The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.
“HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE TO WHAT WE HAD?” AND “HOW DO I FIND HOPE WHEN I CAN’T FACE MY DESPAIR?”
Presenter: Etty Cohen, Ph.D.
Very few adolescents reach a point of mutually agreed upon termination. Termination initiated prematurely by adolescents can be seen as a manifestation of “adolescent revolt” (A. Freud, 1971). Is termination considered premature because of the therapist’s preconception of what constitutes a “complete” therapy? Who needs to have a “complete” termination? Is complete termination possible? Is it possible for traumatized patients? Is it even desirable? Is termination considered premature when the patient is the one who decides to terminate? Dr. Cohen will answer these questions with illustrations from her clinical material relevant to the emergence of enactments by traumatized adolescents and their analyst during termination.
Etty Cohen, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The American Institute for Psychoanalysis of The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, a Faculty Member of The William Alanson White Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Ehrenkranz School of Social Work where she received her doctorate. Dr. Cohen completed psychoanalytic training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. She is on the Editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and the author of Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents, for which she received the 2003 Author’s Recognition Award from PCMH.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021
For further information: (212) 496-2858, email mitppnyc@aol.com or visit www.MITPP.org
Program Committee: Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW, Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW *
Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Patricia Saunders, Ph.D. * Ivy Vale, BFA