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Intimacy and Working with Criminal Offenders Part II (Joint MPI/APT Course)
Susan Flinders, Ph.D.
Graduate, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
Retiree of the Michigan Department of Corrections
Robert Maloney, M.A., L.L.P.
Board Member, Association for Psychoanalytic Thought
Psychologist, Michigan Dept. of Corrections
Thursdays, 8:00-9:30 pm
April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2012
9 CME and CE credit hours. $210
Ann Arbor
Practice Gap/Need and Course Description: More than ever, Clinicians are working with individuals who have connection with the criminal justice system. Therapeutic challenges arise as therapists struggle with how to provide help for this population often under particular stress. The difficulties related to this population often evoke strong countertransferential responses that can interfere with the evolving therapeutic intimacy that ultimately fosters therapeutic action. Also, frequently, there are developmental issues related to early failures in intimate relationships. A review of how intimacy emerges in relationships, especially therapeutic relationships, and developmentally, using a psychoanalytic understanding, will help provide another way to work with this commonly challenging population. This course will delve more deeply into the concept of “intimacy” and how it relates to therapeutic work with criminal offenders. While this course will build upon Part I, a quick review of Part I for previous participants will allow newcomers to take Part II without having participated in Part I. Discussion of a therapeutic prison will be added, along with materials related to the concepts of “reflective functioning” and “mentalization”. Readings will include materials from such authors as Bion, Symington, Fonagy, Winnicott and others. Participants are welcome to share personal vignettes as applied to “intimacy” and working with criminal offenders.
Participants will be able to define and understand:
• The concept of intimacy in clinical work esp. related to work with criminal offenders
• The concepts of “reflective functioning” and “mentalization” esp. related to criminals as developmental components to intimacy.
• Intimacy as a developmental process • Intimacy as therapeutic action in psychoanalysis
• The importance of the analyst/therapist’s self-understanding in the treatment process related to intimacy.
Please contact Monica Simmons for more information.
PENDING CME APPROVAL: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
SOCIAL WORKERS: The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative.
The views of the speakers do not necessarily represent the views of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.