Working Party Groups:
Comparative Clinical Methods
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
Initiating Psychoanalysis
End of Training
Come to the first Working Parties Soiree - A musical evening to celebrate and support NAPsaC's Working Party Project
Saturday, February 5, 2011 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Wine, Hors D’Ouevres, and Classical Music in a private home on the Upper West Side
Explore the psychoanalytic process in a small group with detailed process notes, and new methods of approaching clinical material, with Experienced Presenters and Moderators and Co-moderators from Europe and North America, including Ted Jacobs, Bernard Reith, Eike Hinze, Nancy Kulish. Come away with renewed confidence in the psychoanalytic process.
All members and candidates of NAPSAC and the IPA are invited to participate in the Clinical Working Parties, "Comparative Clinical Methods", "Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today", "Initiating Psychoanalysis", and IPA Training analysts in the "End of Training”. (Please find descriptions of Working Parties below.)
Most groups will consist of 12 analysts, including one or two moderators, and one presenter of clinical material. Participants will be assigned to a group in the working style they choose, and will be contacted by the moderators with information, times, place and materials for the group.
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Deadline extended to
January 26th, 2011.
THERE'S STILL TIME TO REGISTER!
Sorry, no refunds.
Contact: cwp-newyork@napsac.info
Steering Committee:
Harriet Basseches
Abbot Bronstein
Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly (co-Chair)
William Glover
Marianne Robinson
Marie Rudden
Beth Seelig (Chair)
Ronnie Shaw
Nancy Wolf
THE NAPsaC Working Parties are standing clinical research groups, developed in coordination with the Working Parties of the other IPA Regional Associations in the EPF and FEPAL, partially funded by the IPA.
Group Schedule
Comparative Clinical Methods| Saturday, February 5th | 9:30 am – 6:00 pm |
| Sunday, February 6th | 9:00 am – 1:30 pm |
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
| Saturday, February 5th | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
| Sunday, February 6th | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Initiating Psychoanalysis
| Saturday, February 5th | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Saturday, February 5th | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
| Sunday, February 6th | 9:00 am – 1:30 pm |
(Coffee and Lunch breaks)
Group Descriptions
Comparative Clinical Methods
The Working party on Comparative Clinical Methods (CCM) has been designed to allow analysts, to talk across theoretical, linguistic 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. The members of the groups have a work task: to understand how the presenting analyst works. The group attempts to discover both the explicit and implicit analytic theory and method of the presenting analyst.
The presenter brings a brief background to the case and analytic sessions that represent their way of working with this patient. Over the two days of meetings the group begins discussion focusing directly on the presenter's way of working, first by considering the function and purpose of each "intervention" in depth (Step1). During Step 2, members of the group "construct" from their discussion of the clinical hours, a picture of the presenter's work.
The group works on the analyst's "explanatory model": "how does this analyst explain the patient's difficulties”; "what are the analyst's ideas about how change takes place"; "how does the analyst think about the transference"; and "the dynamic unconscious as it comes into the session"; and "how does the analyst's way and manner of interventions further the analysis". In the process of discussion, each participant along with the presenter become clearer about how they and other analysts work in their consulting rooms. Participants must be psychoanalysts. There is also space for two advanced candidates.
For further information contact Marie Rudden - Co Chair CCM Working Party Group: mgrudden@gmail.com
Abbot A.Bronstein - Chair CCM NAPsaC Working Party Group
Marie Rudden – Co-Chair CCM NAPsaC Working Party Group
This group will meet at: New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 247 East 82nd Street
Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today
The Working Party on the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today is a 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 group functions 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 relates no more than necessary of 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 après-coup the constructions worked through during the preceding step. Chair Ronnie Shaw.
For Further information contact Ronnie Shaw: rshaw@ashcomm.com
This group will meet at: New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 247 East 82nd Street
Initiating Psychoanalysis
The Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis holds Small group clinical workshops to understand how analysts create a specifically psychoanalytic opportunity in preliminary interviews. The EPF Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis (WPIP) was set up in 2004 to develop expertise about how to begin psychoanalytic treatment and, in particular, how to convey to an unprepared patient the specific opportunity offered by the experience of psychoanalysis.
The WPIP has launched a study to look at how this is done by experienced colleagues, using small group clinical workshops to explore preliminary interviews psychoanalytically and develop experience-near theories of their dynamics. This involves a case presentation followed first by a free-associating group discussion and then by a more focused and structured examination of the material. Participants find that they learn from the experience at the same time that they contribute to the collective project.
This procedure has now been extended to include the study of preliminary interviews that did not lead to psychoanalysis, leading for example to psychotherapy or to no treatment at all. The workshops are not informed of the outcome beforehand and begin by working blind to the results of the interviews, to sharpen their exploration of the material and to see whether or not they can detect differences in the dynamics of preliminary consultations that lead to analysis and those that do not. Registered participants will be sent more detailed preparatory information about methods and procedures before the workshops. Chair Ted Jacobs; co-Chair Nancy Wolf.
For further information contact Nancy Wolf: nancyhwolf@verizon.net
Private site to be announced
End of Training Evaluation
Working Party on End of Training Evaluation moderates small groups of training analysts. The presenting analyst/supervisor provides examples from his supervisory work with one or two candidates. If possible, the supervisor will present material from the supervisions of one candidate who is ready to graduate, and one who is not yet ready, still having aspects of analytic work in need of improvement.
Depending on the situation, the presenter may choose to present only one candidate. The supervisory material will contain examples that show how the candidate is doing in his clinical work, in supervision, and in his training. The specific task of the participants is to consider these examples, to see how and when the presenter thought the candidate was able to function with a patient like a psychoanalyst. The presenter's criteria for his ideas as to what psychoanalytic work is, may be implicit or "taken for granted".
It then the task of the group members to construct the presenter's model of evaluation and to test this construction with the presenter. The group will ask: What is the presenter's view on the psychopathology of the supervised case (conflict, developmental deficits, trauma etc.)? What is the presenter's theory of psychic change which guides his assessment of the candidate (e.g. what sorts of experience does he think the patient needs in the sessions. What is his view on neutrality etc.)? With what ideas does the presenter/supervisor think about the candidate's work with the transference and countertransference etc.? How does the presenter think an analyst should listen to his patient's unconscious? Does the presenter have a theory of technique which guides how he thinks his candidate should intervene and interpret?
ETE Working Party Development: Nancy Kulish, Ron Benson
Admin. Chair and co-Chair Beth Seelig, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly
Further Information Contact Beth Seelig: bseelig@emory.edu
Private site to be announced
Accomodations
A block of rooms under NAPsaC at $129 per night is reserved at:
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Metropolitan Doubletree Hotel on Lexington and 51st
(under the NAPsaC name)
