Discussing the experience of voice in analytic listening, this paper describes the central role of the voice in psychic development as well as in the therapeutic process, focusing on two psychopathologies: the vocal adhesive identification, which is characteristic of autistic states, and the psychotic split between voice and meaning.
Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. Routinely attacked by conservative commentators as a boundary violation and an exploitation of the patient, Rudnytsky defends Ferenczi's experiment on both counts and argues that mutual analysis serves as a paradigm for the two-person model of relational analysis, as Freud's self-analysis is a paradigm for the one-person model of classical analysis.
The Impact on the Psyche of Not Belonging: Part 2 of The Recognition and Non-Recognition of Women Artists, Yayoi Kusama. The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents a screening of the film, "Kusama: Infinity: The Life and Art of Yayoi Kusama. This will be accompanied by a presentation and audience discussion led by John Olson, MD and Mary Sacco, LMHC. The program will occur on Zoom.
Some patients do not trust their own experiences. Since they cannot trust themselves, they look to others to show them what to do. Mimicry and “as if” behavior become the means for survival in a world that feels alien to them. Their ability to use personal truth for psychic nourishment is compromised. Desperate and isolated, they deaden themselves to get by. Worse still, their deadness may also indicate a developmental deficit that leaves them feeling as if they do not exist. Often, they describe themselves as going through the motions of life, but not living it.
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”* ~C.G. Jung
In Beyond Doer and Done To, Benjamin expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of ‘doer and done to.’ Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship.
Please join us at SPSI for an evening of visual art, music and poetry by SPSI members, their friends and family members. Admission is free and there will be food and drinks as well. The location will be at SPSI, 4020 E Madison, Suite 230, Seattle, WA 98112.
Contemporary psychoanalysis searches for its own identity, endeavoring to be just, inclusive and a healing perspective in our changing and chaotic world.
Martin Bullard, LICSW, a white male clinician, will present ideas and experiences in cross racial psychoanalytic work having to do with difference, identity, and the analysis of oppressive conditions. Martin will discuss how the ideas of Brazilian radical educator Paolo Freire help him “widen the scope” of psychoanalysis to include both internal & external oppressive conditions.
Violent Emotions: A Close Reading Seminar
with Avner Bergstein
Online via Zoom
Through a close reading of some of Bion’s texts, we will elaborate Bion’s notion of the mind’s limited capacity to grasp the complexity of life and to bear the impact of the emotions stirred by the individual’s relationship with its objects.