Reception and Paper
“Transference and the Relationship in North American Psychoanalysis”
by Marie Rudden and Abbot Bronstein
Wine and Cheese followed by a Presentation of findings from research of the North American Clinical Methods Working Party
Reception at 6:30 p.m. and Presentation from 7p.m. – 8 p.m.
Date :Saturday March 8, 2014
Place The Auditorium of NY PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 247 E. 82 St, NY
Dr Rudden will introduce the work of the Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party, briefly describing their ongoing research projects, which explore some central clinical ideas such as how analysts consider unconscious phantasy, understand and work with enactments and with the transference, and attend to the” here and now”.
Dr. Rudden will then present the paper co-authored by herself and Dr. Abbot Bronstein. In the paper, the authors review the literature about the complex intertwining between transference and the relationship in psychoanalytic practice. This interconnection is discussed in three cases that have been presented in Comparative Clinical Methods groups by North American psychoanalysts. The authors consider both the apparent transferences and the nature of the analyst-analysand relationships that characterize each of the three treatment dyads, suggesting the importance of each element in the treatment process.
Dr. Marie Rudden is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell School of Medicine, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Austen Riggs Center. She is co- chair of The North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party, on the Editorial Board of IJP and has written and published in the areas of panic disorder, depression, regressive group processes, fantasies about hidden self states and on reflective functioning and symptom- specific reflective functioning.
Dr. Abbot Bronstein is co- chair of the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party. He developed the Working Party Groups in North America. He is a member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, editor of the Analyst at Work section of the IJP, and a Training and Supervising Analyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association.