My Keynote Address at Rural Medicine Australia 2023 is now online! Wonderful experience to meet 1000 rural colleagues in Hobart, Tasmania. https://rma.acrrm.org.au/program/speakers
Workshop in Oslo, September 7.
I won the Research Award from Finnmark Hospital Trust 2021!
Published trial lecture: “A political, historical, and social justice perspective on psychiatric diagnoses”
Trial Lecture for the degree of Dr.Philos. is now online. I was awarded the degree of Dr.Philos. for University of Oslo, September, 10, 2021.
New review of my book: “It is a joy to read such a clinically grounded, well-written, scholarly textbook. This is a book that no one who practices psychotherapy in any form should miss.”
Celia Svedhem reviewed the Swedish edition of my book “A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy: Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege” for Swedish Psychological Association’s Journal. (Page 38).
Swedish translation of “A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy”
A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy is now released in Swedish for the academic publisher Studentlitteratur. The Swedish title is: Makt och privilegier i psykoterapi. If you want to review it for course adaption, please contact Fanny.vonHomeyer@studentlitteratur.se
The translation is done by me in close collaboration with Susanne Uhler.
Austen Riggs Center – Friday Night Lecture available online for free: When Social Privilege Favors the Patient: Power Negotiations and Confused Subordination in Psychotherapy
Friday Night Lecture is now available online for free:
I was honoured to be the Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs Center in Spring 2020 but came home premature due to the the pandemic. In August I had a virtual Friday Night Lecture: the Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture. The lecture is now avaliable online for free. I am grateful to the Austen Riggs Center community for the opportunity to be an Erikson Scholar, very rewarding and inspiring!
This lecture will focus on the seldom-addressed therapeutic dyad in which social privilege favors the patient. Through her matrix of relative privilege, Fors will discuss how social power issues are inevitably negotiated in the therapeutic setting and how this process plays out in transference, countertransference, and resistance. Drawing on empirical research from other areas on how people handle sudden loss of privilege, Fors explores the implications of such disparities and explores playful (versus more narcissistically defensive) ways to handle clinical situations in which a patient is dependent on a socially less-privileged therapist.
Learning Objectives
Identify the therapeutic dynamics of the situation of “privilege favoring the patient”.
Distinguish between playful way versus malign narcissistic ways to handle confused subordination in psychotherapy.
Recognize power of Proxy.
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Upcoming August 21 – Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Malin Fors
August 21 – Friday Night Lecture at Austen Riggs Center
When Social Privilege Favors the Patient: Power Negotiations and Confused Subordination in Psychotherapy
Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture
Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Malin Fors
NOTE: This is s a VIRTUAL event and requires advance registration.
Friday Night Guest Lectures are designed for mental health professionals, offered free of charge, and provide 1.0 continuing education credit.
This lecture will focus on the seldom-addressed therapeutic dyad in which social privilege favors the patient. Through her matrix of relative privilege, Fors will discuss how social power issues are inevitably negotiated in the therapeutic setting and how this process plays out in transference, countertransference, and resistance. Drawing on empirical research from other areas on how people handle sudden loss of privilege, Fors explores the implications of such disparities and explores playful (versus more narcissistically defensive) ways to handle clinical situations in which a patient is dependent on a socially less-privileged therapist.
For questions, additional information, and to register please visit https://www.austenriggs.org/event/when-social-privilege-favors-patient-power-negotiations-and-confused-subordination.
Telemedicine
Due to covid-19 my practice is transferred to telehealth system: confrere. (And phone).
My dvd reached APA top 10 bestseller list!
My APA dvd has now reached the APA top 10 bestseller list!
The name of the dvd is “The Dynamics of Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy”
Watch a teaser here
Order here:
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