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Continuing Education for Psychologists and Psychotherapists |
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EmpowerCE |
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Phone: 805 550-9201 E-mail: empowerce@sbcglobal.net |
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· EmpowerCE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. · EmpowerCE is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a continuing education provider for MFTs and LCSWs. Provider #4874 · EmpowerCE maintains responsibility for these programs and their content. |
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Making sense of repetition phenomena by integrating psychotraumatology and psychodynamic psychotherapy |
0.5 ces, $7.50 |
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Abstract
Psychotherapy and psychotraumatology share a preoccupation with repetition phenomena, manifested as transference. compulsions to repeat, or intrusive reexperiencing. Terminological diversity obscures compelling similarities between these repetition phenomena and discourages speculation about processes involved in their genesis. This paper remedies these oversights by integrating recent empirical evidence pertaining to memory with European intellectual traditions embraced by its pioneering dynamic psychotherapists. Using dreams as a prototype repetition, the phenomenological diversity of repetition phenomena is shown to be reconcilable with current evidence about memory encoding, storage, and retrieval. Differences in persistence, intensity, pervasiveness, and treatment resilience of repetition phenomena are explained using concepts derived from psychological and biological sciences. Implications for psychotherapeutic theory, practice, and evaluation are considered.
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Orner, R.J. & Stolz, P. (2002). Making sense of repetition phenomena by integrating psychotraumatology and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Journal of Traumatic Stress. Vol. I5. No. 6, 465-471. |
