NIPPA Focus Seminar: Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Change
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Presented by:
Alessandro Cavelzani, PhD
Mutual Regulation Model, Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Therapeutic Change in the Analytic Treatment
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
Conference Room
New York, NY 10107
The presentation discusses the mutual regulation model and the dyadic expansion of consciousness model as a way to better understand the interaction between the analysand and analyst and the process of therapeutic change. It’s argued that by examining matching, mismatching, and in particular reparation of therapeutic exchanges at the micro-level as well as the macro-level of the therapeutic exchange, including whole sessions or even over multiple sessions provides insight in the establishment of the therapeutic relationship and the formation of Dyadic States of Consciousness. In addition, the process of mismatching and reparation is discussed having multiple different meanings: restoring the working alliance, as well as a crisis and developmental opportunity to dyadically expand the consciousness. Clinical examples are presented.
Alessandro Cavelzani, PhD is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and child-parent psychotherapist in Italy. He is a member IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy), and a member SIPRE (Relational Psychoanalytic Institute, Italy). For 15 years he has worked with patients struggling with anxiety, depression, relational difficulties with parents and children, cultural adaptation, and race-gender-gay discrimination.
Dr. Cavelzani also trained with Professor Edward Tronick’s research group at the Child Unit, University of Massachusetts/Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2013.
Continuing Education
NIPPA Focus Seminars do not offer CE hours.
The event is free, but pre-registration is required.