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, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.

Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11    

Presenter: Debra Gill, L.C.S.W.
Discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.     

Selected vignettes from the treatment of two very different patients, both practicing Muslims, will illustrate countertransference dilemmas for the therapist when she is confronted with unconscious fantasy material developed in the context of social and psychological oppression. While both patients endured various forms of cruelty and domination throughout their lives, each managed to live with the resulting internalized burdens until about one year after September 11th. Unconscious terrors resulting in rageful acting out led both of these patients to psychotherapy.  The analysis of unmanageable affects and impulses allowed unconscious experiences of oppressed rage to enter the transference leaving the therapist in paralyzing countertransference states that closely mirrored the patients’ oppression.

DEBRA GILL, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of MITPP’s Adult Program, and is a graduate and member of the New York Freudian Society.  She is on the Faculty and is a Supervisor at MITPP, and is a member of MSPP.  She is a member of the MSPP Program Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty member of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Supervisor in the Psychology Intern Program at the Karen Horney Clinic and in the New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program.

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