Presentations
Bert Powell and Steve Reed: Panel Discussion
“The Core Sensitivities: How to differentiate between Separation, Esteem and Safety Sensitivity.”
Through this live demonstration, Bert Powell and Steve Reed will share how to use a mentalizing approach to the differential diagnosis of the “core sensitivities”. The type of diagnostic questions to ask the client will be explored, as well as the reasons for asking such questions. They will discuss the possible intrapsychic meanings of the client’s responses and lay out for the audience how these responses determine specific practical interventions in order to help the therapist and client keep exploring into “where the self hides out”.
Joe Coyne
The Role of Procedural Process in the Development
of the Self.
Attachment is a procedure built on the patterned regulation of emotion between parent and child.
In this presentation, Joe Coyne will talk about how this procedure becomes a map of relational expectancies, which shape sensitivities to relationships that come to organise our vulnerability in later relationships. Such relational expectancies in early development then become our compass in how we all -as adults - navigate the struggle in close relationships between “how to be ourselves” with our own needs and how we develop nonconscious strategies to manage the anxieties of those needs being unmet.
Bert Powell
Hidden in plain sight.
How the work of Masterson and Klein contributed to the development of the Circle of Security intervention.
Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper and I learned attachment theory and the science of scoring a child’s attachment strategies in the Strange Situation assessment. With this knowledge, creating treatment plans that identified key strengths and struggles for families became clearer and more accessible. To intervene, we developed a brief therapeutic model to help the caregiver process video vignettes of key aspects of their interaction with their child. Training in the Masterson model provided us with a structure to design a defence analysis process using many of Dr. Masterson’s and Dr. Klein’s ideas. Because few therapists in the early intervention field had backgrounds in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, we created the “Core Sensitivities” as a way for clinicians to relate to these internal working models as normal procedural variations that people develop to organize and defend from memories of painful developmental experiences.
In this presentation, we will explore how much of Masterson’s model is hidden in plain sight in the Circle of Security intervention.
Joe Coyne
A lot can happen in a minute: Using moment-to-moment tracking of relational processing for reflection and intervention.
Video review and analysis is an essential tool in research methods such as infant observation and attachment studies. Since the 1970’s however it has also been used in research on psychotherapy. This workshop will introduce participants to the idea of ‘moment to moment’ introduced by Beatrice Beebe as a method for analysing their video material to discover relational processes. The value of this for real-time intervention in the clinical process will be highlighted.