IPI SLC's Conferences

Richard Billow, Ph.D.:
Loving, Hating and Knowing: Relational Group Psychotherapy
Afternoon Conference
(January 22, 2010)


CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
Contemporary therapists tend to avoid conducting group psychotherapy, for a variety of reasons: it’s too much work, they can’t find the time, they don’t know how to do it. In this conference, Dr. Richard Billow, a world-renowned expert in psychodynamic approaches to group therapy, will describe the merits of group work - both in terms of its value for the practitioner, and its capacity to enhance treatment effectiveness for the patient. Dr. Billow will first discuss basic approaches to group therapy, from Bion’s theories through current relational views. He will then illustrate concepts and techniques using the ‘fishbowl’ technique, in which he conducts a group session with volunteers, while the rest of the audience observes. To facilitate participants’ learning of both the theory and the practice of group therapy, their engagement in, and active discussion of the group process will be encouraged.

Note: Dr. Billow will also present in the morning of January 22, 2010, in our Master Speaker Videoconference Series. Separate registration is required for each conference (i.e., morning videoconference and this afternoon conference).

SMALL GROUP EXPERIENCE:
A unique part of IPI's training approach is the small group experience, in which participants integrate intellectual and emotional reaactions to the material that has been presented, and apply it to their clinical practice. in the small group, participants discuss, argue, wrestle with, experience personally, and take in the concepts that become a natural part of their way of working. For this conference, IPI is offering an optional small group for participants, from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. To enroll, specify that you would like to participate in the small group on the registration form.

LOCATION:
Westminster College: HWAC Special Events Room

TIME and DATE: 12:30 - 5:00 p.m. (6:15 p.m. with small group); January 22, 2010. Registration begins at 12:00.

COST: $90, $100 with small group ($45/$50 for students)

CE CREDITS: 4 (5 with small group)


Richard Billow, PhD

ABOUT RICHARD BILLOW, PHD:
Richard M, Billow, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and an active contributor to the psychoanalytic and group literature. He has been associated with the Gordon Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, New York, since 1968, where he achieved doctorate and postdoctoral certificates in psychoanalysis, and individual and group psychotherapy. He is Clinical Professor and Director of the institute’s Postdoctoral Program in Group Psychotherapy, and practices in Great Neck, New York. He is the author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, and Resistance (2003, Jessica Kingsley Press), and the forthcoming Rebellion and Refusal in Group: The 3 R’s (2010, Karnac Books).

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