Mother In Mourning, Daughter In Pain: From Essential Depression To Sexuality
Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur will present the analytic journey of an 8-y old girl who suffered from years-long severe eczema on her face and limbs, and the work undertaken with her parents. She will describe how the psychoanalytic process with her young patient entailed an evolution from what Pierre Marty called essential depression, to sexuality.
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Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur will present the analytic journey of an 8-y old girl who suffered from years-long severe eczema on her face and limbs, and the work undertaken with her parents. She will describe how the psychoanalytic process with her young patient entailed an evolution from what Pierre Marty called essential depression, to sexuality. The creation of a sensory and representational void in the young child, connected to the mother’s difficulties in mourning, as described by André Green, led directly to the psychosomatic picture. Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur will detail her analytic work with this young patient, centering around creating a delicate balance between manic agitation, aggressive opposition, and depressive feelings, and leading to a rapid decrease in her symptoms and awakening of libidinal interests.
Speakers
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Presenter is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City who works in private practice with adults, children, parents and their babies. A member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the chair of the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, COCAP. She is the co-founder of Pulsion Institute. She published papers on Child psychoanalysis, Motherhood, the Symbolization Process, Psychosomatics, and on Addiction. She co-edited with the COCAP “The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families” and with Vaia Tsolas “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World: on the Body” in 2017, and “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw” in 2023. |
Frances Arnold (Fran), Discussant is an adult and child - adolescent psychoanalyst and faculty member at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). She is also an attending clinical psychologist at the Borderline Personality Disorder and the Pavilion Programs at McLean Hospital and a faculty member with the McLean/MGH Psychiatry Residency and Psychology Internship programs. Her interests include therapeutic action, comparative theories of psychoanalytic technique, and women and psychoanalysis. She has written about Borderline Personality Disorder and co-edited a book, with Stephanie Brody, entitled Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women’s Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership. |
Lisa Price, Moderator is a faculty member in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. At BPSI, she is a Faculty Member, Director of BPSI’s Programs in Psychodynamics and Travel Grants, as well as an Advanced Child Analytic Candidate. In her Cambridge private practice, she sees children, adolescents, and adults across the lifespan. |
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe Pierre Marty’s concept of essential depression and how it applies to children.
- Explain how sensorial and representational voids lead to psychosomatic symptoms.
- Discuss how complications with mourning in the mother can lead to difficulties in her child’s ability to represent emotions.
- Describe how psychoanalytic work with the child and parents can lead to the alleviation of psychosomatic symptoms in the patient.
Schedule
8:45 Welcome and Introductions; 9:00 Presentation; 10:00 Discussant; 10:45 Break; 11:00 Discussion with the audience
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Recording
A recording of this event will not be available.
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