Community Events (non-Alliance)

What has been the experience of women who have contributed to the field of psychoanalysis? What institutional pressures and prejudice did they face? Who supported their ideas and ambitions, and what were their struggles both with men and with other women? How helpful were their analyses, whether with male or female analysts? How were their relationships with their husbands, companions and children affected by their deepening relationship with psychoanalysis?

Listening in a psychotherapy session is a complex activity. How does a psychotherapist select what to pay attention to as a session unfolds? What will you bring to the patient’s attention through interpretation?

This seminar will explore a variety of possibilities of listening tasks in a psychotherapy process. Building on the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and Donald Meltzer, among others, we will explore several different listening “gates” to help begin to build a detailed picture of a patient’s experience.

This course will span the academic year--18 sessions-- and will explore the context and development of the basic but complex object relations concepts arising from Freud and expanded upon by Klein and later theorists and clinicians. We will also consider necessary conditions for growing a mind, and the clinical implications when that process is affected by neglect or trauma.

Cheryll Leo-Gwin is a multi-media artist whose work has focused on the experiences of Chinese and Chinese-American women. In this presentation, she will describe and discuss how the Chinese Exclusion Act has impacted both her personal life and her art. Cheryll’s art eloquently illustrates how when traumatic memories are lost, subsequent generations can repeat the trauma. We will look at Cheryll’s paintings and one of her films to understand the tendency to reject and scapegoat others who are different from us.

The Center for Object Relations invites you to attend a new online meeting, to continue supporting and listening to one another, as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

When we first met in this forum, many of us had just transitioned to remote work and many more were on the cusp of transitioning. Now, our community and our world have been in quarantine for over one month and we are practicing in unprecedented conditions. 

In this meeting, a panel of discussants, with a moderator, will discuss:

We invite you to attend a special online meeting to come together as clinicians in order to support one another and urgently, thoughtfully consider a therapeutic response to COVID-19.

A panel of discussants and a moderator will investigate clinical work in this challenging time through an Object Relations lens.

Those who join us on a digital platform will be invited to contribute to the dialog on three primary features of clinical work:

The Saturday Dialogues has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.  

            Due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus, the March Scientific Meeting will be postponed and rescheduled at a later date.​

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

In this presentation Maxine Anderson proposes that neuroscience considerations are significant for our understanding of intuition. She outlines how the right brain and autonomic nervous system may usefully be thought of as major contributors to our intuitive capacities.