• Location: Virtual

• Source: William Alanson White Institute

Although Freud doubted that psychotic patients could benefit from psychoanalysis, he acknowledged that “suitable changes” in his method might “succeed in overcoming this contra indication.” From a variety of perspectives, the four speakers in this conversation explore how a focus on the embodiment of madness represents a change in method that has brought about remarkable advances in the field.

• Location: Virtual

• Source: Newport Psychoanalytic Institute

Attendees will explore Philip Bromberg’s paper, “Treating Patients with Symptoms- and Symptoms with Patience: Reflections on Shame, Dissociation, and Eating Disorders”. Bromberg’s theory is that the therapist’s task is to allow themselves to slowly discover the patient’s multiplicity of self-states and the existing gap between the states.

• Location: Virtual

• Source: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

In this lecture, Judith A. Yanof will be addressing the topic of identifying childhood trauma. Recognizing childhood trauma can be particularly difficult when it is not a known part of the patient’s history. Often childhood trauma and the aftereffect of dissociation are not recognized in adults, and, as it turns out, more often, not recognized in children. 

Location: Virtual

Source: Gestalt Therapy Institute Los Angeles

We are thrilled to invite you to join us on this rare opportunity! Lynne Jacobs, Gary Yontef and Rich Hycner are worldwide recognized for advocating the importance of emphasizing relationality and dialogue as part of Gestalt Therapy’s principles.

• Location: Virtual

• Source: Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

Wilfred Bion produced original psychoanalytic theories and insights.  His ideas are rooted in classical analytic theory while being distinctly discontinuous from it.  The discontinuity, I conjecture, came from his contact with an Indian ayah (nursemaid) during the first nine years of his life when he lived in Mathura, India. The unconscious is both dynamic/private and cultural/social.