The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study with co-sponsorhip from the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute present a two-day workshop with Training and Supervising Analyst Joseph Aguayo.
Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D., FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Psychoanalytic Center of California in private practice in West Los Angeles. He is also a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London. He holds UCLA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. He has been awarded a number of research fellowships from the IPA's Research Advisory Board and has merged his clinical and research interests by numerous publications in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) on the clinical history of Kleinian and Bionian psychoanalysis.
His current book is a co-edited project with Barnet Malin: Bion's Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision (Karnac Books, 2013). His most recent publication is "Bion's 'Notes on Memory and Desire: Its Initial Clinical Reception in the United States—A Note on Archival Material" (IJP, 2014).
Schedule
Friday, February 5, 2016
“Winnicott and Bion: Irreconcilable Differences?”
7:00-7:15 pm socializing;
7:15 pm introduction;
7:30-9:00 pm Joe Aguayo presentation and audience discussion - While some analysts have drawn upon the work of both Bion and Winnicott, (Grotstein, Ogden) our interest here is to survey how these two pioneering figures related to each other’s work as it evolved and developed. Now that we have the Complete Works of Bion, it is surprising to see how in Bion’s published works, he participated in the London Klein group’s prejudicial indifference to the work of Winnicott. Throughout the 1950s and 60s however, Winnicott maintained his interest in the Kleinian development, and especially in the work of Bion. What were the forces that maintained a group divided between these two seminal thinkers at the British Psychoanalytical Society, especially during the 1950s and 60s?
With the passing of other important London analysts, such as Hanna Segal and Betty Joseph, Kleinian analysts who effectively maintained a ghettoized divide between the Kleinian and Independent groups, a new era has begun, when differences between theories can now be legitimately discussed at the conference level. This lecture takes up three important clinical developments and contextualizes how Bion and Winnicott came to their differences in terms of the following concepts: (1) the differences between Bion’s notion of ‘containing’ and Winnicott’s idea of ‘holding’; (2) the uses of the countertransference in analytic work; (3) the role of aggression and the death instinct in the clinical setting.
CEUs for Friday: 1.5
Saturday, February 6, 2016
“Bion’s Italian Seminars: Facilitating and Learning from the Group Experience”
8:30 am Registration (coffee and tea provided);
9:00 am – Noon. The idea for this panel originated in a teleconference study group held in 2015, in which panel members Caron Harrang and Maxine Nelson were participants, and which was facilitated by featured presenter Joe Aguayo. The group read and discussed the nine seminars included in Wilfred R. Bion: The Italian Seminars (Karnac: 2005).
Bion conducted a series of clinical seminars between 1967 and 1979 (Los Angeles, 1967; Brasilia, 1975; Tavistock, 1976-79; Rome, 1977 and Sao Paolo, 1978) in which he transmitted ideas developed in his epistemological writings of the 1960’s vis-à-vis his exemplification of “being in the moment” with a live audience. Additionally, the organizers are hoping to evoke Bion’s way of working with groups. Thus, like a Matryoshka doll, this panel presentation will be a group experience intended to evoke not only a sense of what it was like to participate in the 2015 Italian Seminars study group, but also the experience of the Italian clinicians who participated in the 1977 seminars in Rome facilitated by Bion.
About the panelists:
Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D., FIPA (see bio above)
Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA is a psychoanalyst with a practice in Seattle. She is the current President of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and has been a member of the Alliance since its inception and a frequent presenter at the annual Forum conference.
Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA is a psychoanalyst with a practice in Bellevue. She is the current Secretary-Treasurer of the Northwest Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and managing editor of Selected Facts: Newsletter of NPSI. Maxine is also a longtime member of the Alliance and a frequent presenter at the Forum.
CEUs for Saturday morning: 3
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Clinical Seminar
2:00 – 3:30 pm at NPSI located at 2701 First Ave #120, one block south of Labor Temple.
Joe Aguayo, PhD, FIPA will facilitate discussion of clinical case material presented by Matt Brooks, MSW, LICSW. Discussion will include attention to how the case might be viewed from a Winnicottian or a Bionian perspective. Limited to 25 participants, priority given to attendees of both Friday and Saturday events.
Participants:
Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D., FIPA (see bio above)
Matthew Brooks, MSW, LICSW, is a psychotherapist and analytic candidate in Seattle. His background is in HIV/AIDS social work and public health. He is a post-didactic candidate at SPSI, where he is also an instructor in the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. He sees adults and adolescents in private practice in Madison Valley. His clinical and theoretical interests include sexuality, personality disorders, and trauma.
Registration
To register for this event, please go to npsi.us.com/society/Joe-Aguayo-on-Winnicott-and-Bion
