Envy: Why We Feel it and How to Work with it in Treatment with Carolyn Ellman at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

ENVY: WHY WE FEEL IT AND HOW TO WORK WITH IT IN TREATMENT
Saturday, May 19, 2012 ,  Presenter: Carolyn Ellman, Ph.D.

While ALL societies and some psychoanalysts consider envy basic to human emotions, it is surprising how confusing the development of envy is in psychoanalytic theory.  Klein and Bion thought it was a basic instinct related to the destructive drive; Freud wrote mainly about penis envy which puts it much later than the first year of life. He clearly also believed boys envied their mother’s capacity to have babies (even though he didn’t highlight this fact in his theory) but this also occurred after children were able to begin to recognize sexual differences.  Other writers thinking about envy have tried to study the first manifestations of envy during the separation-individuation sub-phases (especially starting around 18 months of age). When envy starts is up for debate but that it exists is not. Dr. Ellman will look at the types of fantasies that relate to envious feelings and argue for the universality of envy and how early precursors during the first year of life affect development. She will try to show how for many people when they disown desire they are more likely to have severe problems with envy. She will try to show how envy shows itself across the life cycle and particularly how powerful it is between a mother and daughter. Case examples will highlight how difficult it is to change feelings of destructive envy since they seem to affect the whole sense of self (intellectually, emotionally and even one’s body ego). The group will focus on the different types of envy to show how envy can sometimes be just a painful feeling that is fleeting (from a narcissistic wound) and other times, depending on one’s early development, is more destructive and entrenched. Hopefully, the workshop will also explore how we all experience envy and what makes it tolerable.

Carolyn Ellman, Ph.D. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program.  Training and Supervising Analyst: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; New York Freudian Society.  Faculty and Supervising Analyst: New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Supervisor: City College Clinical Psychology Program.  Member: International Psychoanalytical Association; Psychoanalytic Society of New York University Postdoctoral Program; American Psychological Association. Senior Author: The Modern Freudians (1998) and Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self.  Co-Editor (with Andy Druck, Aaron Thaler and Bert Freedman) A New Freudian Synthesis.  Dr. Ellman has written several articles on Envy including The Empty Mother: Women’s Fear of Their Destructive Envy (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2000).

TIME: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Breakfast at 9:30 AM

LOCATION: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, 1090 St. Nicholas Avenue (located on West 165th Street
between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues, downstairs level next to Church Santa Rosa de Lima)

FEE:           $50 includes breakfast (no fee to MCMH staff)
                  $30 Student Fee (includes breakfast), with proof of student status
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