Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D. Seminar Series

Intrapsychic Humanism Core Concepts and Clinical Applications

Our Live continuing education programming, which is complimentary with an Intrapsychic Humanism Society annual membership, currently focuses on a series of in-depth seminars in which we will explore, over time: (1) unique insights into the unfolding development of internalized core personal meaning – in being loved, loveable, and causing the caregiver’s love – through informed caregiving relationships through the first few formative years of life, (2) the underlying causes of psychopathology, and (3) a psychotherapy approach to treating not only symptoms of psychological distress, including relationship and behavioral problems, but also underlying instability, deficits, and malformation of core self-worth.

Each seminar series covers a separate chapter of the seminal book, Intrapsychic Humanism, An Introduction to a Comprehensive Philosophy and Psychology of Mind (Pieper & Pieper, 1990). Past seminar series have covered the Introduction and the first two chapters on the development of personal meaning during the first and second years of life. All previous Live seminar series are available as On Demand Seminars. We recommend beginning with the first seminar series and moving through the seminar series sequentially. Each series consists of multiple (4-8) one-hour seminars featuring presentations by experienced clinicians bringing to life the core concepts of Intrapsychic Humanism with examples to illustrate how the concepts can be applied where relevant to childrearing, parent counseling, child play therapy, and adult psychotherapy to help children and adults acquire lasting self-worth.