NIPPA Focus Seminar: Vitalization in
Psychoanalysis
Sunday, February 11, 2018, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Presented by:
Amy Schwartz Cooney, PhD
Rachel Sopher, LCSW
Ellen Fries, LCSW
Vitalization: Intersubjective and Intrapsychic Transformations
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107
This seminar will explore Vitalization, focusing on interventions that move the patient and the treatment from states of deadness and deadlock to enlivenment and vibrant relatedness. We’ll consider the analyst’s use of herself and the role of old and new object experiences in creative transformations. Amy Schwartz Cooney will propose the notion of vitalizing enactment, defined as uniquely progressive enactments that bring embryonic experiences to life in the analytic dyad and are transformative as lived encounters rather than in retrospective processing. Rachel Sopher will explore the ways in which the analyst lives in deep communion with the patient’s inner experience, allowing its uniqueness to impact her own internal world, creating opportunities for new and enlivening experiences between them. Attendees will be invited to join in this comparative exploration.
Amy Schwartz Cooney, PhD is faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. She developed a Comparative Psychoanalysis Project at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where she chairs the Relational Colloquium Committee. She has written and presented on Reparation, Mourning and Growth; and Vitalizing Enactment. She is in private practice in New York.
Rachel Sopher, LCSW is a board and faculty member at NIP. She is also Assistant Director of NIP's National Training Program, and the senior editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is also faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Center.
Ellen Fries, LCSW is Past President of NIP Board of Directors, the Director, faculty and supervisor for NIP's National Training Program, and a supervisor and advisor in NIP's Adult Training Program. Ellen has written on bodily transference/countertransference experience, and the unspoken in psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan.
Continuing Education
The NIPPA Focus Seminar series do not offer CE hours.
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.
The event is free, but pre-registration is required.