Healing Haunted Lives: Trauma Workshop Series

Recognizing and Treating

Dissociative Adaptations

to Trauma in Adults

Richard A. Chefetz, M.D

Saturday, October 25, 2008

9:00am - 4:30 pm

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

One Crisis Center Plaza, Tampa, Florida

(Exit Bearss Avenue WEST, off I-275)

This is an introductory program geared to provide clinicians with a theoretical framework that uses common sense language to describe dissociative processes and their vicissitudes.

Using selected videotapes from the clinical setting, Dr. Chefetz brings the participant into the consultation room to educate about the intensity of the affective disarray and the profound nature of shifts in subjectivity that regularly intrude upon the consciousness of persons with complex dissociative disorders. Dissociative processes are part and parcel of mental life, not just a production of severe trauma. This seminar will help participants learn to identify dissociative processes in both patient and therapist as a routine, but usually un-noticed, part of subjective experience.

Healing Haunted Lives: Trauma Workshop Series

4-part Trauma Series Workshop begins on October 25, 2008, starting off with Dr. Richard Chefetz who will elaborate on dissociation. The series will end on March 7, 2009 with Dr. Ghislaine Boulanger discussing herlongstanding work with Vietnam Veterans as well as more recent work with those intimately affected by the events of 9/11. Discounted registration will be available for attendance of the complete series.

Early Registration Discounts through 10/19!

Contact tampabaypsa@aol.com to register or call (813) 908 - 5080

Program

Recognizing and Treating Dissociative Adaptations to Trauma in Adults

• What really happens in dissociation? (Video)
  
• Attachment, Dissociative Process, and Psychotherapy
  
• Transference/Countertransference
• Enactment and Dissociation (Case presentation and discussion)
  
• Working with Intense Shame (Brief Case and Video)
  
• Affect and Dissociation: The Golden Thread

Richard Chefetz, M.D.

Faculty, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Washington School of Psychiatry, Modern Perspective inPsychoanalysis and New Directions in Psychoanalysis/Washington Center for Psychoanalysis; Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at theWilliam Alanson White Institute, NYC; past-president International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation