THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 www.aipnyc.org aipkh@aol.com
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The year we celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Karen Horney’s Birth
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg:
PLAY’S MAGIC AND PLAY’S LIMITS:
On Laughter and Transformation and on the Power
of going through “the eye of the storm”
In many instances playfulness and laughter can be powerful tools in the analytic context that can cut through to the quick in very difficult moments. They become “meta” tools that open onto a new and broader perspective and can initiate a different level of discourse, experience and engagement. For some they can also open a creative dimension of experience and new awareness of potential possibilities for experiencing “fun” and pleasure, which can be a healing and transforming revelation. Yet playfulness and laughter can also be used defensively and as ways of avoiding connection, a means of closing off access to self as well as other. Playfulness and laughter can also be manipulative and seductive, or can become aggressive, sarcastic, sadistic, or be meant to confuse, hurt, denigrate, shame or demean, or a medium for potentially sadomasochistic or other toxic kinds of enactment. Deconstructing how analyst and patient become entangled in such ways – from inside the experience in all its affective complexity in a moment-by-moment way – then can become the heart of the work. In such instances a willingness on the part of both to “go through the eye of the storm” can provide an opportunity to discover, in real time, and in an experientially immediate and emotionally alive way, that both participants and the relationship can not only survive, but also can grow in important ways through such a collaborative process. The “new” and emotionally significant experience that is thus generated can open the way for a necessary and important process of mourning. Working like this in a sensitive way, at what I call the “intimate edge” of the relationship, when appropriate, can facilitate unique possibilities of therapeutic action.
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Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, ABPP, is author of THE INTIMATE EDGE: Extending The Reach Of Psychoanalytic Interaction (W. W. Norton & Co. Inc, 1992). She is in private practice in New York City, and is a Training and Supervising Analyst, and on the teaching Faculty, at the William Alanson White Institute; Supervising Analyst and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Mitchell Center for Psychoanalysis, as well as other institutes. Dr. Ehrenberg is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and on the Advisory Board of IARPP (International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). She is currently working on two new books, one on intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the other focusing on issues of desire and therapeutic action.
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Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD
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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS PROGRAM OF THE AIP
2010-2011
Date & Time: Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Topic: INSIDE THE REVOLUTION: POWER, SEX, AND
TECHNIQUE IN FREUD’S “WILD” ANALYSIS
Presenter: Muriel Dimen, PhD
Date & Time: Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Topic: TRANS: GENDER IN FREE FALL
Presenter: Virginia Goldner, PhD
FUTURE EVENTS:
Date & Time: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: PLAYS’ MAGIC AND PLAY’S LIMITS:
On Laughter and Transformation
Presenter: Darlene Ehrenberg, PhD
Date & Time: Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: SHIFTING SEXUAL CULTURES AND THE PROBLEM
AND PROMISE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEALS
Presenter: Ken Corbett, PhD
Date & Time: Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Presenter: Jodi Davies, PhD