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Quotations from D.W. Winnicott
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"If only we can wait, the patient arrives at understanding creatively and with immense joy...The principle is that it is the patient and only the patient who has the answers." (The Use of an Object, 1969)
"With the care that it receives from its mother each infant is able to have a personal existence, and so begins to build up what might be called a continuity of being. On the basis of this continuity of being the inherited potential gradually develops into an individual infant. If maternal care is not good enough then the infant does not really come into existence, since there is no continuity of being; instead the personality becomes built on the basis of reactions to environmental impingement." (The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship, 1960
"In individual emotional development the precursor of the mirror is the mother's face....What does the baby see when he or she looks at the mother's face? I am suggesting that, ordinarily, what the baby sees is himself or herself." (Playing and Reality, 1971)
Participants may enroll for just one weekend or Saturday morning lecture, or for several. These events are also attending by those who are enrolled in IPI’s two-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program.
Go to Past Weekend Conferences and Summer Institutes to see some of the excellent conferences IPI has offered in the past.
Conferences begin at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and end at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Conferences feature didactic and clinical presentations and daily large and small group discussion. Saturday morning workshops and lectures, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30, are open to all mental health professionals, free of charge, and will be followed by a reception and an optional small group discussion from 11:00 a.m. to noon for participants attending the workshop. Pre-registration is required. Schedules, reading lists and educational objectives will be provided. All 2008-2009 weekend conferences, except the March 6-8, 2009 conference (which will be in Panama City, Panama) will be held in the Washington, DC area. Registration fee for the weekend conferences is $505 ($485 if registration is made three weeks in advance).
Registration
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See General Information for complete details about IPI, registration, and the location of the 2008-2009 weekend conferences.
2008-2009 Weekends and Saturday Morning Lecture Series
October 17-19, 2008
Through the Life Cycle: The Development of Relating, Identity and Thinking in Klein, Bion and Winnicott
With Meira Likierman, PhD.
Dr. Meira Likieman is Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, and lectures regularly at Oxford University, the Anna Freud Center, the British Association for Psychotherapists and the London Centre for Psychotherapy. She has lectured internationally and published widely, including her book Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context. In this weekend we will examine the contributions of Klein, Bion and Winnicott to development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, and explore the implications of psychic development of our patients throughout their lives.
Saturday Morning lecture: How infantile needs, wishes and suffering are manifest in infancy and in the lives of our adult patients
February 6-8, 2009
Thinking, Loss and Negation
With David Bell, MD
David Bell is Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Chair, the Scientific Committee, the British Psychoanalytic Society; Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Department and Director, Personality Disorders Unit, the Tavistock Clinic. He lectures and publishes widely on Freud, Klein and Bion, severe disorders and psychoanalysis and literature, socio-political theory and philosophy. In this conference he will pursue themes of loss, negation, paranoia and timelessness in clinical analysis, literature and history.
Saturday Morning lecture: Nothing Matters and Everything is Permitted: Hannah Arendt and the Evil of Mindlessness
March 6-8, 2009
Group Analysis: Theory and Practice in Small and Large 'Groups'
With Earl Hopper, PhD
Dr. Earl Hopper is former Chair, Group of Independent Psychoanalysts, British Psychoanalytical Society; former President, International Association of Group Psychotherapy; Editor, The New International Library of Group Analysis, and author most recently of The Social Unconscious: Selected Papers and Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups. The weekend will feature extensive large group experience, as well as theoretical consideration of group dynamics focusing on transference and countertransference, the social unconscious and the Fourth Basic Assumption (Incohesion: Aggregation/ Massification).
Saturday Morning lecture: The Social Unconscious in Persons and Groups
April 24-26, 2009
The Therapeutic Relationship and the Dialogue of Unconsciouses: A Weekend Clinical Workshop
With Anthony Bass, PhD
Anthony Bass, PhD is Supervising Analyst, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Joint Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; President, the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; and a Founding Director, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This conference will explore the nature of the psychoanalytical therapy relationship through the lens of 'relationship as a dialogue of unconsciouses' to deepen our grasp of unconscious dimensions of psychoanalytic work. Participants are asked to be prepared to share their work with patients with whom they feel an unusually intense affective engagement in order to study the emergent unconscious life of patient and therapist.
Saturday Morning lecture: Psychoanalysis as Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi's Mutual Analysis Updated
2009-20010 Weekend Conferences
October 16–19, 2009
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
January 29-31, 2010
Marilia Aisenstein
March 2010
Family, Couple and Child Psychotherapy
April 23-25, 2010
Dr. Stefano Bolognini
6612 Kennedy Drive
Chevy Chase MD 20815-6504
Tel: 301-215-7377
E-mail:info@theipi.org