Workshop for Queer Therapists

[Guest guest]

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 and

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 , the therapist, and , 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

www.artstherapy.net

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Please email dbutler@...

or navahjs@... 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.

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. 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.