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Acting Out and Enactments
Franklin Square
1829 Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Tuesday, March 05, 2019, 7:10 PM - 8:40 PM EDT
Category: Courses

Acting Out and Enactments (8 sessions)

Instructors: Michael Macklin, MD and Terrie Baker, MSW, LCSW

Remote Learners Welcome

This course will focus on the therapist’s conscious and unconscious reactions to their patients and how they can best be understood and worked with and understood. We will cover concepts of repeating, acting out, countertransference, projective identification, and enactment. Presentation of clinical material by participants will be essential for the success of this course.


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When:     Begins January 15 and runs 8 weeks
Time:       7:10 - 8:40 pm



About the InstructorsMichael Macklin, MD and Terrie Baker, MSW, LCSW

For syllabus, click here

Tuition: $315
$235 for students matriculated in the training programs 
$290 for residents and graduate students
Payment plans can be arranged with the Administrator

Course Cancellation Policy

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Course Learning Objectives: 

Class participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the historical meaning of the term “acting out”.
  2. Compare the behaviors commonly referred to as “acting out” and “acting in” and their relation to the process of “repeating and working through”.
  3. Discuss the clinical observations and implications of such behaviors.
  4. Describe the recent definitions of countertransference including the differentiation of concordant and complimentary countertransference.
  5. Explain how to utilize countertransference to enhance understanding of clinical materials.
  6. Discuss clinical observations of countertransference.
  7. Describe the historical underpinnings of projective identification.
  8. Discuss clinical observations related to projective identification.
  9. Describe how different psychoanalytic traditions define enactments.
  10. Describe the differences between ordinary enactments and enactments that are more deeply rooted in the unconscious.
  11. Describe the role of enactments in psychoanalytic treatment.
  12. Discuss clinical observations of enactments and their impact on clinical work.

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