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    Transference and Countertransference Revisited

    SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
     

    Practitioners and General Public: $120

     

    Students: $60

     

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    This seminar will revisit key moments in the theoretical evolution of two critical, intertwined psychoanalytic concepts: transference and countertransference. Important questions will be highlighted and contextualized, and their implications for clinical work will be examined. The seminar will also explore what it means to work “in” the transference, what it means to “take” the transference, and, from that position, how to use countertransference therapeutically. Clinical material will be used extensively, with a focus on how to bring transference into the therapeutic dialogue, considering why it’s valuable to do so; other related technical questions will also be explored. These issues will be augmented with reflection on the nature of the analytic role and setting.

    M. Gerard Fromm PhD, is a Distinguished Faculty member of the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, and President of the International Dialogue Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that studies the psychodynamics of societal conflict. He was the first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute, and directed the Therapeutic Community Program at Riggs for many years. Certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology, he has taught at, and consulted to, a number of psychoanalytic institutes across the country.

    Dr. Fromm currently maintains a practice of psychoanalytically informed organizational consultation. He is a past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and the Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems, where he served for three years as Director of its residential Group Relations Conferences. He has also served on the staff of Group Relations Conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.

    Dr. Fromm has presented and published widely, including the volumes Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations; Taking the Transference, Reaching Toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area; and A Spirit That Impels: Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis.

     

    Practitioners and General Public: $120

     

    Students: $60