NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:ACADEMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 8:30 – 10 p.m., $10 Donation
Another Kind of Evidence: Innovative Perspectives on Concepts Familiar to the Practicing Analyst
Marvin Hurvich, Rhonda Ward & Jamieson Webster
Another Kind of Evidence: Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process (Karnac, 2011), authored by Norbert Freedman, Marvin Hurvich and Rhonda Ward with Jessie Geller and Joan Hoffenberg, describes a decade of conceptual and process research within the IPTAR Program of Empirical Research Studies. Presented in three parts, Another Kind of Evidence provides innovative perspectives on concepts familiar to the practicing analyst.
In Part I, the authors report how, after termination of treatment, the patient thinks about, remembers, and takes on within themselves and plays out the relationship with their analyst. In Part II, the authors report how traumatic moments in a patient’s life are observed in both short and long term psychoanalytic therapy during “nodal” moments in the transference. The authors introduce a “propositional method” which allows the analyst to organize clinical observations systematically in order to make inferences about the nature of what is happening in the psychoanalysis. In Part III, the authors examine a sequence of 25 sessions from a recorded psychoanalysis and discuss how symbolization evolves and leads to “working through”. They view symbolization as a synthesizing of the forces involved in the interplay between what goes on in the mind of the patient and what goes on within the relationship between the patient and the analyst.
Students, academics and clinical professionals in the analytic community are encouraged to attend. Members of the public are also welcome.
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This evening is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Norbert Freedman, a beloved senior colleague, who was the moving force for the research activities at IPTAR as well as at many other institutions.
Marvin Hurvich is Professor of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn Center. He is on the Faculty, and a Training & Supervisory Psychoanalyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the Post-Doctoral Program at NYU and the Contemporary Freudian Society. He is a member of the IPA Clinical Observation Group, and on the PDM Task Force. He has over 40 publications, the most recent being as a collaborator in Another Kind of Evidence, and the author of a chapter on new developments in the theory and clinical application of the annihilation anxiety concept in the 2011 book, A New Freudian Synthesis, edited by Andrew Druck, Carolyn Ellman, Norbert Freedman and Aaron Thaler.
Rhonda Ward is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She is faculty member at the IPTAR Respecialization Program, Research Associate at IPTAR’s Program of Empirical Research Studies, and is Associate Adjunct Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work. She is a co-author of Another Kind of Evidence and co-author with Norbert Freedman and Richard Lasky of The Upward Slope: a Study of Psychoanalytic Transformations (Psychoanal. Q. 78:1).
Jamieson Webster is on the faculty at Eugene Lang College of The New School, teaches in the extension program of NYPSI and at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is also a supervisor at City University’s doctoral program in clinical psychology. She is a co-author of several chapters in Another Kind of Evidence, and author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation (Karnac, 2011). The Hamlet Doctrine, written with Simon Critchley, is forthcoming from Random House.
Educational Objectives: Participants will be able to
1. Understand how the propositional method is utilized
2. Understand how, after termination, a patient views retrospectively aspects of the analysis
3. Understand the notion of “progressive symbolization” as a frame for ‘working through’.
Information regarding CME credit for psychiatrists:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. NYPSI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. APA-approved CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Attendance is monitored. It is the responsibility of participants seeking APA-approved CE credits to comply with these requirements.
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Persons with disabilities: This building is wheelchair accessible.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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