Scabbiolo’s Creative Psychoanalytic Process suggests that at the heart of transition, transformation, and creativity in analysis is a creative sensation, an innate impulse that, when fostered and allowed to thrive, changes both patient and analyst. This impulse allows for both individuals, and their internal objects, to develop the freedom to create. Scabbiolo suggests that this creative sensation is present in the analytic process from the very beginning and can be found in fields of dreams, transference and countertransference, artwork, children’s play, and events. However, when this sensation is trapped inside the Internal Object of Abandonment, negativity and a compulsion to repeat occurs, leaving the patient and analyst stuck, as they hide in fear of creating and experiencing new emotions.

This talk will cover:

• "I cannot go on." Being and feeling trapped
• Abandoning the external world
• Abandoning the internal world
• The creative conflict
• Oedipal abandonment

Franco Scabbiolo, MD, 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.

Twenty five participants maximum