Working with the Bodily Unconscious: Somatic Narration as a Method to Anchor the Working-Through in the Body-Self is organized by Austen Riggs Center (ARC).
Course opens : 02/16/2024
Course expires : 02/19/2027
Description:
Severely disturbed patients often show bodily symptoms relating to unrepresented states. These states result from traumatic breakdown of the patient’s ability to symbolize but also from a traumatic disorganization of the patient’s body-self. The psychoanalytic technique of interpreting the chain of free associations is in danger to overlook these encapsulated body engrams. Somatic narration describes a focused attention on the patient’s proprioception. His or her way of perceiving the disorganized body-self keeps the memory of traumatic interaction, mostly in early childhood, and places it in the focus of a shared attention within the therapeutic couple.
Learning Objectives:
• Explain the inner organization of bodily organized defense structures (encapsulated body engrams).
• Apply a method for dealing therapeutically with encapsulated body engrams, being the traces of traumatization in the body-self
• Identify when this kind of work is indicated and how it becomes accessible.
Available Credit
1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Accreditation Statement - Austen Riggs Center,Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement - Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.50 APA:
The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Enduring for 1.50 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.
1.50 ASWB-ACE:
The Austen Riggs Center, #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this Enduring. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Enduring will receive 1.50 continuing education credit(s). For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit States and provinces that accept ACE | Association of Social Work Boards.
1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
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