Dr. Perdigão notes that analysts are often confronted with issues arising out of cultural differences and may on occasion conduct analyses in a language that is not the patient's native tongue. This has become more pertinent with the worldwide expansion of psychoanalysis. One of the challenges analysts face is how to better understand patients who come from different cultural backgrounds.
Suicide represents a major public health concern and frequent reason for seeking mental health treatment. Despite the frequency of this problem, clinicians may feel uncomfortable assessing, managing and treating suicidal clients or providing consultation to colleagues working with suicidal clients.
Suicide represents a major public health concern and frequent reason for seeking mental health treatment. Despite the frequency of this problem, clinicians may feel uncomfortable assessing, managing and treating suicidal clients or providing consultation to colleagues working with suicidal clients.
Suicide represents a major public health concern and frequent reason for seeking mental health treatment. Despite the frequency of this problem, clinicians may feel uncomfortable assessing, managing and treating suicidal clients or providing consultation to colleagues working with suicidal clients.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM: "Matt": The Analysis of Bisexual Conflict in a 4 1/2 year old boy
Joel Martell, Ph.D., Robert Campbell, M.D. and Martin Bullard, M.S.W.
The Silent Transference: Clinical Reflections on Ferenczi, Klein, and Bion - Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, Presenter
This talk is based on the commonality of free association, attention to everything that goes through the mind without judgment, as understood both by psychoanalysts and by Buddhist meditators; the goal is to see what each tradition can learn from the other. It will include the proposition that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis can be viewed as a “two-person meditation.” (Kakar, 2015)
This program will begin with a brief historical overview of the development of field concepts in psychology and psychoanalysis. The theory and technique of the three principal forms of psychoanalytic field theory will be described. The three forms originate with the work of Madeleine and Willy Baranger in South America, the Bionian field theory of Antonino Ferro in Europe, and, the results of the work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Edgar Levenson and others on the development of interpersonal psychoanalysis in the United States. Theoretical and clinical implications of the three