October 10-11, 2008

at Mars Hill Graduate School - Seattle

Mutuality and Collaboration: Repeating and Changing the Past

Dr. Karen Maroda extends the notion of mutuality across the therapeutic process. Taken from her forthcoming book on interactive psychotherapy, she focuses not only on identifying longstanding patterns of client behavior, both positive and negative, but also those of the therapist. Seeing the therapeutic relationship as an ever-changing, organic system of mutual influence, Dr. Maroda challenges therapists to be more self-aware regarding the ongoing influence of their own pre-established ways of being. Although she does not deny the inevitable unique aspects of every therapeutic relationship, she illustrates how clients long for both recognition and help with their own maladaptive patterns of responding. And how therapists need to be willing and able to acknowledge the same in themselves.

Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Milwaukee, WI. She is also assistant professor of psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin. Internationally known for work in relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Maroda is the author of two books, The Power of Countertransference (1991) and Seduction, Surrender and Transformation (1999) as well as numerous journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. Her third book, Interactive Psychodynamic Techniques will be published by Guilford Press in 2009. She is a former board member and ethics chair of Div 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and is board certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology.