Upcoming Webinar about Self-Esteem

In this intriguing training, we will review some familiar concepts and expand Freudian object relation theory and clinical implications for therapists. How is self-esteem formed? Why is it so difficult for one to preserve self-esteem? How is esteem built in children and adults? We will discuss how the sense of “me” versus the not-me, the object, is established; and how difficult, but so important, it is to tolerate the otherness of our dearest others in our lives – children, spouse, parents and of our clients as well. We will cover a lively illustration using 2 to 4 case studies, pending time.

This course will help the participants to acknowledge why we, the therapists, tend so easily to project our own familiarities. It will help us to find ways how we may help our patients to disclose their hidden True Self and love relations memory traces. We will discuss how we may help our clients acknowledge their need to repeat and refined familiarity and resist strangeness as survival mechanism of the Emotional Immune System (the Healthy Narcissism). We will explore what’s needed for and from each partner like patient and therapist, parent and child, as well as between spouses in order to establish a healthy relationship.

Principals of psychoanalytic-psychodynamic theory can help psychotherapists and patients to re-create a better balance between negative and positive memory traces (throughout associations, dreams, etc.), between the capacity to maintain love relations and the tendency to destroy love relations facing trauma, frustrations and narcissistic injuries. This conceptualization of self-development will be applied to the clinical setting to produce insight and self-awareness for the client.

Schedule

·       Part 1: Foundations of self-esteem (healthy narcissism) and love relationships09:30 PM – 10:30 PM

·       Part 2: Case studies; Q & A10:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will learn the clinical impact of childhood values and biases in relations to working with clients to learn to approach them with openness, acceptance and tolerance.
• Participants will gain at least five basic psychoanalytic-psychodynamic concepts of helping patients through their symptoms.
• Participants will learn three methods to bring out the needs and challenges of their clients and their objects experiencing conflict of interests, aggressiveness and love.