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Title:Affect
Regulation and Clinical Practice
Presentation: November 14, 2009
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute
Continuing Education and Clinical
Training Presentation
Description of presentation:
The adaptive regulation of ones
emotions is an essential aspect of mental health. Conversely, deficits in
affect regulation can grossly impair the quality of life and underlies a great
deal of psychopathology.
This workshop will examine
contemporary affect regulation theories and describe how to utilize affect
regulation models in clinical practice.The focus of the workshop will be on how to develop clinical
interventions that facilitate change in individuals having deficits in affect
regulation.Via the utilization of
affect regulation models, therapists can gain an understanding of how the
patient utilizes acting-out, interpersonal conflict, and dissociation to
regulate intolerable emotions. Treatment is based on the development of
appropriate exchanges of affect within the therapeutic relationship that lead
to an increased tolerance and regulation of affect in the patient.
Title: Affect Regulation and the Process of
Change in Therapy
Article Abstract:
Affect regulation plays an
essential role in both human development and the clinical change process.
Clinical exchanges involve verbal and nonverbal events in the course of a
mutual exchange of affect. The therapist's attuned micro-analytic mirroring of
patient affect helps the patient develop an expanded range of affect
regulation. Via the exchange of affect within the intersubjective matrix the
patient is able to access states of mind that are analogous to the infant state
of alert inactivity and therapeutic hypnotic trance states. These states of
mind have been compared to the subjective experience of curiosity. As such they
indicate an emergence of the exploratory motivational system within which the
patient can access innate biological self-righting mechanisms.
The
goal of this article is to add to the expanding knowledge base in the area of
mutual affect regulation as it applies to clinical practice. Following an
elucidation of pertinent theoretical considerations three clinical cases are
presented. Two cases illustrate the use of verbal and nonverbal exchanges to
evoke affect state changes. The third clinical example illustrates the use of
nonverbal emotional exchange in working through a therapeutic impasse.
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of the article available upon request
Title: The Transformative Power of Emotions
Weekend
Retreat Workshop At the Esalen Institute Big Sur
Description:
Emotions often
shape how we experience our life. As we undergo shifts in our emotions there
occur changes in our views of self and the world around us. These fluctuating
emotional states of mind can be utilized to deepen our appreciation of
ourselves and everything around us. This workshop will focus on using emotions
as doorways to creativity, growth and well-being.
It is becoming
increasingly recognized that emotions play a powerful role in our growth and
development. Recent findings indicate that there exists a vital emotional
brain that transforms our experience of life. The transformative and developmental
capacity of the emotional brain will be the focus of the workshop.
The workshop
is based on recent developments in neuropsychology and human development. Each
individual's unique emotional rhythm will be explored and developed.
Participants will acquire skills for shifting states of mind through shifts in
emotions. The focus will be on learning how to utilize emotions for personal
enrichment and to develop one's spiritual and psychological well-being. The
workshop will explore each individual's relationship with their emotional
world. This will be an exploration aimed at widening each person's range of
emotions and altering emotional patterns.
PDF of the Workshop Handbook available
upon request
Title: The Ericksonian Hypnotherapeutic Relationship and Affect Regulation
Presentation:
December 2001
Milton
Erickson Institute Phoenix Arizona
Abstract:
The exchange of emotions in the
clinical relationship is an essential aspect of the therapeutic process. Since
affect is exchanged between the client and therapist at the conscious and
unconscious level, Ericksonian techniques are well suited to facilitating the
affective change process.
Thisworkshop will integrate contemporary models of affect
regulation with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. The emphasis will be on applied
techniques aimed at increasing the client's tolerance and capacity for
utilization of affect.
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upon request
Title: Affect Regulation in the Treatment of
Personality Disorders
Training presentation for psychotherapists
Abstract:
The adaptive regulation of ones
emotions may be an essential aspect of mental health. Conversely, the
dysregulation of emotions is a significant component of psychopathology.
Deficits in adaptive emotional regulation can grossly impair the quality of
life. The global, enduring and maladaptive behavior which typifies the
personality disordered individual are life- long manifestations of gross
developmental failures in the development of adaptive affect regulatory
mechanisms. The poly symptomatic clinical presentation of the personality
disordered individual can be viewed as emerging from a chronic pattern of
maladaptive affect regulation.
This workshop will describe how
to utilize contemporary affect regulation theories in thedevelopment of clinical interventions
that facilitate change in individuals having self- disorders along the
narcissistic and borderline continuum. Via the utilization of affect regulation
models therapists can gain an understanding of how the patient utilizes
acting-out, interpersonal conflict and dissociation in order to regulate
intolerable emotions. Treatment is based on the development of appropriate
exchanges of affect within the therapeutic relationship that lead to an
increased tolerance and regulation of affect in the patient.
PDF of annotated bibliography available
upon request
This annotated bibliography
includes authors such as Damasio, Edelman, Ekman, LeDoux, Lichtenberg, Rossi,
Shore, and others.
Title: Clinical Implications of Affect Theory
Training presentation for psychotherapists
Abstract:
Contemporary
research in human development and neuropsychology has lead to an increased
understanding of the role affect plays in all aspects of human growth and
change. Emotional exchanges between infant and caregiver shape neurological
development and subsequent affect regulation, cognition and interpersonal
relationships. The exchange of affect in psychotherapy has similarly wide
ranging effects. This workshop will present an overview of contemporary
theories of affect as applied to clinical treatment.
PDF of presentation available upon
request
Title: Affect Theory and Clinical Practice
Article Presented May 2000
Annual Conference of the California
Association of Marriage Family Therapists
PDF of article available upon
request
Title: What the Therapist Feels Makes a Difference
Article published May 2000
Therapist
Magazine
Introduction:
Understanding emotions and the
role they play in growth and change have been a focus of intensive researchand clinical investigation throughout
this century. Affect Theory is a name generally applied to contemporary models
of emotion and includes research in clinical and developmental psychology as
well as the cognitive and neurosciences. An understanding of this contemporary
research can have a significant influence on how therapists view the role of
emotional exchanges within the therapeutic relationship.
