Title: “Intuition: An Emotional Foundation of Analytic Transformation”
Presenter: Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA
Intuition, like emotion, cannot be seen, heard, tasted or touched. Yet we often say, “I sensed it.” Sometimes we might say, “I just knew it.” Intuition – sensing or knowing an emotional truth – is an essential element of psychoanalysis. It requires both the analyst and the analysand to have faith in their own experience. Experience itself, although a product of our senses and our minds, cannot truly be described. Like a dream, experience is transformed in the telling. In the telling, experience becomes manageable. Intuition is trusting one’s experience and using that experience to make meaning. Intuition uses imagination. It also unconsciously uses everything the analyst has learned from experience and training to bring order to the emotional chaos of living.
This presentation uses Bion’s ideas of reverie and his models of transformation as well as a clinical example to illustrate his ideas about Transformation in O.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn to differentiate an emotional truth from a sensual experience.
2. Participants will explore their own personal use of intuition.
3. Participants will increase there understanding of Bion’s concept of 'Transformation in O'.
About the Presenter:
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist. She is a full faculty member of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Seattle Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington where she teaches, writes, and consults. She is the author of numerous papers and a book titled Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective. Dr. Eekhoff is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Location - NPSI at 2701 First Avenue, Suite 120; Seattle, WA 98121 (next door to Chase Bank).
Please enter through the side (north) door adjacent to the small street level parking lot.
7:00 - 7:30 pm - Socializing
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Presentation and Discussion
