TRISP

Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology

Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology
230 Central Park West, Suite A1, New York, NY 10024
Phone: 212.828.1042 | Email: trispfoundation@gmail.com
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Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy – March 18th, 6pm – 8pm

Posted on Feb 26, 2016 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

Why is focusing on trauma so important for today’s therapists?  All you have to do is pick up a newspaper or  glance at your smartphone to be reminded that trauma is everywhere in our world.  And its hard to imagine that any of us who choose this tough way to make a living haven’t experienced trauma in one form or another.  I hope you’ll come to our...

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Applying Kohut’s Major Contributions to the Treatment of Parents and Children – February 19, 2016

Posted on Feb 7, 2016 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

We all know the tender and sometimes fraught dance between parent and child that shapes the family relationship as well as each individual within it.  When each person’s hopes align with the other’s there is great opportunity for developmental leaps in the child and great satisfaction for the parent.   When dreads are in the foreground, or when trauma...

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On the Therapeutic Action – November 13, 2015

Posted on Nov 3, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

In most forms of psychotherapy the therapeutic action has been tied to the provision of insight. In classical psychoanalysis it is interpretation in the service of resolving transference that is thought to be therapeutic.   Even Kohut, when defining what is curative in self psychology, resorted to the tried and true, meaning the provision of insight. Self...

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The Intersubjective Field – October 30, 2015

Posted on Oct 22, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

What is the intersubjective field?  Through the lens of intersubjectivity, we understand that our own subjectivity is a part of the patient’s world, and the interplay of the two subjectivities becomes the focus of empathic and sensitive exploration.  No longer a one-person intrapsychic psychology, we are now exploring the field created by two...

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