ICP / SICP present - This Friday, May 6 - Jeremy Safran, PhD

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The Schwartz Memorial Lecture

Jeremy Safran, PhD

Agency, 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.

To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp

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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