Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning with Howard B. Levine and Gail S. Read at NYPSI

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Thursday, March 27, 2014, 8:15 pm
an informal discussion with the authors of Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning

Drs. Howard B. Levine and Gail S. Reed will discuss their recent and acclaimed book written and edited in collaboration with Dominique Scarfone.

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For an increasing number of analysts, the therapeutic task of psychoanalysis has gradually widened in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen to require patient and analyst to work together to strengthen, or create psychic structure that was weak, missing, or functionally inoperative. This approach, especially relevant to the treatment of non-neurotic patients and states of mind, stands in stark contrast to more traditional assumptions that the therapeutic task involves the uncovering of the unconscious dimension of a present pathological compromise formation.

Focusing on clinical material at a level of psychic functioning “beyond the pleasure principal,” one more closely associated with pre-verbal and/or massive psychic trauma and primitive mental states, this book explores the shift from working with a mental universe of presences, forgotten, hidden, or disguised, but there for the finding, to a negative universe of voids, where creation of missing structure, most specifically of representations, becomes part of the cure.

Participants:

Howard B. Levine, M.D. is a member of the faculty and a supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, a member of the Psychoanalytic institute of New England East (PINE) and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. A Founding Member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Process (GSPP) and the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies, he currently serves as the North American Representative to the Board of the IPA. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters related to psychoanalytic process and technique, intersubjectivity, comparative psychoanalytic studies, the treatment of primitive personality disorders, and studies of the consequences and treatment of early trauma . He is the Editor of Adult Analysis and Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Co-Editor (among other books) of Turbulence in the Container/Contained.

Gail S. Reed, Ph.D. is an Honorary Member of NYPSI, a training and supervisory analyst and faculty member of The Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, The Contemporary Freudian Society and NPAP. Author of two previous books and many articles on technique comparative psychoanalytic studies and other subjects, she is currently President and a Founding Member of the Group for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Process (GSPP), Associate Editor for Foreign Books of JAPA and on the Editorial Board of JAPA, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Students, academics and clinical professionals in the analytic community are encouraged to attend. Members of the general public are also welcome.