph.D., is head of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He teaches Psychopathology and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in the Master’s Clinica/Counselling training program. He is in part-time private practice. He is the author of Murdering Minds: Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder (Brunner-Routledge,2002) and Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion’s Container Model in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2010).

References

• Shabad, P. (2017). The vulnerability of giving: Ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37(6), 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2017.1334443
• Chalker, C. (2022). Owning the Responsibility of Shame and Erasure. A Response to Shabad’s Article “Owing and Being Owed: Shame and the Responsibility Toward Other”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), 410-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2022.2088210
• Grand, S. (2022). The Clinical and Cultural Complexities of Repair: A Discussion of Shabad. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), 405-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2022.2088209
• Shabad, P. (2020). The forward edge of resistance: Toward the dignity of human agency. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(1), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2019.1702386
• Drozek, R. P., & Fonagy, P. (2019). Psychoanalysis as an ethical process. Routledge.