Single-Semester Course: Sadomasochism (Online)

15 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO STUDENTS IN THE GREATER NEW YORK CITY AREA AS WELL AS THOSE IN MORE DISTANT LOCATIONS

Classes meet via Zoom

This course examines sadomasochism through psychoanalytic theories of drive, aggression, power, and primitive mental states, with a strong emphasis on clinical application. We will explore how aggression functions as a form of connection; how sadomasochistic configurations emerge in the transference–countertransference matrix, enactment, and dissociation; and how domination, submission, humiliation, and negation become eroticized in psychic life. Attention will be given to how unmentalized aggression appears in clinical work and how sadomasochistic dynamics extend beyond the consulting room into group processes, culture, and political life. The course is designed for practicing clinicians seeking to deepen their psychoanalytic understanding of difficult clinical phenomena and destructive relational patterns.

Lani Pawar, LP, is on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

$550

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