In Beyond Doer and Done To, Benjamin expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of ‘doer and done to.’ Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship.
Please join us at SPSI for an evening of visual art, music and poetry by SPSI members, their friends and family members. Admission is free and there will be food and drinks as well. The location will be at SPSI, 4020 E Madison, Suite 230, Seattle, WA 98112.
Contemporary psychoanalysis searches for its own identity, endeavoring to be just, inclusive and a healing perspective in our changing and chaotic world.
Martin Bullard, LICSW, a white male clinician, will present ideas and experiences in cross racial psychoanalytic work having to do with difference, identity, and the analysis of oppressive conditions. Martin will discuss how the ideas of Brazilian radical educator Paolo Freire help him “widen the scope” of psychoanalysis to include both internal & external oppressive conditions.
Violent Emotions: A Close Reading Seminar
with Avner Bergstein
Online via Zoom
Through a close reading of some of Bion’s texts, we will elaborate Bion’s notion of the mind’s limited capacity to grasp the complexity of life and to bear the impact of the emotions stirred by the individual’s relationship with its objects.
I'm forming an ongoing consult group for therapists who wish to deepen their capacity to work in the here-and-now of therapeutic relational dynamics, and seek to grow their circle of trusted colleagues.
Please come and support our Ukrainian colleagues this September and October.
Joe Cambray will be leading an international team of facilitators with expertise in the Red Book, as we join around 90 colleagues from the Ukraine to discuss Ann Ulanov’s paper: Making the Unsayable Experiential: Ukraine and Jung’s Red and Black Books.
This will be a unique opportunity to meet with a small group of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian colleagues for deeper work together on the prima materia thrown up by the war on Ukraine.
Year one of a two-year, weekly certificate course on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Taught by NPSI faculty and senior candidates. Classes are on Thursday evenings, from 7-8:30pm, PST. Thursday, October 6, 2022 7:00pm to Thursday, June 22, 2023 7:00pm
Join us in person at SPSI for the opening of our Fall art show. The SPSI Art Opening is an evening of visual arts by SPSI members, friends and family accompanied by poetry readings and live music.