Psychoanalytic thinking has moved far beyond the neutral analyst and now encompasses the mutual influence between patient and therapist. But the full nature of two-person influence has only begun to be articulated.
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Saturday, December 5, 2020
9:00 AM EST Online Lecture & Discussion
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To receive Continuing Education, registration must be completed by Friday, December 4, 2020 at 10:00 AM EST
In honor of Jeremy P. Nahum, MD
Psychoanalytic thinking has moved far beyond the neutral analyst and now encompasses the mutual influence between patient and therapist. But the full nature of two-person influence has only begun to be articulated. In this program, at the intersection of psychoanalysis and affective neuroscience, we will further expand analytic ideas of mutual influence by illustrating their central roles in the developmental process and the clinical process.
We start from the idea that people are not isolates, but are always participating in each other’s experiences. We share other’s experiences and they share ours, continuously. We are always consciously and non-consciously moving through each other’s experiences of self and world in embodied ways involving action, affect and intention.
Therapeutic process is not merely about resolving conflicts or symbolizing mental content but is more centrally about catalyzing new capacities for relationship. Change occurs in moving through others and their moving through us. This embodied dance with special partners, who have become highly charged others for us, occurs largely outside of consciousness. The embodied moving through process in psychotherapy drives the long developmental trajectory involved in coming to know one’s own and others’ minds. This process also develops the capacities that will lead to greater and greater relational abilities to engage.
A clinical presentation will illustrate these processes of how one may be moved by moving through the other. Discussion with those participating will extend the focus of mutual influence through an experiential sharing of perspectives.
Speakers
Bruce Reis, PhD (Presenter)
Member of the Boston Change Process Study Group, Dr Reis is a Training and Supervising Analyst at IPTAR; Regional Editor for North America at the IJP; and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Heather Churchill, PsyD (Clinical Case Presenter)
Staff Psychologist and Associate Director of the Therapeutic Community, and Coordinator of the Health and Wellness Program at The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
Jack Foehl, PhD (Discussant)
Training & Supervising Analyst and President-Elect at BPSI; Faculty and Supervisor at Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; Associate Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and Executive Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD (Moderator)
Member of the Boston Change Process Study Group, Dr. Lyons-Ruth is Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; principal investigator of the Mother-Infant Neurobiological Development (MIND) Study; and an Affiliate Scholar of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
Schedule
9:00 am - 9:10 am: Introductions, Karlen Lyons-Ruth; 9:10 am - 10:00 am: Presentation: Bruce Reis; 10:00 am -10:10 am Break; 10:10-10:50 am: Case presentation-Heather Churchill; 10:50 am - 11:10 am: Discussant-Jack Foehl; 11:10 am - 11:40 am: Discussion between presenters and Audience; 11:40 – 12:00: Tribute & Memorial in honor of Jeremy P. Nahum.
Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG)
Nadia Bruschweiler Stern, MD; Karlen Lyons Ruth, PhD; Alexander C. Morgan, MD;
Jeremy P. Nahum, MD (1939-2019); Bruce Reis, PhD
Audience discussion will include participation by members of the Study Group
Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, MD
Dr. Bruschweiler-Stern is a pediatrician and child psychiatrist and directs the Swiss Brazelton Center. Her focus is on infant development, psychological changes of parenting, and early intersubjectivity. She is co-author with Daniel Stern of "Birth of a Mother."
Alexander C. Morgan, MD
Dr. Morgan is an adult psychoanalyst in Newton, a faculty member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance. His interests include applying early developmental findings across the life span.
Jeremy P. Nahum, MD
Dr. Nahum was a practicing psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and couples therapist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught in the development sequence at both the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He was part of the Psychotherapy Research program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a psychiatric consultant to the Family Pathways Project at the Cambridge Health Alliance. It was his mind and spirit that gave birth and nurtured the Boston Change Process Study Group from its beginning in 1994 until his death in 2019.
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