Author: Malin Fors

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).

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.

 

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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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.

 

 

Due to covid-19 my practice is transferred to telehealth system: confrere. (And phone).

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:

Use promocode POWER20 for a discount while checking out.

My work on Geographical Narcissism made it to rural Australia!

“Rural professionals often laugh with recognition when hearing of geographic narcissism.”

 

Continue reading “Keynote presentation at Congress and Annual Meeting of Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology”

New book review of my book!  Read it here.