Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Five Thursdays, February 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2010
7 – 8:30pm 
CME Credits: 7.5
Fee: $185; Member Fee: $166.50

“Evidence Based Practices” (EBP) have become a mandated standard of care for community mental health providers throughout Oregon.  Outcomes-Informed Care, like EBP’s acknowledge the primary importance of the therapeutic relationship in affecting therapeutic change, like EBP’s acknowledge the primary importance of the therapeutic relationship in affecting therapeutic change, yet neither specifically trains to it.  This course aims to help therapists who are invested in using EBP’s, and Outcomes Informed Care to improve their practice through better awareness of the relational foundation of their work.  This course will provide an in-depth understanding of Psychoanalytic principles that are the basis of any therapy that uses the therapist and therapeutic relationship as an active factor in change.  We aim to address specific relational concepts from Psychoanalytic theory which, when used in most non-analytic settings, are used pejoratively, against the patient (and relationship) and demean the origins and profound wither of meaning these terms have historically held in psychotherapy.  Concepts like resistance, regression (linguistically or to dependence), primitive modes of experience, trans/counter-transference, treatment alliance, treatment frame (or parameters) are integral to the relational aspects of Psychoanalytic treatment, yet do not properly inform the teaching/training of EBP’s and Outcomes-Informed Care.  This course is not an attempt to train therapists to an analytic perspective; however, where impasses occur when using EBPs, it’s often not due to a technical error in using EBPs, but due to not attending to the relational aspects of therapy.  Attention to these relational components of treatment will be discussed as a way to enhance the use of current EBPs and provide improved Outcomes Informed Care.

Matt Carges, LMFT is in private practice in Portland serving adults and youth as well as providing licensure supervision.  He is also the Director of Community Based Services for Kerr Youth & Family Services and is a member of OPC’s Continuing Education Committee.

Alejandro Pawliszyn, MS, QMHP is an individual therapist and couples counselor in private practice in Downtown Portland.  He also provides bilingual Spanish therapy for children and families at Morrison Child and Family Services. He received his training as a mental health clinician in Argentina and New York City. He has been a member of the OPC’s Continuing Education Committee since 2008.

 

 



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