Social Work can be psychodynamic, yo! (SWK-6592): Recent Episodes
Neil Gorman (DSW, LCSW)
This is a series of lectures given as part of a masters level class at a school of social work. The goal of the lass was to increase student's ability to understand and make use of psychodynamic (i.e. psychoanalytic) techniques in the context of a wider social work practice
This is a short lecture that I hope will make some of the things that I had you read make more sense... It is my attempt to provide you all with some context.
This is a lecture on mastery based culture (i.e. culture that expects us to "master" our self and our emotions).
- The two types of ambiguous loss
- Physical present / psychologically absent
- Psychologically present / physically absent
- The idea that all therapy is "grief therapy"
- The ambiguous loss of our own bodies
- The ambiguous loss of our own childhoods
- Ambiguous loss 3x (Our parents, our specialness, our children)
- The trapeze thing.
This lecture is about the idea that many of the things that we encounter in psychoanalysis and/or psychotherapy are not problems, even if we have been told they are.
Some examples of things that are often called problems, but I would suggest they are not, are
- Transference
- Countertransference
- Acting out
- Going "off topic" or "defocusing"
I hope that listening to this will be interesting and useful to you all.