Marilyn H. Palasky PhD LCSW psychotherapist

These gatherings were founded on the idea that everyone can improve their relationship to others. It is a community grassroots education project formed by local Las Vegans living and working in a "World Class Destination Location." As we come together and share our experiences and learn new strategies for working therapeutically, using new science to work with people at risk, we can actually add to the field of knowledge in which we each work. We are presenting our 10th symposium in Mental Health on January 21, 2017 with psychoanalyst Lucy Holmes, PhD, LCSW.  We are offering 5 credits for an interactive day of learning based on "How Talking Cures" and "Fear of Success"--two chapers from her book WRESTLING WITH DESTINY: The promise of psychoanalysis.

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From the 9 Symposia prior to 2017, we have used our participants evaluations to make improvements:  1.) There will be a complimentary networking luncheon with the speaker.  2.) Reading assignments are given in a class setting in Dr. Palasky's office every other week.  3.) Incorporating modern psychodynamic approaches, enhances your practice and makes your work more effective and rewarding.

 

Whether you are a professional, or dealing with difficult family members or loved ones, continuing education in the relational skills brings an improvement in mental health of the whole situation. Being a therapeutic person, for the population in which you work is often counter-indicated. Narcissistic borderline chronically dissatisfied or critical patients are known to behave in unexpected and perverse ways when faced with a professional who has learned to listen with the "Third Ear." Here are core principles that work so effectively with a disordered personality, simple talk, presented with interactive lectures on understandable topics. What I think one can get from this kind of education, one based in learning from experience, and cultivated in cooperation with others--is a clearer perspective of their place in the world, a place with genuine personal presence and a centered and grounded therapeutic stance.

 

Symposiums in 2017

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#9- Effective Psychotherapy Practices with Behavioral Disorders" January 21, 2017. Discussed three chapters 'Why Talking Cures' 'Fear of Success' and 'The Capacity to Love" from Lucy Holmes book. The presenter Lucy Holmes is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a member of the faculties of the center for Modern Psychoanalytic, The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, the Boston School of Psychoanalysis and the Center for Group