A Workshop presented by Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP
Continued Education (CEU/CME): 2.0 credits
Fee: Fees include CEs. This is a free event for HP/CPC students and candidates, $40 for CPC/HP members and nonmember students, and $75 for nonmembers who are not students.
Attendance: This is a hybrid event - in person and online attendance is available
Course Description:
Dr. Grossmark will elaborate, via clinical examples, on his main body of work, what he is most known for in relational circles – the concept of the unobtrusive relational analyst, the flow of enactive engagement, and psychoanalytic companioning. He will advance his theories via presentation of an in-depth case to illustrate how unrepresented and unformulated trauma and neglect announce themselves in the flow of mutual enactive engagement and how, rather than seek to move the patient into greater relatedness and insight, the analyst companions the patient in the emergence of yet to be known and thought narratives of trauma and fragmentation. The tilt is toward an ontological position that privileges being-with the patient rather than an epistemological one where meaning can be symbolized and interpreted.
Learning Objectives.
1. Participants will be able to recognize mutual enactments as narratives and will be able to observe the creation of meaning from within the enactment.
2. Participants will recognize repetitions in the treatment as enactments of unsymbolized trauma
ROBERT GROSSMARK, PH.D, ABPP, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups and couples.
He is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, National Faculty Member, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
He is the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-edited The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory.