Vitalization Training

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Readings For March 2024

Training Week Three

The reading material is directly relevant to the skills being taught for the upcoming week.  I will do my best to keep the readings reduced to a manageable amount of pages.

Personal book notes are included when available that summarize the chapters to be read.  They are more abbreviated and condensed from the chapter content.  They will be posted on the readings page in PDF formatting for easy downloading.

READ:

1.  Chapter 5 – Between Mythos & Logos – Vitalizations in Psychoanalysis
2. Chapter 3 – Activating Lifeness In A Therapeutic Encounter – Vitalizations in Psychoanalysis
3. Chapter 2 – The Enigma of Desire – The Enigma of Desire – Sex, Longing and Belonging
4. The Impassioned Body – paper by Bill Cornell – read through this paper again!!
5. Chapter 4 – Intuiting The Truth Of What is Happening – Reclaiming Unlived Life 

PDFs Of Book Chapters
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Vitalization in Psychoanalysis – Chapter 3 – Activating Lifeness In The Analytic Encounter – Rachel Peltz

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis – Chapter 5 – Mythos & Logos  – Boaz Shalgi

Impassioned Body Paper – Impassioned Body – Bill Cornell

Reclaiming Unlived Life  – Chapter 4 – Intuiting The Truth Of What’s Happening – Thomas Ogden

The Enigma of Desire  – Chapter 2 – The Enigma of Desire  – Galit Atlas

Book Notes of Chapters

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis – Chapter 3 – Activating Lifeness In The Analytic Encounter – Rachel Peltz

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis – Chapter 5 – Mythos & Logos  – Boaz Shalgi

Impassioned Body Paper – The Impassioned Body-Mind – Eros & Vitality As Healthy Disturbances – Bill Cornell

Reclaiming Unlived Life – Chapter 4 – Intuiting The Truth Of What Is Happening  – Boaz Shalgi

The Enigma of Desire  – 

Audio Recordings From January 2024
Training Week Two

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Audio Recordings From November 2023
Training Week One

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Readings From November 2023

Training Week One

Personal book notes are included when available that summarize the chapters to be read.  They are more abbreviated and condensed from the chapter content.  They will be posted on the readings page in PDF formatting for easy downloading.

READ:

1.  Chapter 2 – The Art & Power of Listening Deeply – Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
2. Introduction & Chapter 1 – Vitalizing Enactments – Vitalizations in Psychoanalysis
3. Introduction & Chapter 1 – What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up Coming To Life in the Consulting Room
4. Chapter 3 – The Therapist’s Witnessing & Otherness – Intimacy & Separateness

PDFs Of Book Chapters

Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – Chapter 2 – The Art & Power Of Listening – Deeply – Teri Quatman

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis – Perspectives on Being & Becoming – Introduction & Chapter One – Vitalizing Enactments.

Coming To Life In The Consulting Room – Coming To Life – Introduction – Ogden

Coming To Life In The Consulting Room – Coming To Life – Chapter One – What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up – Ogden

Intimacy & Separateness – Chapter 3 – The Analyst’s Witnessing & Otherness – Poland

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.

COMING TO LIFE IN THE CONSULTING ROOM – TOWARD AN ANALYTIC SENSIBILITY – Thomas Ogden

Ogden sets out to move psychotherapeutic processes toward a new sensibility. He reflects a shift in emphasis from knowing and understanding to the ‘lived experience’ of being and becoming more human. 

Ogden illustrates his way of dreaming the analytic session and of inventing fresh processes with each client.  You’ll have to muddle through some of the more psychoanalytic concepts and language before resting into the profound humanity to be found in his approach.

ESSENTIAL  PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY – AN ACQUIRED ART – Teri Quatman

This is a late addition to the book list, but a worthy one as well, one of the best I have ever 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.

INTIMACY & SEPARATENESS –Warren Poland

This supplemental book offers practitioners a very human and personal sense of what it is like to be a person in therapy, and what it is like to the the therapist in the therapy as well.  His unfolding and original observations as a part of and apart from is a key concept for this year’s training – being an active witness facilitates another’s self-experience and self-expression in very particular and essential way.

THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE – Galit Atlas

Another 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.