My upcoming class schedule

[rachelmanija]

Antioch continues its tradition of registration fuck-ups. This time they varied the cause by putting a hold on my registration for lack of payment of fees. Needless to say, my fees had been paid in full. Amazingly, despite having to throw sequential fits at the registrar's and accounting offices, I still got all my classes.

Full classes

Group Therapy. Apparently in this you can choose to be a rotating group leader, a member of the group, or an observer. Haven't decided which I want to be; I'm torn between leader and group member.

Personality Theory II: Postmodern Theories. I gather that the professor teaching this is very experiential. I have heard some interesting descriptions of this class. Could be wonderful or bizarre or both.

Conflict Resolution, PTSD, and Self-Care Issues for Mental Health Professionals. Taught by Colonel Professor Jack Kempton, who taught my military PTSD class and is awesomesauce.

Frontiers in Integrative Depth Psychology. Totally unenlightening title conceals actual subject, which is generational and cultural trauma/dysfunction. (ie, your family was persecuted because they were Jews (cultural trauma) and your family tree is full of alcoholics (generational problems. What does that do to you? How do you deal with these larger-than-individual issues in therapy?)

1-2 Day Workshops

Assessment and Treatment of PTSD in Civilian Populations

Domestic Violence in Military Personnel and Military Couples/Families

Introduction to Jungian Sandtray. SO EXCITED.

No word yet on the traineeship. If I get it, I might have to rearrange my class schedule.

Also, I am totally exhausted and cannot wait for the break. The Japan trip was wonderful but not exactly relaxing. I have been working or going to school or spending the whole day doing school work an average of six days per week since January.

Comments

[movingfinger]

I've gotten good at having fits to get what I'm supposed to have, when I'm supposed to have it, but it gets damned tiring having to behave that way in order to make something that's supposed to happen, happen. [Thinks of travel arrangements, gnashes teeth.]


PTSD in Civilian Populations: Sounds like nicking the lid on a can of worms...

Frontiers in Integrative Depth Psychology: Not to be overly flippant, but reminds me too strongly perhaps of a certain class of novel, and I do not mean that pejoratively, just that the conflicts and reconciliation (or not) of those lie beneath some pretty good stuff in the world of fiction both in authors and works.


Do you have plans for something super-nice in your break? Being "on" for such a long time is wearing...wearying too...

[rachelmanija]

PTSD in Civilian Populations: Sounds like nicking the lid on a can of worms...

Not in the context of having to take something like eight separate classes in PTSD in the course of my specialization.

My break plan is to lounge around, read, and watch TV. Possibly drive up to Mariposa and do some hiking. Should be great.

[kore]

You have been going and going and going! Yow.

Yeah, I think having to pitch fits in order to get the classes you need is a typical grad school thing, altho it really shouldn't be. Ugh.

[oyceter]

Oooooo those look cool, especially the one on self care and the one on integrative depth psychology.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a huge courseload.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

16 units. Full-time is 12. ;)

I'm trying to do a double major and still graduate in a timely fashion.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Seriously you can have 'Jungian Sandtray' if I get the full-on role-play experience of pretending to be in group therapy!


It sounds like a superfun quarter :)