D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott is enormously popular in psychoanalysis today, partly because of his charming, charismatic personality which shines through in his writing style.

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8 Sessions: Wednesdays; April 3, 10, 17; May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2024

Time: 7:00-8:30 pm EDT 

This courses will only be held in-person at BPSI. 

D.W. Winnicott 

D.W. Winnicott is enormously popular in psychoanalysis today, partly because of his charming, charismatic personality which shines through in his writing style. When one digs more deeply into his writing, however, one learns that Winnicott was not just a delightful character. He thought deeply about children, development, families, and society. His ideas regarding transitional objects and true/false selves are iconic, and his thinking is extremely useful in clinical psychology, philosophy, and sociology.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain why acknowledging/containing hate are essential to good therapy. 
  2. Describe regression and its potential role in true self formation. 
  3. Explain the definition, origin, nature, and fate of the transitional object. 
  4. Explain what Winnicott means by true self and false self and describe their origins. 
  5. Describe what Winnicott means by "unintegrated" and "ruthless." 
  6. Explain what Winnicott means by "using" versus "relating to" an object.
  7. Explain the role of confrontation in adolescent identity formation.
  8. Define delinquency and describe delinquents' origin and role in democracy.

Instructor

Jason Jones, MD

is a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, on staff at both the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Clinical Evaluation Center. He specializes in psychodynamic individual and family therapy with patients with personality disorders. He is a graduate of Tulane Medical School, Harvard University’s Residency in Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s Advanced Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He also completed a fellowship in Intensive Psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The course will be open to Non-Clinicians, Licensed Clinicians or Clinicians on the path to licensure. Continuing Education will not be offered for this program.

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$375 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$350 Early Bird (available until 03/18/2024) Use Code at Checkout: EB2024DWW

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 
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Program Administrator
Stephanie Cavanaugh: scavanaugh@bpsi.org

Program Chair
Holly Friedman Housman, LICSW: holly@housman.org
 

Continuing Education will not be offered for this program.
 
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Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Stephanie Cavanaugh at scavanaugh@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
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