Working Party Groups:
Comparative Clinical Methods
(Including one Child Analysis Group)
AND
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
Please join colleagues in a unique opportunity to explore clinical psychoanalysis in a small group with detailed process notes, new methods of approaching clinical material, and Experienced Presenters and Moderators.
All members and candidates of NAPSAC and the IPA are invited to participate. Groups will consist of 12 analysts, including one or two moderators, and a presenter of clinical material. There will be space for 2 candidates in each group. Participants will be assigned to a group in the working party they choose, and will be contacted by the moderators with information, times, place and materials for the group.
Download Brochure and Registration
Deadline to register is
September 20th, 2010.
CE credits pending for an additional fee.
Sorry, no refunds.
Steering Committee:
Harriet Basseches
Abbot Bronstein
William Glover
Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly (Co-Chair)
Marianne Robinson
Marie Rudden
Beth Seelig (Chair)
Ronnie Shaw
Nancy Wolf
The NAPsaC Working Parties are standing clinical research groups first of the EPF and recently of NAPsaC, jointly funded by the IPA.
Save the Date!
NAPsaC Clinical Working Parties will also be offered in New York, February 5th and
6th, 2011.
They will include Working Parties on Initiating Psychoanalysis and End of Training Evaluation along with Comparative Clinical Methods and Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today.
Look for further information.
Group Schedule
Comparative Clinical Methods(Two adult groups and one child group will be held)
| Saturday, October 9th | 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
| Sunday, October 10th | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm |
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
| Saturday, October 9th | 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
| Sunday, October 10th | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm |
(Coffee and Lunch breaks)
Please Note: In order to ensure the integrity of the small group experience all participants are asked to commit to the full two days.
Group Descriptions
Comparative Clinical Methods
The Working party on Comparative Clinical Methods has been designed to allow analysts to talk across theoretical and cultural boundaries. The Comparative Clinical Method starts with a prime assumption. The presenter in each group is a psychoanalyst who is presenting an analysis on the move. All who attend the groups have a work task — to use all the curiosity at their disposal to understand how the presenting analyst works. Experience suggests that no analyst is fully aware of their own working method and how it differs from other methods.
The presenter brings a brief Background to the Case and Three Typed Sessions. The first step of the discussion focuses directly on the presenter's way of working by considering the purpose of each "intervention" in depth. During Step 2, members of the group carefully "construct" from the discussion a picture of the presenter's work which, although it may not be in all respects what the presenter thought before and may even surprise him or her, makes the best sense of the presented materials and discussion.
The group works on the analyst's "explanatory model": "how does this analyst explain the patient's difficulties in his or her own mind"; "what are the analyst's ideas about how change takes place"; "how does the analyst think about the transference"; and with "the dynamic unconscious as it comes into the session"; "how do the analyst's interventions further the analysis". In the process of discussion, each Psychoanalyst-participant can better understand how he or she works. Participants must be clinical analysts working with patients on the couch.
For further information contact Abbot Bronstein: abbot.bronstein@gmail.com
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
The Working Party on the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today is a clinical research method founded by Evelyne Sechaud, who developed the work of the clinical groups by widening the ideas of Johan Norman, Bjorn Salomonsson and Jean-Luc Donnet. The method is based on an analogical relation between the analytic sessions and their narration.
The Working Party has found that owing to the associative thinking of analysts working together, the clinical research groups associate freely to the clinical material presented and function as a magnifying echo of the transference-countertransference relation between patient and analyst. The small clinical groups are made up of 12 to 15 analysts from different analytic cultures working for a day and a half on the same clinical material. The presenter presents the session content (speech, affects, and actions) without giving any indication concerning biography, the history of the analysis or the setting. He/she then remains silent without responding to the questions raised among the group.
The fundamental rule of the group is to associate freely to the clinical material. The group thus 'constructs' the patient, each participant using his explicit and implicit theoretical references. Through the group work the gap between theory and practice (J.-L. Donnet) thus becomes reality and makes its exploration possible. The presenter then enters the discussion and lends his thoughts and feelings to the group work. This step enables the group to assess aprés-coup the constructions worked through during the preceding step. A co-moderator from the European/Paris Group will work with us in San Francisco.
For Further information contact Ronnie Shaw: rshaw@ashcomm.com
Accomodations
Recommended hotels within walking distance of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis:
- Kabuki Hotel in Japan Town www.jdvhotels.com
- Nob Hill Motor Inn on Van Ness Avenue www.nobhillmotorinn.com
Rooms are available at both hotels for less than $200. Please make your reservations soon as they may book up.
Note that the groups are scheduled so that participants from Western North America can fly to San Francisco on Saturday morning and return home Sunday afternoon.
