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Do you want to understand more about projective identification and how to work with it in practice?

In this experiential training we will look at:

Projective identification in transference and countertransference.

Different forms of projective identification.

Motives for projective identification.

Therapeutic working through to retrieve projections.

This workshop will study projective identification as it is experienced in therapeutic practice. Projective identification will be examined in the transference and countertransference; in its different forms whether attributative, evocative or acquisitive; its various motives, whether to communicate, evacuate, possess, control, deny separateness or overcome loss; and as it operates interpersonally and intrapersonally between the ego and superego. Therapeutic technique will be discussed in relation to working through to enable the retrieval of projective identifications.These different aspects of projective identification will be illustrated through the presentation of clinical material.

Workshop participants will be welcome to contribute examples from their own practice for discussion.



Paul Terry is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, currently working in private practice. Most recently he worked in a Specialist Mental Health Team for Older People in Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Paul has worked in child, adolescent and adult mental health, and forensic settings. He was Lecturer in Counselling at Birkbeck College, University of London. Paul has a particular interest in projective identification and it is a central concept which threads its way through his published case studies. In 2008 he published a revised second edition of his book Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People: A Psychodynamic Approach (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

All participants completing the workshop will receive a Certificate of Attendance for

their Continuing Professional Development

portfolio.

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