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Advanced Therapeutic Skills Workshop 4: Working with Idealized Fantasies: Video Course

Advanced Therapeutic Skills Workshop 4: Working with Idealized Fantasies: Video Course
At nscience, we are proud to launch a new, highly-immersive and therapeutic skills focused set of online evening sessions with internationally acclaimed Trauma expert Kathy Steele. At each of these evenings, we will explore one special topic per session relevant to working with challenging clients who have experienced complex trauma and dissociation. Each session will be focused on specific practical clinical skills.
Video course packs, including all notes are available immediately on booking. The access links are part of your ticket.
Online video access remains available for 1 year from the date you receive the video course.
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Clients often have specific idealized fantasies about the past, themselves, perpetrators, and the therapist that can be maladaptive. These may significantly interfere with therapy. Navigating clients’ idealized fantasies involves unravelling complex layers entwined with perceptions of the past, self, perpetrators, and even the therapist, often intertwined with maladaptive implications. These idealized constructs wield significant influence, potentially hindering therapeutic progress.
This session equips participants to decode the multifaceted functions of idealized fantasies in shaping self-perception and perceptions of others. It delves into the intricate realm of interventions designed to identify and attenuate the maladaptive positive affect interwoven within these fantasies.
In essence, comprehending and addressing clients’ idealized fantasies necessitates a deep dive into their underlying functions and the therapeutic means to mitigate their maladaptive influences. Unravelling these constructs empowers therapists to navigate through these complexities, fostering a more authentic and productive therapeutic journey for their clients.
At this session, we will examine various common idealized fantasies and how they protect the client, as well as interventions to decrease the maladaptive positive affect associated with these fantasies.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the functions of idealized fantasies of self and others
- Apply interventions to identify and decrease the maladaptive positive affect associated with these fantasies
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- Handouts and video recording
- 3 hrs of professionally produced lessons
- 1 year access to video recorded version
- CPD / CE Certificate
- Join from anywhere in the world
This session equips participants to decode the multifaceted functions of idealized fantasies in shaping self-perception and perceptions of others. It delves into the intricate realm of interventions designed to identify and attenuate the maladaptive positive affect interwoven within these fantasies.
Learning objectives
- Identify the functions of idealized fantasies of self and others
- Apply interventions to identify and decrease the maladaptive positive affect associated with these fantasies

Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been treating complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment issues since 1985. She is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Services and is Adjunct Faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Ms. Steele is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and has also previously served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). She has been involved with developing treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders and well as for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Ms. Steele has received a number of awards for her work, including the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD, an Emory University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, and the 2011 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions. She is known for her humour, compassion, respect, and depth of knowledge as a clinician and teacher, and for her capacity to present complex issues in easily understood and clear ways using an integrative psychotherapy model that draws from both traditional and somatic approaches. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer.
She has co-authored three books as part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology: The Haunted Self: Structural dissociation of the personality and chronic traumatization (2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, & Steele – W. W. Norton); Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists (2011, Boon, Steele, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton); and most recently, Treating trauma-related dissociation: A practical, integrative approach (2017, Steele, Boon, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton). She has also (co)authored numerous book chapters and journal articles.
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