“It’s a good thing to know that a glass is to drink from,
It’s a bad thing not to know what you are thirsting for.”

– Antonio Machado

 

Reading Books For The Upcoming Training

Reading That Supports A Dynamic Synthesis of Facilitation Skills,
Emergent Psychological Processes & The Hero’s Journey® Myth

Readings will be assigned prior to each training week.  They will be relevant to the skills being taught for that particular week.  I will do my best to keep the readings reduced to a manageable amount of pages.

I will also provide my personal book notes that I make for most of the chapters to be read, which are more abbreviated and condensed from the chapter content.  They will be posted on the readings page in PDF formatting for easy downloading.

BOOKS

VITALIZATION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS – PERSPECTIVES ON BEING & BECOMING – Amy Schwartz-Cooney & Rachel Sopher

This will be a foundational book for the year, and I will draw from a number of the book chapters over the course of the three training weeks.

Vitalization refers to the process between two people that ignites new experiences and brings withdrawn aspects of the self to life. This book focuses on how process facilitation can be a uniquely creative encounter that can aid the enlivening internal process in both client and practitioner, offering a vibrant new take on the project of transformation.

WHAT ALIVE MEANS – Thomas Ogden

In his new book, Ogden promotes that this way of working allows a person to experience life in a way that feels more real, more alive, more personal, more imaginative, and more one’s own.  Ogden is concerned with helping the patient reclaim lost and un-lived life – a life that one was not able to experience when it occurred because it was too painful, too confusing, and too dangerous at the time. He expands on what it means to be oneself in an authentic way and how  a vitalizing process can help achieve that goal.

ESSENTIAL  PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY – AN ACQUIRED ART – Teri Quatman

This is a fresh addition to the book list, but a worthy one as well.  This book is one of the best I have come across that provides a straightforward and foundational framework for going deeper with clients.  It is honest, intimate and practical, and very readable.  It speaks to many key components of the training material, including Listening, Creating Space, Silence, Transference, Counter-transference, and the artistic application process of these fundamental concepts.

THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE – Galit Atlas

This supplemental book introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the psychotheraeutic relationship. This exciting material explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust.  

Galit humanizes her patients and offers worthwhile clinical illustrations of these challenging and intimate topics.