Extra Info | : | From hostility in the session to acts of violence or aggression in the world, anger can present itself as an emotional and behavioural issue that demands immediate attention in therapy. Destruction, domination, hatred, revenge and sadism that emerge in the patient’s narratives are ultimately likely to arise in the dynamics of transference, countertransference, projective identification and enactments between patient and therapist when deep therapeutic engagement begins. These two presentations with accompanying live supervisions will focus on working with people whose predominant relational position is destructive It offers a day of considering clinical approaches that can support the patient in understanding the early causes of their aggression, the threats from which they are attempting to protect the self, and skills in helping them to set more healthy boundaries around these intolerable feelings. |
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