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The Jane Roiter Sunday Morning Seminars
Resistance and Resilience: Sadism, Struggles and Strengths
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How Did We Get Here, and Is There Any Way Out? A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach to Therapeutic Impasse
From the inception of psychoanalysis, it has been recognized that therapeutic stalemates have plagued the treatment of many patients. Sometimes these impasses are attributed to the stubborn characterological nature of the patient’s pathology, but the analytic treatment can become impaled with patients who are not severely disturbed. And, for those who are, the process does not always become stalemated. The phenomenon of therapeutic impasse seems to transcend diagnostic labels. The thesis of this presentation is that our contemporary approaches, which embrace a broadened view of the analytic relationship, afford new and more productive ways of approaching apparent analytic stalemates than have been historically available to the analytic therapist. The understanding of enactment, the two-way nature of the relationship, and the concept of potential space all contribute to a variety of techniques the therapist can use to extricate himself and the patient from apparently intransigent clinical situations. Clinical examples will be used to show how patient-therapist impasses can frequently be resolved with the use of contemporary ideas about the nature of analytic treatment. |
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Presenters: |
Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP, a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in Chicago, is a supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School; and a faculty member of The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He has authored several books including his most recent, Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible (The Analytic Press, 2005). He is Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Summers maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Date: |
January 29, 2012 |
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| Time: |
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Registration begins at
9:00) |
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Individual Seminars
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$ 50 ISCSW members
$ 40 Students
$ 60 Non-members
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Full
Series
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$ 150 ISCSW members
$ 120 Students
$ 180 Non-members
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| Location: |
Center for Practice Excellence
Jewish Child & Family Services
255 Revere Drive, Suite 200
Northbrook, Illinois 60062
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CEUs
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3.0 |
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Brochure:
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2011-2012
The Jane Roiter Sunday Morning Seminars Brochure |
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Mail Payment: |
ISCSW
P.O. Box 2929
Chicago, Il 60690-2929
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