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THE STARK METHOD of PSYCHODYNAMIC SYNERGY

Thursday, July 10, 2025 | 12 - 2 pm (ET)
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MarthaStarkMD@SynergyMed.solutions
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I am the Creator and Developer of THE STARK METHOD of PSYCHODYNAMIC SYNERGY, an “overarching conceptual framework” for the working through process in psychodynamic psychotherapy and in any depth psychology for which the ultimate goal is deep and sustained healing.

 

I will be presenting a paradigm that outlines a series of steps whereby psychological rigidity (rigid and unevolved defense) will incrementally evolve into psychological flexibility (more flexible and more evolved adaptation).

 

Once a solid narcissistic alliance has been firmly established, the therapist will be in a position to offer the patient thoughtfully timed “optimally stressful” interventions (made possible only by virtue of the therapist’s earned right to disrupt) strategically designed to generate destabilizing internal dissonance and homeostatic imbalance.

 

In essence, by continuously and judiciously juxtaposing “healthy but anxiety-provoking challenge” of the patient’s defenses with “less healthy but anxiety-assuaging support” of them, the therapist will be creating growth-incentivizing “mismatch experiences” for the patient – the ongoing working through of which will prompt the patient to rebalance at ever-higher and ever more evolved levels of resilience and adaptive capacity.

 

Indeed, I will hope to demonstrate that psychodynamic psychotherapy affords the patient both impetus and opportunity, albeit belatedly, to master traumatic experiences that had once been overwhelming – and, therefore, defended against – but that can now, in light of the synergy between the therapist’s loving support and the patient’s underlying resilience and innate capacity to adapt to stress, be gently revisited, re-enacted, grieved, reprocessed, and ultimately reframed, such that the patient will eventually be able to “reposition” herself in relation to them.

 

As a result, growth-impeding defenses, once necessary for survival, will be gradually transformed into growth-promoting adaptations – accompanied by a strengthening at the broken places.

 

In other words, the patient will be incentivized to return, in an embodied fashion, to the scene of the original crime but will now be able to negotiate, in the context of her relationship with a therapist who deeply cares, a new, different, and compellingly better ending – from constricted and defensively rigid to expansive and adaptively resilient.

 

To borrow the timeless words of Freud – quietly profound in their simplicity – “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”