POSTPONED: Scientific Meeting: The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What’s Personal

PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER DATE.

The 1042nd Scientific Program Meeting:

“The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What’s Personal”

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D.

Discussant: Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

How do we become analysts? This presentation will focus on how the analyst can be both enabled and disabled by his/her own character and personal life events. The presenter will discuss how she uses her own character and her understanding of the mutual influences she shares with her patients in the clinical process. In addition, she will consider how this engagement reflects a process of “working through” both her own conflicts and those of her patients. Events in the analyst’s life affect who they become as people – sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes more significantly – and these changes in the analyst may have diverse reverberations in work with patients. Personal loss in the analyst’s life is one such life event that affects work with patients. For instance, the analyst may believe patients are recognizing or responding to the analyst’s preoccupations and/or distress or the analyst may fail to recognize such responses in the patient. This presentation will demonstrate the importance of not only recognizing but using these influences in the clinical work.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

 

Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and a former Clinical Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is now a corresponding member.  She is the author of three books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996), Writing about Patients: Responsibilities, risks, and ramifications (2006), and Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts about Endings (2014) and The Role of Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and  Outcome of Psychoanalysis that will be published by Routledge in 2020.  She has served three times on the Editorial Boards of JAPA and is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.  She is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Brookline, MA.

Theodore Jacobs, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Adult, Child and Adolescent Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He is currently on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Among his many publications are The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation, The Possible Profession and a novel, The Year of Durocher. He was the Brill Lecturer in 1993.

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: