Master Series in Clinical Practice

Jointly sponsored by The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Major Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; and William James College.

The Master Series affords the chance to spend a complete day with leaders in our field to consider the unique perspective each speaker brings to the challenging dilemmas in both theory and practice. We hope that you will consider joining us for the entire series at a reduced tuition or choose the programs most relevant to your own practice.

Martha Stark, MD, instructor

Dr. Stark’s interest has long been in creating a holistic conceptual framework that captures the essence of what is involved in the process of healing, whether of the mind or of the body.  To that end, she has coined the word MindBodyMatrix, a term that speaks to the complex interdependence of mind and body; it also reflects a keen appreciation for the intimate and precise relationship between the health and vitality of the mind and that of the body.  By way of interventions that alternately challenge (when possible) and support (when necessary), the healthcare practitioner will precipitate disruption in order to trigger repair – the patient now stronger as a result of having mastered the impact (psychologically, physiologically, and energetically) of the therapist’s “optimally stressful” interventions.  By way of working through the cumulative impact of environmental stressors, the MindBodyMatrix will ultimately evolve to a higher level of functionality, adaptive capacity, and mental/physical health.

Upon completion of the program, the student will be able to

• offer examples of “replenishing the reserves” in order to “correct for deficiencies”
• explain the importance of “lightening the load” in order to “correct for toxicities”
• appreciate the relationship between the infrastructure of the living system and the system’s capacity to cope with stress
• describe the role of “optimal stress” in the prompting of transformation and growth

Program Code: MS78

6 CE/CME Credits

Location: at William James College, Newton

Martha Stark, MD, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, is a Holistic Adult / Child Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Boston, MA.  She is Faculty, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Smith College School for Social Work; and Former Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.  She is Co-Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies @ MSPP. Martha is the author of three award-winning academic books on psychoanalytic theory and technique:  Working with Resistance; A Primer on Working with Resistance; and Modes of Therapeutic Action – all of which have earned the top rating of five stars on amazon.com and are being used around the country as primary textbooks at a number of psychoanalytic institutes and in various psychodynamic psychotherapy training programs. Martha is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, and the International Journal of Clinical Toxicology.

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