Robert Tyminski leads an online workshop hosted by the Society of Analytical Psychology on October 24, “Working with Adolescents in Love in the Digital Age: Challenges in Countertransference.”
The workshop is experiential rather than purely theoretical. Tyminski will open with a brief overview of how different psychoanalytic traditions have approached countertransference, framing it as both an analytic resource and a potential interference in the analytic field. He then shows clips from the 2025 Netflix miniseries Adolescence, which follows a 13-year-old boy’s first infatuation as it turns into brutality. Participants will be invited to write down and discuss their own feeling responses as a route into analytic subjectivity. The session closes with clinical vignettes drawn from Tyminski’s own work with adolescent patients, where participants are invited to work through their reactions as a group as an attempt to keep countertransference tethered to felt experience rather than drifting into theoretical abstraction.
Tyminski is an adult and child analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a past president. He is a two-time winner of the Michael Fordham Prize from the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2016 and 2025) — the latter for his paper on gender-expansive patients, which we covered earlier this year, including the response it drew from an international group of queer Jungians. His next book, A Practitioner’s Guide to the Male Psyche in Analysis and Psychotherapy: Under the Hoodie, is due from Routledge in early 2027.
For readers wanting more of Tyminski’s own voice ahead of the workshop, he discusses The Heroic Code, Symbolisation, and the Wounds of Boys and Men on the Conversations For The End podcast. He focuses on how adhering to the classical heroic code of stoicism, strength, and bravery forces them to construct an inner wall that hides both physical and emotional pain. He also highlights the developmental distinction between direct signs and multi-layered symbols, explaining why many men struggle with symbolic reflection in therapeutic or relational settings. The discussion underlines the crucial need for men to expand their emotional vocabulary without viewing vulnerability as a feminising weakness, while also examining how modern screen use and social media foster hyper-regulated, curated online identities that hinder true self-reflection and healthy growth.
His published works include Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace, The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place, and The Psychology of Theft and Loss: Stolen and Fleeced.
The session runs 5:00–7:00pm London time, and you can register here.