Into the Mind of the Psychotherapist: When the Personal Becomes Professional, with, Dr. Steven Kuchuck

In this illuminating and extended workshop, Dr. Steven Kuchuck explores the profound impact that therapists’ personal histories, life experiences, and psychological makeup have on the therapeutic process. Expanding the psychoanalytic perspective, he examines how early childhood experiences and adult life events influence clinical decisions, the therapist’s presence, and the dynamic in the consulting room.

Dr. Kuchuck draws important distinctions between the therapist’s subjectivity and self-disclosure, highlighting how unconscious dissociation of subjectivity can limit access to countertransference and reduce therapeutic insight, potentially causing vital clinical information to be missed. He offers practical strategies for recognizing, tracking, and working with therapist subjectivity to enhance therapeutic effectiveness.

The workshop also addresses how therapists’ temperament, internal conflicts about being seen or hidden, and struggles with self-care directly impact the treatment. This thoughtful session encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to deepen their self-awareness, use their personal material wisely, and foster more authentic and effective therapeutic relationships.

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This webinar was originally recorded with a live audience on the 2^nd April 2022  

Video lecture – 5hrs and 34 mins

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Dr. Steven Kuchuck Senior Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Past President of 
the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NIP and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. His new book, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is an introduction to and exploration of Relational psychoanalysis. In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of 
Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris).