Before Analysis Can Begin: Treating Pre-Analytic Patients

Patients often enter treatment with real problems but little if any interest in free-associating. They seek relief from their psychic suffering but for some, years may pass before they become curious and strong enough to explore their unconscious for the underlying motivations of their behaviors. In this seminar we will explore what helps pre-analytic patients to stay in treatment and begin a psychoanalysis. Presentation will be followed by refreshments and a social gathering.

Claudia Sheftel Luiz, EdM, Harvard University, Cert Psya, PsyaD, BGSP, has been in clinical practice and serving as a consultant to profit and non-profit businesses in the Greater Boston area for over 25 years. Dr Luiz is the winner of the 2006 Phyllis W. Meadow Award for Excellence in Psychoanalytic Writing and has just released her new book—Where’s My Sanity? Stories That Help. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two daughters where she treats individuals and families.