"More Than One Can Live": Reconceiving Harm and Reparation in the Intersubjective World

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107

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In the therapeutic process, we encounter impasses where one must seemingly harm or be harmed by the other, and it feels as though there is only room for one psyche to live. The concept of the moral Third is a way to think about a position from which to communicate, or step out of, the deep complementary structure underlying impasse.  The moral Third can be defined in developmental terms as a representation of a lawful world of self and other that preserves attachment by repairing or acknowledging the inevitable violations of expected patterns.  Such acknowledgment of misrecognition and injury is essential to repair, developmentally and therapeutically. Failure in this domain means that the need for such recognition is usually equated with being destructive to the needed other.  In this light we will reread Klein’s ideas about reparation, translating them  into the intersubjective view of disruption and repair,  the co-creation of a meaningful world (representation) in which both can live.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:

1. learn to make clinical use of the idea of intersubjective rupture and repair and its developmental origins. 
2. learn the meaning and use of the idea of the moral Third and how it guides the therapist in clinical impasses that involve the “doer-done to” complementarity.
3. be able to evaluate and discern when acknowledgment and disclosure by the analyst are helpful, especially when there are problems of dissociation and shame.
    

Jessica Benjamin, PhD is Supervisor and Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Founding Board Member and Faculty of the Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, a Co-Founder of IARPP, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of The Bonds of Love; Like Subjects, Love Objects; Shadow of the Other.Her latest book was published in 2017, Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third. She has also brought her integration of psychic and social issues to working on an Acknowledgment project in the Middle East.

Continuing Education

This event is approved for 4.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts: 

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0018.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.

National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0059.

Personalized CE certificates will be distributed at the end of this event. Due to New York State requirements, persons arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will not receive a CE certificate. 

Fees

Early Registration (ends January 15, 2018)

$100 general public
$85 NIPPA members
$65 candidates & students

General Registration (begins January 16, 2018)

$125 general public
$110 NIPPA member
$90 candidates & students

Refunds & Cancellation Policy
Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the event or for no-shows on the day of the event.