Michael Shulman, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst; Associate Faculty, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute;
Adjunct Faculties, University of Michigan, Madonna University

In their lives and in our offices, our patients’ issues with their own aggressivity can take the form of overt hostility, or these issues can hide behind surfaces of passivity, depression or masochism.  Using contemporary psychoanalytic readings, this course investigates how difficulties with aggression get started and how clinical work with these difficulties can proceed most helpfully.  This course will be offered in Ann Arbor.

Goals/objectives for this course include helping course members:

1) Recognize the psychological manifestations of aggression issues, including covert ones, in the clinical situation.
2) Distinguish between “normal” and “pathological” aggression
3) Understand the relationship between sadism and aggression
4) Understand the links between trauma and aggression
5) Spotlight aggression issues as they contribute to resistances within the clinical situation

Tuesdays:  March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008
8:00-9:30 p.m.
Five Sessions, Fee:  $125      
7.5 CME Credit Hours

Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
204 East Washington
Ann Arbor

For information or to register for class, call Monica Simmons at (248) 851-3380.
Please make check payable to MPI
Mail payment to:  MPI, Attn:  Monica, 32841 Middlebelt Road, Suite 411, Farmington Hills, MI  48334

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society Committee on CME Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™  (1 credit equals 1 hour).  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program is approved by the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative for 7.5 CE Clock Hours.  Course approval is #012508-12.