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The Professional Development Committee Presents:

The Psychoanalytic Situation: Setting and Internal Frame

Framing the Frame: Part II

Discussant: Howard Levine

October 22th 10am-12pm EST on Zoom

Howard Levine, is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and PULSION, on the faculty of NYU Postdoc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irrepresentable (Ithique 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of the Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge, 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green:Towards a Psychoanalysis for the 21 st Century (Routledge/IPA, 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013), On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac, 2014), The Wildred Bion Tradition (Karnac, 2016), Bion in Brazil (Karnac, 2017), Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac, 2018), Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix), Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA 2022) and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix, 2023).

Admission:

General admission(Members/Fellows) $60 including 2CE credits

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

1. List three examples of the internal frame in psychoanalysis separate from the external
frame.
2. List three examples of the external frame in psychoanalysis distinguished from the

Recommended Readings:
Bleger J. (1967). Psycho-analysis of the psycho-analytic frame, International Journal of
Psychoanalysis,48:511-519.

Moguillansky, C. and Levine, H. (Eds.) (2022). Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Frame
Revisited. New York and London: IPA/Routledge.

Parsons, M. (1999). Psychic reality, negation and the analytic setting. In G. Kohon (Ed.) The
Dead Mother, London: Routledge.

This event is part 2 of Framing the Frame, a three-part series offered by the Professional
Development Committee to help us develop a deeper understanding of issues surrounding
in-person vs. online treatment. Our three speakers offer different emphases and
viewpoints.

Professional Development Committee: Judith Hanlon, Chair; Carolyn Ellman, Susan
Finkelstein, Odile Hullot-Kentor, Marilyn Rifkin, Matthew von Unwerth

2 CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements

The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (1651 3rd Ave, Suite 205, NY, NY 10128) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists (#PSY-0026), and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#SW-0226) and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychoanalysts (#P-0011), Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (#CAT-0037) and Licensed Mental Health Counselors (#MHC-0112). This certificate is not applicable to any other New York State profession.

October 22, 2023 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm via zoom