TRAINING ANALYSIS: LESSONS FROM THE PAST NOT TO BE IGNORED
Professor Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D.
Deakin University, Melbourne
Author of Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Instittutes, Jason Aronson, 2009
IPTAR WEST 140 West 97th Street New York, New York
Saturday November 9th
9:30 coffee and registration 10:00 -12:00 Program
Audience Discussion and Debate Welcomed
Dr. Kirsner writes: “Otto Kernberg has recently described the ‘twilight of the training analyst system’, which has been historically a shibboleth of psychoanalytic education and institutions. Why has a paranoiagenic system, played such a central quasi-mystical role in the identity of being a psychoanalyst way beyond any explicit function? In Unfree Associations I describe the process of ‘anointment’ of training analysts as akin to the Biblical laying on of psychoanalytic hands. I chronicle the pivotal role played by anointment in the political histories of psychoanalytic institutes in the United States. In this lecture I will discuss the history of the role and function of the training analysis and how crucial lessons from the past can help to solve problems today and help psychoanalysis to flourish.”
Douglas Kirsner, Ph. D., holds a personal chair in Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies at DeakinUniversity, Melbourne. Professor Kirsner’s publications include ‘Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes”, “The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Sartre and RD Laing”, edited collections and numerous articles in psychoanalytic journals. He lectures widely at psychoanalytic institutes and associations. He is Associate Editor of The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Organisation and Social Dynamics and editorial advisor to Psychoanalysis and History.
Program Chair: President:
Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D. Fredric Perlman, Ph.D.
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