with Imke Oster, BSc, MALD, MBA
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Wednesday, December 11, 2025
12:00 – 1:00pm
On Zoom – 1 CE
No charge for workshop attendance.
$17 administrative fee for each CE certificate.
“Working with Envy, the Green-Eyed Monster in the Treatment Room”
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, yet this emotion is experienced by nearly everyone at some point in their lives. As with all emotions, there is a broad spectrum of how malignant or benign those feelings are.
Despite the frequency of envy as a driving force in the maturation process, little is written about the effect of this personality type on the therapeutic process. This workshop investigates how different schools of thought identify envy, its origins in one’s psyche, and ways a person’s life can be impacted by these powerful impulses. I will share a case demonstrating the way envy’s dominance shaped a patient’s life choices and relationships. We will then explore how, using specific Modern Psychoanalytic interventions, an effective treatment approach can be designed.
Course Objectives – Participants will be able to:
- Describe some ways different psychological and psychoanalytic schools of thought define envy.
- Articulate the consensus about the psychic and environmental origins of envy.
- Recognize the cascade of defenses utilized by the envious person to protect their fragile ego from devastating interpersonal comparisons, and recognize envy as a defense in itself.
- Identify common countertransference resistances that emerge when working with the envious character.
- Design at least 3 effective intervention strategies for successfully working with envious characters.
Imke Oster is completing her psychoanalytic training at ACAP, in Livingston, NJ, and is a therapist at their North Jersey Consultation Center. Prior to becoming a clinician, Imke worked in strategic management consulting and economic development. She co-founded a legal outsourcing firm, and later sold it when shifting to the clinical mental health field. Imke also works as an executive coach, combining her 25-year business experience and psychoanalytic training. She serves on various Boards, but most relevant to the mental health setting she is Vice Chair of the Board of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City.
Imke Oster, BSc, MALD, MBA
For questions or information email Cassio Campello at [email protected]
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There is a $17.00 Fee for CE Certification processing.
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