The May Scientific Meeting is the third in a series NPSI is offering this spring for those interested in our Twelfth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference on "The Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond" (October 12-14, 2018). Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this meeting will function as a study group oriented to the conference theme. 
 

Contemporary practice emphases mind-body psychotherapy as if it was a new idea, but it is not; connections between psyche and soma have been, and continue to be creatively explored by many in the psychoanalytic field. At our May Scientific Meeting, Dana Blue and Barbara Sewell will consider Winnicott's particular use of language as revealed in the 1970 paper "On the Basis for Self in Body". We will work with the group to determine his meanings of words (such as psyche, soma, personalization, and illusion), his concepts (including good enough mother, the environment, transitional objects and spaces); the interrelationship of these concepts and the implications for one's relationship to one's body in a therapeutic process. 

About the Presenter: 

Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA is a board certified psychoanalyst (BCD-Psychoanalyst) and clinical social worker licensed in the State of Washington (LICSW); a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA); and a training and supervising analyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors, as Faculty in the Infant Observation and Psychoanalytic Training, and as Director of Training for the Institute overall. She is also a past-president of Washington chapter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. She has particular clinical interests in infancy, maternal reverie, and early life, and in psychoanalytic teaching and learning. Consequently, she is also an approved supervisor under Washington state law. 

Barbara Sewell, MaMFC, MDIV, MRE, MIPA has a background in literature, education, religion and counseling.  She is a graduate of NPSI and is currently the Chair of the Curriculum Committee. She sees adult patients in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in her private practice in Bellevue where her work is informed by her educational background and British Object Relations theory.