Click Here To View: Norman Straker’s Video on The Courage to Survive on this website.
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Division
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY
PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY WITH CANCER PATIENTS & THEIR FAMILIES
Norman Straker, M.D.
Thursdays, January 7, 21, & 28, 2010
7:30 – 8:40 pm (3 sessions)
Fee $90
Unique Challenges
Transference & Countertransference
Helping Caregivers
Provides an introduction to dynamic psychotherapy with cancer patients and their families. The unique challenges of treating cancer patients will be addressed. The discussion will include death anxiety and the tendency to deny death, and will be accompanied by the video “On the Edge of Being: When Doctors Confront Cancer.” Details of dynamic psychotherapy will be explored including: dealing with defenses such as denial and regression, managing the transference and countertransference issues unique to the cancer context, and managing dying patients. Challenges facing caregivers will be addressed, along with techniques for helping them during the illness and after their loss. These are illustrated in the lecture and in the video “The Courage to Survive: Facing the Loss of Your Soul Mate.” Managing grief and mourning will also be discussed.
Register at http://www.psychoanalysis.org/tande-ed.html
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