Adolescence onwards: Working with the interminability of a mental state
This course will focus on the adolescent “state of mind” and its interminability. This means that, although much of the theory and clinical work will be focused on adolescents and young adults, the attention will be on a mental functioning that is potentially interminable and can be found at any age. In addition, the term “interminability” refers to the evidence that in contemporary Western societies, fluidity and vagueness around transitions are in the foreground and constitute quite a challenging problem.
The course will support a learning and experiential space for the therapist to discover what it will mean to allow the patient’s core anxieties—conscious and unconscious—to emerge in the service of development. The course will give close attention to transference and counter-transference manifestations and to the central significance of observation.
This course has been developed to further the therapist’s skill and support when working with this challenging developmental stage.
Structure: The course is a two-year programme covering 6 modules, three modules per year
Module 1: October – December
Module 2: January – March
Module 3: April – June
Format: The Saturday seminar day will be split into a morning seminar. This will be followed by group supervision of clinical material in the afternoon. In addition to this, course participants will also have weekly individual supervision of patients seen in a therapeutic setting.
Participants can choose to attend as many or as few modules as they wish to. However, we strongly recommend that participants sign up for at least three modules in a row.
Participants who attend all six modules over two years will be asked to write a 5000 word clinical paper on one of the cases seen in individual supervision and complete two 1-0-1 yearly supervisions on two adolescent cases.
Award: Those who attend all six modules, complete two 1-0-1 supervisions on two adolescent cases (each for a minimum duration of 6 months) AND write the clinical paper will receive the SAP Diploma in Jungian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Young Adults.
Those who attend less than six modules and/or do not write the paper and/or do not complete the two 1-0-1 supervisions will get a Certificate of Attendance.
Both the Diploma and the Certificate will count towards Continuous Professional Development credits.