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Presenter
5th International Experiential
Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) Conference
SHORT TERM
DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR
TREATMENT-RESISTANT PATIENTS:
FROM FAILURE AND DESPAIR TO HEALTH
AND HOPE
July 15th-18th, 2010
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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“Susan Warren is a gifted therapist - with superb clinical
skills and the warmth and flexibility to tailor them to the
needs of any given patient. ...I've heard nothing but raves
from her students. I have always been impressed with Susan's
profound empathy for both patient and therapist, which surely
helps her create an open learning environment.”
Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), Ph.D.,
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Former
faculty Northwestern University Medical School and Albany
Medical School
Author:
Intensive Short term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and
Technique
Co-author
with Dr. David Malan:
Lives Transformed
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See bottom of page for
detailed description of Susan's topic, From Distancing Defenses to
Emotional Closeness: Traversing the Gap*
Susan
Warren Warshow is a highly skilled therapist and an excellent
teacher. With patient and student alike, she deftly and
precisely identifies and targets key factors as the first step
in swiftly, adroitly, and compassionately resolving critical
issues. If you are interested in improving your personal and
professional work, take Susan's seminar.
Bruce W. Spring, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of Southern California School of Medicine
Training Group Participant
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“Great course! Her clear
demonstration of how to identify, track and turn rigid
defenses into enemies of the patient, shown through videotapes
of her own sessions is invaluable. I was impressed with her
skill both at teaching and applying this technique in such a
positive and respectful way.
Jean Ball, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, California Graduate Institute
Adjunct Professor, California State University at Northridge
Training Group Participant
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CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
Woodland Hills Country Club
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Experiential Dynamic Therapy:
A Powerful Emotion and Somatic-Focused,
Dynamic, Attachment Centered Therapy
A
Videotape Presentation
with Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, MFT
Therapists often question how to achieve lasting change with patients
with entrenched character pathology. We will discuss videotaped
excerpts from the treatment of a patient who presented with chronic
depression, compulsive sexual behavior and workaholism. She was a
victim of fraternal molestation and extreme family trauma. To
establish an emotionally intimate relationship with the therapist
involved great risk for this patient. It also led and to a transformed
way of being with herself and significant others.
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“You were absolutely amazing. I love
your work, and the video demonstration. I learned so much from
it.”
Anita Avedian,
Vice-President of Programs,
California Association of Marriage and
Family Therapists |
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It was so, so wonderful. The word that was running through my
mind yesterday when I left, it’s just so user-friendly. It was
great. I think you are so in your element. I think you’re a
natural teacher of this stuff and it is so apparent to me how
well you have integrated this style of working. It’s just
really inspiring. I don’t have any constructive criticism at
all. It’s only positive, Susan, what can I tell you? I’m just
loving it and I can’t wait to come next week!
Jill Klepetar, LCSW
Training Group Participant
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“I first saw Susan Warshow's
work in Amsterdam in 2002 and was blown away. Her work
isn't just good. It's beautiful! She has such a warm,
related, and kind way of helping patients turn against
their defenses and resistances. I regard this one as a
must see presentation.”
Jon
Frederickson, MSW, Faculty and Co-Chair, ISTDP Training
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Washington School of Psychiatry
ISTDP Training Program presents:
Penetrating
Defenses to
Overcome Character Disturbances
Saturday,
September 29, 2007
Susan Warshow,
MSW
In this presentation Susan
Warshow will show how she helps patients mobilize the will to
overcome their defenses, face feelings, and develop compassion
for the rejected parts of themselves. Videotaped vignettes
will illustrate the process that helps patients develop affect
tolerance, undo irrational shame and guilt, and experience new
levels of freedom. By discouraging the punitive and
encouraging the life-enhancing parts of the self, she helps
patients experience emotional closeness, the ultimate goal, so
the patient need no longer feel alone with forbidden feelings.
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I thought the training was so clear and so good. You have this
very clear way of analyzing and being very humble. I can’t
think of anything you could have improved upon. I learned a
lot in just one meeting. This is amazing work and I’m so
excited about it. You made it so comfortable for me, the least
experienced person in the group.
Debra King, M.A.
Training Group Participant
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Resolving
Trauma through Depth Emotional Processing
An Accelerated Dynamic Approach
The National Association of
Social Workers
2007 Annual Conference
Saturday, May 5, 2007
1:30 – 4:30 P.M.
San Francisco Airport Marriott, Burlingame
Phone: (916) 442-4565 x17
Resolving Trauma through
Depth Emotional Processing
An Accelerated Dynamic Approach
San Gabriel Valley Psychological Association
Friday, March 2, 2007 12:00 - 1:30 P.M.
University Club
175 N. Oakland, Pasadena, California
Contact: Enrico Gnaulati, Ph.D.(janric@pacbell.net)
Phone: (626) 584-9968
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Saturday, Oct. 28,
2006 | Pasadena, California
Saturday, Nov. 11,
2006 | Westwood, California |
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Click here for Brochure information
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Compassionate defense
interruption
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Tools to effectively reach
core affect
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Tracking emotions and their
somatic manifestations
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Building ego-adaptive
capacity, i.e. tolerance for affect
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Activating an intrapsychic
focus and therapeutic alliance
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How to tailor interventions
for a spectrum of psychopathology
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Healing through the
therapeutic relationship
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Countertransference and
training issues
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Experiential Dynamic Therapy: Making It
User-Friendly
Preserving
essential principles
with flexibility and
authentic use of self.
at the
Third International Congress
of the
International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association
Freeing the Self:
Working with Core Emotions
in Dynamic Therapy
UCLA, September 9, 2005, 8:00-9:45p.m.
Susan Warren Warshow will explore ways to modify, personalize, and integrate
techniques
of defense interruption to access deep affect and resolve trauma. To
effectively
apply EDT, it must be adapted to ones own personal style, personality and
orientation.
The presenter will share her own journey in this process.
Videotape presentation.
For more information
click here
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Presenter -
International Short-Term
Dynamic Psychotherapy Conference sponsored by the Dutch
Association for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (VKDP), Amsterdam
in September, 2002.
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Presented
lecture series on personality disorders to several medical staffs at
hospitals in the Southern California area. She has guest lectured at
California State University Northridge, California Graduate Institute and
California School of Professional Psychology.
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From Distancing Defenses to
Emotional Closeness: Traversing the Gap
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From Distancing Defenses to Emotional Closeness:
Traversing the Gap
By Susan Warshow, MSW
If the
patient is to be known, a requisite if therapy is to succeed, the
distancing defenses must be bravely relinquished. As therapists, we
invite the patient to do the counterintuitive: move towards painful
feeling and, in the process, towards us. By doing so, the
unrecognized and unfelt parts of the self that have been frozen by
trauma can begin to heal and intimacy becomes possible.
Central
to the dynamic relational process that replaces self-hatred
with self-value, shame with openness, and fear with courage is the
transmission of compassion from therapist to patient. Compassion
for self is the engine that makes deep, transformative work
possible. This force is inherent in humans yet often is deactivated
and dormant as a result of relational trauma. Therapists who
sincerely care about their patients and expend much effort to help
them often become frustrated when the patient is not invested in the
partnership.
Mobilizing the will of the patient to care for the self is one of
the great challenges in psychotherapy. Success rests on two sets of
shoulders! How can we heighten the possibility that the patient will
allow their therapist’s caring to become internalized so that
ever-greater levels of vulnerability can be accessed?
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Transmission of Compassion from Therapist to Patient
The
punitive parts of the self, i.e. the superego-driven defenses, will
attempt to block this process and must be brought to awareness if
the patient is to build capacity and have the choice
to overcome them. We will consider the therapist’s language, facial
expressions, tone of voice, steadfastness in the process and other
factors that can increase the likelihood of a successful alliance.
“Your
face comes to mind often when I am in one of my moods where I’m
being unkind to myself and a voice comes up that says, ‘Be gentle
with yourself. Be kind to this magnificent woman.’ I see your eyes
and I see the compassion that comes from them and I ‘remember’ to be
present and real in my gentleness, to stop the self-hatred and stop
the sabotaging personality from making me miserable.”
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Utilizing the Patient’s Inherent Motivation to Maximum Advantage.
What
does the patient want on the deepest level? How does the therapist
heighten awareness of this potent, expansive force and help the
patient to use it as leverage against the defenses? Remembering to
remember the patient’s own words is one clue!
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The
Warrior Therapist
In
reality, therapy requires a warrior team involving two
courageous partners. Therapist and patient are both up against a
perpetrator that resides to varying degrees in each of them.
Avoidance of feeling and diminishment of the self are reinforced by
widespread, powerful familial and societal norms. Several issues
will be considered:
1.
Surviving the learning phase while addressing formidable defenses;
mistakes and misalliances.
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Withstanding the tide of complex feeling and working with therapist
anxiety.
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Counteracting counter-transference based despair and doubt.
4.
Sustaining tenacity and focus within the therapeutic alliance.
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