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Friday,
11/22
Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
The
Interpersonal Play of
Resilience and Despair
Living
in between the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions
Friday,
1/24
Irwin
Hirsch, PhD
Reflections on Therapeutic Action: The Role of Hierarchy, Analysts’ Self-Interest and the Limitations of Insight and Interpretation
Friday,
3/13
Leslie
Hendelman, LCSW
Friday, 5/1
Kirkland
Vaughans, PhD
The
Schwartz Memorial Lecture, cosponsored with ICP
Trauma
and Dehumanization
School
Curriculum for Black Girls and Boys
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ICP’s new location
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Friday, 11/22
Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
The
Interpersonal Play of Resilience and Despair
Living
in between the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions
In
this presentation, I will highlight the central role of affect in the
body as fundamental to movement in the patient’s and analyst’s
psychic collapse and vitalization. I’ll consider somatic reverie as
it influences voice, containment and affective honesty in tolerating
uncertainty and anxiety in the intersubjective field.
Bion’s
breakthrough was to see Klein’s paranoid-schizoid position through
a relational lens, in an oscillating field. A major contribution was
to see how the body/mind system didn’t stand in static positions
but, as Ogden described, was in dialectic movement, PS<=>D. I’m
suggesting this oscillation or dialectic offers a transformative
potential that can help negotiate uncertainty through somatic reverie
on the affective level.
Elaborating
on aspects of theory from Bion, and Winnicott, I’ll present work
with a patient that included somatic manifestations, where
dissociation/depersonalization was a central defense against
disintegration. For this patient, what felt like the safety of solid
ground suddenly would go dark leaving patient and analyst with
varying degrees of fear, anger and shame. How can we think about
analytic movement occurring during such sudden shared pulls in the
field? In discussing this patient’s treatment I draw on Field
Theory and include Winnicott’s ideas about transformation,
especially focusing on the aspect of the developmental process he
termed “personalization”. He suggests an integration of
emotionality in the body/skin (soma) with the mind (psyche) that he
called the “psyche-soma”. This integration marked the dawning of
the intersubjective capacity to take in and hold affective content
from the other. I will look at the unlinking of the “psyche-soma”,
the separation of the mind-body system, (Gordon and Corrigan) in a
paranoid schizoid process. I will consider the fluctuation between
“personalization” and rapid “disintegration” in a patient who
suffered from gripping panic attacks and further discuss how these
concepts apply to our general psychoanalytic work.
Holly
Levenkron,
LCSW, LICSW received
her training in psychoanalysis at ICP, the Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy in NYC where she is a faculty member and supervisor as
well as Director of the Psychoanalytic Training Program. She also is
faculty and supervising analyst at MIP, the Massachusetts Institute
for Psychoanalysis. For many years she
has
been teaching Relational
Theory,
with a special interest in enactment,
dissociation, affect
and Comparative Field Theory, the latter which she taught as part of
a 6 week Zoom seminar this Fall for the Australian branch of the
IARPP. She has published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Contemporary
Psychoanalysis and has presented at numerous conferences both
nationally and internationally. In addition to her work in
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, she specializes in working with
Couples and with Adult Autism (Asperger’s Syndrome). She maintains
a private practice in New York City and Cambridge, MA.
Friday, 1/24
Irwin
Hirsch, PhD
Reflections on Therapeutic Action:
The Role of Hierarchy, Analysts’ Self-Interest and the Limitations of Insight and Interpretation
The Role of Hierarchy, Analysts’ Self-Interest and the Limitations of Insight and Interpretation
Analysts’
pursuit of self-interest must always be considered in the context of
trying to understand why any therapeutic process is stalled at what
may be a comfortable equilibrium for both patient and therapist. In
this context, one common analytic configuration in long analyses is
the tendency to view patients as undeveloped children in need of the
presence of an analyst who is consistently nurturing and personally
allegedly far more mature and emotionally developed than the patient.
Therapeutic efforts may focus almost exclusively on patients’
weaknesses and injuries suffered in early life. While these wounds
are no doubt likely to be very real, therapists all too often
ignore patients’ agency in unconsciously repeating and perpetuating
these wounds in contemporary life. Analysts’ gratification in
experiencing a consistent sense of strength in the presence of a
presumed weaker other is likely to interfere with patients’ embrace
of agency and ultimate independence from early internalized
relational configurations.
Irwin
Hirsch, PhD is
distinguished visiting faculty, William Alanson White Institute;
faculty, supervisor and former director, Manhattan Institute for
Psychoanalysis; adjunct clinical professor of psychology and
supervisor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,
New York University; and faculty & supervisor, The National
Training Program, The National Institute of the Psychotherapies.
He is
author of over 80 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters and 4
books: the 2008 Goethe Award winning, “Coasting in the
Countertransference: Conflicts of Self-Interest between Analyst and
Patient”, Routledge; “The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins
of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity”, Routledge, 2015; co-edited with
Donnel Stern,“The Interpersonal Perspective in
Psychoanalysis,1960’s – 1990’s: Rethinking Transference and
Countertransference”, Routledge, 2017 and also co edited with
Donnel Stern, “Further Developments in Interpersonal
Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analyst’s
Subjectivity. Routledge, 2018.
Friday, 3/13
Leslie
Hendelman, LCSW
Political
Divide in the Consulting Room
This
presentation addresses a treatment relationship that tests the
analyst’s capacity for empathy within an impinging political
context. It involves a Ferenczian “relaxation of technique”
within the analytic frame, while the analytic couple attempts to
negotiate a polarized transference and countertransference.
Specifically, within a long-term treatment imbued with positive
transference, my patient becomes openly outraged by my insensitive
anti-Trump remarks. Increasing confrontations around the expression
of political views illuminate our otherness. He complains of psychic
ostracism within a liberal cultural context, which tolerates no
divergence from mainstream liberal ideas or discourse. I come to
embody the oppressive other: the liberal “thought police”,
“silencing” him for his perspective. Empathic breaches between us
take center stage: how I don’t see the world as he does, and don’t
see or hear him.
Leslie
Hendelman, LCSW is a
graduate of the ICP Analytic Program who has also focused on trauma
utilizing EMDR, and family therapy through studies at The Ackerman
Institute. In recent years she has become involved with the
International Ferenczi Network where she has been exposed to
perspectives which focus on the development of psychoanalytic theory
from its inception from a more relational view, particularly taking
into account the contributions of Ferenczi. For many years she has
held leadership and collaborative roles on significant committees of
ICP. She maintains a private practice on the upper west side of NYC.
Friday, 5/1
Kirkland
Vaughans, PhD
The
Schwartz Memorial Lecture, cosponsored with ICP
Trauma
and Dehumanization
School
Curriculum for Black Girls and Boys
details
TBA
