Closed Meeting: The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Child Analysis

  • December 3, 2020
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Child Analysis: A Tale of a Young Girl Caught in the Throes of Love and Hate”

Thursday, December 3, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

 

Presenter: Lee Ascherman, M.D.

This presentation will highlight the challenges and opportunities in analytic work with a young child in the throes of love and hate complicated by only nascent abilities to modulate affect and impulse as she grapples with intense longings, rage, fears and guilt.  Examination of unconscious fantasy emerging in the transference and how it contributes to defense and countertransference serves to elucidate what about work with young children may be similar to work with adults and what distinguishes it. Through the lens of this child’s process, a springboard is provided for discussion of the nature of ‘therapeutic action’.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

 

Lee Ascherman, M.D. is training and supervising analyst and child supervising analyst of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine after recently retiring as Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the UAB Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Chief of Service for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s [Hospital] of Alabama. He has published on ethics of psychotherapy and psychotherapy supervision, and learning disorders including A Clinician’s Guide to Learning Disabilities co-authored with Carleen Franz, Ph.D. and Julia Shaftel, Ph.D., (Oxford University Press, 2017).

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. identify three components to the nature of therapeutic action in child analytic work.
2. identify in what ways the nature of therapeutic action in child analytic work is similar to the nature of therapeutic action in adult work and in what ways it is different.
3. identify several challenges specific to working with defense with young children.
Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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