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Past Weekend Conferences
2010-2011 Weekend Conferences November 12-14, 2010 The work of transformation in psychoanalytic practice With Jorge Canestri, M.D., from Rome, Italy Jorge Canestri is Training and Supervising Analyst for the Italian and Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, President, Italian Psychoanalytical Association, European Editor, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis; Chair of the IPA’s New Groups Committee. He has edited and authored many books papers. Co-author, The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension; Director of the webpage: Psychoanalysis and logical mathematical thought. In this weekend, Dr. Canestri will lead us in thinking about modern ideas of change in psychoanalytic therapy, and his emerging ideas of psychoanalytic growth. Saturday Morning lecture: Interpretations and Constructions. January 21-23, 2011 The mysterious leap of soma into psyche With Marilia Aisenstein, from Paris, France Marilia Aisenstein is Training-analyst, Paris and Hellenic Psychoanalytical Societies; Past President Paris Psychoanalytic, Past Chair of IPA’s New Groups Committee, Past Editor, French Revue of Psychoanalysis, and 1992 recipient of “Prix Maurice Bouvet” for a psychoanalytic work. She has written 130 books and articles. In this weekend, Marilia Aisenstein will focus on the interrelationship of body, physical and emotional development, symptom and psychic process in the great tradition of French psychosomatic theorists. Saturday Morning lecture: On transference and counter-transference with difficult cases March 25-27, 2011 Join us for this special weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana: Why has Psycho-Analysis Lost the Person ? With Neville Symington, from Sydney, Australia Training Analyst, Sydney Psychoanalytic; former President, Australian Psychoanalytic; Former chair Psychology, Tavistock Clinic, London; Diplomate, philosophy and theology; 12 books including The Analytic Experience and Emotion and Spirit; a novel, A Priest’s Affair, and a book of poetry IN-GRATITUDE and other POEMS. Neville Symington is widely known for his probing thought on spirituality and psychic process, original ideas on narcissism, and his breadth of original analytic theorizing. This weekend will feature these themes and an exploration of the elusive question of the person in psychoanalysis. Saturday Morning lecture: Spiritual Detachment - Essential in the Treatment of Psychosis. April 29-May 1, 2011 Countertransference, Neutrality and the Analytic Field. With Claudio Eizirik, M.D. from Porto Alegre, Brazil Claudio Eizirik is Training and Supervising Analyst, Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society, Adjunct Professor, Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul; Former President, International Psychoanalytic Association. Many books and papers on analytic technique and the relation of psychoanalysis and culture including a recent paper on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Dr. Eizirik will lead us in looking at current issues in the practice of analytic therapy, including the concept of the analytic field, the maintenance of an analytic persona, and the uses and misuses of countertransference and neutrality. Saturday Morning lecture: How to become and remain a psychoanalyst. October 16–18, 2009 Individuality in Depth: How Psychodynamic Diagnosis Shapes and Is Shaped by the Therapeutic Relationship With Nancy McWilliams, PhD Nancy McWilliams teaches at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and is Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. She has written several influential books on psychodynamic assessment and treatment. This weekend links the advances in psychodynamic diagnosis with close study of the therapeutic process. Saturday Morning lecture: Working with Clients with Paranoid Trends January 29-31, 2010 Being Human: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Children and Adults With Julio Moreno, M.D and Virginia Ungar, M.D., Buenos Aires. Drs. Moreno and Ungar are training analysts, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association, and child and adult analysts. Dr. Moreno teaches couple and family therapy and is the author of "Being Human: Inconsistence, the Link and Upbringing." Dr. Ungar has published numerous papers and is Latin American member of the Board and Executive Committee of the IPA and Chair of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. This weekend will explore modern developments in child analysis, and the concept of “the link”, a bridging concept that has emerged as central to European and South American analytic thinking as applied especially to group and family therapy, and to the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Saturday Morning lecture: The theory of link: association and connection, Dr. Julio Moreno March 12-14, 2010 Join us for this special weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah: Family, Couple and Child Psychotherapy The internal worlds of both therapists and patients are constructed by early family experiences, including representations of couple and sibling relationships. These object constellations dramatically influence our interactions with peers, choice of intimate partnerships, and formation of personal identity. Couple, child and family treatments provide a unique opportunity to shift problematic individual and systemic object relations, through examination of shared transferences, identifications, collusive defenses, intergenerational repetitions, and unconscious fantasies. Join us for a weekend where we discuss the value, theory, and craft of child, family, and couple treatments and their potential impact on the development and repair of self. Saturday Morning lecture: TBA April 23-25, 2010 Psychoanalytic Empathy and Interpsychic Relationship With Stefano Bolognini, M.D. President, Italian Psychoanalytic Society; member, European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Supervisor, Adult and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Italian National Health System. Author: Psychoanalytic Empathy and the forthcoming Secret Passages: Theory and Technique of the Interpsychic Dimension. Saturday Morning lecture: “Notes from the deep: On Unconscious Communication.” 2008-2009 Weekends 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: Nasir Ilahi: Psychic Emptineess and How to Understand It. 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 2007-2008 Weekends October 19-21, 2007 The Violent Patient, and Analytic Listening and Countertransference in Borderline Patients With Rosine Josef Perelberg, PhD: Rosine Josef Perelberg, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London. Her most recent book is Freud: A Modern Reader, (London: Wileys), a collection of previously unpublished papers from the British and French Psychoanalytic Societies. Saturday Morning lecture: “The Violent Patient: Research & Treatment” February 8-10, 2008 Psychotherapy Terminable and Interminable Organized by Charles Ashbach, PhD, with Faculty Presenters: This weekend reconsidered some of the central ideas of Freud’s 1937 paper “Analysis: Terminable and Interminable.” Questions of the “end point” and “limits” of the therapy process were considered, as well as the use and abuse of the therapy process in the face of perverse and parasitic attachments. Also considered: therapeutic ambition, addiction to therapy, and the role of envy and pathologic narcissism as anti-therapeutic forces. Charles Ashbach, PhD is a senior and founding member of the IPI faculty and co-author of Object Relations Group Therapy. Saturday Morning lecture: Charles Ashbach: “Where are we when the working-through is through?” Some considerations on factors limiting the psychotherapy enterprise. March 28-30, 2008 Encountering the Slippery Slope in Psychoanalytic Family Therapy: International Conference on Child, Couple, and Family Therapy Therapists who work in-depth with families must be prepared for the slippery slope of the family unconscious. The papers and presentations at this conference featured American and international contributions on the clinical practice of psychoanalytic family therapy. The conference format included daily small group discussions, conference participant and presenter dialogues, and panel discussions, so that working in depth could be affectively and intellectually taken in and processed. Keynote presentations by Molly Ludlam (Scotland), Andrew Balfour (London), Qijia Shi (China), David and Jill Scharff (Washington DC) and Michael Stadter (Washington DC). Saturday Morning lecture: "The Post-natally Depressed Couple" by Molly Ludlam, MA
April 25-27, 2008 Character With Christopher Bollas: In this weekend Christopher Bollas will explore the many dimensions of character, from inherent quality to disorder, and focus on the process of character analysis. He will also read from his new novel-in-progress. Christopher Bollas is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, and the European Study Group on Unconscious Thought. His first book was The Shadow of the Object. His most recent, Mayhem, is a novel. Saturday Morning lecture: “Reflections on Character”
October 20-22, 2006 Recent Advances in Neuropsychoanalysis: Impact on Clinical Practice With Allan Schore, Ph.D. A leading neuropsychoanalyst, Dr. Schore has published three landmark volumes on affect regulation and the neural mechanisms of development of the self. This weekend will feature careful exposition of this work and integrate brain research with psychoanalysis, leading the way to a modern rapprochement between the fields. Saturday morning lecture: “The Right Brain is Dominant in Psychoanalytic Treatment”
February 2-4, 2007 Transforming Narcissism: Infant Research and Therapeutic Action With Frank Lachmann, Ph.D. With a reputation as an engaging teacher, Dr. Lachmann is best known for his ground-breaking research on parent-infant interaction carried out with Beatrice Bebe. This weekend he will present his recent work applying the lessons of infant development to adult psychotherapy. Saturday morning lecture: “The Road to Empathy”
March 9-11, 2007 Interfaces of Modern Psychoanalysis Held in Panama City, Panama With Otto Kernberg, M.D. Otto Kernberg is a giant in the development of modern psychoanalytic theory and practice from the standpoint of American object relations theory, studying particularly the role of affect and the treatment of personality disorders. This weekend’s work will present an integration of ideas at the frontier of psychoanalysis. Saturday morning workshop: “Severe Personality Disorders”
April 27-29, 2007 The Bi-Personal Field in Psychotherapy With Antonino Ferro, M.D. (from Milan, Italy): Dr. Ferro presents a fresh use of Bion’s ideas on the treatment of children and adults. Until now, his warm and responsive teaching has not been well known in the U.S. He is the author of The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis, Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery, and Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling. In this weekend he will examine some theoretical foundations of therapeutic experience. See an interview with Dr. Ferro. Saturday morning lecture: Countertransference and the Characters of the Psychoanalytic Session.
October 28-30, 2005 When Trauma Strikes: Psychotherapy with Couples and Families A Weekend with IPI Faculty, Students, Alumni and International Guest Speakers Couples and families increasingly seek help after traumatic experience for dysfunction caused by sexual abuse, severe physical and emotional neglect, birth disorders or the results of war and terrorism. The focus of this conference was on families with psychological and social impairment stemming from traumatic experiences. International Keynote speakers: Hans-Jurgen Wirth from Frankfurt; Serge Arpin and Carole Hamel from Montreal; Felix Velasco from Mexico. Saturday Morning Workshop: "Trauma, Neuroscience and Family Therapy" with David and Jill Scharff. January 27-29, 2006 Levels and Types of Pathology: Levels and Types of Intervention With Anne Alvarez, Ph.D., emeritus child psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London. Author of Live Company. In this weekend Dr. Alvarez discussed the processes of mourning, narcissism, depression and autism with an eye towards finding languages that allow access to varying levels of pathology in children and adults. Saturday morning workshop: “Unintegration, Disintegration and Integration”, with Anne Alvarez. March 10-12, 2006 Attachment and the Self: Research and Therapy With Dr. Mary Target, University College and Anna Freud Clinic, London. Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Target is known for her work on attachment and affect regulation, and other aspects of development. In this conference, she discussed implications for psychotherapy with children and adults. Saturday morning workshop: “Mind as World: Developmental Theory and Technique as Successful Narcissism Breaks Down” with Mary Target. April 28-30, 2006 Ferenczi and the Origin of Object Relations: History and Application With Dr. Andre Haynal, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Geneva, Training Analyst and former president of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Haynal is author of Disappearing the Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis and Controversies in Psychoanalytic Method: From Freud and Ferenczi to Michael Balint. In this conference, he introduced Ferenczi's ideas, detailed the way psychoanalysis has used them while ignoring their origins, and explored their modern application. Saturday morning workshop: "Technical Problems in Relation-Based Psychoanalysis", with Dr. Haynal. Summer Institutes July 9-15, 2006 Infant Observation and Research Contributions to Object Relations Theory and Practice, with Jeanne Magagna, Hope Cooper, Christine Norman, Steve Suomi, Charles Ashbach, Nancy Bakalar, Norma Caruso, Karen Fraley, Paul Koehler, Vali Maduro, David Scharff and Jill Scharff. Infant observation, non-human primate research, and attachment research were applied to containment and countertransference in clinical work. July 8-14, 2007 Object Relations Theory and Practice: July 9-15, 2008 Infant Observation and Research Contributions to Object Relations Theory and Practice. July 8-14, 2009 Object Relations Theory and Practice. |
