Conversation: Loneliness and Annihilation Anxiety in the Therapy Room
This conversation will view fears of being alone, overwhelmed, merged, penetrated, fragmented, and destroyed; elevated by world events. The study of annihilation anxieties is important for understanding traumatic anxiety and including difficult resistances in the treatment.
Course Objectives:
1. Learn theoretical and clinical aspects of fears about loneliness, safety, survival, and self-preservation.
2. Identify six sub-dimensions of annihilation anxiety: Fear of death, being overwhelmed, falling apart, disappearing, emptiness, nothingness, abandonment, persecution, and catastrophe.
3. Examine complicity of countertransference reactions during analyses of fear of loneliness.
4. Gain the ability to identify and treat anxieties related to fear of loneliness and annihilation.
Facilitators: Lara Seymour, LCSW, PsyA, and Stella Freid, LCSW
Place: Zoom Meeting
Date: Sunday, June 12, 2022
Time: 11:am to 1:00pm
Fee: For non-IPS members, $10 payable via Zelle or PayPal using ipsinfo@ipsnewjersey.org
Registration will close Friday, June 10, 2022
Zoom invitation will be sent 24 hours prior to the event.
This course, provided by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. is approved for 2 continuing education hours by the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work.
