2-Day Agenda: Working with Disorganized Attachment

Friday, November 14, 2025 12:00 pm EST – 4:30 pm EST

12:00 – 12:30 Course Overview and Orientation

12:30 – 2:15 II: How disorganization manifests
a. How the category of disorganization came to be
b. Markers of childhood disorganization: Main and Soloman
c. Fright without Solution: Main and Hesse
d. Caregiver-infant face to face communications: Beebe
e. Attachment without Solution: Fosha
f. Attachment trauma
g. Video Illustration and large group descussion

2:15 – 2:45 III: Break

2:45 – 4:15 IV: Working with disorganization in psychotherapy
a. The unresolved state of mind: language and commmunication
b. The collapse in strategy;dissociation, fragmentation, pathogenic affects
c. Video Illustration: The look of fear d. The strategy of collapse: control, threat
d. Role reversal
e. Illustration: Transcript of clinical vignette
f. Tending fear and the parentified child and their underlying fear

4:15 – 4:30 V: Large group discussion: Q & A

Sunday, November 16, 2025 12:00 pm EST – 4:30 pm EST

12:00 – 12:30 Reflections from Day 1 and Q & A

12:30 – 2:15 II: The therapist’s experience with disorganization
a. Therpaist common reactivities and metaskills
b. Building safety; fostering epistemic trust
c. Video illustration: tracking dissociation as a defense
d. Large group Discussion
e. Triangle of Connectivity: K. Gleiser
f. Video Illustration: Transforming Self-hate
g. Discussion in dyads

2:15 – 2:45 III: Break
2:45 – 4:15 IV: The Journey to Coherance and Connection
a. Therapist as organizer of experience
b. Building internal secure atttachment
c. Differentiating sub-parts of self
d. Repair and collaboration between parts of self
e. Video Illustration f. Clinical interventions to use with disorganization

4:15 – 4:30 V: Large group discussion: Q & A