First quarter will outline Klein’s expansion of Freud’s idea of psychic reality, and the concepts that Klein (and others) developed from this. As such, we will look at the British Object Relations constructs of mental processes such as unconscious phantasy, internal objects, and the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions.
First quarter will outline Klein’s expansion of Freud’s idea of psychic reality, and the concepts that Klein (and others) developed from this. As such, we will look at the British Object Relations constructs of mental processes such as unconscious phantasy, internal objects, and the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions.
In this course, we will begin by reviewing the history and origins of the Middle School in England in the 1940s. The Middle School, or Independents, utilized British Object Relations theory but developed that theory in different ways than the Kleinians and the Anna Freudians. The Independents had many opinions about theory and technique, but shared a basic attitude of acceptance, tolerance, and openness. They respected ideas for their clinical usefulness and truth value—whatever their origin.
Below is the description for both programs. Attendees may attend both or one only.
Friday evening lecture: In 1946, after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, C.G. Jung noted, “Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself” (CW 8, § 432), in essence expressing his sense that we share the world with all living beings and that collective trauma asks for collective healing.
“How do we interpret a fairy tale? —or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.” Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
The very popular fairy tale discussion group continues this fall!
Please join us for a 4-week study and discussion of fairy tales. This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.
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.
"The Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond"
"The Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond"
The Workshop will include two presentations:
"Extinction Anxiety in the Age of Trumpism and Re-envisioning Power and Love in Our Time" -
by Elizabeth Clark-Stern, LMHC, playwright and author
with Randy Morris, PhD, Professor Emeritus Antioch University, author
"Trump and Titanism: Patriarchal Predation in an Archetypal, Evolutionary Perspective" -
by Terrill (Terry) Gibson, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, Jungian Analyst C.G. Jung Institute of Seattle,
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.