Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

Instructor

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.

March 5 – 19, 2025
Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:30 pm

Pay Fee – $200 – REGISTRATION OPENS JAN 2025

4.5 CME/CE credits offered

Course Description

This course will present results of ongoing collaborative research by two analysts working in two different modalities – individual and couple. The comparison of the dynamics in the two settings reveals many new issues and questions. For instance: Is there an unconscious organization of the couple distinct from the unconscious organizations of the individuals in it? What are the differences between the individual’s transferences to the analyst and to the patient’s partner? How much can the analyst know about the patient’s partner? At every meeting the instructor will present clinical material illustrating these and other issues.

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and of CAPS. She founded and chaired the New York Psychoanalytic Institute’s Colloquium with Visiting Authors, where members of diverse schools of thought were invited to present their psychoanalytic perspectives. She served as the Foreign Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis.

She is in private practice and conducts private seminars and supervisions. Besides being guest lecturer at American and International institutions she has written reviews, essays on the work of various authors and her own work, such as: “To Mother or Not to Mother: Abortion and its Challenges”(1993); “Discovering One’s Own Responsibility in a Judgmental System” (1996); “The Headless Woman: Scheherazade’s Syndrome”(1997); “The First Interview: From Psychopathology to Psychoexistential Diagnosis” (1999); “The Internal Interlocutor” (2001); “Malignant Passionate Attachments” (2004); “Implicit theories of the psychoanalyst about femininity” (2008); “The perilous road to hope”(2009); “Coupledom” (2010); “The Synergizing potential of Individual and Couple Treatments” ( 2011) with Peter Mezan, PhD; “Is there an unconscious organization of the couple, and if so, how does it come into being? ” with Peter Mezan, PhD (2012); “What can we know about our patient’s partner?” with Peter Mezan, PhD (2012). She has been the co-editor, with Leticia Glocer Fiorini of Freud’s Femininity a book edited in 2010 by the IPA under the Contemporary Freud Series. Her chapter in that book: “Are women still at risk of being misunderstood?”

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the psychoanalytic principles underlying the unconscious structure and dynamics of a couple.
2. Evaluate the beneficial effects of concurrent individual and couple treatments.
3. Distinguish between the unconscious organization of the individual and the unconscious organization of the couple.

Continuing Education Information

Cancellation Policy: Full refund will be granted only if registrant cancels prior to course. Please contact the Administrative Director at admdir@nypsi.org