Join Mark Kvarta MD, PhD, Sheppard Pratt & University of Maryland Resident Class, Baltimore, Maryland, for a complimentary Virtual Clarence G. Schulz Award Lecture.
This lecture will discuss two years of psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy with a patient, who beyond a quiet temperament, fears speaking up for himself in order to not threaten key relationships. We will explore how this attachment style and these defenses were influenced by key developmental factors of serially unavailable caregivers, relevant recent circumstances, and the unexpected but helpful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic altering the therapeutic frame.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, attendees will be able to:
- Identify how the role of attachment style can influence adult relationships.
- Analyze how frame alteration in therapy can be a useful.
- Discuss how transference and countertransference in the therapeutic alliance can be used to explore patterns of defense mechanisms in relationships.