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 Meetinga
Friday, February 4, 2011
at 8:00 P.M.
On Schizoid States and Their Mechanisms
Presenter: M. Nasir Ilahi, LL.M.
Schizoid phenomena and states have been studied by a number of authors following Fairbairn’s recognition of the early processes that split the ego. The term “schizoid” is used in the tradition of writers in the British object relations and Kleinian traditions to draw attention to mental states where there is a predominance of splitting. While this trait can be found in a wide variety of patients showing a borderline personality organization, there is a type of patient who is particularly out of contact with himself and his objects. The British analyst, Henri Rey, who has made an important study of such states and modes of being, described the concretely spatial ways in which such patients experience their mental structure and the location of their selves within this structure, and how this is intimately linked with removing feelings, which for them are dangerous and persecuting. Clinical material from different patients will be presented to illustrate selected aspects of these phenomena and some of the factors involved if the unconscious anxieties associated with paralyzed affectivity are to be worked through and symbolic development to be resumed.
M. Nasir Ilahi, LL.M. is a practicing psychoanalyst and Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at New York University Medical School. He is a Faculty member of The Psychoanalytic Institute affiliated with NYU Medical School, an Honorary Member of The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Graduate and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Faculty member of Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, and a Board Certified member of The American Psychoanalytic Association. He is an author and lecturer on clinical psychoanalysis with a focus on primitive mental states and cross- cultural issues.
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, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LMSW, Co-Chair * *Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP * Debra Gill, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW *
Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA *
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