“In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted at early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP psychotherapy student Nicole Flibbert Laurino, LPC, will present from her work with an adult patient treated in a community mental health setting, who struggles with feeling “”not good enough”” and self critical tendencies, and a fraught relationship with her critical mother.
Discussant Barbara Gray, Ph.D., psychoanalyst, and PCOP faculty member, will provide insight into how the dynamics of maternal narcissism contributed to this patient’s conflicts and shaped her development, and how to understand them in the present via transference feelings in the therapy relationship. The discussion will focus on clinical interventions and case formulation, including concrete examples of “what to say, when” from a psychodynamic lens that attendees can apply to their own clinical work. In the question and answer period that follows, attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the case with Ms. Flibbert Laurino and Dr. Gray.”
