Formação e Oficinas de Psicoterapia Integrativa

Through formal lectures and group discussions about early childhood Affect Confusion, Cumulative Trauma, and Attachment Disruptions this course will present the theory and methods effective in the Psychotherapy of clients with a Borderline Personality Disorder. For many psychotherapists, borderline clients present a professional challenge because of their frequent relational conflicts, varying developmental levels of transference, and their polarization of emotions, such as: idealization and hate, elation and despair, anger and dependency, and the stimulation of intense countertransferential reactions in the psychotherapist.

Dr. Erskine will teach several methods that are effective in the psychotherapy of borderline clients: the therapeutic use of treatment contracts, a working knowledge of when and how to use a relational psychotherapy, the effectiveness of behavioral interventions, uncovering physiological survival reactions and implicit memories, and the use of supportive age regression. Also included will be the methods of transference resolution and countertransference identification, the bifurcation of therapeutically relevant challenges, calibrating for juxtaposition reactions, responding to oscillating relational-needs, and the importance of a sustained phenomenological inquiry and affect attunement. Participants are invited to present cases from their own clinical practices for discussion and supervision.