Modern Conflict Theory, Compromise Formation, Patient's Stories and Metaphor

Modern conflict theory and compromise formation focus on the multiple determinants of all mental activity and reject Freud’s structural model of conflict between id, ego, and superego. Because each patient exhibits highly complex compromise formations, treatment requires an individualized approach, with special attention to the affects contained in patients’ stories and their metaphors. RSVP here.

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Michael Porder, MD is a member of the NYPSI Society and on the faculty, where he is a teacher, training analyst, and supervisor. He has trained psychiatric residents, psychiatrists, and psychologists at Albert Einstein, Columbia, and Mt. Sinai Schools of Medicine and is the author of Borderline Patients: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

Suggested reading for this presentation [please RSVP to be emailed the readings]:

Porder, M.S. (2003). What Analysts Do: Interpretation and Beyond. J. Clin. Psychoanal., 12:179-189.

Porder, M. (1994). Clinical Considerations of the More Disturbed Patient. J. Clin. Psychoanal., 3:353-361.