In presenting for discussion the case of an emotionally volatile and suicidal patient, I am interested in exploring the complex process of defining and pursuing one’s dreams/desires within an intersubjective self psychological therapeutic treatment. In particular, I want to explore sexual development and the desire to love another; and work ambitions and...
Read MoreThe Creative Couple: Enhancing the Creative Potential of Self Psychological Therapy – March 6th, 2015
My workshop “The Creative Couple: Enhancing the Creative Potential of Self Psychological Therapy” highlights the intersubjective engagement of analyst and patient, which leads to creative change. Psychoanalytic therapy in my view is an art form, similar to painting, composing, choreography, etc. Much of past psychoanalytic thinking about art is...
Read MoreWhat is Intersubjective Self Psychology? Come to our September 19th, 2014 workshop to find out
What is intersubjective self psychology? At TRISP – Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology – we have always combined the best of Self Psychology with the best of Intersubjectivity Theory. The result is that we offer training and continuing education in a highly effective and directly clinical theory of treatment. How is our theory...
Read MoreLooking for Participants for A Study of the Long-Term Effects of Wide-Scale Traumatic Events
Koichi Togashi – founder of the Japanese Forum for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a psychoanalyst trained at TRISP – and I share an interest in finding out about the long-term effects and meanings of traumatic events. We are working together to understand how people who were traumatized by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Read MoreMourning and Melancholia – A Self Psychological Dialogue – June 13, 2014
This workshop will focus on the conceptualization of mourning and melancholia (or depression) and what accounts for the differences between the two, a topic that Freud had addressed in his seminal 1915 paper “Mourning and Melancholia”. George Hagman and Peter Zimmermann tackle this question from the perspective of intersubjective self...
Read MoreIf Freud Were a Woman – March 14, 2014
I’m very pleased to let you know that on March 14, 2014, I’ll be presenting a TRISP workshop that I’m calling, “If Freud Were a Woman: Gender, Trauma, and the Ethics of Care. “ I’ll ask participants to join me in a thought experiment that imagines how psychoanalysis would have been different if Freud had been born a woman. Carol Gilligan, a feminist...
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