EVENTS
Dr. Maroda is available to speak on a variety of topics, including:
The therapist’s natural defensiveness
Focuses on the inevitability of feeling threatened and defensive at certain times in therapy and how to manage those feelings, avoiding power struggles and stalemates.
The analyst’s vulnerability
Content revolves around how therapists’ shared early experiences, especially being the parentified child, operate to determine their choice of theory and interventions, as well as their vocational choice.
Enactment
Clearly defines the history and meaning of the term enactment and examines the increasing reliance on its use for understanding what is happening in the therapeutic relationship.
Self-disclosure
Provides a theory of the therapeutic action and the value of self-disclosure, as well as clinical examples of its use. Separate presentations are available on erotic and angry feelings, as well as ethical issues in self-disclosure.
Transference and extra-transference
How both client and therapist re-create their past patterns of feeling, thinking and acting, based on early experiences. Incorporates neuroscience confirmation of prediction and how prediction error operates unconsciously in both positive and negative expectations. Examines the oft-ignored value of working in the extra-transference.
Countertransference
Presentations available on a variety of topics within the realm of countertransference, with special emphasis on impasses and their resolution.
Empathy
Focuses on the critical role of empathy in creating a therapeutic relationship and the limits of empathy, e.g. understanding the role of ‘personal distress’ and how it interferes with empathy, and how the overuse of empathy becomes enabling.
Gratification
As in all relationships, the therapeutic one necessarily requires a degree of gratification for the therapist. The presentation focuses on assessing the match and the way the therapist’s appropriate needs can be met while focusing primarily on the client.
More topics and subtopics available. Inquire here.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Ethics and self-disclosure: Clinical considerations”, Presentation at the American Psychological Association annual convention, Division 39, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. Seattle Convention Center, August 9, 2024
“Dr. Karen Maroda—The therapist’s vulnerability: Exploring how our early experiences shape our theories and clinical choices”. Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute, online presentation, March, 1, 2024.
“What exactly is enactment and how can we best utilize it?”—A clinical workshop. Virtual presentation for International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, --Australia, February 10, 2023.
“The Analyst’s Vulnerability”, a virtual presentation for the New Jersey Institute for Training In Psychoanalysis, October 29, 2023,
“The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice.” Participants are restricted to psychoanalytic candidates from the American Psychoanalytic Association. Speaker for the APsaA Council Online Seminar Series, January 8, 15 & 22, 2023.
“The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice. Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy and Latin American Meeting of Psychotherapy Research, Renaca, Chile. August 25, 2023 at 3:30pm to 4:45pm, Live Supervision: Sunday, August 27th at 9:30am to 10:45am.
“The analyst’s vulnerability: How our early childhood experiences impact our choice of theory and technique. Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California.Online presentation, May 13, 2023.
“Ethical use of self-disclosure and the analyst’s fear of doing harm.” Austin Psychoanalytic Association, online presentation, March 4, 2023.
“The therapist as a person: How our early experiences determine our theory and technique.” Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Online presentation, February 19, 2023.
“The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice”. APsaA Council Online Seminar, a series for psychoanalytic candidates, January 8, 15 and 22, 2023.
“The analyst’s vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice.” Virtual presentation for International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, --Australia, October 13, 2023.
Presenting Chapters 1 & 4 from “The Analyst’s Early Experience: Why we infantilize patients and avoid our negative feelings toward them”. International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy online colloquium. Online discussion for IARPP members nationally and internationally. November 25, 2022.
“The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice. Wisconsin PsychoanalyticSociety, September 23, 2022.
“The therapist’s vulnerability and its implications for treatment.” International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis, March 5, 2022.
“Conflict and Negative Countertransference: When is it therapeutic to express anger?” Discussant: Dr. Irwin Hirsch, Manhattan Psychoanalytic Institute. Online presentation, December 2, 2022.
“The therapist’s vulnerability and its implications for treatment.” International Association for Relational Transactional Analysis Annual Conference, Nov. 26 th , 2022.
“Deconstructing self-disclosure: Why it remains controversial, Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Online presentation, November 19, 2022.
“Conflict avoidance, enactment & negative countertransference.” Wessex Counseling and Psychotherapy, Bristol, UK. Online presentation, September 10, 2022.
“Conflict, avoidance, enactment and the challenge of expressing negative countertransference”. Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, part of the “Keeping Our Work Alive” seminar series. Online seminar, April 30, 2022.
“Self-disclosure in clinical practice”. Adelphi University, Online seminar, October 22, 2021
“Why We Became Psychotherapists: How Early Experiences Mold Our Theory and Practice,” presented at the scientific meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Chicago, IL, January 28, 2020. Discussant: Neal Spira, M.D.
“Deconstructing Enactment: Essential Elements and Clinical Applications, presented at the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society, Milwaukee, WI, September 21, 2019.
“Resonating with the patient’s experience: Enactment or Self-disclosure?”. Panel presentation at the annual Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) spring meeting of the American Psychological Association. Co-presenters were Roy Barsness, Ph.D. and Tony Bass, Ph.D., April 4, 2019, Philadelphia, PA.
Louis Ormont Invited Lecture. “Reparative Countertransference: The therapist’s need to repeat the past.” American Group Psychotherapy Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2, 2019.
“Women and Power: Not a contradiction.” Given at the Alverno College annual women’s conference, March 29, 2019, Milwaukee, WI.
Panel presentation at the annual Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Spring meeting of the American Psychological Association. Paper entitled, “Resonating with the patient’s experience: Enactment or Self-disclosure?”. Co-presenters were Roy Barsness, Ph.D. and Tony Bass, Ph.D., April 4, 2019, Philadelphia, PA.
More than enactment: Therapeutic Action and the Therapist’s Use of Emotion. Keynote presentation at the 3rd International Conference of the Scientific Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, “Emotion Regulation—A Vehicle of Change in Psychotherapy,” April 13-15, 2018, Warsaw, Poland.
Conflict and Culture in the Analytic Dyad: Do We Avoid Addressing Differences and Wait for Enactment Instead? A post-conference workshop held at the 2017 CAPS International Conference, Chicago, IL, April 1, 2017.
From Countertransference to Enactment: Re-Examining the Role of Self-Disclosure and Other Affect-Based Techniques in Light of Evolving Psychoanalytic Theory. The Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, March 5, 2016.
Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship: Self-Disclosure, Enactment, and Affect Regulation. University of Indianapolis School of Psychological Sciences & the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought, Saturday, April 9, 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana.
More Than Enactment: Therapeutic Action and the Analyst’s Use of Emotion. Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Meeting, Saturday, February 13, 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
More Than Enactment: Therapeutic Action and the Analyst’s Use of Emotion Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, National Institute for Psychotherapies, 250 W. 57th St., Suite 501, New York, NY
Are Psychoanalysts Conflict Avoidant? Presentation at the spring meetings of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, New York, NY, April, 2013
How Are Gender Roles Changing in Marriage? How does this affect society and the health of marriage? A presentation for The Milwaukee Forum, BMO Harris Bank, 770 N. Water St., Milwaukee, WI., December 19, 2012.
The Role of Emotion in Therapeutic Action: Implications for Individual and Group Psychotherapy. Plenary address, Mitchell Hochberg Memorial Public Education Event,
American Group Psychotherapy Association annual conference, Wednesday, March 2, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, New York, NY. March 2, 2011
Is Neuroscience Necessary for the Future of Psychoanalysis?” A panel for Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) annual spring meeting, New York City. Paper given by Dr. Maroda was titled: “A New and Improved Psychoanalysis: Using Applied Neuroscience to Better Understand and Facilitate the Analytic Process.” Co-presenters are Dr. Jon Mills and Dr. Arnold Modell. April 14, 2011.
Does What We Know and Do Matter as Much as What We Feel? Implications of neuroscience research for psychotherapeutic theory and technique. A presentation as part of a conference entitled, “Reaching the Brain/Mind/Body Unconscious: Implicit Communications in Humans and Beyond”.. Other speakers include Allan Schore, Phillip Bromberg, and Pat Ogden. Mt Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, June 17-18, 2011.
Interactive psychodynamic techniques. Workshop for the 4th annual meeting on “How does psychotherapy work?” presented by the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA, June 6, 2009.
Video conference on psychoanalytic techniques with the Sydney Chapter of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Sydney, Australia, May 23, 2009.
Less is more: An argument for the judicious use of self-disclosure. Paper given at the Wisconsin Psychological Association convention, April 3, 2009, Madison, WI.
Show some emotion: completing the cycle of affective communication. Public lecture given at Mars Hill Graduate School, October 10, 2008, Seattle, WA.
Treating borderline personalities: Interactive Psychodynamic techniques. All-day workshop for therapists, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Continuing Education, September 19, 2008.
“Expanding the meaning of knowing oneself: Illuminating the role of action in self-understanding and therapeutic change.” Discussant for papers by Paul Wachtel, Ph.D., and Kenneth Frank, Ph.D., presented at the Division 39, APA, annual spring conference, April 12, 2008.