Friday, October 30th: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET
Zoom Online
5 CEs (no CMEs)
Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 29th, 2026 at noon ET
The workshop will focus on the clinical art of listening for unconscious communication as it appears in what patients say, what they show in their bodies, what they avoid, how they relate to the therapist, and what they evoke in us.
In this 5-hour workshop, Maury Joseph, Psy.D. will present the central ideas from his forthcoming book, The Ear, the Eye, and the Heart: How Dynamic Therapists Listen for Hidden Meaning.
Rather than presenting a rigid technique or one “right” way to intervene, this workshop will help therapists think more carefully about the clinical data already present in the room. We will explore how to listen for unconscious dynamics in the manifest content, how to track anxiety and defense in the moment-by-moment process of the session, how to recognize signs of breakthrough, how to hear indirect references to the therapist, and how to use countertransference and enactment as sources of clinical information.
Particular attention will be given to the therapist’s uncertainty. Dynamic listening does not make us omniscient; it helps us form better hypotheses. Through clinical examples participants will learn how to cross-reference multiple channels of communication so that their formulations become more grounded, flexible, and useful.
The aim of the workshop is practical: to help therapists hear more of what is happening in sessions, think more clearly under pressure, and intervene with greater precision, humility, and responsiveness.
The workshop is intended for psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and graduate students. This is an opportunity for professionals who would like to deepen their psychodynamic listening skills, sharpen their moment-to-moment clinical thinking, and become more attuned to the unconscious communications that shape the therapy relationship.
Date:
October 30, 2026, Virtual
Time:
- 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET
Location:
Virtual via Zoom
Format:
Online
Registration Closes:
October 29th, 2026 at noon ET
Cost:
- Member – $120
- Student and Emeriti Members – $85
- Non-member – $150
5 CEs/No CMEs
- Listening to and cross-referencing multiple streams of data.
- Recurring structures that point to unconscious dynamics and relational pattern.
- Following sequences of anxiety, defense, and breakthrough in sessions.
- Countertransference and enactment as channels of information.
- Using clinical material to demonstrate listening process.
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By the end of the conference, participants will be able to:
- Describe a multidimensional model of psychodynamic listening that attends to manifest content, nonverbal process, anxiety, defense, transference, countertransference, and enactment.
- Identify verbal and nonverbal signs of unconscious anxiety and defense as they emerge in the moment-by-moment process of psychotherapy.
- Formulate clinically useful hypotheses about unconscious dynamics by cross-referencing multiple channels of clinical communication.
- Recognize indirect references to the therapist and therapy relationship in patients’ narratives, questions, and interpersonal behavior.
- Use countertransference reactions as data for understanding the patient and the therapeutic interaction while guarding against premature certainty, enactment, and overinterpretation.
Maury Joseph, PsyD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Washington, DC and Pennsylvania. I trained at and later served as faculty chair of the ISTDP training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and was a faculty member there from 2015-2020. I joined the ISTDP faculty of the New Washington School of Psychiatry in May 2023. I served as an assistant clinical faculty member at George Washington University and adjunct faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, offering courses on psychoanalytic topics and supervision to clinical psychology doctoral students. I currently offer weekly supervision groups and private seminars on psychodynamic topics, and facilitate my own IEDTA-accredited core training program.
Between 7 and 14 days prior to an event, a cancellation request in writing will result in a refund of 50% of the registration fee less a $50 administrative fee (A $200 registration will be refunded as $100 less $50 or $50).
We regret that cancellation requests made 7 days or less prior to an event will not be accepted.
For questions and additional information on this event, please contact Nilou Mostofi at admin@newwsp.org.
