In this presentation, Laura D’Angelo describes how a long-term treatment breaks down. The pandemic, polarizing politics and a mass exodus from the city force the analytic couple onto cellphones where the treatment languishes on life support. Two disembodied voices grope but cannot find one another, recreating rigid traumatized states and defenses against them. D’Angelo asks how do we reconstruct a generative transference in a world that seems to reflect so much turmoil and so little hope? Michael McGarry will discuss the case and then open the discussion to all.
 
Two Continuing Education Credits for NYS social workers, psychoanalysts, and psychologists.
Laura D'Angelo

Laura D'Angelo

New York-based psychoanalyst Laura D’Angelo has been sitting with hundreds of men, women and non-binary patients for more than a decade. She is a clinical supervisor and on the faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City. Her theological training from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, gives her a unique voice in a field that has historically disparaged the spiritual aspect of psychoanalysis. Before becoming a psychoanalyst, D’Angelo worked as an award-winning journalist with credits in newspapers, magazines and academic journals. She is a contributing author of the 2019 book, Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer.

Michael McGarry

Michael McGarry

Michael McGarry is a psychoanalyst in private practice in the Financial District in New York City. He is a graduate of TRISP and a member of its faculty. He is also the co-founder of the therapy startup Atlas. He specializes in working with adults and couples.