AT THE FRONTIER OF ANALYTIC ONENESS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: FROM WITNESS TO WITHNESS AND AT ONE-MENT
Ofra Eshel, PsyD
Tuesdays, February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2027
Fridays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2027
1:00-2:30pm, Zoom
Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches seek to extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment for increasingly difficult patients and treatment situations. This course draws on Winnicott’s and Bion’s later writings to explore a spectrum of patient–analyst oneness and transformations in oneness when working with unrepressed and unrepresented unconscious states. It moves beyond representation and epistemological exploration toward ontological–experiential work in the unthinkable.
The course examines Winnicott’s therapeutic regression and early breakdown/madness, and Bion’s shift from transformations in K to transformations in O and at-one-ment. Analytic oneness opens difficult-to-reach domains for experiencing and transformation, especially with traumatized and non-communicating states.
12 Contact hours = 12 CE credits
Learning Objectives:
- Investigate Winnicott’s evolving vision of therapeutic regression, early breakdown, and madness as pathways to working with the unthinkable and unrepresented.
- Follow Bion’s radical shift from a psychoanalysis of knowing (K) to a psychoanalysis of being and becoming (O), culminating in at-one-ment.
- Explore the frontier of analytic oneness and its transformative potential with disturbed patients, traumatic states, and difficult treatments.
Ofra Eshel, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, training and supervising analyst at The Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and Honorary Member of The New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP), Los Angeles. She is a former Vice-President of The International Winnicott Association (IWA). Dr. Eshel founded and heads the post-graduate track “Winnicott, Bion, and Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at Tel-Aviv University’s Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine. In 2024, she founded the advanced program “Radical Breakthroughs in Contemporary Psychoanalysis” at Deepsprings, Beijing, China. Her papers have been widely published, translated into twelve languages, and presented across four continents. She has received numerous honors, including the Frances Tustin Memorial Prize (2013), the Symonds Prize (2017), and the Leonard J. Comess Award (2022). In 2023, she was ranked first among the top 10 authors writing on Winnicott (1978–2023). She is the author of The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019), with translations in several languages, and her new book Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown is published by Routledge, 2026.
12 CE credits
- $640 general admission
- $440 IPTAR members
- $400 IPTAR candidates
Learning Objectives:
- Investigate Winnicott’s evolving vision of therapeutic regression, early breakdown, and madness as pathways to working with the unthinkable and unrepresented.
- Follow Bion’s radical shift from a psychoanalysis of knowing (K) to a psychoanalysis of being and becoming (O), culminating in at-one-ment.
- Explore the frontier of analytic oneness and its transformative potential with disturbed patients, traumatic states, and difficult treatments.
12 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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