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

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

Via Zoom A Conspiracy of Silence:  Identifying Racism in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute FEATURED SPEAKERS: BEVERLY STOUTE AND ANTON HART Silence is an essential clinical tool that can be used to facilitate analytic work, from developing the transference to regulating frustration and communicating feeling. However, a form of "learned silence" can drown out this

Practitioners and General Public: $40  |  Students: Free The presentation will begin with the question “What is Psychosis?” and examine ways it is defined from medical and psychiatric perspectives.  Then various psychoanalytic perspectives on psychosis and paranoia will be considered, including Freudian, contemporary Kleinian, and interpersonal-relational.  The contributions of several key theorists will be reviewed, including

Practitioners and General Public: $40  |  Students: Free In this presentation, Eshel delineates a fundamental dimension of analytic work created by the analyst’s “presencing” (being there) within the patient’s experiential world and the ensuing patient-analyst states of oneness, an interconnectedness or “withnessing” that may deepen into “at-one-ment” with the patient’s innermost emotional reality.  Drawing on

Practitioners and General Public: $40  |  Students: Free This presentation will address the psychoanalyst's basic desiring position, a topic that within the history of analytic theory (with the exception of Lacan) has been left at the doorstep of the analyst's office. Without desire as the key feature of the analyst's activity, important questions regarding the