What Is Deep and What Is Superficial in Psychoanalysis? [Archive]
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The article under discussion in this conference (“The Foundational Level of Psychodynamic Meaning: Implicit Process in Relation to Conflict, Defense, and the Dynamic Unconscious”) presents the latest, pre-publication work of the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG), further illuminating implicit processes in psychoanalysis, and emerging in part from the group’s exchange with various critics, who found it difficult to accept our view that privileges implicit process. Critical commentary that has been saying, “The moment-to-moment is very interesting, but where is the deep stuff?” contains an implicit dismissal requiring a response. It did not seem to us that we were addressing something different from the concerns of all analysts. Rather, it seemed that traditional theory had turned upside-down what was ‘deep’ and what was ‘superficial’. The reversal seemed to have grown from a lack of information about implicit processing both in infancy and adulthood as well as from a lack of opportunity to study and appreciate the moment-to-moment “local level” of therapeutic process.
In this article, we use information from both infant research and adult relationships to show how psychodynamically deeper levels of meaning are based in implicit forms of representation organized by the participants’ intentions. The person to person exchanges occurring at the local level in the implicit domain come to constitute implicit relational knowing and have psychodynamic effects. Finally, we show how implicit meaning should be considered part of the currently conceived dynamic unconscious. Here we provide an explanatory and theoretical underpinning for much of what has been written recently by relational school psychoanalysts.
The BCPSG will discuss the article with Jessica Benjamin, Adrienne Harris, Arnold Modell, and Donnel Stern who will each present short commentaries responding to the article.
Educational Objectives
1. To acquaint the participants with an updated view of psychodynamics
2. To familiarize the participants with the latest thinking on implicit processes and their relevance to clinical practice
3. To rectify the upside-down relationship between previous theory’s view of what is surface and what is depth
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Faculty
Jessica Benjamin
is well-known as the author of The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (Pantheon, 1988). She teaches at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and at the New School for Social Research Program in Psychoanalytic Studies. She practices psychoanalysis in New York City. Most recently, her essays on intersubjectivity and gender in psychoanalysis were collected in Like Subjects and Love Objects: On Recognition and Sexual Difference, (Yale University Press, 1996). She is an associate editor of Gender and Psychoanalysis and on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern
Pediatrician and Child Psychiatrist
Director of the Swiss Brazelton Center
Co-author with Daniel Stern of "Birth of a Mother"
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
Adrienne Harris is an the faculty and supervises at the New York University Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She also teaches at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of a new journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has co-edited with Lewis Aron, The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi and a forthcoming book, Storms in Her Head with Muriel Dimen. She is preparing a book on developmental theory and chaos theory called Gender as a Soft Assembly. She writes on the topic of gender, developmental theory and psycholinguistics.
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Ph.D.
In addition to her research at Harvard University, and clinical work, Dr. Lyons-Ruth is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and is Co-Director of Child Clinical Training in Psychology at Cambridge Hospital. She is the principal investigator of the Family Pathways Project, a longitudinal study from infancy to adolescence of children at social risk. Her research publications have focused on parental depression and disorganized attachment patterns and the contributions of these early risk factors to later psychopathology.
Armold Modell, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; author of 5 books including The Private Self; Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Practices psychoanalysis in Newton Mass.
Alexander C. Morgan, MD
Alexander C. Morgan, MD graduated from Davidson College and got his MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He interned at Cambridge Hospital and did his psychiatry training at University Hospital and the Affiliated Hospitals of Boston University Medical Center. His psychoanalytic training was at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he remains on the faculty. He is also on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
For thirty years he has been working at The Cambridge Hospital, where he is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge Hospital. His interests have included work across the life span, and the work of the Boston Change Process Study Group to apply early developmental findings to the process of adult therapy and psychoanalysis has been central to his mode of thinking.
Jeremy Nahum, M.D.
Dr. Jeremy Nahum practices psychoanalysis and psychiarty in Newton, Massachusetts. He is on the facultys of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Hospital, where he serves as a psychiatric consultant to the Family Pathways Project. He created the Infant Research Workshop of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society/Institute out of which the Boston Change Process Study Group emerged. Its purpose has been to study how change occurs in psychoanalytic therapies, using models from developmental studies as well as dynamic systems theory. The group’s work has led to a number of publications, including a special issue of the journal, Infant Mental Health, Interventions that Effect Change in Psychotherapy: A Model Based on Infant Development, and Non-Interpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Something More than Interpretation, in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and most recently The Something More than Interpretation Revisited: Sloppiness and Co-creativity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter, in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The group’s work has also been featured in a number of symposia on the Enigma of Change in Psychodynamic Therapies.
Louis W. Sander
Retired 1987
Former Prof. of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine 1968-1978, Director, Boston University Longitudinal Project
Former Prof. of Psychiatry Univ of Colorado Medical School 1978-1987
Donnel Stern
Donnel Stern is currently on the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute as well as serving as a training and supervising analyst. He is the current editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and edits the series entitled \"Psychoanalysis at the Edge\" for the Analytic Press. In addition to acting as co-editor for the Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 1995), and Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 1995), he authored Unformulated Experience (Analytic
Press 1997) a ground-breaking study of mental process and consciousness. Don is on the faculty of the NYU Post-Doctoral program as well as other analytic training centers across the country.
Daniel N. Stern, M.D.
Professor Stern is currently Professor Ordinaire in the Faculté de Psychologie, Université de Genéve, Switzerland; Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical School – New York Hospital; and Lecturer at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalysis. Prof. Stern is the author of five books and several hundred journal articles and chapters.
For more than thirty years he has worked at the interface between research and practice; between developmental psychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy; between infant observation/experimentation and the clinical reconstruction of early experience; between the interpersonal and intrapsychic perspectives. This work has served a bridging and integrating function in furthering our understanding of clinical theory, practice, and development.
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