In April, 2006 an 88-year old Austrian artist met with a journalist and recounted a consultation she had with Sigmund Freud 70 yeare before, when she was 18 years old. "It changed my life!" The story of this meeting is astonishing. In these two days of workshops we will tell you this story.
Dr. Panajian will discuss the most crucial areas that are required for healing to become possible in analytic therapy. The significance of consciousness, attention, and intuiting psychic reality will be discussed. The ability to let go of oneself, the danger of trusting one's perception, the capacity to keep being surprised, and the relationship of the negative and passionate connections between patient and therapist will be explored.
During these trying times, remaining balanced in our responses to the crises we face regarding the pandemic and emerging social issues can be challenging and exhausting. Anxiety tends to erode spacious thought and discernment. Outrage may cause us to slip into polarized positions of certainty about right and wrong, us and them. At these times, we need all the internal balance we can muster. Dialogue amidst an atmosphere of respect and tolerance can help to regain the internal space and balance needed to restore our capacities for wide-ranging thought.
The Relationally Focused Psychodynamic Therapy Certificate is a 2 year post-graduate certificate program designed to deepen a psychotherapist’s capacity to work directly in therapeutic relationships as the primary instrument of change. The instructors are Roy Barsness, PhD; Bryan Nixon, MA, LPC; Clarissa Hill, MA, LMHC and Krista Law, MA, LMHC
An important question that has attracted significant attention in contemporary psychoanalysis is how the mind meets the world. What does this mean? How does it occur? What bridges the mind’s nascent existence to the world around? And how does one learn of the world? By extension, how does a patient meet a therapist and a therapist a new patient? Arguably the experiences that come under the name ‘superego’ have much to do with these questions.
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: