In this paper, Dr. D. Bradley Jones demonstrates how a harm reduction sensibility coupled with a self-psychological approach can set the stage for patients to enter a mutative conversation that helps deepen their understanding of themselves and their substance use. While helping a patient explore the self-regulatory and symbolic functionality of his substance use, Bradley also demonstrates how a new reparative emotional experience can help reduce harm and facilitate change over a period of time. He discusses how substance use is often an attempt to quell emotional pain stemming from previous selfobject failure that often reenacts the original trauma as the patient seeks to repair it.  Harry Paul will give a discussion of Bradley’s paper, after which we’ll open the discussion to all attendees.

 

Two Continuing Education Credits for NYS social workers, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and LMHCs.
 
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Bradley Jones

Bradley Jones

D. Bradley Jones, PsyD, LCSW is a graduate of two psychoanalytic institutes: The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) in NYC, and The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP/LA) in Los Angeles, CA. He is a Supervising Training Analyst and faculty at both institutes, and enjoys promoting the IPSS Explorations! series. In private practice for over 35 years now, Bradley has a special interest in working with substance use and mis-use, and people in the performing arts, and those people interested in alternative sexuality. He has published articles found in the journal Self, Context, and Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Harry Paul

Harry Paul

Harry Paul, PhD was a founding member, past president, faculty and supervising and training analyst at the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology and current founding member and faculty at The Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology. He is the co editor and contributor with George Hagman and Peter Zimmermann of Intersubjective Self Psychology published by Routledge in 2019. He is the co-author of The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland, 2006, and he has authored papers on intersubjectivity and addiction. He is in private practice in New York City and in Chappaqua New York.

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