Where Does Meaning Come From? Boston Change Process Study Group [Archive]
Credits: [9 ]
Dates:
Apr 07 - Apr 21,2008
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This online conference will be focused on the Boston Change Process Study Group’s most recently published paper, “Forms of Relational Meaning: Issues in the Relations between the Implicit and Reflective/Verbal Domains.”(Is it available in the online conference room.) The paper follows the group’s last paper (“What is Deep and What is Superficial”), which was also subject of PsyBC conference. That paper advanced the thesis that the foundational level of psychoanalytic meaning was in the implicit domain.(This previous paper is not distributed in the conference but is available along with the discussions of it as a PsyBC arcived conference.) The paper’s major point was to remedy the upside down relationship between the supposedly superficial layer of immediate interaction in psychoanalytic treatment and the supposedly profound layer of intrapsychic entities such as conflict, defense, and the dynamic unconscious. The paper redefined the deep level as being at the level of lived experience. In many ways, the paper provided an explanatory and theoretical underpinning for much of what has been written in recent decades in Relational Psychoanalysis.
The current paper, “Forms of Relational Meaning,” explores the nature of the relations between the implicit and reflective/verbal domains. Historically, much of the work of psychoanalysis had been seen to exist primarily in the reflective/verbal domain. However, the domain of the implicit has come to be seen as increasingly important in psychotherapy because of the growing awareness of the large domain of implicit knowing, both in infant observations and in adult therapy. Furthermore, new importance has been given to enactments in the process of treatment, and they are often seen as residing in the implicit domain. The search for a coherent set of theoretical concepts in the field of relational psychoanalysis is aided by attempting to get greater clarity on these issues.
The related discussion in the online conference will examine the relevant issues that help us think about the relations between these two domains. The commonalities between the two domains are first reviewed, including the role of mirror neurons. Then discussion proceeds to how the reflective/verbal emerges from the implicit, including Lakoff and Johnson’s concept of the primary metaphor, Sheet-Johnstone’s argument for the primacy of movement in discovery of one’s self and the world, and finally the concept of the embodied mind and of non-verbal contexts for language. After reviewing the gap caused by the inevitable disjunction between the implicit and the reflective/verbal, the paper directs attention to the way meaning can be viewed from the perspective of the two person interaction.
Format
Each of our three discussants, Paul Ornstein, MD, Bruce Reis, PhD. and Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD will in turn present a commentary on the article by the Change Process Study Group and Study Group members will respond to those comments, Members of the audience are encouraged to participate in these discussions.
Message from the study Group:
We in the Boston Change Process Study Group look forward to hearing from the discussants and all the attendees to the on-line symposium. We believe the ideas considering the relation of the implicit and the reflective/verbal domains are of profound importance to the work of psychoanalytic therapy, and we look forward to this online conference advancing that work.
Educational Objectives
1. Define concepts often used in dealing with relational phenomena.
2. Compare the implicit and reflective-verbal relational domains.
3. Delineate the connections and boundaries between the implicit and reflective-verbal relational domains.
Format
We have invited three analysts to comment on this article: Bruce Reis, Phil Ringstrom and Paul Ornstein. A week of discussion by the Boston Change Process Study Group and the audience will be devoted to each of their commentaries. The commentaries are to serve as jumping off points for the discussion.
Schedule:
Discussion of commentary by Bruce Reis: April 7-13
Discussion of commentary by Phillip Ringstrom: April 14-20
Discussion of commentary by Paul Ornstein: April 21-27
Dates: April 7 - April 21, 2008
CE Credits: 9
COST:
Registration Fee: $137 for non-PsyBC Members
Test for CE Credits: $45. (Free for PsyBC members with enough available CEUs on their accounts.)
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Faculty
Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern
Pediatrician and Child Psychiatrist
Director of the Swiss Brazelton Center
Co-author with Daniel Stern of "Birth of a Mother"
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.
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.
Paul H. Ornstein, M.D.
Dr. Ornstein received his medical degree in Heidelberg, Germany. He had his psychiatric training at the University of Cincinnati. He is Professor of Psychiatry [Emeritus] and Professor of Psychoanalysis [Emeritus] at the University of Cincinnati. He is Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He is a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is currently Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center) and is a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute New England East, and also teaches at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Ornstein has written on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the interpretive process in psychoanalysis (many of these were jointly written with his wife Anna and on the topic of self psychology); he co-authored a book with Michael Balint on Focal Psychotherapy and edited and introduced the collection of Heinz Kohut's Selected Writings: The Search for the Self, Volumes I - IV. Dr. Ornstein has nearly one hundred scientific publications to his credit. Both alone and with his wife, he has conducted more than two hundred seminars and workshops in most major training centers in the United States and abroad; the latter included Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Holland, Israel, Italy, Indonesia (Bali & Yogyakarta), Norway, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
Bruce Reis, Ph.D.
Bruce Reis is on the relational faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and teaches at ICP in New York. He is a contributing editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and publishes regularly on the topic of intersubjectivity and its connection to the body. He is the co-chair of the IARPP Continuing Education Committee responsible for hosting twice yearly on line colloquiums.
Philip Ringstrom Ph.D, PsyD
Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a Senior Training and Supervising Analyst, Faculty Member, and Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA where he is in full time private practice.
He is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The International Journal for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and is also a publication’s reviewer for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition to publishing in all three of these journals he has published in, the Bulletin of the Menninger's Clinic, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of Clinical Social Work, and Gender and Sexuality, as well as has written chapters for books on Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Terrorism and War, and New Developments in Self Psychology Practice. He is also currently working on a book on a Relational Approach to Conjoint Therapy for The Analytic Press.
He is a member of the International Council of Self-Psychologists and on the Board of Directors of the IARPP – the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Finally, he was a panelist on the Psychoanalytic Internet Site PsyBc.com, and one of four psychoanalysts hired for two seasons to write post-episode commentary on The Soprano’s for www.Slate.com, the world’s largest Internet magazine.
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
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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