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PSTY5210: The Long Conversation 2B
2025 unit information
This unit builds on the Long Conversation 2A (PSTY5209), providing supervision, intending to continue in semester 2 and support the clinical experience of running a second intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy of 2 sessions per week in the Conversational Model, while continuing supervision of a first case. Individual and small group supervision will centre on listening to audiotaped sessions of the psychotherapies of patients brought from the student's workplace or allocated from an associated psychotherapy program, discussing assessment, formulation and the establishment of the frame and contract, and the relevant initial, middle and ending phases of therapy. Supervision will focus on the microprocesses of the interaction including attunement, affect, transference, countertransference and co-transference, states of mind and language. The student will develop and refine skills in sensitive, responsive and reflective practice to foster the conversational flow of the therapy, the development of the therapeutic relationship and the patient's self, and higher levels of reflective capacity and coherence to allow the processing of trauma and the integration of traumatic experience. Repetitions and enactments will be addressed. Supervised case ending will be encouraged. This unit represents a higher order of knowledge, skills and attitudes in psychotherapy, preparing the student for specialist psychotherapy practice.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Brain and Mind Science |
| Credit points | 3 |
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Prerequisites:
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PSTY5201 and PSTY5207 and PSTY5208 and PSTY5209 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand and apply the clinical framework in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- LO2. Understand and apply the general principles of the CM, as outlined in identified readings.
- LO3. Become familiar with reporting on the experience of therapy within the expectational field.
- LO4. Be able to articulate an ethical basis for longer term therapy.
- LO5. Describe the relational factors that shape the development of self with a particular focus on the use of empathy
- LO6. Distinguish between boundary crossings and boundary violations.
- LO7. Apply the need for recognition and validation in practice.
- LO8. Work with situations of reversals, impasse and disruptions in therapy
- LO9. Discuss the major principles of psychodynamic therapy including the role of feeling and responsiveness, the capacity to picture things with the patient and work with the minute particulars.
- LO10. Develop a flexible technique adaptable to a range of specific clinical presentations
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Westmead, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Westmead, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Westmead, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Westmead, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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