The Frame in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Tasks, Roles, and Boundaries - Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Recorded)

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the frame of the treatment, provides a setting and container that is negotiated at the outset of treatment and is aimed at facilitating therapeutic engagement that is ethical, allows for a treatment process to emerge and be examined, and becomes a site of action and examination for both therapist and patient. In this lecture, the most concrete and basic elements of why a negotiated frame is essential to the work of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the basic steps to think about in negotiating a flexible therapeutic frame for treatment are reviewed. After participating in this lecture participants should be able to discuss the what the frame is, the task of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the role of both the patient and the therapist, and the ethical boundaries necessary for psychotherapy. Power dynamics engaged by and within the frame are also examined.

References:

  1. Diamond, D., & Hersh, R. G. (2020). Transference-focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34 (Supplement), 159-176.
  2. Gabbard, G. O. (2017). Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text. American Psychiatric Pub.
  3. Ruble, A. E., Romanowicz, M., Bhatt-Mackin, S., Topor, D., & Murray, A. (2021). Teaching the Fundamentals of Remote Psychotherapy to Psychiatry Residents in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academic Psychiatry, 45(5), 629-635.
  4. Gabbard, G. O. (2003). Miscarriages of Psychoanalytic Treatment with Suicidal Patients. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 84(2), 249-261.
  5. Daria Colombo (2022). The Portal: Framing and Neutrality in the Age of Virtual Treatment, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91:2, 395-410, DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2089519

 

Target Audience

______ Introductory ______ Intermediate ___x___ Advanced

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe three elements of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment frame.
  2. List two reasons the treatment frame is important in psychotherapy.
  3. List four examples of professional boundaries.

 

Course summary
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  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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Course opens: 
03/26/2024
Course expires: 
03/26/2027
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Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research.  

A board certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst, Dr. Tillman is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and a Teaching Associate in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tillman’s research and writing is primarily focused on understanding states of mind related to suicide, changes over time in suicidal patients, the intergenerational transmission of suicide, and postvention with psychotherapists and organizations following the suicide of a patient. 

Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.

 

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Accreditation Statement - Austen Riggs Center,Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    Designation Statement - Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 APA

    The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    The Austen Riggs Center, #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this Enduring. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Enduring will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s). For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit States and provinces that accept ACE | Association of Social Work Boards.
  • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
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