The Prevalence and Importance of Splitting, Projective Identification and Introjection in Clinical and Forensic Settings

Price: $155.00
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Saturday,  October 22, 2016
9:00am – 4:00pm, 6 CE Hrs

Alliant International University
One Beach Street ~ San Francisco

This workshop will examine the role that splitting, projective identification and introjection play in a number of important psychological areas.  This includes, but is not limited to, part and whole object relations, as well as how understandings of self, others and beliefs are constituted both externally and internally.  Choice of romantic and marriage partners, clinical transference/counter transference, relational enactments, instances of paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, personality disorders, divorces, custody disputes, multiple manifestations of psychopathology and images of God can be traced to primitive and sophisticated uses of splitting, projective identification and introjection. 

This course will take a serious look at the need of human beings to alter, edit and organize their experiences of self world and others so viable and sustainable versions of self, others and world can be accessed and drawn upon on a regular basis.   Without being able to split self, others and aspects of reality into parts, project and introject aspects of self and others, especially at developmentally immature and vulnerable times in the formation of identity and world human beings would be unable to attach to and obtain resources from needed others and, thus, radically decreases their chances of surviving physically and socially, as well, as evolving intrapsychically.

Course Objectives:

1. Recognize and identify numerous instances and manifestations of splitting, projective identification and introjection (in both themselves and clients)

2. Contain (in Bion's terms) split off, projected and introjected aspects of their clients identifies and experiences with the intentions of giving all this material back to them in a more organized and less threatening manner.  Doing so will go a long way in helping them work towards resolving dynamics, fears, issues and persecutory forms of anxiety that are part and parcel of Melanie Klein's paranoid schizoid position.  The more clients are able to see this, the better chance they will have accepting realty and thus moving into the depressive position of Melanie Klein.

3. Utilize Kleinian and Neo-Einsteinian contributions, in regard to splitting, projective identification and introjection.   The works of Melanie Klein, Donald Meltzer and Wilfred Bion will provide the theoretical and clinical background for this workshop.


Robert Grant PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the areas of trauma, dissociation, cross cultural issues and spiritually for nearly 30 years.  He has worked in the US and overseas in 23 countries.  He has a particular interest in relationship between identity structures and worldviews, and the deconstructive effects of traumatic events.

He is also author of "Healing the Soul of the Church (Ministers Facing Histories of Abuse and Trauma)," 1994.  "The Way of the Wound (A Spirituality of  Trauma and Transformation)," 1998.   "Living and Working in Environments of Violence (A Resource Manual for Humanitarians Workers),"  2002.  "A Healing Response to Terrorism (A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual First Responders)," 2004.  "Vicarious Trauma (A Handbook for Professionals and organizations Regularly working with Victims of Trauma)," 2006.   "Complicated Trauma (An Integrative Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma)," 2007.  "I Love a War Veteran (A Handbook for Professionals, Veterans and Family Members who Support War Veterans)," 2007.  "Growth through Adversity (Coming Out the Other Side of Trauma, Illness and Loss)," 2008.  "The Challenge of Forgiveness (As Faced by Victims of Betrayal and Abuse)," 2009. "Anger, Healing and Forgiveness (a 6 hour audio presentation), and "The Dissociation Handbooks 2013. 

He can be reached at rw_grant@hotmail.com and some of his writings can be viewed at http://in-sigththerapy.blogspot.com/2013/06/trauma-and-spiritual-journey.html

 
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