The Role of Healthy and Pathological Generosity in Psychotherapist’s Self-care Practices
Course Description
Psychotherapists demonstrate restraint to practice and allow the therapeutic process to unfold. What are the intrapsychic underpinnings that enable this position? This session explores the application of healthy and pathological generosity towards self and others within the treatment relationship. Self-care practices are examined within the hazards of the profession. What are the barriers and resources that can foster or hinder daily, healthful attention to ourselves? What is the meaning of self-sacrifice, greed, self-interest, selfishness and generosity in the treatment relationship? What dynamics are aroused by the needs of the analyst.
Course objectives
Participants will
- Recognize the rewards and hazards of psychotherapy practice
- Explore the dynamics of healthy and pathological generosity
- Classify healthy and pathological generosity within clinical vignettes
- Devise an individualized self-care plan
