Franco Scabbiolo, of Oxford, UK, will be coming to Seattle in September 2019 to give three talks at The Center for Object Relations on his revolutionary psychotherapeutic way of working with patients. Scabbiolo, long-time student of Donald Meltzer and rebel within the psychoanalytic community, has disavowed psychoanalytic dogma, exchanging it for a creative, spontaneous, and lively connection with his patients. A clinician first, he is creating a new way of working that enlivens rather than deadens, awakens rather than anesthetizes, creates rather than destructs.
In these three talks, Scabbiolo will show with clinical material, films, and dreams how abandonment of internal objects generates confusion, delusions, psychosomatic symptoms, and abandonment of the search for hope, truth, and beauty.
Scabbiolo will attempt to bring the attendees into his consulting room, sharing his and his patients’ internal worlds and the way they creatively collide to open up new experiences and spark emotional aliveness.
Wednesday - The Abandonment of the Father
This event will explore:
- Feeling abandoned by the father
- Abandoning the father
- The abandonment of internal objects
This event is limited to 25 participants
Saturday - The Abandonment of the Mother
This event will explore:
- Feeling abandoned by the mother
- The omnipotence of the mother
- The fragility of the mother
This event is limited to 25 participants
Sunday - The Abandonment of the Artistic Part of the Personality
This event will explore:
- Not being able to create
- The tyranny of repetition
- A little girl is abandoned
This event is limited to 25 participants
About Franco Scabbiolo
Franco Scabbiolo is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, director of the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists, and member of the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College, and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He works in private practice in Oxford, UK, working with adults, adolescents, and children on the autism spectrum.
Scabbiolo has been supervising clinical cases in London, Italy, Sweden and the United States for over twenty five years. He has lectured at several international conferences, and in recent years has given yearly webinars in the USA on the creative-psychoanalytic process. His important psychoanalytic education came from his work with Oxford psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer, with whom he worked from 1989 to 2004.
