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Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Chance to Dream a Little: The Uses of Reverie in Supervision

Howard Hamburger, MFT

Reverie includes, but is not restricted to, the spontaneous imagery, daydreams, and “digressions” that therapists often experience as we listen to our patients; it is a major way we gain access to our own and to our patients’ unconscious thinking. Reverie happens in supervision as well as in therapy, and if we know how to make use of it, the supervision and the supervisee’s clinical work deepen and mature.

In the symposium, we will explore and discuss:

  • How to expand our uses of reverie beyond daydreams into other transference/ countertransference phenomena;
  • How to ground reverie in psychoanalytic and practical theory;
  • How to “catch” our reveries;
  • When and how (and whether) to “language” or interpret our reveries in supervisory situations;
  • When and how to promote our supervisees’ use of reverie in their work;
  • How to address the absence of reverie.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Location: Preservation Park, Nile Hall

CE: 6 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; submitted to MCEPAA for approval)

Lunch provided.

  Fee if Registration Completed:
  by 2/3/12 after 2/3/12
Members $105 $125
NonMembers $125 $145
Students/Interns $85 $100