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Conference from Denver Psychoanalytic Society
Conference Title: Helping Change Stick
Speaker: Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH
Date/Time: May 4, 2024 from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM (MDT)
Location: Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Registration Link: https://www.denverpsychoanalytic.org/event-5448702
Registration Required
Conference Description: Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, and actively developing Internalization. This workshop describes and illustrates these four skill areas to psychotherapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, using lecture, slides, case examples, and live role-play.
Learning Objectives (Participants will be able to:)
1. List four elements of treatment-relevant diagnosis to consider when developing treatment goals.
2. Demonstrate three interventions for deepening a patient’s absorption and two interventions for promoting internalization.
Presenter Biography: Mary Jo Peebles is a Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, who practices and teaches as a theoretical synergist. Her “six men and the elephant” concept, of six equally valid, supported, and vital theoretical portals into human functioning (biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, systems), forms the basis for her psychotherapeutic reasoning. Her intensive background in the David Rapaport, Merton Gill, and Roy Schafer approach to Psychological Testing shapes her understanding of the importance of mapping structural instabilities and recovery when planning treatment. Dr. Peebles is the author of Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy as well as When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck and is co-author with Anthony Bram of Psychological Testing That Matters. She teaches the same way she conducts therapy: with an understanding that multimodal encountering complexifies neural networks, brings ideas alive, and thus helps change stick.