Interpersonalist Approaches to Psychosis - Tuesday Seminar with Jeremy M. Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP
In this course, we will read classical texts by the interpersonalists to learn more about this tradition’s approaches to treating psychosis. For each week, I have highlighted key themes that might help to guide our discussion: panic/fear, trauma, loneliness, fragmentation anxiety/death, hope/grief, and shame. Over the last couple of years, I have been writing papers on the psychotherapy for psychosis that touch upon core existential, affective, and interpersonal themes, such as openheartedness, grief, hope/despair, trust/mistrust, loneliness, and fear. I am going to include these papers as well that you can review if they are of interest. It is my hope that thinking about these universal themes and their relevance to psychosis may provide a humanistic framework that can provide a richer appreciation of the person behind the psychotic symptoms.
1/23 – Harry Stack Sullivan – Panic/fear
The Modified Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenia (1931)
The Earlier Manifestations of Mental Disorders: Matters Schizoid and Schizophrenic (1953)
1/30 – Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Part 1 – Trauma
Transference Problems in Schizophrenics (1939)
Notes on the Development of Treatment of Schizophrenics by Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (1948
2/6 – Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Part 2 – Loneliness
Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1954)
On Loneliness (1959)
2/13 – Harold Searles, Part 1 – Fragmentation/Death
The Schizophrenic’s Vulnerability to the Therapist’s Unconscious Processes (1958)
Schizophrenia and the Inevitability of Death (1961)
2/20 – Harold Searles, Part 2 – Hope /Grief
Concerning Therapeutic Symbiosis (1959)
The Development of Mature Hope in the Patient-Therapist Relationship (1977)
2/27 – Otto Will – Shame
The Schizophrenic Reaction and the Interpersonal Field (1964)
The Sense of Shame in Psychosis (1987)
Target Audience
Fellows
Learning Objectives
Identify some of the core emotional processes and their relevance to psychosis
Describe the relationship between trauma and psychosis
Distinguish between different psychoanalytic approaches to treating psychosis
Understand the central interpersonal dynamics between therapist and patient
Identify different intervention strategies when working with people with psychosis
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