THE EROTIC FIELD

Mary T. Brady, Ph.D.

Saturdays, December 2 and 9, 2023
12:00-2:00PM (ET)
On Zoom
4 Contact Hours = 4 CE Credits

 

In the first session we discuss two groundbreaking articles. The first by Searles squared off against the orthodox notion, prevalent at the time, that intense emotional reactions on the part of the analyst are pathological. Then we move to Alvarez’s seminal paper on erotic transference and countertransference with children and adolescents. Alvarez brings the sexuality of the infant and the young child to life – in concert with despair, contempt, boredom or other states that intermingle with the erotic.

In the second session we move to conceptualizing ‘the erotic field.’ I suggest that the subtle interchange of feelings, dreams, narratives and images thtat arise when erotic feelings are in the fore is better conceptualized as an erotic field, than with the binary of transference/countertransference.

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to question the idea that intense reactions on the part of the analyst are pathological.
2. Participants will be able to utilize their understanding of the concept of the erotic field.
3. Participants will be able to describe the idea of ‘erotic insufficiency’.

Dr. Mary Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is Editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents, published by Routledge in 2022. Her books, Analytic Engagements with Adolescents and The Body in Adolescence were published by Routledge in 2018 and 2016 respectively. She is North American Co-Chair for the Committee on Child Analysis (COCAP) of the IPA. She co-leads a Psychoanalysis and Film group.

4 CE credits

  • $160 general admission
  • $140 members
  • $120 candidates / students

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to question the idea that intense reactions on the part of the analyst are pathological.
2. Participants will be able to utilize their understanding of the concept of the erotic field.
3. Participants will be able to describe the idea of ‘erotic insufficiency’.

4 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.

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