February 28, 2017

Friday, 3/24 -- Jody Messler Davies, PhD

The Man Who Would Be Everything 

(To Everyone)  

The Unconscious Realities and Fantasies of 

Psychic Truth and Change


CEU approved

This presentation explores the analytic treatment of a patient who presented himself to the analyst as "a compulsive liar unable to tell the truth."  The work with this patient raises important questions about the importance of "truth" in analytic work, and the relative balance of understanding and insight of actual lived experience, and the co-creation of new experience as it emerges between patient and analyst within their work together.  Are either insight or new experience sufficient, and how does each provide the necessary context for the other.







 












Jody Messler Davies, PhD

Dr. Davies is editor in chief emeritus, and current associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives; Faculty, Supervisor and former co-chair of the Relational track, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Founding Vice President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Founding Board Member of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center.  She is on the editorial boards of Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and is also faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.  Dr. Davies is co-author (with Mary-Gail Frawley-O'Dea) of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse:  A Psychoanalytic Perspective.

She is currently at work on a new book:  Transformations of Desire and Despair:  Clinical Implications of the Theoretical Shift to a Relational Perspective.

Dr. Davies has written on the topics of trauma, dissociation, multiplicity of self organization and termination; as well as a series of papers on sexual and erotic aspects of transference-countertransference processes.

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Time: 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30
Location: The ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th fl, New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)
Refreshments will be served
2 CE credits approved. CE credits are issued under the auspices of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.
There is a $10 surcharge for registration at the door.

For information about the lecture, contact Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com
For information on joining SICP, contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com