Transforming Resistance: An Introduction to Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
an AEDP Workshop sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas in Cary, NC
with Steve Shapiro, PhD
Many patients interfere with the very progress they seek through resistance to the psychotherapy process. Not infrequently, they terminate prematurely before reaching their goals. This results in tragic consequences for the client, as well as frustration and a sense of failure for the therapist.
By adopting an active, selective and precise focus, as well as an experiential, attachment-based and emotionally engaged stance, therapists can create the level of safety and attunement patients need to risk abandoning chronic defensive patterns and shift to healthier functioning. By following proven principles and detailed clinical maps, participants will be introduced to techniques for bypassing or restructuring defenses efficiently, keeping anxiety in an optimal range of tolerance toward the goal of compassionately and effectively facilitating transformational experiences. This approach helps patients access and realign with healthy, buried and previously inaccessible internal resources indicative of resilience as rapidly as possible.
A brief didactic overview and patient video(s) will be used to demonstrate moment to moment methods for moving beyond symptom management to enable patients to abandon chronic coping patterns that were once necessary, but have long outlived their usefulness and access deeply buried, unconscious conflicts, to facilitate corrective experiences, activate resilience and restore vitality.
Meet the Presenter
Steve Shapiro, PhD
Steve Shapiro, PhD, a licensed psychologist, has been practicing various forms of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT) since the mid-1990’s, including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP). He has been studying AEDP with Dr. Fosha since 2003 and is a founding member of the AEDP Institute, where he is a senior faculty member. Dr. Shapiro provides training in the form of seminars, group supervision and private individual supervision. He has lectured and given workshops to the mental health community through various agencies and organizations. He is the former Director of Psychology and Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service (MCES), an emergency psychiatric hospital, where he worked primarily with severe personality disorders and those involuntarily committed to treatment. Dr. Shapiro conducts seminars and workshops on various topics in his other areas of specialization, which include: adolescents and their families, parenting, communication principles, personality disorders, involuntary treatment (adolescents and others), psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention. He has held adjunct professor positions at Drexel/Hahnemann University and the University of the Sciences. Dr. Shapiro maintains a full-time private practice in suburban Philadelphia.
Date:
March 18, 2016
Time:
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Registration & refreshments begin at 7:00 pm
Location:
Lucy Daniels Foundation
9001 Weston Parkway in Cary, NC
Cary, NC 27513
Fee and Credits
- $45 ($50 at the door)
Questions about this Workshop?
Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas at 919-490-3212 or admin@ncpsasoc.org
Event Details:
Date/Time
03/18/20167:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Lucy Daniels Foundation9001 Weston Parkway
Cary, NC 27513, North Carolina
27513