Blos Lecture: The Analyst as the Erotic Link between the Infantile and the Adolescent
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April 8, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
***THIS EVENT IS IN PERSON ONLY. SEATING IS LIMITED***
The Fourth Peter J. Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture:
The Analyst as the Erotic Link between the Infantile and the Adolescent
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Location: The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium | 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, April 7.
Presenter and Awardee: Susan Donner, M.D.
The communication and interplay of the erotic in the psychoanalysis of adolescents is complex even for experienced child and adolescent analysts. Many clinicians are often ill equipped to deal with erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents. In this lecture, Susan Donner, M.D. will address the need for a more nuanced approach to adolescent sexuality. This session will specifically address how to differentiate between infantile, latency, adolescent, and adult erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents, define erotic, erotized, and perverse components in the transference and countertransference matrix, and list pathological manifestations of maternal and paternal erotism. The integration of these elements into assessment and treatment of young patients is important for the effectiveness of clinicians’ practice with adolescents.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.
Sabina Preter-Veit, M.D., Chair, Peter J. Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture
- Brady, M. (2022). Chapter 2, “Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents,” In Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents, pp. 26-46, Routledge: London and New York.
- Elise, D. ( 2015a). Eroticism in the maternal matrix: Infusion through development and the clinical situation. fort da, 21(2):17-32.
- Elise, D. ( 2015b). Reclaiming lost loves: Transcending unrequited desires: Discussion of Davies’ “Oedipal complexity.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25:284-294.
- Elise, D. (2017). Moving from within the Maternal: The Choreography of Analytic Eroticism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:33-60.
- Ferenczi, S. (1949). Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and of Passion). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30:225-230.
- Guignard, F. (2022). Chap. 13, “Sexual Life and Identificatory Reorganizations in Adolescent,” In The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice, pp.125-136.
- Jackson, E. (2022). Chapter 10, “Too close for comfort: the challenges of engaging with sexuality in work with adolescents,” In Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents, pp. 161-83.
Susan Donner, M.D. is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles, California. She is a Training and Child, Adolescent and Adult Supervising Analyst, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training, and Director of the NCP Child and Adolescent Clinic at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA where she directs the Area of Distinction in Psychoanalytic Perspectives for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. She is a member of IPA COCAP and the co-director of the pilot training program on Parent-Infant Psychoanalytic Interventions. She is the recipient of 2019 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award, the 2020 Beata Rank Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), the 2021 UCLA Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2022 American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin’s Teaching Award.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to:
- Describe and differentiate between infantile, latency, adolescent, and adult erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents.
- Explain and define erotic, erotized and perverse components in the transference and countertransference matrix.
- List pathological manifestations of maternal and paternal erotism.
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Social Workers
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.
Venue: NYPSI's Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
Description:
Second Floor, 247 East 82nd Street | New York, NY 10028