What happens when the therapist yearns to mother the patient and the patient yearns to be mothered? How do these leading edge hopes get expressed without tipping into trailing edge dreads? In this presentation, Cara Moody shares the story of the overlapping yearnings of patient and therapist as they navigate the fine line between enacting an unrealizable wish and experiencing the generative power of having their hopes fulfilled. Bringing to life the feelings of love and hope, hopelessness and dread that construct the therapeutic milieu of her work with her patient, Cara explores the therapeutic necessity of skillfully attending to and foregrounding her patient’s leading edge selfobject yearning for idealization, while simultaneously critically aware of, and backgrounding, her own selfobject needs, all the while attentive to the risk of patient’s or therapist’s dread moving to the foreground. Aviva Rohde will offer a discussion from the perspective of Intersubjective Self Psychology, after which we will welcome discussion with audience members.

 

Two Continuing Education Credits for NYS social workers, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and LMHCs.
 
This meeting will take place online via Zoom. Registrants will be emailed a Zoom link with their confirmed registration and prior to the event.
Cara Moody

Cara Moody

Cara Moody is a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) and therapist practicing in Vancouver, BC (or more accurately the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Having worked for decades in a hospital based, out patient, infectious disease clinic for self-identified women and their families, Cara has recently moved into full-time private practice. Cara has a keen interest in working with individuals to develop and grow their sense of worth, belonging, and connection. Having discovered for herself the super powers granted by surrendering to emotional vulnerability, Cara is excited to experientially nurture this knowledge in her clients.

Aviva Rohde

Aviva Rohde

Aviva Rohde, PhD, LP, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and a graduate of TRISP where she is a senior faculty member. She is in private practice in New York City where she treats adults, adolescents, and couples. She also supervises at TRISP and privately. In addition, she is a contributing author of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer and recently published in Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.

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