Book Project: Jungian Psychotherapy and Contemporary Infant Research

Infant research observations and hypotheses have raised serious questions about previous mainstream psychoanalytic theories of earliest childhood development.

In Jungian Psychotherapy and Contemporary Infant Research, Mario Jacoby looks at how these observations are relevant to psychotherapeutic and Jungian analytical practice. Using recent findings in infant research, along with practical examples from therapeutic practice, he shows how early emotional exchange processes, though becoming superimposed in adult life by rational control and various defenses, remain operative and become reactivated in situations of intimacy. 

Jungian Psychotherapy and Contemporary Infant Research will be of interest to both professionals and students involved in analytical psychology and psychotherapy.More »

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Forensic Psychology II

Here's Part II of my previous introduction of ethics for future forensic psychologists:

In a class of masters-level forensic psychology students, I asked them next to remember a time when they had done something that they'd never imagine doing; something that ran squarely against their  previous ethical values.

I required them to keep the actual content of that behavior completely to themselves. 

But I did ask for  them first to journal privately, then share in dyads, their best recollection of what they had believed before, and what that ethical belief had felt like; as specifically as possible.

Forensic Psychology I

Last night, I taught the 4th (out of 8) class sessions of my Ethics course for forensic psychologists-in-training at Argosy University.  I have been attempting, now in my third, graduate-level course of Ethics, to invite the kind of deep-level self-reflection in my students that I believe is necessary in their future careers as forensic psychologists.  I'd like to share my class outline, fresh from last night's 3-hour class:

I started by acknowledging how that several students had, over the course of the previous week, completed essays regarding what are core ethical characteristics which typify the ideal forensic psychologist.

I then asked students to privately journal the first five such ethical characteristics which came to mind.  Upon completing that task, we broke into dyad discussions of what they'd recorded.  Finally, we came back to the entire class group, with me at the front whiteboard simply recording their responses.

Shame in Families: Transmission Across Generations

(summarized from: Dr. Edward Teyber, Dr. Faith McClure, and Dr. Robert (Bob) Weathers in "Shame in the Therapy Hour" (R. L. Dearing & J. P. Tangney, eds.), 2011, Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association Press).

• Our entire sense of self is derived from interpersonal experiences, particularly those that are laid down in our early psychological development.  Hence if we are prone to shame states, it can be assumed that we have been profoundly affected by repeated shaming encounters with our primary caregivers.
• For many individuals, psychological symptoms (and the suffering associated with them) persist, even after a course of psychotherapy, owing to the fact that the fundamental sense of self, rooted in traumatic developmental experiences of repeated shame, has never been truly or adequately acknowledged or brought to light of day.

Publications and Presentations by Dr. Bob Weathers

Publications

Teyber, E., McClure, F., & Dr. Robert Weathers  (in press).  Shame and the family.  Shame (edited vol.).  Washington, D.C.  American Psychological Association Press.

Dr. Robert Weathers  (2006).  Introducing a full-spectrum approach to psychotherapy.  Conway Daily Sun (Special Issue on Health Professions), 18, 12-13.

Gentile, S. R., Asamen, J. K., Harmell, P. H., & Dr. Robert Weathers (2002). The stalking of psychologists by their clients. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33, 490-494.