Dear Colleagues,
We invite those who are attending the above meetings to our Discussion Group # 108: Towards and Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness
This group will explore loneliness as it appears in clinical work. Dr. Arthur Lynch will present his psychoanalytic work with an adult male patient who defensively avoided intimate connections. This case highlights the relationship between trauma and loneliness. The focus will be on the mid-phase of treatment and will include a summary of the patient’s history and the early phase of treatment.
The group should be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who treat lonely and/orsocially isolated patients. Before the presentation, there will be a brief presentation on how we understand the overall topic.
After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) List how loneliness differs from depression and solitude and how it manifests outside of the clinical situation; 2. Consider how psychoanalysis helps a patient to understand defensive avoidance as it contributes to loneliness and, at times, destructive behaviors.
Co-Chairs:
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.
Lucille Spira, Ph.D./LCSW
Presenter: Arthur A. Lynch, PhD, Pesident of American Insitute for Psychoanalysis, Senior Faculty member, Training and Supervising Analyst at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Head of training Chinese American Psychoanalysis at Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Tongji Medical School, Wuhan, China. Director of training at the Horney Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program, in Guangzhou, China. Author and co-author numerous articles on psychoanalysis. Co-Editor “Encounters with Loneliness, Only the Lonely” (with Arlene K Richards and Lucille Spira, 2013; Winner of the Gradiva Award for Anthologies – 2014); Editor: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations. The selected papers of Arnold D. Richards, M.D., Volume I., (New York: I.P. Books; The Rapaport – Holt Correspondence. Arthur A. Lynch, (Editor) I.P. Books
Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017
Time: 7-9 PM.