Saturday, December 1, 2018
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Thursday, March 28, 2019
8:00 – 10:00 pm
Presenter: Carla Neely, Ph.D.
The use of the analyst as a developmental object can occur in all analyses but has been linked historically to technique applicable primarily to developmental pathology. It has also suffered by its confusion with the concept “corrective emotional experience.” This paper attempts to correct that confusion as well as to clarify the mechanisms by which the analyst as developmental object contributes to structural change. To highlight the unique roles of the developmental object in therapeutic action, clinical material is presented contrasting the use of the analyst as a developmental object with that of the analyst as transference object. To achieve this goal, this paper draws on psychoanalytic theorists’ study of the concept and illustrative clinical examples.
2 CME/CE credits offered.
Dr. Carla Neely is a child and adolescent analyst who trained at the Hampstead Therapy Clinic in London. She completed her adult psychoanalytic training at the Denver Institute of Psychoanalysis. Prior to that, she graduated from Smith College Social Work School and she then went to the Lund University in Sweden where she obtained her Ph.D. She is on the faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute. She is past President, past Secretary, and past Councilor of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Her areas of publications and presentations are creativity, sublimation, developmental disharmony, developmental object, therapeutic action, and the nature of working through.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
8:00 – 10:00 pm
Presenter: Arnold Richards, M.D.
This paper proposes that wishes for longevity and immortality should be added to Freud’s list of wish fulfillment (sexual and aggressive) in dreams. The author provides examples of his own dreams to support his thesis. The paper also maintains that the distinction between wish fulfillment and traumatic dreams is not as absolute as Freud maintains – traumatic dreams may also be wish fulfilling. The paper discusses how the child knowledge of death develops from early life on. The fear of immortality as well as the wish for immortality is considered.
No CME/CE credits offered.
Training, Treatment & Outreach