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Woman Rising XXVIII
The Gender Revolution: Expanding the Heroic

Instructor: Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D, Psy.D., ABPP
An Eight Month Advanced Reading and Discussion Course
Offered as Eight 90-minute Sessions—1.5 Hours CE Credit Each

Meets the first Tuesday of each month 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. beginning October 5, 2021 to May 3, 2022. Tuition for the year (includes up to 12 hours of continuing education credit) is $425 to be paid in 3 installments. Early Bird fee of $375 due by September 1, 2021.

Overall Description of the Course Sequence

Woman Rising: The Search for the Heroic in Modern Women

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century with Freud’s riveting essays on Gradiva, Michael Angelo, Dostoyevsky and other works of creative genius Psychoanalytic Psychologists have formed professional societies and journals dedicated to the field of “applied psychology and psychoanalysis” steadily expanding their awareness that deeply creative works of art tend to lead cultural development by several generations.

For the first twenty-eight years this course sequence has featured the reading and discussion of one fiction or nonfiction work by a noted woman literary artist each month with stunning results for deepening our awareness of the many directions the gender revolution is taking us and how we as therapists can be increasingly sensitive to the many cutting edge psychological subtleties being experienced by the women and men who come to us to further their personal development. Of particular thematic importance in this year’s sequence of books is how individual heroic women each in her own unique life circumstances reaches beyond simply allowing herself to feel marginalized or victimized, beyond the “me too” cry, to search out courageous and creative solutions to the challenging situations facing them as women and human beings today.

Over the years the conscious-raising experiences of therapists meeting and discussing women’s issues, concerns, and emerging psychological themes has allowed participating therapists greater flexibility and sensitivity to these issues as they arise in the subjective lives of their women (and men) individual clients as well as within couples and families.

Reference Books (Peer Reviewed)

Chapman, K. (2021). What They Taught Me: Recognizing the Mentors Who Will Take You from Dream to Done.
New York: Harvest House.
Hasseldine, R. (2018). The Mother-Daughter Puzzle: A New Generational Understanding of the Mother-Daughter Relationship. New York: Women’s Bookshelf.
Hislop, B. (2020). Shepherding Women in Pain: Real Women, Real Issues, and What You Need to Know to Truly Help.
Pierce, Y. (2021). In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit. New York: Broadleaf Books.
Pipher, M. (2019) Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age. New York: Bloomsbury.

Schedule and Outline of Each 90-minute Session:

Each participant is asked ahead of time to bring to each session her or his dominant impressions of the salient themes of women’s lives that this month’s text elicited and these are presented to the group with the instructor making comments all along and providing summarizing reflections. Then group members are asked to read aloud one or more passages that struck them as particularly thematic to this fiction or non-fiction text and explain how this theme can be applied in the clinical setting. Discussions of character development and plot evolution, as well as the emergence of potential therapy transference and countertransference applications to work with individuals, couples, and families are discussed. The instructor concludes with his overall remarks and questions regarding the dominant as well as the more subtle psychological themes inherent in the study of this particular text.

Learning Objectives: At the close of the course participants will be able to:

State the emotional issue that Laurie Gottlieb takes to her therapist and works on with all of her patients.
Give two of the fictions we therapists tend to tell ourselves.
Explain why Amanda is fascinated with the Dark side of people.
State why Indiana has disappeared.
Explain why the Dutch house sets off the undoing of everyone.
Explain why the two heroes of Dutch House cannot overcome their past.
State two reasons why Lynne Elliott’s second chance may work for her.
State why Roy’s conviction is overturned so that he can return to his emotional complexities in Atlanta.
Explain the act of secret vengeance that changes James Maclaurin‘s course in life.
State the two greatest emotional difficulties encountered in the 1847 Oregon migration.
State why Samantha‘s husband left her.
State what Samantha must recover in order to find her old self.
State three of the strange experiences that Icy begins to have.
Give three kinds of bullying that Icy was subjected to in school.

Learning Goals:
Therapists in community practice have a variety of different training backgrounds as well as very different personal and professional experiences and lives. By coming together to share their experiences around the collective emerging themes of the gender revolution as stimulated by creative fiction and non-fiction writers they enrich their collective understandings of the subjective psychological and emotional concerns, issues, and themes of their women (as well as men) clients. This increased awareness and sensitivity allows a broader understanding of the emotional and psychological issues arising in their professional work with individuals, couples, and families. Further, group sharing allows an honest appraisal of how these issues are expressed in the emotional transferences toward therapists as well as the countertransferences toward clients.

Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP., began seeing patients in 1966 and completed his training in child psychoanalysis in 1973. Since that time his primary occupation has been training and supervising psychoanalysts and psychotherapists individually and in groups on their most difficult cases. He was the Founding Director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in 1983 where he continues to serve as supervising and training analyst. Throughout his career Dr. Hedges has provided continuing education courses for psychotherapists throughout the United States and abroad. He has consulted or served as expert witness on more than 400 complaints against psychotherapists in 20 states and has published 22 books on various topics of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, three of which have received the Gradiva award. During the 1909 centennial celebrations of The International Psychoanalytic Association his 1992 book, Interpreting the Countertransference, was named one of the key contributions in the relational track during the first century of psychoanalysis. In 2015 Dr. Hedges was distinguished by being awarded honorary membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association for his many contributions to psychoanalysis.

For registration and information call (714) 633-3933 or go to www.listeningperspectives.com

Continuing Education Certificates and Credits

This course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The Listening Perspectives Study Center is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. The Listening Perspectives Study Center maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
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About The Listening Perspectives Study Center

The Listening Perspectives Study Center is an equal opportunity CE provider committed to principles equality and of social justice. Information regarding registration, fees, refunds, attendance policies, credits, instructors qualifications, ethics, grievances, and conflicts of interest are spelled out on our website, Listeningperspectives.com

There are no commercial interests or conflicts of interest involved in this Continuing Education class. Full attendance and completed course evaluation are required for Continuing Education credit for class. The knowledge and usefulness of the material presented in this class is based upon research and is limited to the contexts discussed. No experimental or dangerous procedures are part of this class.

The Listening Perspectives Study Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to participants with disabilities. Contact the center with your request and every effort will be made to accommodate you.

Listening Perspectives Study Center
1439 East Chapman Avenue,
Orange, CA 92866
Phone/Fax (714) 633-3933
www.ListeningPerspectives.com

Identifying and Treating Early Relational Habits

In-Depth Case Studies

Instructor: Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP

Tuition for the year (For up to 12 hours of continuing education credit) is $425 to be paid in 3 installments. Early Bird fee of $375 due by September 1, 2021

Section 1 Third Mondays 11:45-1:15 Section 2 Third Tuesdays 10:30-12:00 (Zoom)
Section 3 Third Wednesdays 10:30-12:00 Section 4 Third Thursdays 11:00-12:30
Section 5 Third Thursdays 9:00-10:30

Each participant must enroll for the entire course sequence whether she or he can attend all sessions or not.

Course Description:

This course reviews a series of long-term intensive case studies that have been a part of a massive clinical research project extending nearly 50 years and involving well over 400 therapists participating in clinical case conferences and theoretical discussions at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute and the Listening Perspectives Study Center in Southern California. This research study, led by Dr. Lawrence Hedges, has produced 23 peer reviewed books and numerous articles (see website listeningperspectives.com). Books published in the last five years have summarized many of the detailed contributions of previous studies.

Learning Objectives:
The foundation of this course begins with a survey of 100 years of psychoanalytic research and continues through the formation of listening perspectives based on the self and other intersubjective relatedness dimension. The case studies include intensive countertransference work as well as listening and responding techniques for dealing with early developmental relational habits or states. The course concludes with eleven short vignettes written by major authorities in the field illustrating sexualized encounters in transference and countertransference analysis with early developmental relational habits or templates.

Learning Goals: At the conclusion of this course participants will be able to:
-State what the fear of amputees is about.
-explain why therapy with early relational states takes such a long time.
-State two ways that helplessness in the countertransference can be handled.
-Explain why the first sense of time is mother’s time.
-Explain why the first sense of space is mother’s space.
-State what was the sense of “being enveloped in slime”ultimately about?
-Give two ways that a supervisor can be caught up in the countertransference.
-State what “catch me” finally meant.
-List three ways that a therapist can be caught up in countertransference to impoverished minorities.
-Name two things that a therapist should not do when responding to recovered memories.
-List three reasons why touch does not help a person be OK.
-State why Bess chose not to call her therapist.
-define “symbolic enactment“.
-List three dangers of erotic countertransference.
-State how incest can be symbolically replicated in psychotherapy.
-Give the therapist’s countertransference response to the patient’s budding narcissism.
-State three reasons why Searles believes that love in the countertransference is inevitable.
-Give Searles’ reason for saying that erotic countertransferences occurs more likely later in therapy.
-State how Ogden brutalized his patient.
-State how Rosiello sees transvestism and psychotherapist behavior as similar performances.
-State why Mitchell sees surrender as horrifying.
-Explain how erotic countertransference may be a clue to gender identity issues

Text Books:
In Search of the Lost Mother of Infancy, Terrifying Transferences, Strategic Emotional Involvement, and Selection from Sex in Psychotherapy.

Peer Reviewed References
Hedges, L. (2000). Terrifying Transferences: Aftershocks of Childhood Trauma. New Jersey: Jason Aronson Publishers.
_____(2013) Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterological Personality Organization. International Psychotherapy Institute e-Book, freepsychotherapybooks.org.
_____2015) Sex in Psychotherapy. New York: Routledge.]\
____(2017). Facing the Challenge of Liability: Practicing Defensively. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield Publishers.
_____(2018). Relational Listening: A Handbook. International Psychotherapy Institute e-Book, freepsychotherapybooks.org.
_____(2018). The Call of Darkness: a Relational Listening Approach to Suicide Intervention. International Psychotherapy Institute e-Book, freepsychotherapybooks.org.
_____(2020). Terror in Psychotherapy: The New Zealand Lectures. International Psychotherapy Institute e-Book, freepsychotherapybooks.org.

For registration and information call (714) 633-3933 or go to www.listeningperspectives.com