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Speaking About Race VII with David L. Eng

The Asian American Experience Across the Classroom and the Clinic

What does it mean to be racialized as invisible, not only to others, but to oneself? 

And what happens when that invisibility enters the consulting room, whether in the experience of an Asian American clinician or patient? The therapeutic alliance may include psychic and relational dynamics that are easy to overlook: the burden of shame, the pressure to appear "high-functioning," and the quiet negotiation between being seen and remaining hidden. 

Scholarly Dialogues: Dianne Elise "Analytic Eroticism: Embodied Vitality in Clinical Process"

Scholarly Dialogues: Dianne Elise "Analytic Eroticism: Embodied Vitality in Clinical Process"

In our group discussion, we will consider a Winnicottian formulation of the analytic field in order to understand the often unspoken, implicit erotic dimensions of analytic work. Material from an analysis with a very inhibited, emotionally-constricted man shows both patient and analyst encountering difficulty in “locating” one another within the analytic field.

Scholarly Dialogues: Stephen Purcell "Un-Thinking Technique: The Analyst’s Presence in Treating Early Trauma"

Scholarly Dialogues: Stephen Purcell "Un-Thinking Technique: The Analyst’s Presence in Treating Early Trauma"

Stephen Purcell will lead discussions of two of his papers that address the analyst’s way of being: “Psychic Song and Dance: Dissociation and Duets in the Analysis of Trauma (2019) and “Un-thinking Technique: On Being, Not Doing in the Psychoanalysis of the Sequelae of Trauma” (2026).

Sex, Death and the Superego: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

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Sex, Death and the Superego: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

In this recent book, Ron Britton, a British psychoanalyst in the object relations tradition, explores his experience working in psychoanalysis and what he has come to see as most important. We will read selected chapters from his book on these topics of sex, death and the superego. Britton especially explores the erotic transference-countertransference experience and the problem of the destructive superego. Please contact the instructor to enroll.

Working With Adolescents and Their Parents with Don Schimmel, PhD

Working with adolescents poses challenges that differ in important ways from those encountered with adults. Adolescents are often resistant to therapy and struggle to articulate their internal experience. Parents, in turn, are often anxious or uncertain and may exert conscious or unconscious pressure on the therapist. This three-part seminar examines the technical and developmental complexities of working with adolescents and their parents in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Off the Couch and Into Contact with Lindsey Walker, MA, LMFT

Lindsey Walker, MA, LMFT

“Started seven years of useless couch life. Felt I was stupid.” -Fritz Perls 

Fritz Perls was a trained psychoanalyst who (with others) created gestalt therapy in the context of the rise of the authoritarian Nazi regime, and in part as antidote to the authoritarian nature of analysis. Gestalt therapists took patients off the couch, and sat them face-to-face with their therapists, in a move to make the patient an equal, as knowing a participant as the therapist. 

A Basic Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy: Clinical Issues with Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD

This seminar is open to all beginning and experienced clinicians looking to fortify their theoretical and clinical understandings as related to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 

While this CLINICAL ISSUES seminar is a continuation of the Fall 2025 THEORETICAL seminar on A Basic Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy, it is not a prerequisite to have taken the fall 2025 seminar.

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