Friday, 3/11 - Steven Kuchuck, LCSW - 2 CEUs approved

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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).

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Friday, 3/11, 7-9 pm
To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp

Friday, 1/29 -- Steven Knoblauch, PhD-- 2 CEUs approved

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.

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Contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com or Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com for information 

To register

icpnyc.org/sicp

Friday night, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.

Location: ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)

Advance payment online is preferred. If you would like to pay at the door,  email sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com and we will reserve your seat and add you to the “pay at the door” list. There is a $10 charge for payment at the door. Refunds are available until 1 week before the event.