When Deadness Breaks In: On the Struggle to Remain Alive in Psychoanalytic Treatment
PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more disturbed patients. Working analytically with non-neurotic patients and traumatic states challenges traditional theory and practice. Ofra Eshel, drawing on the work of Winnicott and Bion, discusses new kinds of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness she calls “withnessing.” In this presentation, she