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2006 Panels
There will be four plenary sessions during the conference.
PANEL 1 (Friday, October 27, 8:45 AM - 12:30 PM)
Evolving Perspectives on the Selfobject Transference
Presenters:
James M. Fisch, MD; Peter Buirski, PhD, ABPP; and Amy Eldridge, PhD
Moderator:
Susana Federici-Nebbiosi, PhD
Description:
This panel will analyze contemporary and divergent perspectives on the
selfobject transference as a core component of analytic treatment will
be offered in response to a case presentation depicting the complexity
of the transference as it emerges and evolves within the therapeutic
process.
Dr. Fisch will analyze Dr. Eldridge's case material as it offers an opportunity to explore the question: Does Heinz Kohut's original analytic concept of selfobject transference help us to understand and treat the apparently pre-analytic, or anti-analytic patient?
Dr. Buirski will analyze Dr. Eldridge's rich clinical material as it allows us to examine some interesting questions about the contextualizing of the intersubjective field in which this relationship occurs.
PANEL 2 (Friday, October 27, 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM)
The Self
Presenters:
Richard Geist, EdD and Jodie Messler-Davies, PhD
Moderator:
Ronald A. Bodansky, PhD
Description:
Dr. Geist's paper will discuss the value of connectedness - the feeling of
being a felt presence in another's life - in our every day clinical work.
Emphasizing Heinz Kohut's frequently forgotten conceptualization of how
analyst and patient experience each other as a part of their respective
selfs, the paper demonstrates how each person's total responsiveness,
including his or her selfobject functions, empathy, and subjectivity,
coalesce to form a wholistic tapestry that cannot be experientially
separated. Using clinical vignettes, the paper demonstrates how
experiencing oneself as part of another's self affects the analyst's
listening perspective, organization of clinical material, and the way we
speak in the interpretative mode.
Dr. Messler-Davies description to be posted at a later date.
PANEL 3 (Saturday, October 28, 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM)
Evolving Perspectives on Interpretation
Presenters:
Shelley R. Doctors, PhD and Anna Ornstein, MD
Moderator:
Jill R. Gardner, PhD
Description:
Over the course of the 25 years since Kohut's death, there has been a
radical expansion of our understanding of both the meaning and the place
of interpretation in our work. While the dialogue has often been cast in
terms of opposites - interpretation vs. relationship; insight vs.
experience; the cognitive vs. the affective; the verbal and explicit vs.
the non-verbal, procedural, and implicit - we have come to understand
that any verbal interpretation is laden with relational, affective, and
procedural meaning, that it occurs in an intersubjectively constituted
relational context, and that much new understanding is communicated and
perceived outside of awareness altogether, by both partners in the
therapeutic dialogue. In this panel, Anna Ornstein will explore these
developments in a paper entitled, aptly enough, "Do Words Still Matter?"
Dr. Ornstein will outline her current thinking on the concept of
"speaking in the interpretive mode," with a particular focus on how
these ideas relate to dealing with the complex defensive structures
present in severe personality disorders. Shelley Doctors will then bring
an intersubjective focus to the discussion with a paper entitled,
"Interpretation as a Relational Process." Dr. Doctors will emphasize the
indivisibility of the cognitive and affective domains and the patterning
and transformation of emotional experience in specific intersubjective
fields. Case material will be used to illustrate concepts in both papers
and the panel structure will allow time for dialogue between both the
panelists and the audience.
PANEL 4 (Sunday, October 29, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
Forms and Transformations of Narcissism
Presenters:
Frank Lachmann, PhD and Carlo Strenger, PhD
Moderator:
Estelle Shane, PhD
Description:
Dr. Strenger's paper presentation will describe the problem of
maintaining self-esteem in a global culture. It argues that the high
incidence of depression and anxiety derives from the cultural assumption
of endless possibilities generated in the Global Cities (i.e. the cities
that are the nodes of the global economy). Almost every realistic
achievement is dwarfed by the skyrocketing success stories related in
the media. I will give some suggestions on therapeutic mentoring
techniques that can help people find a more stable sense of self in this
global context.
Dr. Lachmann's paper presentation will take a new look at the process through which "archaic narcissism" is engaged in therapeutic treatment. In a multi-media presentation, from the vantage- point of self- and interactive regulation, expectancies, and violations of expectations, the process of transformation is depicted as bidirectional and an intrinsic dimension of the ongoing analyst-patient relationship.
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