Title:  Applications of Group Relations to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy                                        

Presenters:                     

China Seminar Dates:Monday 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, and 11/19

China Seminar Times:7:30-9:00 AM

US Seminar Dates:      Sunday 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, and 11/18

US Seminar Times:      6:30-8:00 PM CDST (10/21, 10/28), 5:30-7:00 PM CST (11/4, 11/11, 11/18)

Prerequisites: Students must be CAPA students, graduates or previous members of group relations conferences

Course size:  Limit of 20 participants 

Description:         This class will examine in depth the basic assumption levels of group functioning and how  they appear in the psychoanalytic dyad.

Course Objective:  Participants will acquire a foundation in the theory of group and organizational functioning  developed by Wilfred Bion. Close reading of several chapters of Bion’s book “Experiences in Groups” will provide a starting point for discussion of how his theory informs psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Important Note:  Participants will be emailed all readings as PDFs in English.

Bio:  Jeffrey D. Roth, MD is an addiction psychiatrist and group psychotherapy who has directed four group relations conferences in China from 2014 to 2018. Dr. Roth has organized the five pairs of presenters for this seminar series. Each pair will consist of a Western psychoanalytic psychotherapist experienced in group and organizational dynamics and a Chinese psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has worked on the      staff of at least one of these conferences.

If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr. Roth directly at jrothmd@workingsobriety.com

 

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A seminar on the group and organizational dynamics of authority and leadership using a model of pairing a Western teacher with a Chinese co-teacher for each of five sessions:

1) An introduction to the use of group and organizational dynamics in the psychoanalytic dyad (10/21,22),
Isabelle Reiniger, LCSW and Enoch Li, LLM (Hons)

2) Basic assumption dependence and its application to the psychoanalytic dyad (10/28,29)
Ray Bakaitis, PhD and Tingli Zhou

3) Basic assumption fight/flight and its application to the psychoanalytic dyad (11/4,5)
Lori Schweikert, MD and Jin Liu, MSc

4) Basic assumption pairing and its application to the psychoanalytic dyad (11/11,12)
Seth Harkins, EdD and Ellen Xiaofeng Sun, MD

5) Projective identification and its application to the psychoanalytic dyad   (11/18,19)
Xiaohua Lu, PhD, Jeffrey D. Roth, MD and Evangeline Sarda, JD