Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Flashes, Hunches, & Gut Feelings

Presenter Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Author, Speaker, Artist

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  As psychotherapists, how do we know exactly what to do and say? Clinical intuition is indispensable to effective psychotherapy, yet the topic is rarely discussed within the current social politics of our field. This interactive workshop explores clinical intuition from multiple perspectives: 1) Its spontaneous emergence to fill the gap between theory and practice; 2) Its workings via bottom-up, implicit, nonconscious modes of communication; 2) Its evolutionary and developmental roots within mammalian limbic emotional and motivational circuits; 3) Its manifestation in the therapeutic dialogue through PLAY and the unconsciously orchestrated games that organize relational rhythms. Other topics include imagination, metaphor, creativity, and humor, as they spring from intuitive roots and in wisdom, the mature flowering of clinical intuition.  A didactic and experiential experience. 

ART EXHIBIT: Dr. Marks-Tarlow 's whimsical yet profound art will be on exhibit.  Her Books and Art will be available for purchase.

For a Review of Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow's Book on which the course is based:

Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response (NORTON Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD, Licensed Psychologist

Terry Marks-Tarlow,Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, has been in private practice in Santa Monica since 1985 and teaches developmental neurobiology at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center. She is a Research Associate at the Institute for Fractal Research in Kassel, Germany, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (founded by Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, and John Raatz). Her most recent book, Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response (2012, Norton; foreword by Allan Schore) underscores the importance of play, imagination, and creativity within psychotherapy.  Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy, her most recent and highly praised book is being followed with an accompanying workbook, entitled, Awakening Clinical Intuition, currently in press. Dr. Marks-Tarlow strives to embody the balanced life she prescribes by dancing nearly daily; illustrating her own books; practicing and occasionally teaching yoga workshops; and writing the libretto for an opera, "Cracked Orlando" (composed by Jonathan Dawe), which premiered with a ballet in New York City in 2010.

 WITH DISCUSSANT:

Elisabeth Crim, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Certified Relax & Renew Yoga Trainer

Dr. Elisabeth Crim, Licensed Psychologist, Certified Relax/Renew Yoga Trainer, Speaker, Writer, Founder/ Director of Moonstone Center, has a PhD and MA in Psychology, an MA in Theology, an MA in Counseling.  Serving in the field of mental health 25 years providing treatment and as an energizing and engaging speaker and writer, she practices, consults, and teaches from a Relational and InterSubjective Psychodynamic (Stolorow) and Holistic Mind-Body-Spirit approach to Psychotherapy. She is the author and founder of the increasingly popular monthly newsletter, The Healer's Life!  A Yoga practitioner since 1996 and a firm believer in Acupuncture, she is the Founder/Director of Moonstone Center where traditional and complimentary-alternative therapies are combined for whole person mental health treatment and where professional development is offered in the context of self care.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Participants will be able to describe and discuss how clinical intuition fills the gap between theory and minute-to-minute practice.

2. Participants will be able toco ntrast right-brain intuitionwi thl eft-brain deliberationi n termso f implicit, bottom-up, emergent, holistic processes versus explicit, topd-down contexts inw hich intuitives processes arise.

3. Participants will be ablet oe xamine evolutionary andd evelopmental contexts in which intuitive processes arise.

4. Participants will be introduced and gain understanding of a play model of psychotherapy where creativity, improvisation, curiosity, and exploration complementa  rupture and repair approach to psychological healing and growth.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Psychologists:

Moonstone Center is approved by the American Psychological association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Moonstone Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

MFTs/LCSWs:

Course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for MFCCs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  CA BBS Provider Number:  PCE 4079