APS Symposium at TPA
November 2-4, 2006
The APS Symposium is part of the Tennessee Psychological Association Annual Convention, which will be held November 2-4 this year at the Airport Marriott Hotel in Nashville. APS members may attend to TPA member prices and TPA offers day rates as well as rated for the entire convention. For registration and other information, go to the TPA website.
Schedule:
• Friday Afternoon
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Depression with Jack Barlow, Joyce Cartor and Jeff Slavin. This is a reprise of last year's well-received Saturday Seminar, Psychotherapy and Depressive Complaints. The presenters will discuss the increasing tendency in our culture to treat depression as a disease that must be cured with drugs in contrast to an understanding that depressive complaints are only part of a complex pattern of life difficulties that can be successfully addressed through psychotherapy.
• Friday Evening
APS-Nashville Psychoanalytic Study Group Reception Announcement of the Hans Strupp Award for 2006: Frank Summers, PhD
• Saturday Morning
Spirituality: The Aspirational Self, Imagination and Vitality with Jamie Kyne. This is also a reprise of last year's Saturday Seminar. Jamie will discuss the ways in which religious ideation functions psychologically to relieve suffering and provide invigorating aspirational ideals for life-long guidance. He will also explore the challenges for psychotherapists involved in dealing with religious beliefs and practices in the context of psychotherapy. Analytic theory, anthropological observations, poetry and clinical case studies will be offered so as to stimulate reflection and discussion.
• Saturday Afternoon
The Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Contemporary View with Frank Summers. Therapeutic action has typically been viewed as the result of the therapist's “mutative interpretation,” resulting in a therapeutic transformation in a patient's life. Successive modifications of this concept have failed to fully capture the process of change that occurs in depth psychotherapy. Working within an object relations model, Dr. Summers will provide a contemporary view of what factors are mutative in psychotherapy and describe specific strategies in psychotherapy that are necessary to bring this about, including the patient's active role in facilitating this process.