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, April 23, 2010
at 8:00 P.M.
THE BROKEN SELF: INJURED STATES IN THE
TRANSFERENCE/COUNTERTRANSFERENCE MATRIX
Presenter: Barbara Reichenthal, L.C.S.W.
Themes of injury and injuredness reverberate throughout the treatment of patients categorized as having disorders of the self. This paper explores aspects of the various identifications that this type of patient may make with a clinician who is visibly physically handicapped from the outset of treatment. Using case material, the presenter explores how these identifications serve to externalize and “look at” a sense of “invisible” internal psychic impairment, shed “defective” introjects, and attempt to preserve a faltering self. Clinical vignettes describe how the themes of injury and defectiveness resonate throughout the transference/countertransference matrix, leading either to a working-through of the injured state or to the disabling of the treatment itself. Particular attention is paid to clinical examples of patients who reveal during treatment that they were reared by a physically handicapped parent–a population described by Lussier as especially vulnerable to disintegrative or castration anxiety. Implications for use of the able-bodied clinician by such patients are also considered, as well as the use of the clinician’s “injuredness” by those who are less primitively-organized.
Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW is a graduate of The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’s Adult Program where she held the Judith Grad Psychotherapy Study Fellowship. She is a Faculty Member and Supervisor in MITPP’s Adult Program and the Clinical Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, and is a Member of the MITPP Board of Trustees and of the MITPP Program Committee. Ms. Reichenthal is President of The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.
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 * Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP *
Debra Gill, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD
Ivy Vale, BFA * Rosemarie Verderame, LMSW
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