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NUOVO
LIBRO (in inglese) su ENACTMENT E PSICOANALISI
A
cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo
Scritti
di: Efrat Ginot Jay R. Greenberg
Jessica Kraus, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Riefolo,
Jeremy D. Safran
Editore:
Frenis Zero
Collana:
Confini della Psicoanalisi
Anno
di pubblicazione: 2019
Pagine:
326
ISBN:978-88-97479-15-4
Il
libro è dedicato a Jeremy Safran ed a Lewis Aron, eminenti
figure di psicoanalisti, recentemente scomparsi, che hanno
dedicato pionieristici contributi all’argomento dell’”enactment”.
Come ha scritto Safran, sebbene l’enactment sia un concetto
problematico e fonte di confusione tra i differenti approcci,
esso può conferire alla psicoanalisi, il cui stato di
disciplina ‘liminale’ cioè al confine con altre non
sempre ad essa epistemologicamente commensurabili (neuroscienze,
infant research, antropologia culturale, ecc.), una
significativa fonte di vitalità. Il libro esplora il tema
dell’”enactment” in relazione a tali confini o aree di
transizione, specie nell’introduzione di Giuseppe Leo che ne
analizza la genesi storica ed il ruolo di concetto-ponte tra
psicoanalisi e psichiatria, tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze,
tra psicoanalisi e pratiche trans-culturali ed esplorandone
altresì la valenza trans-generazionale. Jay Greenberg nel suo
capitolo discute le varie modalità di partecipazione
dell’analista per cui, sebbene un certo grado di azione e
‘mutualità’ possa essere considerato espressione di un
modomeno
formalizzato di interazione coll’analizzando, molte
delle vignette cliniche maggiormente influenti nella
letteratura contemporanea sottolineano una maggiore tendenza
del clinico ad assumersi dei rischi, cosa che però richiede
una discussione critica ed attenta ai confini del setting.
Giuseppe Riefolo nel suo capitolo, utilizzando vignette
cliniche provenienti da setting differenti (psicoanalitico,
psichiatrico nel servizio pubblico) esplora un percorso che
dall’azione (concepita come qualcosa che impedisce il
processo analitico in quanto antitetico rispetto al ricordare
ed al rielaborare nelle prime formulazioni teoriche) passa per
la relazione (per cui l’enactment diventa un processo e non
più solo un evento) fino ad una concezione dell’enactment
come espressione di una conoscenza relazionale implicita
incarnata che può essere condivisa tra analista e paziente
per produrre nuove configurazioni terapeutiche. Nel loro
capitolo Safran e Kraus, pur nella consapevolezza che le
rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, le ‘impasse’ e gli
‘enactment’ siano inevitabili, illustrano il loro
programma di ricerca che è stato formalizzato in una
metodologia di formazione per gli psicoterapeuti volta ad
individuare e ad affrontare costruttivamente tali eventi
potenzialmente portatori di un esito terapeutico negativo.
Infine Efrat Ginot nel capitolo conclusivo espone come,
rispetto all’’enactment’ ed all’empatia, sia le
osservazioni cliniche che la recente ricerca neuroscientifica
forniscano sempre nuove evidenze su ciò che accomuna
piuttosto che solo su ciò che distingue
tali due processi intersoggettivi.Un video riassume le
tematiche del libro Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyhMirpeoY
Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
LIBRO (in inglese) su INFANT RESEARCH E PSICOANALISI
Dagli
articoli di precedenti numeri della rivista di psicoanalisi
Frenis Zero è uscito l'ultimo libro delle
nostre edizioni per il momento in inglese e prossimamente in
italiano. Il libro è dedicato a due pionieri del dialogo tra
psicoanalisi e psicologia dello sviluppo, Daniel Stern e Berry
Brazelton. Gli autori del libro sono Beatrice Beebe (New
York), che vi ripercorre il suo "viaggio" personale
che dura 40 anni all'interno di questo ambito di ricerche,
Karlen Lyons-Ruth ed altri che trattano delle rappresentazioni
materne della confusione dei ruoli genitoriali, Colwyn
Trevarthen (Edimburgo), che ripercorre la storia delle sue
ricerche a contatto con personaggi come Bruner e Brazelton, ed
Edward Tronick (Boston) che tratta delle implicazioni
psicoterapeutiche della creazione diadica del significato.La
introduzione è di Giuseppe Leo che è anche il curatore. Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
Su
Books.Google è possibile accedere ad un'anteprima limitata
del libro
NUOVA
PUBBLICAZIONE IN INGLESE
"Riflessioni
di un'analista batterista rock" ("Reflections of a
rock 'n' roll drummer-analyst") è un estratto del
capitolo che Heather Ferguson ha scritto per un libro in
uscita per le Edizioni Frenis Zero. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/ferguson.htm
NUOVO
NUMERO ON-LINE SULL'EFFICACIA DELLE PSICOTERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE
L'ultimo
numero di Frenis Zero (n.31, anno 16, gennaio 2019) ha come
tema quello dell'"EFFICACIA DELLE TERAPIE
PSICOANALITICHE E SUPERVISIONE". Abbiamo il piacere di presentare, dopo
il
primo articolo già pubblicato: "EFFICACIA DELLE
PSICOTERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE" di Lech Kalita e Chrzan
Detkos, quello di Leichsenring et al. "Meccanismi del
cambiamento in terapia psicodinamica", nonché l'articolo
di Nancy McWilliams "Alcune osservazioni sui gruppi di
supervisione". Per la sezione dedicata alla psicoanalisi
in relazione alle neuroscienze vi proponiamo l'articolo di
Karlen Lyons-Ruth et al. (in Inglese) "Reactivity,
Regulation, and Reward Responses to Infant Cues among Mothers
with and without Psychopathology: an fMRI Review".
Pubblichiamo
la recensione, scritta da Brad McLean del libro di Jessica
Benjamin "IL RICONOSCIMENTO RECIPROCO. L'intersoggettività
e il Terzo" (2019)- Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/benjamin.htm
SEMINARIO
CLINICO
"MOLTEPLICITA' DEGLI STATI DEL SE' IN PSICOANALISI" con G.
RIEFOLO
Il
2 marzo 2019 si è svolto nella nostra sede del Centro di Psicoterapia
Dinamica "Mauro Mancia" (via Lombardia, n.18 -
Lecce) il seminario con il dott. Giuseppe Riefolo
(psicoanalista SPI, psichiatra ASL ROma/E). Nel canale YouTube di Frenis Zero potete vedere
alcuni momenti della giornata di studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJlaZ6Q48c I
PROSSIMI SEMINARI ECM (10 crediti nazionali per ciascun
evento) in piccolo gruppo (max 15 partecipanti necessariamente
abilitati alla psicoterapia) saranno: "LA FINE DELLA
PSICOTERAPIA" (sabato 8 giugno 2019) e "I DISTURBI
DI PERSONALITA'" (sabato 23 novembre 2019). Per info ed
iscrizioni contattare la Segreteria Organizzativa via email: assepsi@virgilio.it
ARTICOLI
ORIGINALI
"The
Dead Sibling: a Family Secret and its Consequences" è il titolo del contributo (in
Inglese) di Massimiliano Sommantico (analista SPI, IPA,
ricercatore di Psicologia Dinamica all'Università 'Federico
II' di Napoli), che, riferendosi ad un caso clinico di terapia
familiare psicoanalitica, esplora le dinamiche di
odio e di rivalità che caratterizzano i legami tra fratelli. Link:
http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/sommantico.htm
CANALI
YOUTUBE DI FRENIS ZERO
1)
Nel nostro canale YouTube il video sulla relazione di Stephen
Seligman (18 maggio 2019) su Psicoanalisi ed "Infant
Research". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksfHNeqHm0Q
4)
Hilda Catz (psicoanalista dell'Associazione Argentina di
Psicoanalisi nonché artista) espone la sua relazione su
Psicoanalisi ed Arte. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKs9JJ3ukOA
ULTIMO
LIBRO (in Italiano) DELLE EDIZIONI FRENIS ZERO "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI
DELLA
RESILIENZA
ED IMMIGRAZIONE"
AA.
VV. "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI DELLA RESILIENZA ED
IMMIGRAZIONE" a cura di Giuseppe Leo
S. Araùjo Cabral,L. Curone,M. Francesconi,L. Frattini, S. Impagliazzo, D. Centenaro Levandowski, G. Magnani,M. Manetti, C. Marangio,G. A. Marra e Rosa, M. Martelli, M. R. Moro, R. K. Papadopoulos,A. Pellicciari, G.
Rigon,D. Scotto di
Fasano, E. Zini, A. Zunino, Psicoanalisi, luoghi della resilienza ed
immigrazione, Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee",
Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-11-6, € 39,00, pagine
372.
"PSICOANALISI
IN TERRA SANTA" a cura di A. Cusin e G. Leo
H.
Abramovitch, A.
Cusin, M. Dwairy, A. Lotem, M. Mansur, M. P. Salatiello, "Psicoanalisi
in Terra Santa", prefazione
di Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Postfazione
di Christoph U. Schminck-Gustavus, Note di Nader Akkad, Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-12-3, € 29,00 (rilegatura
rigida), euro 20,00 (rilegatura economica).
PSICOLOGIA
DELL'ANTISEMITISMO (2.a edizione) di Imre Hermann
Imre Hermann, "Psicologia
dell'antisemitismo", a
cura di Giuseppe
Leo, Collana
"Cordoglio e Pregiudizio", Frenis Zero 2017, ISBN
978-88-97479-10-9, € 18,00.
ESSERE
BAMBINI A GAZA. IL TRAUMA INFINITO di Maria Patrizia
Salatiello
Maria
Patrizia Salatiello, "Essere bambini a Gaza. Il trauma
infinito", Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2016, ISBN
978-88-97479-08-6, € 35,00.
ULTIMO
NUMERO (N.31, anno XVI, gennaio 2019) della RIVISTA
TELEMATICA "FRENIS ZERO"
E'
consultabile sul sito internet della rivista di
psicoanalisi "Frenis Zero" (link: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
) il numero 31 (anno 16, gennaio 2019), numero semestrale
monografico intitolato "Efficacia delle terapie
psicoanalitiche e supervisione".
EFFICACIA DELLE TERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE E
SUPERVISIONE.
1)Au
lien de Frenis Zero (http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm)
Vous pouvez lire le sommaire du Numéro 31, an 16
(janvier 2019) de notre journal, dédié au sujet de
<<Efficacité des thérapies
psychanalytiques et supervision>> (articles
en italien et en anglais).
1)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last number (n.31,
year 16, january 2019) of Frenis Zero on-line journal:
"EFFICACY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPIES AND
SUPERVISION".The table of contents is at url: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
. The papers are in Italian and English.
Following
the article (in Italian) by Lech Kalita and Chrzan
Detkos "Efficacia delle terapie psicoanalitiche" (Efficacy
of psychoanalytic therapies) and
the paper (in Italian) "Meccanismi del
cambiamento in terapia psicodinamica" ("Mechanisms
of change in psychodynamic therapy") by Falk
Leichsenring, Christiane Steinert, Paul Crits-Christoph, we are glad to announce two papers in
English exploring the topic: one,
"Some observations about Supervision/Consultation
Groups" by Nancy McWilliams,
and the other, concerning
the NEURO-PSYCHOANALYTIC section
"Reactivity, Regulation, and Reward Responses to
Infant Cues among Mothers with and without
Psychopathology: an fMRI review" by Karlen
Lyons-Ruth et al..
2)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero: "ENACTMENT IN
PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo and Giuseppe
Riefolo, writings by Efrat Ginot, Jay R Greenberg,
Jessica Kraus, Jeremy D Safran. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2019, pp.326.
The
book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose
recent loss
drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather
these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom
Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran
wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among
different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological
status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of
‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for
the discipline. The book explores the subject of
enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis,
referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many
crucial areas.
3)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero:"INFANT RESEARCH
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo,
writings by Beatrice Beebe, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Jeremy P.
Nahum, Elisabet Solheim, Colwyn Trevarthen, Edward Z.
Tronick, Lauriane Vulliez-Coady. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2018, pp.273.
This
book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary
area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant
research. The development of infant research
methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the
contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose
‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a
discipline with its creators, her traveling companions,
such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and
many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of
his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March
2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent
company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he
showed that the baby is read to share friendship with
mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief
in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and
early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding
treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her
as an individual with unique expressions of vitality.
The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical
implications of infant research. Tronick’s
contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on
analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems,
capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best
imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching.
In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to
the process of meaning making because of limitations in
their capacity, «their different time scales, the many
polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and
because of the many kinds of meaning making processes»
(including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic,
bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such
as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and
transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness»
Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and,
as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and
inchoate features of two individuals’ state of
consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But
meaning meaning processes and security making ones,
though normally overlapping each other, are not the same,
and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg
et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of
psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and
colleagues’ chapter is focused on the representational
world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of
mother’s representation of role-confusion in her
relation with her child. The authors call attention to
the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a
high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of
work points to the importance of being alert to
indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting.
The findings can inform and enrich counselling and
psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how
to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking
with parents about their relationship with the child.
6)
Book "FUNDAMENTALISM
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", Giuseppe Leo (Editor),
Prefaced by Vamik D. Volkan, writings by Lene Auestad,
Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Linden West. Collection "Mediterranean
Id-entities", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2017,
pp.214.
The
collection “Mediterranean Id-entities” is devoted to
publish books in order to investigate the role of
Mediterranean cultures from a psychoanalytic point of
view, in front of the anthropological transformations
concerning human societies and social institutions in
the contemporary world. This book has the hard task to
cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis
has to deal with fundamentalism as a social phenomenon
and therefore with ‘bordering’ disciplines (such as
religion history, transcultural studies, cultural
anthropology) often with epistemologies that for origin
and history appear to be incomparable to it. Lene
Auestad intends to integrate the psychological analysis
of the subject with its social embedding. She
investigates the importance of the social unconscious
and its effects on the prejudiced intentions of the
individual apart from its own active interpretations.
She highlights the importance the psychoanalytical
approach provides in understanding the unspoken,
unconscious contents of the social phenomena and how
much the socially critical approach is able to enrich
the analytical view which merely focuses on the subject
regarding the effects of the social consensus. While
Auestad’s scrutiny aims at the social convention’s
role as an agent affecting the individual’s deeds and
thinking, Linden West’s contribution draws on
‘psycho-social’ understandings, combining
psychoanalysis and critical theory, as well as the work
of John Dewey, to interrogate Islamic fundamentalist
groups in a post-industrial city. It explores processes
of self-recognition in groups and paranoid-schizoid
modes of functioning, in which unwanted parts of self
and of culture are split off and projected on to the
other. The world is correspondingly divided into good
and bad, pure and impure. John Dewey makes a crucial
distinction between processes of democratic education
and closed groups, which is what fundamentalist groups
are, by reference to the quality of relationship to the
other, and to experiential and narrative openness.
However, it is also suggested that fundamentalism is
ordinary, in that each of us can feel out of our depth,
at times, and we may grab at ideas promising truth and
nothing but the truth, which is ultimately illusion.
Except not everyone reaches for a Kalashnikov, which is
where individual biographies matter for subtler
understanding of difference within commonalities.
Fundamentalism has increasingly become a part of the
political discourse in Western countries and is to a
large degree associated with Islamic Jihadism.
Fundamentalism has, however, been a concern in all
religions, and Werner Bohleber in this book discusses
its connections with violence in monotheistic religions.
Fundamentalism is also a concern in professional
organisations and in this book Sverre Varvin discusses
the relation between fundaments for a science and
fundamentalism in psychoanalysis. This is related to
general trends of fundamentalism in religious and
political contexts. A central question is how adherence
to fundamentals, understood at basic principles for a
profession or a religious-political movement, may
develop into fundamentalism and how this may develop
into more violent forms. Psychoanalytic understanding of
mass psychology and unconscious processes at group
levels are developed in this book by each of the
outstanding authors in order to understand present
Islamic and other forms of fundamentalist movements in
the European context.
7) "NEUROSCIENCE
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", G. Leo (ed.), prefaced by
Georg Northoff, writings by David Mann, Allan N.
Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk,
Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker, Collection
"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience", Frenis Zero
Publisher, Lecce 2014, pp.300, € 49,00.
The
book gathers some papers concerning the dialogue between
neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Following the
Introduction written by Georg Northoff, concerning the
possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating
contraposition between localizationism and holism, G.
Vaslamatzis deals with a “Framework for a new dialogue
between psychoanalysis and neurosciences”. In this
chapter the author describes three points of
epistemological congruence: firstly, dualism is no
longer a satisfactory solution; secondly, cautions for
the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics); and,
thirdly, the self-criticism of neuroscientists. David
W.Mann in his contribution “The mirror crack’d:
dissociation and reflexivity in self and group phenomena”
tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of
three levels of the human system (self, relationships,
group) and integrate them one to another, while
dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them
apart. Health and illness within the self, the
relationship and the group can be understood as special
states of the dynamic equilibria between these cohesive
and dispersive trends. In “Sleep, memory and
plasticity” Matthew P. Walker and Robert Stickgold
outline a review of the researches following the
discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM)
sleep, and specifically of those that began testing the
hypothesis that sleep, or even specific stages of sleep,
actively participated in the process of memory
development. The last two chapters, “Clinical
implications of neuroscience research in PTSD” by
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, and “Dysregulation of the
right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic
attachment and the psychopathogenesis of PTSD” by
Allan N. Schore, demonstrate how the psychopathology of
traumatic conditions can be a fertile field of dialogue
between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
To
order the book you can click here: or
here
To
get a preview of the book click here:
8)
"PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS BORDERS", G. Leo
(ed.), writings by J. Altounian, P. Fonagy, G.O.
Gabbard, J.S. Grotstein, R.D. Hinshelwood,
J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg, S. Resnik.
Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis
Zero Publisher, Lecce 2012, pp. 348, € 19,00.
Eight
outstanding theoreticians of contemporary
psychoanalysis reflect on psychoanalysis and its
borders and boundaries between it and adjacent
disciplines such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and
social sciences. The book celebrates ten years of
existence of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal.
You
can view a video introducing the book in our You Tube
Channel ( www.youtube.com/frenis0
) To
order the book you can click here: or
hereTo
get a preview of the book click here:
9)
NEW
ARTICLE in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal: The
Dead Sibling: a Family Secret and its Consequencesby
Massimiliano Sommantico Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/sommantico.htm
Abstract:
By
referring to a clinical example of psychoanalytic family
psychotherapy, the author highlights the relevance of
the dynamics of hate and rivalry that characterize
sibling links. In particular, the author analyses the
rivalry of the daughter with her dead elder brother, and
her hate link with her younger brother. The focus on the
family’s common and shared psychic world allows these
dimensions to be considered more in depth. The author
describes a sequence in the psychotherapeutic work, also
using dream analysis, by focusing particularly on a
denial pact that characterises the family dynamic and on
the interpsychic dynamics related to the replacement
child. More generally, the author shows the importance
of taking into account also the fraternal dimension –
and not only the oedipal one – in working
psychoanalytically with families.
10)
Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero
psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism
and Psychoanalysis"
24)
N-Psa Newsletters, New York Psychoanalytic Institute and IPA newsletters
(source:
N-PSA newsletter)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The
New York Psychoanalytic Society
& Institute presents the
ROBERT
J. KABCENELL MEMORIAL LECTURE IN
CHILD ANALYSIS
"It can't be":
How Two "Child Analytic
Experiences" Look to a
Man Who Re-Enters Analysis
on the Occasion of Strange
Feelings Regarding an
Analysis for his Grandson
James Herzog, M.D.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 | 8 :00
- 10:00 PM
The
Marianne & Nicholas
Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC
This
talk will examine the ways in
which previous "child
analyses" are regarded by
a 70-year-old man who
re-enters psychoanalysis.
It will explore the
relationships between his own
memories, historical realities
and his 'inscape.' The
talk will consider the
influence of the child
analyst's theory on his or her
technical stance and the ways
in which these "technical
matters," "ideologies"
or other agendas shape meaning
and memory for the analysand.
It will also examine the
roles of curiosity, compassion
and what Dr. Herzog calls
'safety.'
No charge.
To reserve seats,
click HERE, visit nypsi.org or call
212-879-6900
James Herzogis
an Adult and Child
Psychiatrist and
Psychoanalyst. He is a
Training and Supervisory
Analyst at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and
Institute in adult, child
and adolescent
psychoanalysis. He is
a Supervisory Analyst at the
Sigmund Freud Institute in
Zurich and at the
Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis in Boston.
He writes about
fathers, play, the
transmission of trauma and
ways of conceptualizing
analytic process.
Works in Progress
Seminar: The
Problem of
Self-Disclosure
This paper discusses the
difference between
self-disclosure and
self-revelation particularly
from the points of view of self
psychology and contemporary
Freudian conflict theory and
other theoretical points of view.
It was stimulated by an exchange
between Jeffrey Stern, a self
psychologist, about a paper on
self-revelation: "I have a
dog in the fight." The pros
and cons of self-disclosure are
explored in relation to a case
presented by Dr. Richards's (where
issues of self-disclosure were
present) and the patient's own
comments on Dr. Richards's
write-up of his case are
included. In addition,
there is discussion of the
history of self-disclosure in
psychoanalysis focusing on
instances of Freud's own
interference in his patient's
lives. Finally, there is a
discussion of changes in the
relevance of the analyst's
self-disclosure now that
patients can google their
analysts and may find out many
details of their analysts' lives
on the internet. The
paper is available for
distribution before the
presentation by emailing psypsa@aol.com.
No
CME or CE credits offered.
Arnold
Richards, M.D. is
Training and
Supervising Analyst at
the New York
Psychoanalytic
Institute and is on
the Faculty of the
Metropolitan Institute
for Training in
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy, Adult
Program and the Tongji
Medical College of
Huazhong University of
Science and Technology
in Wuhan, China. He is
a member of the New
York Psychoanalytic
Society &
Institute; the
American Psychological
Association, Division
39; the New
York Freudian Society,
and the Psychoanalytic
Association of New
York. He is also
Honorary Member
of the American
Institute of
Psychoanalysis/Karen
Horney Clinic.
Dr. Richards served
as editor of The
Journal of the
American
Psychoanalytic
Association (JAPA)
from 1994 to 2003
and The
American
Psychoanalyst
(TAP, newsletter of
The American
Psychoanalytic
Association) for
three years prior to
that. He is
currently editor of
internationalpsychoanalysis.
net
and the publisher of
ipbooks.net. Dr.
Richards was the
recipient of the
Distinguished
Contributor Award of
the American
Psychoanalytic
Association. He was
also winner of the
Mary S. Sigourney
Award (2000) and the
Hans Loewald Awardee
of the IFPE (2013).
He is the author of Controversial
Conversations:
Selected papers of
Arnold Richards,
Volume 1,
published by ipbooks, Perspectives
on Thought
Collectives,Selected
papers of Arnold
Richards, Volume 2, and
numerous other books
and papers.
This presentation will focus
on how to talk to children and
their siblings who were born
through assisted reproductive
technologies such as IVF,
sperm donors, egg donors, and
surrogates. Dr. Balas will
discuss a range of approaches
to talking with children,
taking into account the family
style of communication,
parents' level of comfort,
children's temperament and
their developmental stage.
Parents and helping
professionals are welcome.
No CME or CE credits
offered.
Anna Balas, M.D. is
a child and adolescent
psychiatrist and psychoanalyst,
Training and Supervising
Analyst at NYPSI and Associate
Professor at Payne Whitney. She
has a long-standing interest
in the areas of psychological
impact of assisted
reproductive technologies and
of adoption on children and
their families. She is
in private practice on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Modern Conflict
Theory in Practice
Ian
D. Buckingham, M.D.
April 18, 25; May 2, 9, 2019
Thursdays, 8:30 - 10:00 pm
4
classes / $120
Location:
NYPSI: 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
NYPSI Extension Program: Modern
Conflict Theory in Practice
A contemporary focus on the
functioning of the mind from the
perspective of Modern Conflict
Theory, with emphasis on
Brenner's revisions of
traditional structural theory
and a new appreciation of the
ideas of evolutionary biology
for understanding the
functioning of the mind.
6 CME/CE credits offered.
Dr.
Buckingham was
formerly President of NYPSI and
Director of its Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy Program. He is on
the faculty of both NYPSI and NYU
Medical Center.
Is
the Alliance Really Therapeutic?
Revisiting This Question in Light of
Recent Empirical Studies
The therapeutic value of
alliance is a contested
supposition. Although many
theorists and researchers
believe that alliance is
therapeutic in itself,
others see it as a byproduct
of effective treatment or as
a common non-specific factor
enabling the truly effective
ingredients of treatment to
work. For many years, the
debate was confined mainly
to the domain of theory, and
no studies were available to
examine this issue. The only
empirical evidence that
existed was studies showing
a correlation between
alliance and outcome, and
advocates of the above
conflicting opinions used
the same correlation to
prove the validity of their
position. Over the last few
years, however, a revolution
has taken place in alliance
research, which brings this
theoretical debate into the
realm of the empirical.
Recent alliance studies have
applied advanced
methodologies to achieve
this aim. Based on an
integration of these studies,
a new model for
understanding the potential
therapeutic role of alliance
as sufficient to induce
change by itself emerges.
The model stresses the
importance of
differentiating between
patients' general tendencies
to form satisfying
relationships with others,
which affect also the
relationship with the
therapist ("trait-like"
component of alliance), and
the process of the
development of changes in
such tendencies through
interaction with the
therapist ("state-like"
component of alliance). The
former enables treatment to
be effective; the latter
makes alliance therapeutic.
Based on the most recent
literature, the presentation
attempts to determine which
of these components is the
predictor of treatment
outcome.
2 CME/CE credits offered.
Reading of Interest:
1. Zilcha-Mano,
S. (2017). Is alliance really
therapeutic? A systematic answer
based on recent methodological
developments. American Psychologist,
72(4), 311-325.
2. Zilcha-Mano, S., Eubanks,
C. F., & Muran, C. J. (2019).
Sudden gains in the alliance in
cognitive behavioral therapy vs. brief
relational treatment. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
3. Zilcha-Mano, S. (2016).
New analytic strategies help answer
the controversial question of whether
alliance is therapeutic in itself.
Brief Report. World Psychiatry, 15(1),
84-85.
4. Zilcha-Mano, S., Porat,
Y., Dolev, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S.
(2018). Oxytocin as a neurobiological
marker of ruptures in the working
alliance. Psychotherapy and
Psychosomatics, 87(2), 126-127.
5. Leibovich,
L., Nof, A., Auerbach-Barber, S., &
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). A practical
clinical suggestion for strengthening
the alliance based on a
supportive-expressive framework. Psychotherapy,
55(3), 231-240.
Sigal
Zilcha-Mano, Ph.D. is
an Associate Professor of Clinical
Psychology in the Department of
Psychology, University of Haifa, and a
Visiting Associate Professor at the
Healthy Aging and Late Life Brain
Disorders Program, Columbia University.
She heads the Psychotherapy Research Lab
in the Department of Psychology,
University of Haifa.
Michele
Press, M.D.is
President and Training and Supervising
Analyst at NYPSI where she also
co-teaches advanced psychoanalytic
technique. She is clinical assistant
professor of psychiatry at New York
University Langone Medical Center where
she teaches a course on advanced
psychodynamic technique to PGY-3
residents in psychiatry.
In this presentation, Dr.
Porder will describe the
dramatic changes in NYPSI's
psychoanalytic curriculum over
the past 50 years. He will
give credit to the numerous
members who have contributed
to the scientific growth of
the Institute's theoretical
and technical practices.
Four senior analysts - Sander
Abend, Theodore Jacobs, Albert
Sax, and Martin Willick - will
speak to how these changes
have impacted their clinical
work.
A Reception will follow
the lecture. No
CME/CE credits offered.
Michael Porder, M.D. is
a Training and Supervising Analyst at the
New York Psychoanalytic Society &
Institute. He was formerly Assistant
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine from
1965-1990; Associate Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
from 1990-2000; and Lecturer in Psychiatry
at Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons from 1965-1990. He
has published extensively on borderline
conditions, and co-edited (with Sander M.
Abend and Martin S. Willick) Borderline
Patients: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
He was a member of the editorial board of The
Psychoanalytic Quarterly and was
the Brill Lecturer in 1996. He has
been a member of CAPS since 1983.
Sander Abend, M.D. is
a Training and Supervising Analyst at the
New York Psychoanalytic Society &
Institute. He served as the
editor of The Psychoanalytic
Quarterly from 1985-1991 and
currently serves as an associate editor. He
was the Brill Lecturer in 1988.
Theodore Jacobs, M.D. is
a Training and Supervising Adult, Child and
Adolescent Analyst at the New York
Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
He is currently on the editorial boards ofThe Psychoanalytic
Quarterly and Psychoanalytic
Inquiry. Among his many
publications are The
Use of the Self: Countertransference and
Communication in the Analytic Situation, The
Possible Profession and a novel, The
Year of Durocher. He
was the Brill Lecturer in 1993.
Albert Sax, M.D. is a
Training and Supervising Adult, Child and
Supervising Analyst at the New York
Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. In
1999 he received the Brenner Teaching Award.
He chaired the Progression Committee and
also served as President of the Society from
1999-2001.
Martin Willick, M.D. is
a Training and Supervising Analyst at the
New York Psychoanalytic Society &
Institute. He served on the
editorial board ofThe Psychoanalytic
Quarterly. He has published and taught
courses on Schizophrenia and Paranoid
Disorders as well as Depressive States. He
was the Brill Lecturer in 1991.
Janine
Altounian (Parigi), Leonardo Ancona (Roma), Brenno Boccadoro
(Ginevra), Werner Bohleber (Francoforte sul Meno), Mario Colucci (Trieste),
Lidia De Rita (Bari), Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi (Bari),
Patrizia Guarnieri (Firenze), Robert Hinshelwood (Londra), René
Kaes (Lione), Otto Kernberg (New York), Massimo Maisetti (Milano), Lidia
Marigonda (Venezia), Predrag Matvejevic' (Zagabria), Franca
Maisetti Mazzei (Milano), Laura Montani (Roma), Marie Rose
Moro (Parigi), Salomon Resnik
(Parigi), Mario Rossi Monti (Firenze), Mario Scarcella
(Messina), Sverre Varvin (Oslo), Vamik D. Volkan (Charlottesville,
USA).
Le
illustrazioni contenute in questa Newsletter sono tratte
da: "From Neurology
to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud's Neurological Drawings and
Diagrams of the Mind" di Lynn Gamwell and Mark
Solms.
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regards.
Giuseppe
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