The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, April 20, 2012 at 8:00 P.M.
NEGATIVE TRANSFERENCE IN THE ANALYSIS OF A TRAUMATIZED GIRL Presenter: David Pollens, Ph.D.
This presentation recounts the clinical process of a four-year-long analytic treatment of a traumatized school-age girl. The description of the clinical process focuses on the vicissitudes of the transference and the salience of negative transference in the treatment. Various meanings and the defensive and therapeutic roles of the negative transference in the treatment are discussed, along with the way it was handled clinically and the intermittent emergence of positive transference feelings. Special note is made of the successful alleviation of many of the child’s difficulties in a treatment in which a negative transference predominated.
David Pollens, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the Adult and Child and Adolescent Analytic Training Programs of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is also Assistant Director of the Treatment Center. He has provided plenary presentations at two annual meetings of The Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Before becoming a psychoanalyst, Dr. Pollens ran a therapeutic nursery for emotionally disturbed preschool-aged children at The University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ for over a decade.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021
For further information: email mitppnyc@aol.com, visit www.MITPP.org or phone (212) 496-2858
Program Committee: Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LMSW, Co-Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW *
Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW * Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA
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