We are pleased to present an exciting series of one day conferences that offer the opportunity to learn from a group of professionals who are among the most senior, innovative and talented practitioners in the field of mental health. The Master Series affords the chance to spend a complete day with leaders in our field to consider the unique perspective each speaker brings to the challenging dilemmas in both theory and practice. We hope that you will consider joining us for the entire series at a reduced tuition or choose the programs most relevant to your own practice.
| Cost per program |
1 program |
2 programs* |
3 programs* |
| Doctoral Level Professionals |
$175 each |
$155 each |
$145 each |
| Master’s Level Professionals |
$150 each |
$135 each |
$125 each |
| Fellows, Interns, Students |
$95 each |
$80 each |
$65 each |
| Date: |
Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| Time: |
8:45 am - 4:30 pm |
| Program No: |
MS33 |
| CE Credits: |
6 (CE/CME Credits) |
| Tuition: |
See table above |
| Instructor: |
Martha Stark, MD |
| Location: |
MSPP |
| Description: |
Dr. Martha Stark’s particular interest has long been in the patient’s ‘relentless pursuit of the (bad) object.’ The patient’s relentless hope (which fuels her masochism) is a stance to which she desperately clings in order to avoid confronting—and grieving—certain intolerably painful realities about the love/hate object to which she is intensely attached; and her relentless outrage (which fuels her sadism) is the stance to which she resorts in those moments of dawning recognition that the object may never be forthcoming after all. Finally, the patient’s relentless despair and profound hopelessness is the stance to which she retreats when attachment itself has become intolerable—attachment and withdrawal the only viable options. The masochistic defense of relentless hope; the sadistic defense of relentless outrage; and the schizoid defense of relentless despair and hopelessness. Dr. Stark will offer prototypical interventions designed to facilitate transformation of the patient’s need to possess and control the object (and, when thwarted, to retaliate by ‘destroying’ it) into the mature capacity to relent, accept, grieve, forgive, internalize, separate, and move on. |
| Objective: |
N/A |
| Pre-Requisite: |
N/A |
| To Register: |
PDF Registration Form; How to Register |
