$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

  • Seminar # 92:  The Asylum and the Great Storm

  • Seminar #93: The Canary and the Mole

  • Seminar #94 – The Mother and the Harvest

  • Seminar #95: Contact with the Archetype and the Black Veil

  • Seminar #96: The Graveyard and the Great War

  • Seminar #97: Like a Bird of Prey

  • Seminar #98: A Ram and a Colorless Vision

  • Seminar #99: Symbol and Stereotype

  • Seminar #100: The Bird and the Ancient Mother

  • Seminar #101: Passing the Sacrifice

  • Seminar #102: The Rose and the Ostrich

  • Seminar #103: The Eye of the Heart

  • Seminar #105: Initiation and Integration

  • Seminar #106: The Satyr and the Unmentionable