The Absence of Presence and the Presence of Absence
Psychotherapy with Relational Trauma Survivors of What Never Happened that Should HaveÂ
Six-Week Webinar Series with Dr. Ken Benau
$295 | 5 CEs Available
Register NowThe Lasting Impact of Absence
May 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th & June 6th & 13th
12pm-1pm ET (view in your time zone)
Join Dr. Ken Benau for an in-depth exploration into the lasting effects of caregiver “absence” on the developing child, and later as adults in psychotherapy. Others have remarked that “neglect is often neglected” in developmental research. The same can be said of psychotherapy with survivors of early relational trauma and attachment wounding. This course will highlight some of the subtler, chronic consequences of what never happened that should have, including the need to be seen, felt, known, and even celebrated for who we are.
Why This Course?
Understand the Research: Take a deep dive into the developmental research on early relational absence and explore some clinical applications of that research.
Explore Cases In-Depth:Â Review five clinical case presentations, describing how Dr. Benau identified and worked therapeutically with the chronic effects of absence.
Improve Clinical Work: Learn to identify how early developmental absence makes its presence known in adult psychotherapy, and consider different ways of working effectively with these phenomena.
The Absence of Presence
Six-Week Webinar Series
Dr. Ken Benau offers an in-depth exploration into caregiver absence, exploring its impacts on child development and, later, in adulthood. Participants will gain tools to work more effectively with adults in psychotherapy who have experienced developmental absence.
$295 | 5 CEs Available
Participants Who Complete This Course Can Earn 5 Continuing Education (CE) Credit Hours Upon Completion
Describe the relationship between developmental absence and chronic shame.
Discuss the role of shock in developmental absence and the potential for Deep Brain Reorienting for processing that shock.
Identify ways that early developmental absence makes its presence known in adult psychotherapy.
Course Schedule
This course is divided into six weekly lectures that can be attended live or watched from the My Library section after the live session.
Session 1: Developmental research into early relational absence and some clinical applications of this research.
Session 2: Clinical theory and applications to psychotherapy with absence, including psychoanalytic, attachment, and integrative approaches, along with Dr. Benau’s understanding of the relationship between absence and chronic shame.
Session 3: Therapeutic responses to the effects of absence, from the perspective of reciprocal responsiveness and “vitality” (Stern, 2010), “zest” (Scott, 1964), “spark” (Music, 2022), and “pro-being pride” (Benau, 2022), the latter referring to taking delight in a person’s unique ways of being and relating.
Session 4: Four clinical case presentations, describing how Dr. Benau identified and worked therapeutically with the chronic effects of absence.
Session 5: Dr. Benau’s work with the shock of early unbearable aloneness, following a transcribed session of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) psychotherapy (Corrigan et al, 2022), a somatic, brainstem-informed approach to processing the pre- and non-verbal effects of chronic absence.
Session 6: Conversing with participants about psychotherapy with their adult patients experiencing the long-term effects of absence.
Participants that complete all sessions and associated quizzes can earn a certificate of completion for 5 CE Credit Hours.
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