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    Into the Mind of the Psychoanalyst: When the Personal Becomes Professional

    FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
     

    Practitioners and General Public: $40

     

    Students: $10

     

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    In this workshop, Steven Kuchuck will explore the impact of the therapist’s life experience and psychological makeup on the treatment. By expanding psychoanalytic study to include an examination of events in the clinician’s childhood and adult life as well as related psychodynamic issues, Dr. Kuchuck will focus on the ways the practitioner’s experiences, crises, and dynamics affect both clinical choices and the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting room. He will also look at the relationship between the clinician’s subjectivity, theoretical interests, and technique, exploring areas of overlap and differentiation between two phenomena that are often confused: the larger issues of the therapist’s subjectivity and self-disclosure.

    Dr. Kuchuck will propose that when subjectivity becomes bracketed or dissociated, access to countertransference and insight into how the therapist affects the patient becomes limited, causing therapeutic data to be missed. He will address various ways of tracking and using subjectivity in order to potentiate therapeutic action. He will also consider the impact on the treatment of the analyst’s temperament, conflicts around being seen or hidden, and struggles with self-care.

    Steven Kuchuck, DSW, LCSW, is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Co-Editor of the Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series; President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); board member, supervisor, and instructor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP); and instructor and supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck lectures nationally and internationally; his teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. In 2015 and 2016, he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). He maintains a clinical and supervisory practice in Manhattan and also offers individual and group consultation online.

    Practitioners and General Public: $40

     

    Students: $10