Creative Listening and The Psychoanalytic Process-Dr. Fred Griffin-registration strongly encouraged

Dr. Griffin will discuss creative listening and provide a conceptual framework by which works of literary fiction can be used to develop clinicians’ attunement to the expressiveness of language and to foster emotional receptivity to psychoanalytic experience. Dr. Griffin will use Virginia Woolf’s novel, To the Lighthouse, to teach engaged, embodied analytic listening. This novel is unrivaled in capturing the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity that informs contemporary clinical psychoanalysis. Woolf achieves this feat by generating states of consciousness within and among characters, which by way of imaginative empathy, the reader can enter and occupy for a while.

Learning Objectives:

• Expand their capacities to listen for and identify the multi-sensorial therapeutic experience and to make fuller use of countertransference as a source of communication regarding the patient’s inner and relational worlds.
• Make use of this more visceral view of the transference-countertransference to discover more precise language that fits the patient’s states of consciousness, affective tone, and embodied sense of self.  
• Apply these skills in the service of better attuned therapeutic engagement with patients, by which to facilitate an analytic process that not only addresses psychic conflict, but that also provides the potential for new development.

Fee for 3 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits: $45 for NOBPC members; $75 non-members

Fred Griffin, M.D. specializes in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Dallas, Texas. He is board-certified in both
psychiatry and psychoanalysis and is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern
Medical School and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Griffin is well
published in the fields of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and narrative medicine.

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may receive credit for this activity with a CME certificate