Shrinks and Drinks with Wendy Bauer

The Alamo is growing. Come see what's taking root on the eastside.

Psychoanalysis has always known that the most interesting conversations happen in intimate rooms, between people willing to sit with uncertainty and say what they almost didn't. Shrinks and Drinks is built on that conviction — a series of Friday evening talks in which psychoanalysts open their clinical thinking to colleagues, offer a case for shared consultation, and make room for the kind of dialogue that doesn't often survive the formality of the conference setting.

Come as you are, wherever you are in your training. This is a window into analytic practice, not a test of it. The conversation is the point. We provide the shrinks and the drinks. You bring the appetizing case material.

All tickets includes drinks and snacks!
Now offering CE credits!  Earn 1 continuing education credit for qualifying professionals.

Info on the series here.

Wendy Bauer
The Allure of Sharing Suffering: emotional resonance in the face of trauma

Much of what facilitates an effective therapeutic process involves the therapist’s use of her emotional experience as a means to understand and make meaning of the patient’s lived experience. As we reference similar moments in our lives, we experience an emotional resonance that fosters empathy and attunement, deepening the patient’s felt experience of recognition and creating the conditions for therapeutic growth. It is a process of moving in and out of identification with the patient’s experience while maintaining a constant awareness of our own separate subjectivity and its impact on the intersubjective field. But what happens when the traumatic narratives of the patient and therapist collide?

Dr. Wendy Bauer presents a compelling case in which events in the therapist’s life unfold during the course of treatment that closely resemble the patient’s traumatic narrative. A profound emotional resonance of shared suffering developed, blurring the lines between self and other. Dr. Bauer discusses the struggle and necessity of holding on to one’s subjectivity in the face of the seductive pull towards a sense of sameness, as well as the potential therapeutic benefits of shared suffering.

Wendy Bauer, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst based in Los Angeles. She has a private practice where she works with adolescents and adults struggling with a range of issues including trauma, grief, and anxiety. She received her master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and her doctorate from The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis where she has chaired and served on multiple committees. Dr. Bauer won the 2021 IAPSP Essay Award Contest for her paper, “The Bereaved Analyst: Vulnerability in the intersubjective field.” The essay also won an honorable mention for the 2021 Dr. Daphne S. Stolorow Memorial Essay Award at ICPLA.

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Refund policy: Participants seeking a refund can email us at thealamoprograms@gmail.com at least 15 days before the first meeting. Refunds requested 15 days or earlier will receive 100% refund. 14-7 days prior, participants are eligible for a 50% refund. No refund will be provided 6 days prior or less.

Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for PhDs, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the American Psychological Association and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Please note: Attendance at all class meetings is required for continuing education credits.

Course certificates awarded at the end of the course upon receipt of completed evaluation form.

The Alamo Psychotherapy and Training is a dba of Michelle Harwell Therapy. Michelle Harwell Therapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists and many licensed clinicians. The Alamo Psychotherapy and Training maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

No known conflict of interest or commercial support for The Alamo Psychotherapy and Training, or the instructor.

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