Mar312012
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Technical Approaches to Masochism
Faculty: Alan Sugarman, Ph.D., Tara Robbins, Ph.D.
This workshop will emphasize how ubiquitous sado-masochistic phenomena are, and the degree to which they pose the greatest problems in psychotherapy. It will be proposed that most cases of intractable resistances involve sado-masochism and the difficulty in trying to help a patient to feel better when he or she is unconsciously committed to suffering. After developing this thesis, the presenters will discuss the most common dynamic and structural contributors to masochism in an effort to explicate appropriate treatment strategies. The audience will be encouraged to discuss their own clinical cases in order to study these phenomena more closely, while the faculty will discuss some of their own cases to add to the discussion. A developmental framework will be used to demonstrate that children as well as adults present with such difficulties.
Times:
8:00 am - 11:00 am (8:30 AM - Light Breakfast & Registration)
Where:
SDPSI
Cost:
Members: $35, Non-Members: $50, Students: $20
CEUs:
3 Presenter Information:
Tara Robbins, Ph.D. is a Psychotherapy Instructor and Supervisor at SDPSI and has a private practice in child and adult clinical psychology in La Jolla.
Alan Sugarman, Ph.D. is a child, adolescent, and adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at SDPSI and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD. He, too, has a private practice in La Jolla.
Educational Objectives:
- Delineate clinical examples of sado-masochistic phenomena.
- Describe various dynamic and structural meanings of such phenomena.
- Implement treatment strategies appropriate to these various dynamic and structural contributors.
