Reconsidering the Erotic in the Analytic Encounter
March 9, 2019, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Presented by:
Andrea Celenza, PhD
Steven Cooper, PhD
Janine de Peyer, LCSW
Steven Kuchuck, DSW
Reconsidering the Erotic in the Analytic Encounter
Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012
Exploring the erotic can present tricky challenges and rich opportunities for the psychoanalytic couple. Historically, erotic feelings have often been considered as expressive of the patient’s infantile needs and conflicts and linked interpretively to the maternal transference and unresolved oedipal issues. In recent years, attempts have been made to theorize a place for adult sexuality within a two person model. Attention has turned to the analyst’ use of her subjectivity, the complexities of self-disclosure, the hazards of traumatic repetition and the possibilities of reparation and growth. Concurrent with these developments within our field, the advent of the “me too movement” has created a sea change in broader social attitudes towards gender, power and sex.
The NIP 2019 Conference will feature a distinguished panel of speakers including Andrea Celenza, Steven Cooper, Janine De Peyer, and Steven Kuchuk who will explore their theoretical and clinical views on the erotic. How have sociopolitical shifts impacted their perspectives as analysts? How do age, gender and power play into erotic explorations in the consulting room and in our institutes and supervisory relationships? How do we keep the therapeutic process mutual, asymmetric, and analytic when passion is in the air and our society is on heightened alert? These are some of the questions we will consider as we explore the erotic in contemporary psychoanalysis.
After completing the conference, attendees will:
1. Understand the way gender, power, and sexuality can influence the analytic conversation on the erotic.
2. Understand and be able to apply a broad range of psychoanalytic perspectives on working with the erotic in the transference/countertransference.
3. Become attuned to the way current cultural and social movements such as “me too” may influence the analytic process.
4. Become better able to work with erotic experiences and power dynamics in supervisory, teaching and institutional settings.
Andrea Celenza, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Celenza is the recipient of several awards and has authored two books. Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory and Academic Contexts, was published by Jason Aronson in 2007. Her new book, Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios is published by Routledge. She is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.
Steven Cooper, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is Chief Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of three books, most recently: The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis. Most recently in 2018 he will give two keynotes, one to the American Psychoanalytic Association and the other for the Centenary celebration of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Janine de Peyer, LCSW is Faculty and a Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center where she teaches about clinical process and transference-countertransference dynamics. Janine is Associate Editor with Psychoanalytic Dialogues, has presented internationally, and published on dissociation, unconscious communication, and the uncanny. Janine’s recent articles include Uncanny Communication and the Porous Mind, (2016, Psychoanalytic Dialogues), Byron-Beguiled, (2017, Psychoanalytic Perspectives), and Traversing the Ineffable: Commentary on Sharon Farber’s “Becoming a Telepathic Tuning Fork” (2017, Psychoanalytic Dialogues). Janine is in private practice in Manhattan, integrating EMDR and creative visualization within a relational psychoanalytic framework.
Steven Kuchuck, DSW is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, Co-Director of Curriculum for the psychoanalytic training program at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck lectures nationally and internationally and his teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan and he also offers individual and group consultation online.
Continuing Education
This event is approved for 4.5 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.
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 February 15, 2019)
$150 General Public
$100 NIPPA Members
$75 Candidates & Students
$60 NIP Candidates
General Registration (begins February 16, 2019)
$175 General Public
$125 NIPPA Members
$100 Candidates & Students
$85 NIP Candidates
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.