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This presentation will focus on the work of Loewald to conceptualize our reaction to the contemporary pandemic as an après-coup, a traumatic recreation of conditions of early helplessness.  Loewald, who was an important influence on the relational perspective, especially the work of Mitchell, Bromberg, and Ghent, viewed the emergence of the self in the context

MINI-COURSE VIA ZOOM In this three-part seminar we will read some of Bion’s texts closely to elucidate his thinking about working with unrepresentable emotional experience often related to psychotic functioning.

WORKSHOP VIA ZOOM In this workshop participants will learn to write richer, more accessible and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. We will explore how clinical writing can more faithfully capture the depth and breadth of the emotional life of psychoanalytic treatments. An important aim will be to open our writing

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

In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter. Thus, the analyst’s authentic self-exploration is a vital part of the work. Shah explores how the analyst’s uncomfortable and disowned emotions are inevitably entangled with the therapeutic process and have

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  However, Fanon's engagement with psychoanalysis is partial: there are a great many other theories (philosophical, psychiatric, literary) that he moves on to, particularly after his classic Black Skin, White Masks, and his work benefits from being connected to the

CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR MODERN PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES (CMPS) AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (BGSP) Click here to sign up! This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom as well as in-person at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies at 16 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011. Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing

HYBRID PRESENTATION (IN-PERSON AND ZOOM) COSPONSORED BY CMPS AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS PRACTITIONERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC: $40 BGSP/NYGSP/CMPS FACULTY AND STAFF: $25 STUDENTS w/ID: FREE Register now -

A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? What if our staunch commitment to psychoanalysis as a healing practice invested in the working-through of trauma is but a

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. An accompanying PowerPoint will help explicate associated theorizing that aims to clarify the meaning of maternal eroticism, differences in related concepts, and how femininity and femaleness are internalized at different levels. Andrea Celenza, PhD, is