program description:
Dr. Margaret Allan presents a compelling case of a patient’s ruthless pursuit for identicality with the analyst. Asymmetry, a radioactive notion for the patient, captured important ways the analyst did not match her experience, prompting protest and relentless bids for specificity of recognition and acknowledgment of reciprocal feelings, erotic and otherwise. Dr. Allan came to see the impasse, and the enduring tension with her patient not just as something to be worked through in the immediate eruptions, but as the milieu of the analytic relationship as a living system whereby the patient was able to locate herself in the battle for recognition and begin to grieve the limitations of the current and archaic relationships.
Dr. Peter Kaufmann examines the case through the lens of Winnicott’s concepts of breakdown, object use, and the analyst’s surviving the patient’s destruction, arguing that Dr. Allan provided the exact fittedness that the patient needed, providing a place for the patient to live through the breakdown, the primary trauma, and risk coming out as her true self, expressing all parts of her potential.
presenter:
Margaret Allan, MSW, PsyD
Margaret Allan, MSW, PsyD is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Senior Member at the Instituteof Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California. She is a published author and won the Daphne Stolorow Award for academic writing. She has been a frequent presenter at international psychoanalytic conferences. She is Australian having relocated to the U.S. some thirty years ago an hour north of LA.
discussant:
Peter Kaufmann, PhD
Peter Kaufmann, PhD is faculty and supervisor at IPSS and NIP and co-coordinator of the IPSS four -year program. He has a particular interest in comparative psychoanalysis and in efforts to integrate the clinical approaches and sensibilities represented by different theoretical perspectives, particularly Self Psychological and Relational viewpoints. He published a recent paper, “When Empathy Opens” (Kaufmann, 2023) that well reflects this comparative, integrative sensibility. He also has published several papers including “Working with Men Who Please Too Much”, and “On Transforming the Reparative Quest” that represent his related interest in the topics of mourning and pathological accommodation.
Co-authoring with Jenny Kaufmann, he has written recent papers and presentations on the theme of emerging from the shadows of parental narcissism. Most recently, he has been exploring the creative role of playful assertion/aggression in therapy, reflected most in an upcoming paper, “On Being the Edgy Alterego”.
learning objectives
At the end of the presentation, the participants will be able to:
cost & details
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Registration ends on March 7 at 10 am PT
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CE Credit
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