$15.00 every Month
What a Shrink Thinks Seminar Level Monthly Membership
The What a Shrink Thinks Seminar is a twice monthly online subscription seminar focusing on the psychotherapeutic process and the varied theoretical, ethical, socio-political, and spiritual concerns that impact psychotherapeutic work.
The seminar consists of two didactic essays each month written in response to queries and prompts submitted by subscribers. This is content that is distinct from the public blog posts at What a Shrink Thinks.
I will curate the questions in the queue, selecting the ones that seem to be most applicable for the majority of subscribers. I’ll respond to the basic themes that emerge, publishing two responses a month. I can’t guarantee when/if every question will be addressed, but I’ll do my best to consider as many as I can.
Please keep this disclaimer in mind: This is an informal online classroom and nothing published here should be viewed as clinical or supervisory advice, or take the place of actual supervisory or therapeutic consultation by a licensed professional in your state. There will be no confidential or identifying information posted here.
Some subjects that I can imagine maybe be discussed here:
- Practice building
- Specialization versus generalist practice
- Archetpye and myth in clinical practice
- Long term versus short term treatments
- Use of self in psychotherapy
- Working with countertransferences
- The strengths and limitations of psychoanalytic theory
- Gifts and transitional objects
- Psychotherapy, empathy and social justice
- Bereavement, grief, and palliative psychotherapy
I also request that all subscribers respect the proprietary and copyrighted nature of of these seminar essays. If you would like to cite them for academic purposes please ask me and it is likely I will agree to it. I reserve the right to discontinue/refund/block subscribers who violate this request, or who conduct themselves in a manner that is disruptive to this forum.
Thank you for joining me in this grand experiment! I hope it will prove to be a rich experience for all of us who gather here!
Subscription and Fees:
One month/four week subscription: $15.00
Seminar Level Articles
Seminar Level: Submit a Question
Seminar #3 Clinical Uses and Implications of Humor
Seminar #4: A few thoughts on race and racism in psychotherapeutic practice:
Seminar #5: The Other Mother
Seminar #6 – Chronicity and psychotherapy
Seminar #7: First Appointments
Seminar #8: Use of Myth in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Seminar #9: Shock
Seminar #10: Hatred and Its Uses
Seminar #11 – Of Transference and Jealousy
Seminar #12 Myth and Healing
Seminar #13 – Time and the Psychotherapist
Seminar #14 Bullies, Scapegoats and Bad Objects
Seminar #15: Incomplete Myths and Psychologies of Liberation
Seminar #16: Empathy’s shadow: on Self-Care and Moral Masochism
Seminar #17: Inflation and its Dangers
Seminar #18: An initial look at Anima/Animus Theory
Seminar #19: Lies, Untruths and Subjectivity in Psychotherapy
Seminar #20: In Case of Emergency
Seminar #21: Keeping and Leaving
Seminar #22: Getting Lost
Seminar #23: God-Talk
Seminar #24 – A Quick Look at Dream Work
Seminar #25: Active Imagination
Seminar #26: Mix and Match (Part 1)
Seminar #27 Eclecticism Part 2
Seminar #28: Working in the transference
Seminar # 29: The Container and the Contained
Seminar #30: Commitment, Salvation and Well Being.
Seminar #31 The Death Instinct
Seminar #32 More on death in clinical practice
Seminar #33: Of Mandalas and Types
Seminar #34 – The Four Functions
Seminar #35: Transcending
Seminar #36 – The Therapist and the Transcendent Function
Seminar #37: Therapy and Creativity
Seminar #38 – Art, Artists, Psychotherapy and Jung
Seminar #39: Alchemical Dreams Part One
Seminar #40 Dreaming and Alchemy Part 2
Seminar #41 – Dreaming and Alchemy, Part 3
Seminar #42 – Alchemy and Dreaming, Part 4
Seminar #43 The Stone, The Self – Dreaming & Alchemy Part 5
Seminar #44 The Problems of “Modern” Man – Part 1
Seminar #45 – The Cultural Shadow of “Modern Man”
Seminar #46: Myth of the West/East Binary
Seminar #47: Signs, Omens and Synchronicities, Part One
Seminar #48: Signs, Omens and Synchronicity, Part Two
Seminar #49 Signs, Omens and Synchronicities, Part Three
Seminar #50 Nature and Human Morality
Seminar #51 Perfection, Completion and the Biblical Job
Seminar #51 Perfection, Completion and the Biblical Job
Seminar # 53: Guggenbühl-Craig’s The Emptied Soul
Seminar #54: Jung’s Seminars on Children’s Dreams
Seminar #55: “Causes” of dreams and dream time
Seminar #56: Three Fates and a Fire Below
Seminar #58: The Lion, the Bread and the Magic Mirror Part 2
Seminar #59: Mother and the Mountain Part 1
Seminar #60 Mother and the Mountain Part 2
Seminar # 61: Monsters on the Stairs
Seminar #62: Over the Rainbow
Seminar #63: The Robbers’ Den
Seminar #64: Cratered
Seminar #65: The Wedding Carriage and the Angel
Seminar #66: The Fairy, the Corridors and the Fire:
Seminar #67: The Tiger, The Snake, and the Magic Herb
Seminar #68: Dreams of Passing By
Seminar #69: The Snake with Sparkling Eyes
Seminar #70: A Dream of Sinking in the Water
Seminar #71: Dream of a Pyramid and a Glass House
Seminar #72 : A Dream of a Beloved Girl
Seminar #73: Dream of a Girl Dead in the Water
Seminar #73: Dream of a Girl Dead in the Water
Seminar #74: A Dream of Jack Frost
Seminar #75: A Dream of a Transparent Mouse
Seminar #77: Dream of an Evil Animal
Seminar #78 – The Endless Pergola, the Giant and the Dachshund
Seminar #79: A Little Girl Dreams of a Tiger
Seminar #80 The Dream of the Devil in the Garden Shaft
Seminar #81: Dream of the Red Cave and the Rotating Grids
Seminar #82: A Dream of a Red Ball and the End of the World
Seminar #83: Dream of Little Pigs and Lice
Seminar #85: The Flamingo in the Room
Seminar #86 The Blind Mole and the Lighthouse
Seminar #87 – Playing With Feeling
Seminar #88: The Doctor at the Edge of the Sea
Seminar #89 Vision of a Peacock and Old Shoes
Seminar #90: Dream of a House on Fire
Seminar #91: The Boy and the Accordion
Seminar # 2: Therapeutic Writing – May 2017
Seminar #1: Trauma and the Psychotherapist
Seminar #92: Where the Four Valleys Meet
Seminar #91: An Arrow Pointing at the Moon