Psychoanalysis in a New Key: Treatment paradigms addressing the loss of shared meaning, breakdown in social connection and disruption within the self

Francoise Davoine, Ph.D., Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, Ph.D., Jim Poulton, Ph.D., Esther Rapoport, Ph.D.

Wednesdays 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, September until April

Every day, we engage in complex relationships with our patients.  Each hour is a new dynamic experience in which patients bring their internal and external worlds to intimately engage with ours.  We must be open to new states of mind, mood, emotional need, and experience, while allowing our own revery to inform our analytic understanding. This year the South Bay Study Series will explore contemporary ideas that expand our capacity to listen - promoting greater creativity and a deeper engagement with our patients.  Our esteemed faculty will offer new paradigms for understanding obstacles in our patients’ lives - whether they are unconscious ghosts or stem from current socio-cultural forces that impede the freedom to feel, to experience, or simply to be.

Francoise Davoine, Ph.D., who will be joining from Paris, will examine how the symbolic chain collapses in times of a ruptured society and how to think about creating a new analytic social link for survival.  Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, Ph.D. will join from Vienna to immerse us in the theory of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan.  Her goal is to compare and cross-reference intersubjectivity from a Relational and Lacanian point of view.  We will study the difference between desire-need-demand and jouissance.  Jim Poulton, Ph.D., a couples psychoanalyst from Salt Lake City will guide us through a free-ranging conversation of enigmatic concepts, complex treatment techniques, and a labyrinth of conceptualizations of couple relationships and interactions.  Esther Rapoport, Psy.D, presenting from Toronto, will help us examine queer social spheres. We will discuss how we can help protect against damaging internalizations from a ruthless society while creatively engaging in psychoanalytic work in the service of individual and community survival and transformation.

Francoise Davoine, Ph.D.
A New Paradigm of Psychoanalysis
September 10, 17, 24; October 1, 8, 15, 22

Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, Ph.D.
Introduction to the Work of Jacques Lacan
October 29; November 5, 12, 26 19;  December 3, 10

Jim Poulton, Ph.D.
Special Topics in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Couples
January 14, 21, 28; February 4, 11
 
Esther Rapoport, Ph.D.
Nurturing Queer Subjectivities in an era of Unbridled Political Violence
February 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25; April 1, 8

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