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The Schwartz Memorial Lecture
Jeremy Safran, PhDAgency, Surrender and Grace in Psychoanalysis
2 CE hours
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 presentation I explore 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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