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The Jane Roiter Sunday Morning Seminars
Resistance and Resilience: Sadism, Struggles and Strengths
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Moral Dimensions of Relational Psychoanalytic Practice: Struggling to Be the “Good Object” in the Patient’s Mental Life
This presentation will explore the potential, within a relational perspective, for battling patients’ persecutory introjects in the therapeutic situation. How can therapists participate in the therapeutic process in a way that balances reflecting upon the potentially “bad” aspects of their own participation with the imperative to imaginatively and creatively contribute to their patient’s experience, beyond the conventional parameters of interpretation and understanding? How can therapists balance the “dark side of the frame,” which harbors aspects of the therapist’s self-interest, with active attempts to take risks that might have great constructive impact on patients’ lives? The point will be made that certain ways of being in the analytic relationship are good on moral, a priori grounds. They are not subject to “testing” in terms of what “works” as demonstrated either by clinical experience or by systematic empirical research. The implications of this assertion for clinical work will be discussed and explored with the participants. Connections will also be made to the related issue of critically reflecting on the political implications of psychoanalysis as an institution. Is it possible for psychoanalysis to be implicated in destructive aspects of our sociopolitical system at the same time that it inspires social criticism and the promise of change? |
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Presenters: |
Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., is faculty and supervising analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the National Training Program for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; a lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine; and on the faculty at the New York University Post-Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and has served on the board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a series of publications developing his “dialectical-constructivist” point of view, including his book Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process (The Analytic Press, 1998).
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| Date: |
March 11, 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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