Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment
A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia (PART 1)
One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Presenters: Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC) and Heinz Weiss, MD (Germany)
Date: Friday, February 10, 2017
Time: 7:30-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St, NYC
This “dialogue” addresses the Kleinian theory of primitive object relations as defined by Henri Rey, Herbert Rosenfeld and John Steiner’s ideas about Melanie Klein’s “holes in the mind.” The concepts of marsupial space, psychotic islands, and psychic retreats are “places” inside the mind and body that narcissistic, schizoid, psychosomatic and borderline patients psychically hide in order to avoid the pain of the separateness and togetherness. In this program we will explore the theory of inner object relations and how pathology manifests in primitive personalities.
Finkelstein and Weiss will dialogue with each other about different aspects of the Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma inclusive of respective clinical vignettes. Active audience participation is encouraged.
Prof. Heinz Weiss is the head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, and one of the Directors of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt, Germany. He was a visiting scientist at the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London, and is teaching at the University of Tübingen. In his publications and books he has dealt extensively with the concepts of contemporary Kleinian analysts, especially with pathological organizations of the personality, the concepts of time and space in borderline pathology, projective identification and countertransference and the resulting technical problems.
Susan Finkelstein, LCSW is a member of the faculty of The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Contemporary Freudian Society where she is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at their Training Institute. She is in private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and couple therapy in New York City. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The IPA. She is the director of Understanding Primitive Mental States in NYC, where she coordinates programs that study the nature of primitive anxieties. She teaches about the impact of anxiety and unprocessed aggression on psychic structure. She has studied and presented on psychosomatic conditions, schizoid phenomena, borderline and claustro-agoraphobic psychic spaces.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
Define the concepts of claustro-agoraphobic dilemmas and their defenses in borderline, schizoid, psychosomatic and narcissistic patients.
Recognize defenses in patients centered around this dilemma to avoid experiencing awareness and anxiety.
Explain the transference and counter-transference dilemmas that cause impasses in the treatment to claustro-agoraphobic anxieties so that possible alternative structures can be worked through in the patient-therapist dyad.
Continuing Education Contact Hours:
Social Workers: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society 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 2.5 CE credits.
Psychoanalysts: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021. 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 2.5 CE credits.
Who Should Attend:
The instructional level for this activity is advanced. Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g. LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Important Disclosure Information:
None of the planners and presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Program Fee:
CFS Members and Non-Members: $85.00
Candidates and Students: $25.00
No Refunds
Kleinian Clinical Case Conference (PART 2)
One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Clinical Consultant: Heinz Weiss, MD (GERMANY)
Case Presenter: Debra Neumann, PhD (Washington, DC)
Moderator: Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC)
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2017
Time: 10:00am-12:30pm
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St, NYC
This clinical component of the Claustro-Agoraphobic Delimma Conference follows a “Klein-Bion Tavistock clinical format”. Through the understanding of the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma, the analyst uses his countertransference to understand what is being said or enacted in the room, in the moment by moment shifts with the patient. By interpreting the primitive anxieties and their function, links to thinking can be made within the “analytic couple”, to facilitate psychic development and integration in the patient. This understanding can be helpful to avoid impasses in the treatment. Clinical material will be presented with “line by line” details and discussion of the “here and now” encounter between the patient and analyst.
Dr. Weiss is an expert in psychosomatic borderline disorders in Germany. Susan Finkelstein has expertise in primitive states of mind. Each of them share a passion for Henry Rey, Herbert Rosenfeld and Melanie Klein.
Debra Neumann, PhD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society, and chair of the DC Professional Development Program Committee and the Multicultural Diversity Committee. She is also a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and of Division 39 “Psychoanalysis” of the American Psychological Association. Debra has a private practice in the Friendship Heights area of metropolitan Washington DC.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
Define the “here and now” Kleinian technique of working with patients experiencing claustro-agoraphobic anxieties.
Recognize defenses in patients centered around this dilemma to avoid experiencing awareness and anxiety.
Explain the transference and counter-transference dilemmas that cause impasses in the treatment to claustro-agoraphobic anxieties so that possible alternative structures can be worked through in the patient-therapist dyad.
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 2.5 CE credits.
Psychoanalysts: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021. 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 2.5 CE credits.
Program Fee:
CFS Members and Non-Members: $75.00
Candidates and Students: $20.00
No Refunds
If you have any questions, please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com or 212-752-7883.
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Vivian Eskin, PhD, Chair
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