THE BODY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE USE OF TRANSITIONAL SPACE, FROM INFANCY TO CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE TO ADULTHOOD
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD
Tuesdays, November 10, 17, 24, December 1, 8, and 15
8:15-9:45pm, Zoom
This course offers psychoanalytic perspectives on the body and its role in development from infancy through adulthood. Drawing on the Paris School of Psychosomatics, we will explore current crises of body malaise and disaffected states, along with the concept of psyche-soma balance.
The course addresses techniques of intervention and the specific quality of listening, feeling, and receiving that brings the analyst closer to patients’ primitive traumas and early narcissistic injuries. We will examine how to recognize these issues in adult and child analysis and how to develop transitional space when working with archaic defenses and regression. Clinical material from infant, child, and adult cases will illustrate theoretical points and techniques for addressing flat affect, absence of associative material, and obstacles in the development of the transference.
9 Contact hours = 9 CE credits
Learning Objectives:
- Critically evaluate theories on the psychosomatic consequences of impaired representation and describe specific unconscious issues associated with psychosomatic disorders.
- Recognize patients’ needs for regulation of transition and separation and select appropriate analytic interpretations regarding transitional space.
- Identify multilayered dynamics in hypochondriacal anxieties and their consequences for mental health.
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and adult/child psychiatrist. She is a member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute. She directed the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Program as Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and is co-founder of the Pulsion Institute. She has published two books in French on play in child psychotherapy and psychoanalytic interventions with parents and babies, as well as numerous papers in English on child psychoanalysis, motherhood, symbolization, and psychosomatics.
9 CE credits
- $480 general admission
- $330 IPTAR members
- $300 IPTAR candidates
Learning Objectives:
- Critically evaluate theories on the psychosomatic consequences of impaired representation and describe specific unconscious issues associated with psychosomatic disorders.
- Recognize patients’ needs for regulation of transition and separation and select appropriate analytic interpretations regarding transitional space.
- Identify multilayered dynamics in hypochondriacal anxieties and their consequences for mental health.
9 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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