Using a new theoretical framework for comparative analysis in psychoanalytic work, David will explore the different ways transference is understood, detected, and interpreted by different psychoanalysts practicing today and attempt to highlight the vulnerabilities in each approach.
Online Webinar Series with Franco Scabbiolo
The encounter with emotional reality—with one’s own and other people's feelings—lies at the heart of psychoanalytic work. This is an encounter that inevitably stirs an emotional turbulence. While an analytic session may appear featureless or devoid of interest, the analyst, attuned to the deeper layers of the analytic experience, is aware of the presence of an intense emotional experience. However, this emotional reality often hovers just beyond our awareness – elusive and ineffable; a gut feeling or a thought in search of a thinker to think it.
We might all agree that we are living in a turbulent world. Directly or indirectly, we are suffering from trauma inflicted upon us as humans, upon all living beings, and upon our planet. Countries shift into dangerous sociopolitical positions in an effort to affirm certainty and irradicate doubt, and we suffer as a result. In Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a traveling salesman wakes up one day to find that he has become a giant, grotesque insect. The central character and his family suffer the traumatic effects of this devastating transformation.
This talk will focus on Dr. Galit Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will discuss the ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. We will talk about emotional material that we unknowingly carry with us: the memories, feelings, and traumas that we inherit from previous generations and the link between our parents and grandparents’ history, and our own emotional struggles.
Intersubjectivity understands the therapeutic relationship as one of mutual influence – two subjectivities at work. Consequently, the therapist shifts their cognitive formulations “about” the patient turning their attention and speaking “with” the patient of the interplay of deep affective states and experiences stirred within the therapist, the patient and the in-between. The work and the words we find to understand this intersubjective process is much more complex than offering an objective interpretation.
The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents the third and final installment in our series “The Impact on the Psyche of Not Belonging: The Recognition and Non-Recognition of Women Artists”. This event is FREE, in person at SPSI. Pre-registration is encouraged due to space limitations.
"The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies her Patient into Dementia" is both the title of this presentation and Maxine Anderson’s forthcoming book that grew out of an encounter with one of her first analytic patients; a woman who recontacted her some 40 years following termination of the patient’s analysis, hoping for help to face the deepening impact of dementia.
In this seminar, Dr. Lemma will critically review how psychoanalysis has approached the question of transgender identities and the challenges that have been proposed to the classical psychoanalytic understanding. She will introduce some key ethical points that are important for therapists working in this area. Finally, she will share some of her own clinical work with this group of patients to illustrate some of the challenges and adaptations to technique.
Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This course will address the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. These patients often suffer disturbances in the area of self-other definition, continuity and regulation of self.