In this presentation Caron Harrang discusses Grotstein’s (2004) “The seventh servant: The implications of a truth drive in Bion's theory of ‘O’” and its relevance to the theme of EBOR 2022: Truth and Lies.
Online Option Available!
This event will be both online and in-person. Presenters will speak in-person at the COR office while a livestream is shown over Zoom.
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Truth is. Truth is also impossible to bear. In order to bear it, we resort to representation: illusion, imagination, and symbolic representation that makes truth uniquely personal to each of us. That is not to say Truth is only subjective, constructed for the use of the individual. Truth also exists outside of us. Bion calls Truth ‘O’.
Introduction by Jeffrey Eaton, MA, FIPA, BCPsa and moderated by Nancy Winters, MD, FIPA, ABPsa
In his foreword to Rikki Ricard and Adrian Jarreau’s chapter, “Dreaming into death,” in Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (Routledge), Jeffrey Eaton asks, “How often have you been invited into a significant conversation, one that challenges you to think, feel, reflect, question, and imagine?”
A Thinking Space Webinar Series in Seattle on Race and Psychotherapy from London, UK
Thinking Space was developed at the Tavistock Clinic in 2002 in order to promote thinking about racism and other forms of discrimination in the self and in the other. This series will comprise 5 Thinking Spaces on race and racism:
February 12, 2022
Frank Lowe – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, creator of Thinking Space, will introduce Thinking Space and will speak on ‘The Unanalysed Race Complex’
Moderator: Nancy Winters, MD, FIPA, ABPsa
Being and staying emotionally alive in the clinical hour is not always easy nor a welcoming experience. At times the analyst’s aliveness collides with patients’ anxieties, their psychic walls, or dead spaces. Hopefully, these encounters penetrate psychic barriers and awaken nascent or truncated development. For some patients the process of enlivening is experienced as dangerous, risky, destabilizing: a Bionian ‘catastrophic change.’
This six-part online workshop is a special opportunity to follow Scabbiolo’s psychotherapeutic work with patients throughout the psychoanalytic process. The series will alternate group supervision between selected Scabbiolo’s patients as well as other attendees’ selected patients. As a team, Scabbiolo and attendees of the workshop will supervise the unfolding psychotherapeutic treatment revealing the evolution of the work over time.
Event Description
How do we as therapists think about and respond to fluid self states in our clients? This case study highlights the impact of internet gaming and nonbinary gender on one client’s identity. By making use of semiotic and transitional space, drawn from the work of Julia Kristeva and Donald Winnicott, it shows ways to formulate new psychic awareness, and new ways of being and growing alongside our clients.
Presenter: Katherine Weissbourd, PhD
Discussant: Ann Glasser, PhD
Details
Our newest series presented by Dr. Avedis Panajian will seek to address the role of transference and transference interpretations in analytic therapy.
Issues related to transference that will be explored during the series:
*Excessively personalizing the transference.
*How to facilitate the unfolding of the internal world of the patient.
*The significance of the analyst’s identification with the dimensionality of the primitive sensory world of the patient and analyst.
The way one lives in one’s body is a decisive factor in psychical life. It vitally affects the sense of ‘realness’ of our existence and of the world around us. But how are we to take account of the life of the body in the clinical situation? Traditionally, psychoanalysis has thought of the body mainly in terms of what the mind does with it (e.g. managing the drives through repression, or using the body for symbolic purposes, as in hysterical conversion symptoms). However, in the wake of Winnicott’s recognition of psyche-soma, we may now wonder about the psychical life of the body itself.