Classes

Grief is central to human experience.  We are all confronted with losses, disappointments, separations, disruptions, large and small, every day, and we are able to move forward in our lives only if we are able to grieve.  Our patients come to us with a tremendous burden of undigested sadness, and much of psychotherapy is our attempt to help them develop some capacity to mourn.  Since its beginnings in Freud and Klein, object relations has had as one of its central concerns grief work, and how it is that a capacity to grieve can be developed so that emotional growth can move forward.  In thi

Grief is central to human experience.  We are all confronted with losses, disappointments, separations, disruptions, large and small, every day, and we are able to move forward in our lives only if we are able to grieve.  Our patients come to us with a tremendous burden of undigested sadness, and much of psychotherapy is our attempt to help them develop some capacity to mourn.  Since its beginnings in Freud and Klein, object relations has had as one of its central concerns grief work, and how it is that a capacity to grieve can be developed so that emotional growth can move forward.  In thi

Meeting 4 Mondays, every other week (Sept. 12, 26, Oct 10, 24)

Meeting 4 Mondays, every other week (Sept. 12, 26, Oct 10, 24)

Meeting 4 Mondays, every other week (Sept. 12, 26, Oct 10, 24)

Meeting 4 Mondays, every other week (Sept. 12, 26, Oct 10, 24)

4 Tuesday evenings, March 1, 8, 15, 22

As Nancy McWilliams so eloquently writes in her classic book, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, all of us are a little nuts. The only question is: "(1) How nuts? and (2) nuts in what particular way?"

Donald Meltzer was one of the leading figures in the development of British Object Relations. He made a number of enormously helpful contributions to our understanding of the psychoanalytic process. This class will particularly explore his ideas about the family structure of the mind, the centrality of dreaming in building a mind, and the way the mind can get lost in claustrophobic states. We will read selections from his books "Sexual States of Mind," "Dream Life," and "The Claustrom." This class is co-sponsored by the Center for Object Relations.

Recent Psychoanalytic Thought: The Contemporary Americans (Session III)

Key Figures: Harry Stack Sullivan, Edgar Levenson, Emmanuel Ghent, Stephen Mitchell, Jay Greenberg, Philip Bromberg, Jessica Benjamin, Adrienne Harris

Key Concepts: Selective Inattention / Red Thread of Anxiety / Self and Other in Relation / Enactment, Subjectivity, Inter-subjectivity, and Self-Disclosure of the Analyst / Multiple Self-States

Instructors: Bev Osband, Ph.D. & Kathy Weissbourd, Ph.D.

Recent Psychoanalytic Thought: The Contemporary Americans (Session II)

Key Figure: Heinz Kohut

Key Concepts: Importance of Shame and Self Esteem / Ambitions and Ideals / Self and Self Objects / Grandiose Self / Mirroring and the Mirror Transference / Idealized Parent and Idealizing Transference / Vertical and Horizontal Splits / Primary and Secondary Ambition

Instructor: Robert Bergman, MD, Training and Consulting Analyst in SPSI