Friday nights, 7-9pm
12/4
Frank Lachmann, PhD
Treating the Difficult-to-Treat Patient
2 CEUs approved
Psychotherapists
are encountering and are often stymied by an increasingly diverse
patient population in which character pathology rather than symptoms
predominate. Hence traditional psychotherapeutic techniques have to
be stretched to treat this challenging population. This seminar will
enrich the therapist’s repertoire by increasing an understanding
of, and treatment of this group of patients. The focus will be on two
sources: one, the contribution from empirical studies of
mother-infant interactions that document the co-creation of later
entrenched relational difficulties and self-destructive and
self-limiting behaviours. Two, Self Psychology which offers a
conceptual base that embraces these findings. This theory and its
treatment implications offers therapists a way of framing
interventions that are well suited to emotionally engage this
difficult-to-treat patient group.
Frank M. Lachmann, PhD is a teacher and supervisor as a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 150 journal publications. He has been a co-author with Joe Lichtenberg and Jim Fosshage on five books including: Self and Motivational Systems (Analytic Press, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (Analytic Press, 1996), A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002), Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look (Routledge, 2010}, and Enlivening the Self (Routledge, 2015). With Beatrice Beebe he wrote Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002) and The Origins of Attachment (Routledge, 2014). He is sole author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient (Aronson, 2000) and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008). He is a member of the Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and an Honorary member of the Vienna Circle for Self Psychology, the William Alanson White Society, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
1/29
Steven Knoblauch, PhD
Bodies of Emotion in Interaction:
A Field of Rhythms
Through shared
words and movement, Dr. Knoblauch will invite us into an experience/vision
of psychoanalysis which shifts the focus of the analyst's activity from, predominantly,
an emphasis on mentation and conversation, to include attention to embodied gut
reaction/response. both the analyst's and the patient's. The experience will
encompass shared movement exercises (easy and fun), theoretical visions, his
own woven with those of Racker, Reis Daniel Stern, Civitarese and Ferro and a contemporary
chorus of relationally identified colleagues, as well as clinical
narrative. Dr. Knoblauch's papers and texts The
Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000, The Analytic Press, reprinted
in paperback, 2015, Taylor and Francis) and Forms of Intersubjectivity in
Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005, Other Press), authored with
Beebe, Rustin and Sorter, have used a musical metaphor and systems perspective
to capture the difficult to define flow of emotions in an analytic process. This approach encompasses embodied dimensions
of exchange including facial expression, gaze, posture, breath but also the
rhythms and tonality/intensity of voice and gesture.
Dr. Steven Knoblauch is an
internationally recognized clinician, teacher and lecturer on psychoanalysis
and psychotherapy. He serves as faculty and clinical consultant at The
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy, The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and a
number of other training programs in New York City and abroad. He is the
author of numerous papers published over the last 2 decades and The
Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000, The Analytic Press,
reproduced in paperback, 2015, Taylor and Francis). This text has been
translated in Japanese and a Spanish translation is in process. He is
also co-author with Beatrice Beebe, Judith Rustin and Dorienne Sorter, of Forms
of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005,
Other Press). He is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic
Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and The International
Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He also serves on the Board
of Directors of The International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychology.
3/11
Steven Kuchuck, LCSW
When the Personal Becomes Professional:
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Subjectivity
In
this paper, Steven Kuchuck explores the impact of the psychoanalyst’s
life experience and psychological make-up on the treatment. By
expanding psychoanalytic study beyond theory and technique to include
an examination of events in the clinician’s childhood and adult
life as well as related psychodynamic issues, Kuchuck focuses on ways
in which these experiences, crises, and dynamics affect both clinical
choices and the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting
room. Related, he looks
at the relationship between the clinician’s subjectivity,
theoretical interests, and technique, and explores areas of overlap
and differentiation between two phenomena that are often confused;
the larger issue of the therapist’s subjectivity, and
self-disclosure.
When
subjectivity becomes bracketed or dissociated, access to
countertransference and insight into how the analyst affects the
patient becomes limited; therapeutic data may be missed. Kuchuck
therefore addresses various ways of tracking and using subjectivity
in order to further the therapeutic action. He also considers the
impact on the treatment of the therapist’s temperament, conflicts
around being seen, and struggles with self-care.
Steven
Kuchuck, LCSW is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate
Editor of
Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series, Board Member, supervisor,
faculty and Co-Director of Curriculum for the training program in
adult psychoanalysis
at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), and faculty/supervisor
at the NIP National Training Program, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational
Studies, and other institutes. He is on the Board of the
International Association
for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy where he co-chairs
the Local
(international) Chapters Committee, on the steering committee for the
2017 APA Division
39 annual conference, and co-chair of the Division 39 International
Outreach Task
Force. His writing focuses primarily on the analyst’s subjectivity
and most recently,
he is a contributor to and editor of Clinical Implications of the
Psychoanalyst’s Life
Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Routledge, 2014),
The Legacy
of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne
Harris, Routledge,
2015), and an upcoming volume of analysts writing about the
professional impact
of their own analysis (Routledge, in press).
5/6
The Schwartz Memorial Lecture
co-sponsored with ICP
Jeremy Safran, PhD
Agency, Surrender and Grace in Psychoanalysis
There
is a vital dialectic between agency and surrender in life and in the
analytic process. Without an ability to will one cannot choose one’s
actions; one becomes a passive victim of circumstances rather than an
agent who can influence one’s own destiny. On the other hand, an
exaggerated sense of agency fails to take into account the limits of
our ability to control life, and is associated with a type of
narcissistic omnipotence that can be associated with an experience of
isolation. In this article I explore the some of the subtleties of
the interplay between willing and surrendering in the analytic
process. I also examine the way in which an inability to surrender
can impede the patient’s ability to take in what the analyst has to
offer. And finally I adapt the concept of grace
from theological discourse to highlight a dimension of the analytic
process that involves an emergence of the patient’s capacity to
make constructive use of the analyst’s interventions.
Jeremy
D. Safran, PhD is Chair & Professor of Psychology at
the New School for Social Research, and former Director
of Clinical Psychology. His research program on therapeutic impasses
and alliance ruptures has been funded by two National Institute of
Mental Health grants. He is a faculty member at New York
University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy &
Psychoanalysis and The Stephen A. Mitchell Center
for Relational Studies.
He
is also Co-founder and Co-chair (along with Lewis Aron &
Adrienne Harris) of The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New
School for Social Research. In addition he is Past-President of
The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis
& Psychotherapy. Dr. Safran serves an associate editor
for the journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and is on the
editorial boards of a number of other journals
including Psychotherapy Research, and Psychoanalytic
Psychology.
Dr.
Safran has published several books including: Psychoanalysis
and Psychoanalytic Therapies, the winner of the
2013 Gradiva Award; Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A
Relational Treatment Guide; Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: An
Unfolding Dialogue; Emotion in Psychotherapy;
and Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy.
He
has also been featured in two training DVDs produced by the American
Psychological Association: American Psychological Association:
1) Relational Psychotherapy, and 2) Psychoanalytic
Therapy Over Time.
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CEUs HAVE NOW BEEN APPROVED for all of this year's SICP lectures. All
CEUs are offered under the auspices of The Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy.
Contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com or Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com for information or to register.
The Registration
Form is posted on this blog.
All lectures are
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.
Location: ICP
Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)
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