Understanding the Loss of Understanding Between Couples One-Session Program (2 Contact Hours)”
Instructor: Monica Vorchheimer
Date: Sunday, January 31, 2016
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Upper West Side TBA
This paper focuses on the couple as a psychoanalytic object; conjectures emerge from the observation of Psychoanalysis with couples in a joint setting and aims to enlighten the difficulty couples have when speaking and understanding each other. I will explore what happens when they lose their capacity to make themselves understandable and to understand their partner and why this difficulty is often felt as deceiving and even catastrophic. The discontent brought about by the lack of understanding presupposes the belief that there existed a time – which they place in real events of the past – where full understanding existed. The author suggests that the idea of having had full understanding is illusory and that it is the effect of the narcissistic foundation of every couple. This original narcissistic myth provides the link with a representation that is supposed to be shared between the partners and lends to the feeling of identity of the link, the sense of an “us”, the feeling of “belonging”. Suffering or having conflicts is the evidence of the loss – or the threat of loss – of their identity as a couple. The author suggests that couples have a need of representing the couple as a concrete and not fleeting experience and discontent arises as the consequence of the disillusion of the illusion which was supposed as shared.
Monica Vorchheimer is a training analyst and supervisor at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APdeBA) in Argentina, a full member of the IPA, a member of the European Federation of Psychotherapy (FEAP) and an Honorary Member of AAPPIPNA (Spain). She is also a member of the IPA Working Group on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She is a professor at the University Institute of Mental Health in Argentina, and at the Argentine Post-Graduate School of Psychotherapy Association (AEAPG). She has been awarded the Bleger Prize (1998) and Storni Prize (2001) by the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, the Liberman Prize (1999) by the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Associaation. She has extensive experience treating adult and adolescent patients, families and couples. She has published various papers in Argentina and in Spain, where she has worked as a psychoanalyst, supervisor, and presenter.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
- Describe the link between narcissism and understanding within couples.
- Discuss clinical examples that provide evidence of the existence of a narcissistic foundation in the couple.
- Identify different sources for misunderstandings within couples.
- Continuing Education Contact Hours:
Social Workers: 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. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form. No partial credits will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
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.
Professional Counselors: The Boards of Professional Counselors in the District of Columbia and Virginia will accept continuing education credits for Counselors attending a program offered by an APA-authorized sponsor, provided they comply with the requirements stated above for psychologists. The Board of Professional Counselors in Maryland will accept CE credits granted by a program that is recognized by the Maryland Board of Examiners for Psychologists and Social Workers.
Program Fee:
$50 CFS Members and Associate Members
$60 Non-CFS Members
$20 Candidates and Students with Valid ID
No Refunds
If you have any questions, please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com or 212-752-7883.
NY CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
Vivian Eskin, PhD, Chair
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