The Philadelphia Psychotherapy Study Center offers a dynamic learning community for psychologists, social workers and counselors in the Philadelphia region. Led by Charles Ashbach, Karen Fraley, and Paul Koehler, PPSC is a place for mental health professionals to continue to study, learn and share ideas. Our goal is to foster an understanding of the mind and psyche through an in-depth reading and study of the major object relations and psychoanalytic theorists.
To that end we provide unique continuing education opportunities and seminars that embrace a dual perspective - integrating theoretical concepts with the particular immediacies of the clinical encounter. Object relations theory has grown to encompass a broad spectrum of ideas concerning the origin and function of the internalized object and its fate in various contexts.
We are invested in studying an approach where realities of the body, group, and imagination may be productively integrated to understand the forces that lead to psychic growth.
To that end we provide unique continuing education opportunities and seminars that embrace a dual perspective - integrating theoretical concepts with the particular immediacies of the clinical encounter. Object relations theory has grown to encompass a broad spectrum of ideas concerning the origin and function of the internalized object and its fate in various contexts.
We are invested in studying an approach where realities of the body, group, and imagination may be productively integrated to understand the forces that lead to psychic growth.
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Object relations has grown to encompass a broad spectrum of ideas concerning the origin and function of the internalized object and its fate in various contexts.
Since the ego-self is inextricably bound up with the object, both are understood to form one, complementary, interlocking system of dynamic forces and influence.
Thought, emotion, and fantasy are woven together to form representations of self and object that are then utilized in shaping and determining the core of human experience.
Through projection and introjection constellations of self, object, emotion and fantasy become the very "stuff" of transference and counter-transference, and are therefore central to the success or failure of the therapy process.
Since the ego-self is inextricably bound up with the object, both are understood to form one, complementary, interlocking system of dynamic forces and influence.
Thought, emotion, and fantasy are woven together to form representations of self and object that are then utilized in shaping and determining the core of human experience.
Through projection and introjection constellations of self, object, emotion and fantasy become the very "stuff" of transference and counter-transference, and are therefore central to the success or failure of the therapy process.
Co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work and the Philadelphia Psychotherapy Study Center, an affiliate chapter of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC.
Wednesday: The Wednesday seminar will be led by Paul Koehler, LCSW, and will meet from 9:15 - 11:45 on the following Wednesday mornings.
The historical fact of slavery and, as recent events again have dramatically demonstrated, the persistence of racism remain the largely unacknowledged shame of our country, violating and sullying as they do the very principles and ideals upon which our country was founded.
Wednesday: The Wednesday seminar will be led by Paul Koehler, LCSW, and will meet from 9:15 - 11:45 on the following Wednesday mornings.
The historical fact of slavery and, as recent events again have dramatically demonstrated, the persistence of racism remain the largely unacknowledged shame of our country, violating and sullying as they do the very principles and ideals upon which our country was founded.
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