27 RUE DE FLEURUS, A SALON MEETING
OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
“Michael Balint and The Basic Fault”
Jay Frankel
Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 8:00 to 10:00pm, Location: TBA
Michael Bálint, Ferenczi=s patient, student, and eventually literary executor, developed and extended Ferenczi=s conceptions in his own particular ways, and was an important link between the ABudapest School@ of the early twentieth century and later British object-relations thinkers. He extended Ferenczi=s insights about trauma and the Atwo-person@ idea of clinical psychoanalysis, continued Ferenczi=s legacy of a liberal psychoanalysis, pioneered psychoanalytic work with psychosomatic patients, and developed a method of mentoring general practitioners in psychological aspects of medical practice. Most notably, Bálint=s 1968 book, The Basic Fault, pulls together much of his earlier work and remains a landmark in understanding the causes, dynamics, and treatment of narcissistically disturbed patients. We will focus on that work in terms of Bálint=s explorations of the child=s developmental needs and relation to her environment; the nature of trauma and of narcissism; the implications of this understanding for analytic technique; and especially the clinical importance, dangers, and optimal clinical management of regression.
Jay Frankel is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a faculty member at IPTAR; a Professor in the Master’s program in Critical Theory and the Arts, at the School of Visual Arts; an Associate Editor (and formerly Executive Editor) for the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues; the author of two dozen journal articles and book chapters, and numerous conference and colloquium presentations, on topics including trauma, identification, play, the analytic relationship, and the work of Sándor Ferenczi, and co-author of the book Relational Child Psychotherapy (2002, Other Press).
Readings:
Balint’s The Basic Fault, Chapters 4 (pp.18-23), 12 (pp.64-72), 14 (pp.79-91) 22 (pp.138-148), 24 (pp.159-172)
Program Fee: $20.00
Nancy Cromer Grayson and Debra Gill, Co-Chairs, Susan N. Finkelstein, Moderator
For additional information, please contact Debra Gill (debra.gill@gmail.com) or Nancy Cromer-Grayson (cromergrayson@gmail.com).
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