Early Bird Registration Available until March 21st!
SPRING WORKSHOP
Saturday, April 5, 2025
9:00am to 4:00pm CDT
In-person option includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages!
Relational Psychoanalysis: In a New Key
PRESENTER: Roy Barsness, PhD
We are pleased to be hosting this workshop LIVE at
The Kauffman Foundation Conference Center
4801 Rockhill Road
Kansas City Room
Kansas City, MO 64110
AS WELL AS for remote participants via Zoom.
6 CMEs/CEUs available
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Early Bird Rates Apply until March 21st!
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About the Workshop
Morning Focus: Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis
Drawing from Dr. Barsness’ text, Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research, this session invites participants to identify and explore the seven core disciplines of relational psychoanalysis, as revealed through his qualitative research. The workshop will deepen participants' understanding of relationally oriented theory and clinical practice, with a special focus on radical openness, courageous speech, and disciplined spontaneity. It offers a valuable opportunity for practitioners to assess and reflect on their own clinical approaches through a relational psychoanalytic lens.
Afternoon Focus: Psychodynamic Supervision
In the afternoon, Dr. Barsness shifts focus to his latest book, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in a New Key. Traditional supervisory relationships often follow a didactic model, where the supervisor provides guidance, critique, and feedback. In contrast, this seminar introduces an innovative supervision framework that emphasizes affect over cognition and places the therapist’s subjectivity at the center of understanding the patient’s internal and interpersonal world. The discussion will also highlight a reimagining of analytic interpretations as complex, evolving dialogues.
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
1. Identify practical and common disciplines inherent in the relationally focused paradigms that are useful in conducting a coherent and purposeful treatment.
2. Identify relevant ethical considerations when working within a relationally focused model.
3. Assess and critique a new model of supervision grounded in relational
psychoanalysis in contrast to the more common supervisory process that
offers cognitive case formulations of the presenting case.
4. Develop a new language moving from interpretation into complex dialogue.
5. Apply the principles of the new method (referred to as M- Muse; A- Affect; M- Metabolization; A- Articulation; and L- Learning) in their supervisory practices.
About the Presenter, Roy Barsness, PhD
Dr. Barsness is a Psychoanalytic Psychologist, clinician, and educator. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute; the former Academic Dean and Professor at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; and Clinical Associate Professor for the University of Washington-School of Medicine – Department of Psychiatry. He teaches internationally at the University of Turin – Turin, Italy and at the Sichuan Heguang Clinical Psychology Institute – China. Dr. Barsness has presented at numerous conferences and academic institutions, has published in various professional journals, and is the author of the texts: Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice Study and Research (Routledge, 2018) and Psychodynamic Supervision Theory and Practices: In a New Key, (Routledge, 2024). In addition, he has been in independent practice for over thirty-five years.
Continuing Medical Education Credits
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
