27 Rue de Fleurus, a Salon Meeting
From Fantasy to Phantasy: The Here and Now and the Total Transference
One-Session Program (2 Contact Hours)
Instructor: Abbot A. Bronstein, PhD
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Upper West Side TBA
This presentation will discuss the evolution and shifts in the concept of phantasy and transference in my clinical and theoretical thinking about psychoanalysis. The manner in which phantasy emerges into the here and now of the consulting room and becomes alive in the transference, has become a central aspect of psychoanalytic thinking as to how psychic change occurs. Within the ever shifting internal world of the patient the psychoanalytic “data’’ brought via thoughts, dreams, associations into the transference relationship within the psychoanalyst’s consulting room gives rise to the selected facts of the analytic process.
The movement from fantasy as described by Arlow and Abend to phantasy, thru the work of Klein, Meltzer, Segal, Spillius, and Joseph constitutes for some a dramatically different approach to the unconscious elements that are part of the psychoanalytic dialogue.
Listening and working in the here and now differs markedly among our psychoanalytic schools of thought. The role of unconscious phantasy as central to the transference interpretations in the here and now will be discussed. How this evolution in my own psychoanalytic practice has evolved from my early training with Interpersonal psychoanalysts (Wolstein) and Ego psychologist-analysts (Arlow, Silverman, Wallerstein, Weinshel, Calef) to the work with the Contemporary Kleinians in the last 25 years (Meltzer, Segal, Spillius and Joseph) will be discussed.
Abbot A. Bronstein, PhD is a Psychoanalyst in San Francisco. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Editor of the Analyst at Work Section of the IJP. He is the chair of IPA North America Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party Groups. He is a training and Supervising Analyst in the IPA. He was the past president of the San Francisco Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies ( a provisional IPA Institute) and a member and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (formerly the San Fransicso Institute of Psychoanalysis). He has published and written papers and presented nationally and internationally. Most recently he has published “ The Analyst’s Work” in the IJP and “Mrs. Klein, the contemporary Kleinians and the drives: are they what drive the theory and clinical work”, in the Journal of Contemporary psychoanalysis. His latest paper coauthored with Marie Rudden titled “Transference, Relationship and the Analyst as Object: Qualitative Findings from the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party” will be published in the IJP in 2015.
Other papers include “Fetish, Transitional Object and Illusion”, “Grievance and Change”, (invited presentation in London at the UCL conference in honor of Betty Joseph) and “Dreams anal masturbation and primal scene: patients who already know” at a meeting honoring Don Meltzer’s contribution to Psychoanalysis in Seattle.
He has worked closely with the British Contemporary Kleinian analytic group in London in particular Betty Joseph, Donald Meltzer, Elizabeth Spillius, Hanna Segal ,Michael Feldman and John Steiner over the last 25 years.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
Discuss how phantasy impacts transference.
Identify the psychoanalytic data that impacts transference.
Identify how transference can be recognized in the here and now.
Apply the concepts of phantasy and transference to their clinical work with patients.
Continuing Education Contact Hours:
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087. Contact Hours are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking Contact Hours to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 Contact Hours.
Psychologists: The Contemporary Freudian Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Contemporary Freudian Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
Social Workers: The Social Work Boards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia will grant continuing education credits to social workers attending a program offered by an APA authorized sponsor, provided they comply with the requirements stated above for Psychologists.
Who Should Attend: Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, pastoral counselors) with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications. The instructional level of the program is advanced.
Nancy Cromer Grayson and Debra Gill, Program Co-Chairs
Susan N. Finkelstein, Program Moderator
Program Fee: $35
Seating is limited. No refunds
If you have any questions, please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com or 212-752-7883.
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