American Psychoanalytic Association

Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program - Starts Sept. 20, 2024 - May 2, 2025
2024-05-31 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Application Deadline: May 31, 2024
The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open.
Expand and enrich your clinical work by engaging in a two-year journey that melds didactic learning, experiential reflective groups, and hands-on placements in community agencies or nonprofits.
Fridays, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
September 20, 2024 – May 2, 2025
Via Zoom
*Tentative Schedule Below
2024 – 9/20, 10/4, 10/18, 11/1, 11/15, 12/6, 12/20
2025- 1/17, 1/31, 2/7, 2/21, 3/7, 3/21, 4/4, 4/18, 5/2
Who should Apply: The CPCP is a program for licensed mental health/health care professionals who have an interest in understanding how to utilize psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles to inform work in community settings. This is a unique opportunity to bridge clinical practice, community engagement and social justice.
Applications must be received by May 31, 2024. Acceptance will be no later than July 1, 2024.
NOTE: WBCP will only accept completed applications that include all the required written materials.
For more information please visit our program page:

Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program

COWAP Film: Discussion on Gender: "Anatomy of A Fall"
2024-05-31 17:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Please Join Us
Discussants:
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD and Carolyn Ratner-Fitzgerald, JD, PsyD
Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman
present discussion of the film
“Anatomy Of a Fall” (2023)
Directed by: Justine Triet
Written by: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
*Participants should view the film beforehand. It is available on Amazon.
Program Flyer:https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/23-24/5-31-24%20COWAP%20Film%20%28Anatomy%20of%20a%20Fall%29.pdf
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 29, 2024
Registration Fees: $15
ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

COWAP Film: Discussion on Gender: "Anatomy of a Fall"
2024-05-31 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Please Join Us
Discussants:
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD and Carolyn Ratner-Fitzgerald, JD, PsyD
Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman
present discussion of the film
“Anatomy of a Fall” (2023)
Directed by: Justine Triet
Written by: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
*Participants should view the film beforehand. It is available on Amazon.
Program Flyer:
https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/23-24/5-31-24%20COWAP%20Film%20%28Anatomy%20of%20a%20Fall%29.pdf
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 29, 2024
Registration Fees: $15
ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

Discovering Ideals and Identity: Culture as Character in the Consulting Room
2024-06-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Scientific Program presented by Dwarakanath G. Rao, MD.
CE.

Clinical Practice with LGBTQ+ Patients: An Intersubjective/Relational Approach
2024-06-02 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
During this interactive workshop, Jonathan Lebolt, PhD, LCSW-R, CGP, will address the following questions: What do we mean by LGBTQ+ (especially the +)? How can we work effectively with patients with a different gender identity or sexual orientation from our own? Drawing on Gray’s intersubjective, improvisational approach to psychoanalytic treatment, Dr. Lebolt will also illustrate how the clinician’s use of self can help lead to a sense of agency and growth among patients.
CE.

Consequences of Early Misattunment: Developmental and Diagnostic Considerations
2024-06-07 19:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Thomas Barrett, PhD, will present his ideas about the
impact of early relational misattunement on children
and the role of relational attunement (ie Mindsight)
when provided in the context of child psychoanalysis.
He will provide vignettes from 3-4 clinical cases to
illustrate his point of view. Ya-Juan Zhang will discuss
Dr. Barrett’s paper and present her own ideas and
clinical material.

Consequences of Early Misattunment: Developmental and Diagnostic Considerations
2024-06-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Thomas Barrett, PhD, will present his ideas about the impact of early relational misattunement on children and the role of relational attunement (ie Mindsight) when provided in the context of child psychoanalysis. He will provide vignettes from 3-4 clinical cases to illustrate his point of view. Ya-Juan Zhang will discuss Dr. Barrett’s paper and present her own ideas and clinical material.
CE.

A Psychoanalytic Playlist with Sasha Frere-Jones
2024-06-08 13:00 - 15:30 | Hybrid: Zoom & In-person 444 Natoma Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
At some point between the heyday of the mixtape and the infinite scroll of the app-based feed, the music playlist found its place in history, as a new form of history. With the human touch of curation, the playlist captures a moment, selecting some tracks over others, but breathing with the polymorphous possibility of continuous response. Assembling a live playlist for the audience out of samples of music and psychoanalytic theory, the kaleidoscopic writer Sasha Frere-Jones (The New Yorker, Buttondown) will riff on the “frame” of historical change, refracted through his new memoir, Earlier (2023), and in dialogue with Adam Blum, co-author (with Peter Goldberg and Michael Levin) of the recent book, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (2023), which Frere-Jones reviewed for Parapraxis magazine. Ears up.
CE.

Grandmotherland with Judith Edwards
2024-06-14 13:15 - 14:15 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Judith Edwards discusses the myths and realities underneath the saccharine grandmother ‘norm’, where culture, geography, social ideas and personality all play a part. ‘An area ripe for exploration’ said the late Hilary Mantel.

Maintaining Professional Boundaries in Psychotherapy
2024-06-23 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Bruce Hillowe, J.D., PhD, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst and mental health care attorney in New York State. In this workshop, he will be presenting a comprehensive overview of the ethical, professional, legal and clinical backgrounds for boundaries; discriminating between boundary crossings and violations; the establishment and maintenance of boundaries at the outset of and during psychotherapy including issues of multiple relationships, at- risk patients and social media; the challenge of vulnerable patients and therapists; and maintaining clinical creativity and flexibility within the therapeutic frame. The potential harm and legal consequences of boundary violations will also be reviewed.
Please note: This 3-hour course has been designed to meet New York State’s mandatory CE requirement for both boundaries and ethics: courses on boundaries that cover New York laws, rules and regulations related to unprofessional conduct may also be counted toward the ethics requirement.
CE.

Nursing & Psychoanalysis Group Mentorship Q&A
2024-06-23 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual (Zoom)

Connections And Conversation: An Exploration of Psychosis Through the Schreber Case – Charles Turk
2024-06-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Free zoom event with Charles Turk M.D. By means of a metapsychologic elaboration of certain psychoanalytic concepts “Le388” a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults in Quebec City has achieved a 60% cure rate among those engaged in that program. Those cured have been guided to dismantle their delusion and to find satisfying activity in society. I will discuss these concepts with respect to the Schreber case – beginning with his memoirs and going on to the several writers who wrote about him: Freud, Lacan, Neiderland and Lothane. Hopefully this will generate a fruitful discussion among us.

Connections And Conversation: Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want From Therapy – Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA
2024-07-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Free zoom event with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. It is vitally important for our practices and communities to be informed about what people are looking for in mental health treatment, and how they think and feel about the therapies we offer. Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment. After decades of attack from multiple fronts, these therapies are misunderstood, undervalued, and overlooked by the general public. To assess what people know about therapy and mental health and what they really want from treatment, the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) conducted extensive original research with the general public. From this innovative and unprecedented effort to “listen” to the public, we learned about the attitudes and expectations people have towards therapy, which benefits matter most, what their misperceptions and biases are, and what they know and don’t know about mental health and therapy. This presentation will share the findings from PsiAN’s qualitative and quantitative research, which was conducted both at the cusp of the pandemic and again several years into the pandemic. The presentation will also offer a blueprint for engaging and communicating with the public, so that the public gains greater awareness, understanding and appreciation for therapies of depth, insight, and relationship.

What Then Must We Do? Social Work Ethics in a Time of Moral Injury
2024-08-17 11:00 - 14:00
Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW: In a world where there is a high level of strife and anxiety, and seemingly endless conflict, including war, ethnic violence, sexism and gender attacks, open displays of hostility within the United States, and the rapidly changing climate, the question arises what should we do? How does one in the mental health profession handle their own responses to these traumatizing events, and how do we assist those who seek our help? In this course we will look at the usefulness of clinical work, and specifically psychoanalytic thinking as a vehicle for the containment of strife and anxiety for our patients, and for ourselves. We will consider the question of an ethical stance within the psychotherapeutic setting for facilitating the patient’s reconciliation with the impact of uncertainty in the world on their mental health.

CE.

Suicidality: Learning from the Personal Experience of Suicidal People
2024-08-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW: William Styron vividly recounts the experience of his suicidal depression while suffering a breakdown in mid-life, in his small book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. Styron’s material will be a large part of the narrative basis for the class, which will be augmented with psychoanalytic theoretical material on the precipitants of suicide. We will examine the subjective experience of suicidality, and the particular stressors this causes for clinicians treating such persons.

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Connections And Conversation: Ferenczi on Gender and Sexuality: Prelude To Laplanche – Adrienne Harris, PhD
2024-08-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32), I will draw on his work on sexuality, his book Thalassa (2018) and on a later paper on the devastation of early neglect and trauma, “The Unwelcome Child and his Death Instinct” (1929). In addition to these papers, I link Ferenczi’s work on trauma to his paper on war neuroses (Ferenczi 1928; Harris, 2018). In this presentation, I hope to illuminate the originality and modernity of Ferenczi’s views on sexuality and the great difficulty they caused Freud.

"Let's Dance!": Origins, Development, and Implications of Vitality
2024-08-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Vitality is considered a manifestation of life, of being alive (Stern, 2010). While most of us have an embodied, intuitive sense of aliveness or deadness in our daily interactions and clinical processes, few of us have systematically studied the concept of vitality. Though the concept remains largely undertheorized in psychoanalysis, there is some available literature on the topic. Study group members will read and discuss articles about forms of vitality, its developmental origins in rhythm, motion, temporality, affect attunement, etc., and the implications of vitality, or lack of vitality, in our clinical process. The group registration will be limited to 23 people (the number who can be seen on one computer screen along with the facilitators), in order to facilitate a lively engagement (vitality!) in our discussions. Group participants are encouraged to share case examples from their own practices. Journal articles will be sent to participants. Participants must obtain their own copies of Daniel Stern’s book, Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development (Oxford, 2010).
A Note from the HPS Program Chair: This study group is intended to provide a foundational understanding of the concept of vitality in psychoanalysis. The concept of vitality underlies virtually all of our programs this year, most directly the following: (1) a conference and panel discussion on 9/14/24 addressing vitality in human development and vitalization in psychoanalytic treatment, featuring Stephen Seligman, Anne Alvarez, and Christopher Bonovitz, (2) a conference on vitality as a theoretical and technical parameter in psychoanalysis by Giuseppe Civitarese on 10/19/24, and (3) a book discussion on 02/20/25 of Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, edited by Amy Schwartz Cooney and Rachel Sopher.***JoAnn Ponder, PhD

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Words to Live by: Personal and Cultural Origins of Imagination and Self in Language
2024-09-05 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by Jeanine M. Vivona, PhD
We tend to think of language as an abstract system that is imposed upon us from outside. Yet, as Hans Loewald knew, language is also an inner system, one that is learned from particular others in particular lived moments, one that is idiosyncratic and inherently relational. Indeed, every person’s language enacts and conveys the ways that person has experienced the potentials of language for imagining and construing self and world. This deeply personal imagining of self and world is what we encounter when we engage in the therapeutic talking that is psychoanalysis.
In this lecture, I explore the early roots of this imaginative capacity of language in the ways that parents speak with their infants, drawing on empirical infant research to stir our imagination. An exploration of both individual and cultural differences in early language experience enriches our understanding of the meanings that are inherent in psychoanalytic talking, as well as the versions of self and language we encounter in our therapeutic work.
This program is intended to help fulfill licensure renewal requirements for continuing education in diversity and cultural competence. However, registrants should check with their licensing board if uncertain.

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Alumni Group: Is the Object Stupid? Development and Clinical Implications of Narcissistic Disorders in Children and Adolescents
2024-09-06 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg, MD
This presentation aims to review a developmental-mentalizing-attachment formulation of narcissistic disorders, emphasizing a response to interpersonal helplessness and threats to one’s bids for attachment that is “solved” with a defensive move towards deactivation of attachment and the predominance of the pretend mode.

Integrative Couple Therapy
2024-09-11 09:45 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Arthur Nielsen

Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
2024-09-13 08:30
Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:
Details of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy
This live, online only, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician Frank Yeomans, MD. PhD offers a refresher of basic TFP techniques and a sharp focus on the diagnostic phase of treatment with implementation of the TFP Contract, including the methodology, reasoning, and evidence which supports contracting with difficult patients suffering from personality disorders.
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN).
TFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience.
PRESENTER:
Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy, Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development, investigation, teaching, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally.

Psychosomatics and Psycho-dermatology
2024-09-13 09:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)

Photographing What You Know: How a Psychoanalyst Became a Photographer
2024-09-14 10:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Jon K. Meyer, MD

COWAP NA: Women the Longest Revolution
2024-09-14 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Please join us for a series of conversations
Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST
7 sessions
2024: September 14, October 26, December 14
2025: January 11, February 22, March 8, April 12
Via Zoom
Presented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association (COWAP) North America, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh, Members: Anne Adelman, Janice Lieberman, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson.
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025
Click Here to View the Program Flyer:
https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf
1.5 CME/CE per session
10.5 CME/CE total
First Session:
September 14, 2024
Session 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution
Panel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido, and Margarita Valladares
Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves, how they are perceived by society, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of
Juliet Mitchell’s iconic book, Women: The Longest Revolution, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice, authority, and working online.
Virginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares, a psychoanalytic candidate, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has
changed.

COWAP: Women the Longest Revolution
2024-09-14 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Please join us for a series of conversations
Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 to 12:30 EST
7 sessions
2024: September 14, October 26, December 14
2025: January 11, February 22, March 8, April 12
Presented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) (COWAP North America) North America, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh, Members: Anne Adelman, Janice Lieberman, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson.
Via Zoom
CME/CE Offered
Registration Link:
https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025#!/
To see the full list of presenters and session descriptions please view the full program flyer:
https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf
Presenter Bios:

COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution” Presenter Biographies

Upcoming Session:
September 14, 2024
Session 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution
Panel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido, and Margarita Valladares
Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves, how they are perceived by society, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of Juliet Mitchell’s iconic book, Women: The Longest Revolution, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice, authority, and working online. Virginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares, a psychoanalytic candidate, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.

Vitality in Human Development and Vitalization in Psychoanalytic Treatment
2024-09-14 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by Stephen Seligman, DMH, Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P. & Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD
Vitality might be considered the essence of aliveness. Louis Sander and Daniel Stern drew our attention to vitality as a core component of human development and psychotherapeutic treatment. They were the most visionary of the first group of infant observation researchers, along with Colwyn Trevarthen. Both were inspired by deep experiences beyond the usual psychoanalytic preoccupations: Sander by spiritual faith, sustained in his passion for the essential principles of living systems; Stern by a lifelong commitment to aesthetics and the arts, especially dance, reflected in his extraordinary eye for the choreography of infant-parent interaction and psychotherapy process. Both were also exceptional researchers and creative, integrative scientists. From these platforms, Sander and Stern broke through crusts that had restrained both developmental psychology and psychoanalysis, reaching toward the sources of human vitality throughout the life cycle. Conference presenter Stephen Seligman will discuss Sander and Stern’s foundational findings about the origins, development, and manifestations of vitality, as well as the implications for treatment.
While classical psychoanalysis has taught us much about the passions, less explored are the passionless, often mindless and empty states presented by certain passive patients. In some instances, according to presenter Anne Alvarez, these states may not be the result not of a defensive or aggressive retreat, but of having given up in despair or boredom. Such patients do not seem to be hiding, but lost; not withdrawn, but undrawn. Their internal objects seem to be unvalued rather than devalued and nothing much matters. This may affect curiosity and desire, even the desire to follow a train of thought. Alvarez discusses what might be missing or underdeveloped and ways in which analytic technique may try to address these issues via processes of vitalization.
There also is a relationship between human vitality and sense of time. Presenter Christopher Bonovitz uses Loewald’s concept of time in examining the temporal dimension of self states and enactments that emerge in the psychoanalytic situation. This includes looking at the relationship between time and vitality, fragmented and unitary time, and the role of imagination in developing the dyadic capacity to contain linkages between the past, present and future.

The Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture: Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Each Other?
2024-09-18 19:00
The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider’s perspective, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement, especially with racial erotics, even when used for self-affirmation, is discussed. So too is the need for ‘Othering’ and the need for those who have been ‘Othered’ to validate themselves, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics, ethics for psychoanalysts, but human ethics, valuing of the other, of our relationship with the other, becomes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Levinas and his psychoanalytic elaborator, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others. Other prominent contemporary thinkers will be cited, including Frantz Fanon. The author emphasizes our failures, including his own.

A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma
2024-09-20 09:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
In A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma you will learn more about theories and techniques of treating trauma and about the empirical research that supports successful treatments.
Course includes 8 total sessions, 16 CE credits

Book of the Month: "Theoretical" vs. "Clinical" Bion: Bion’s Long Road Towards Intuiting the Patient’s Suffering I Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion by Joseph Aguyao, PhD
2024-09-20 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Ofra Eshel was invited to review and discuss Joseph Aguayo’s book, Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (Routledge, 2023). After reading the book, she decided to focus on what she discerned as the complex relationship and the significant gap between Bion’s theoretical and clinical work, as documented by Bion’s own writings from the critical years of his move to LA (1967-1968), and during his later years, particularly in the last two years of his life a decade later. Her presentation focuses on two of Bion’s own analytic case descriptions from 1967 in Los Angeles and 1968 in Buenos Aires, and on the account of the Brazilian analyst Junqueira de Mattos of his analysis with Bion over the final two years of Bion’s life — while comparing them to a close reading of Bion’s radical theoretical-clinical writings during those years. These detailed accounts allow a textual investigation of Bion the theoretician versus Bion the practicing analyst, particularly highlighting the significant and disturbing gap between them. Eshel attempts to offer a possible explanation and understanding of this gap, and especially of Bion’s long road towards intuiting the patient’s suffering.

Trauma, Guilt, and Conspiracy: The Zero Process and The Superego
2024-09-20 18:30
A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM
