Ideology and the Clinic- Archived
Credits: [8 ]
Dates:
Continuous
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How do the social norms that regulate gender and sex relations, class relations, and race relations enter into the psyche and then into clinical work? This symposium discusses Lynne Layton’s work on the ways that ideologies that support unjust social systems shape individual psyches. Layton proposes a model in which unconscious process and unconscious repetitions simultaneously resist and uphold sexist, racist, and other norms that cause psychic pain in the first place. We will focus on the way that the effects of unjust social systems are enacted consciously and unconsciously in macro- and microscopic interactions between patient and therapist.
Panelists for this seminar are Neil Altman, Philip Cushman, Stephen Hartman, Nancy Hollander, Jennifer McCarroll, Andrew Samuels, and Annie Stopford. In the first week of the symposium, Lynne Layton will be interviewed by one of the panelists in order to make the main ideas of the theory accessible to participants. Two papers will then be sequentially discussed. The first, “From Culture to Couch” is an overview of Layton’s theory of normative unconscious processes. This paper looks both at how ideologies are enacted in the clinic and at the way that psychoanalytic theories might contribute to an understanding of what is going on in contemporary US society. The second paper, “Attacks on Linking” exemplifies with extended clinical material the way that normative unconscious processes are enacted in treatment.
Registration Fee: $69.95 (for non-members)
Test for CE Credits: $40 (no charge for PsyBC members with a sufficient number of remanining free CEUs)
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Educational Objectives:
The student in this course will learn:
(1) to identify ways that ideology is lived in normative unconscious processes.
(2) to listen clinically for the ways that class, race, gender, sexual and other hierarchies shape the psyche and intersubjective relations.
(3) to recognize enactments in which patient and therapist collude to perpetuate norms that cause psychic pain.
SCHEDULE:
9/29 through 10/3: Interview of Lynne Layton by Annie Stopford
10/4 -> 10/14 Discussion of “From Culture to Couch.” (Phil Cushman is the leadoff discussant)
10/15 -> 10/25 Discussion of “Attacks on Linking” (Stephen Hartman is the leadoff discussant
Articles discussed, free for download:
“From Culture to Couch” by Lynn Layton
“Attacks on Linking” by Lynn Layton
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Faculty
Neil Altman
Neil Altman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is Adjunct Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University. From 1999 – 2007 he served as Joint Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives and is presently Editor Emeritus. He is the author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens and co-author of
Relational Child Psychotherapy. He is presently Representative to the United Nations from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. In the past, he was Assistant Secretary and member of the executive committee, NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns. neilaltman@hotmail.com
Philip Cushman, Ph.D.
Philip Cushman has a Ph.D. in Psychology and two M.A. degrees, one in American Studies and one in Family Therapy. He has been in private practice since 1978, and has taught at the California School of Professional Psychology as clinical core faculty from 1994-2002. Most recently he has moved to Vashon island, Washington, where he has a small practice; also he teaches at University of Washington Tacoma, Seattle University, and Evergreen State. Currently, he is also a research fellow at the Kalsman Institute for Judaism and Health, USC. He has been married to Karen for 36 years; they have one child, Leah Corrina, who is a librarian (M.L.I.S.) at the Washington State Library in Olympia. His book, Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy, is still available in paperback; he has written several articles for American Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Psychohistory Review. His most recent article is “Between Arrogance and a Dead-End: Psychoanalysis and the Heidegger/Foucault Dilemma,” which is in press.
Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.
Stephen Hartman, PhD, studied and taught political theory before becoming a psychologist. His writing concerns the manner by which the political world enters psychic life. To this end, his essay on the “class unconscious” will soon be published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. That essay was followed by an investigation of the political dimension in sexual urges: “My savage mind: sex in the relational unconscious” that was presented at the 2005 meeting of APA Division 39. Next in this series of essays is a historical survey of psychoanalytic ideas about “how outside becomes inside.” Stephen has also presented and written about his work with Chelsea Boys, gay men whose substance use and identity rituals he frames in the context of Layton’s ideas about a “heterosexual unconscious.” He is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He works in private practice in Manhattan and supervises doctoral candidates in clinical psychology at City College CUNY. Stephen and Henry Urbach, an art dealer and curator, share a home with a Norwegian Buhund named Vic.
Nancy Hollander, Ph.D.
Nancy Caro Hollander,Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles and member and on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is Professor Emeritus of Latin American history at California State University. She has authored many works on the psychopolitical dynamics of extreme social situations, including Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America (Other Press, 1997). She is President of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Section IX, Division 39, APA and co-editor (with Susan Gutwill and Lynne Layton of the forthcoming Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics (Routledge).let
Lynne Layton, PhD
Lynne Layton, Ph.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. She has taught courses on women and popular culture and on culture and psychoanalysis for Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. Currently, she teaches at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press, 2004), co-editor, with Susan Fairfield and Carolyn Stack, of Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2002), and co-editor, with Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, 2006). She is editor, with Peter Redman, of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her private practice is in Brookline, MA. llayton@bidmc.harvard.edu
Jennifer McCarroll
Jennifer McCarroll is a psychologist in private practice in Manhattan
who is affiliated with the William Alanson White Institute. She has published work in Psychoanalytic Dialogues examining the impact of postmodern ideas on psychoanalytic thinking about subjectivity and
sexuality. More recently, she has become interested in the intersection
of cultural studies and psychoanalysis, writing and speaking on how media images effect the development of subjectivity, agency, and transference and countertransference dynamics.
Andrew Samuels
Andrew Samuels D.H.L. is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex University, Visiting Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychoanalysis at New York University, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Honorary Professor of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies at Roehampton University. He is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Samuels is a Founder Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He works internationally as a political consultant, was co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, and created the journal Psychotherapy and Politics International.
Formerly, he was Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, a Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and 2003 winner of the Hans W. Loewald award of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. His books have been translated into 19 languages and include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985),The Father (1986), Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis(1986), The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father (1989), Psychopathology (1989), The Political Psyche(1993), and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva prize-winning Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life (2001). andrew@andrewsamuels.net
Annie Stopford
Annie Stopford PhD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia and an adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Sydney. She is also involved in community activism, and is co convenor of Australian African Network. Her articles on psychosocial research, psychoanalysis and interraciality, relational psychoanalysis, mothering "mixed race" children, and transcultural families have been published in psychoanalytic and African studies journals, including Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Contemporary Psychoanalysis (in press), the Journal of Pan African Studies, and Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies.
Among her current strong interests are forms of(ethical) relationality in cross cultural/racial contact zones, post-kinshipstudies, making psychoanalytic training and knowledge more accessible to those of non-elite backgrounds, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and nonpsychoanalytic therapies.
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