Join us for a practicum that explores the enigmatic influence of dreams necessary in breaking the cycles of abuse and victimization. The presentation focuses on the last year of a ten-year analysis with an abuse survivor. What emerged were a series of dreams that produced the re-membering of unbearable, long-term childhood sexual violence. The case study offers practical ways of understanding and working clinically with trauma through dreams. Ideas and practices that emerged from this case will be a prominent focus throughout this seminar.
We will also be working with four presenters from our community who will be providing the material for our mutual sharing and learning. The focus is not a critique but rather in bringing dreams and other primary processes into the field with traumatized patients illustrating how these methods can be useful to by-pass defenses preventing movement.
Why are Dreams Critical for Trauma Work?
It has been recognized that dreams and dream-work may bring about the collapse of traumatic and dissociative defenses. In this engaging colloquium, topics discussed include Jung’s theory of the compensatory nature of dreams, working with dreams in the transference/countertransference, phenomenological and somatic/process oriented dream work and meaning, Intersubjectivity and the shared field, Bion’s “dreaming”, and case colloquium – learning through experience.
The two-day case practicum will show how dreams and dream-work can dismantle traumatic and dissociative defenses in the therapeutic setting. Major themes raised include peer reviewed journal papers from diverse psychoanalytic, theoretical orientations. The readings include varying types of trauma that will be considered in the discussions, from early childhood sexual trauma; to inter-generational trauma; to survivor trauma induced by real-world events.
Theory is put into practice through participants’ presentation of their own trauma cases where patients’ dreams are reported, followed by group consultation and discussion of applicable theoretical ideas from the readings, and how they supplement and illuminate the case conferences. Please read journal articles before practicum.
Format of Workshop: The lecture/workshop will include didactic sessions as well as case presentations along with group discussion of supplemental journal readings. This practicum emphasizes learning though experience and integrating identifiable techniques from the case study for both personal growth and for clients and is designed to increase and expand clinicians’ knowledge base.
Kenneth Kimmel is a Jungian Analyst in Seattle, WA. He is a co-founder and faculty member of the recently formed New School for Analytical Psychology. For two decades prior to his training, he was Director of the Pacific Northwest Center for Dream Studies.
To view Kimmel’s interview, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqufC_4V3Hc
Schedule
Please Register Early. Limited Seating.
Friday: Registration 8:00-9:00am
Practicum 9:00-4:00pm
Saturday: Registration 8:00-9:00am
Practicum 9:00-4:00pm
10 CE hours available (NASW and UPA approved)
$225 for CE's; $150 for Audit
$75 for Students/Educators (with ID)
Registration
To register download supplemental reading, and find information on presenting, visit www.ael-project.com
Send email requests to archetypology@gmail.com
Access Salt Lake
175 South 200 West
Garden Level
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
This is a UPA approved event, but it is not part of UPA's CE series.
Utah Psychological Association