Pine River Psychotherapy Associates presents:

The Ethics of Intimacy:
The Cost of Care Without Caring

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
6:00-9:15 pm
3 CEU credits for Psychologists (Area III)

“Abuse is not simply a matter of touching people wrongly. It is, as basically, a failure to make right relation, a refuse to touch people rightly.”
Carter Heyward

Psychotherapists are trained to maintain therapeutic relationships that are strictly objective. Professional codes of ethics censure therapists for engaging in professional relationships that are deemed “too personal.” In stark contrast, research suggests that most therapeutic failure are attributable to relationships that are not personal enough, rather than relationships that are too personal.

This workshop will present a more personal, mutually subjective model for the therapeutic relationship that harkens back to the earliest roots of psychotherapy, a model that reminds us that the primary purpose of interpersonal boundaries is to facilitate connection rather than maintain distance. Ethical implications of this model will be discussed.

In this workshop, participants will learn:
• A more personal, mutually subjective model for psychotherapy.
• About research relevant to an understanding of the therapeutic relationship
• How to recapture the vitality in their clinical practice

Avrum Geurin Weiss is a psychologist, author, and teacher in private practice.
Dr. Weiss’ first book, Experiential Psychotherapy: A Symphony of Selves, co-authored with Richard Felder, M.D., is currently in its third printing with a forward by noted family therapist Carl Whitaker. Dr. Weiss is the director of the Pine River Psychotherapy Training Institute, serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, and consults with the St. Joseph’s Hospital
Cancer Center and the Veterans’ Outreach Centers of the Southeast. Dr. Weiss has appeared frequently in local and regional print and television media as an expert on a wide range of topics, including trauma, and the process of change for individuals and organizations.

To register, contact Lenore Kueber, Business Manager
(404) 325-8512 ext. 0.