Weekend Event – October 21 & 22
A Psychoanalytic Retrospective: Thoughts on the Essence of a Happy and Fulfilled Life
Calvin A. Colarusso M.D. Training and Supervising Child Adolescent and Adult Analyst San Diego Psychoanalytic Center.
Dr. Colarusso will describe the effect of more than fifty-five years of exposure to psychoanalytic theory and the practice of adult and child psychoanalysis on the author’s understanding of the human condition and his personal reflections on the requirements for a happy and fulfilled life.
Creativity in the On-Line Analysis of a 5 -Year-Old During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Tina Marie Dale, LCSW Child Adolescent and Adult Analyst with the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and Chair of their Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and Chair of their Child and Adolescent Committee.
Discussant: David M. Abrams, PhD of the Contemporary Freudian Society Institute, New York and the Harlem Family Institute, New York.
Tina Marie Dale will present the case of the analysis of a 5-year-old who had to transition from in-person to virtual meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The child was able to utilize a variety of home electronic devices, according to the preference of play in a particular session. With much imagination, this child creatively continued to actively communicate with the analyst, engaging in lively pretend play, exhibiting elaborate fantasies introducing many imaginary characters that became regular participants in the treatment for a particular phase.
Sunday, October 22
The Developmental Process: The Analysis of a Traumatized Three-Year-Old.
Rex McGeHee, M.D. Training and Supervising Child, Adolescent and Adult Analyst. Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis
Dr. McGeHee will present a case to illustrate how psychoanalytic treatment changes the developmental trajectory of a life. Building on Freud’s ideas of ‘Nachtraglichkeit’ as elaborated by LaPlanche and Modell, we will open the question of does the past change in the course of an analysis.
