Jamieson Webster Ph. D.
Jamieson Webster is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York where she works with children, adolescents, and adults. A graduate of IPTAR, she teaches at Eugene Lang College, as well as, supervising graduate students through City University’s doctoral program in clinical psychology. She has written for Apology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Playboy, The New York Times, as well as, for many psychoanalytic publications. The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis is published with Karnac (2011). Stay, Illusion!- written with Simon Critchley- is published with Pantheon Books (2013). She is currently working on The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan, and a new book, Conversion Disorder.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
1. Understand the situation of psychoanalysis in the mid 1950s and the problems that beset questions of psychoanalytic technique.
2. Delineate how one thinks of what is standard in treatment and then what might constitute a variation, including how these are often confused with power in institutes and training, as opposed to, what is necessary in a clinical situation
3. Understand some of the clinical implications of Lacan’s thinking, especially in his reading of the Rat Man case and the place of interpretation in a psychoanalytic treatment.
Teaching Method: Lecture and Discussion.
This program is open to all. Lacan’s paper is attached.
Social Workers: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Inc. (IPTAR) 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 #0226. ( 2 ) CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered , have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements. CE Administrative Fee:$15.00 payable at the event.