forwarding NYC Queer Therapist Workshop

[Adam Blatner]

 NYC Queer Therapist Workshop: The Closeted Erotic Transference: "In Treatment" on and off 
screen.
      Psychotherapists across America (and previously in Israel) were obsessed these last 
few months with HBO's series "In Treatment."   Many were preoccupied with the erotic 
transference between Paul and Laura and the clinical and ethical implications of how it 
was addressed in the therapeutic space.  However, the erotic transference that is largely 
overlooked by both the therapist and the viewer is the one that may exist between Paul, 
the therapist, and Alex, a client and a war veteran who is struggling with
issues around his sexual identity or expression.
       What happens when the client is fully or partially closeted? When the sexual 
identity of the therapist is known or unknown to the client (or even to the therapist 
themselves)? How does the transference and countertransference get played out in 
psychotherapy? What can potentially be repressed or denied?
      Queer individuals have historically been both sexualized and at the same time our 
sexuality has been marginalized which can make helping our clients claim and recognize 
their own desire confusing.
      In our third workshop for queer therapists we will watch a clip from the show and 
discuss our own clinical experiences in exploring this issue.  Familiarity with "In 
Treatment" is not a prerequisite for participation in the workshop.
     Date: Monday April 21, 6:30-9 PM    Fee $25 Students $20   Location: IAP   526 W 26th 
Street Suite 309
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 Please email  Jasondbutler at yahoo.com or navahjs at yahoo.com to register

 Navah Steiner, is a licensed creative arts therapist and registered drama therapist in 
private practice and at Bellevue Hospital Center. She has formally worked with queer HIV+ 
youth and for the past 3 years is and has served  on the benefit committee of Immigration 
Equality, an organization serving LGBT individuals seeking asylum in the US. Navah is the 
associate training director at  the Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy  post graduate 
training program in Developmental Transformations. Lately she also has been watching way 
too much TV.
       Jason Butler is the Director of Goddard Riverside Community Center's The Other 
Place. He is on faculty at New York University in the program in Drama Therapy and has 
been studying Developmental Transformations for several years. He is also Communications 
Chair for the NADT.  Jason has previously been seen in his one-man show, Just Another Gay 
Mormon.  These past few months he too has had a potentially unhealthy relationship with 
his television.