The Chicago Psychoanalytic Association

12/10/2024

https://ccpsa.org/event-5814227

including both internal and external aspects--that strongly influence our psychotherapeutic work. These aspects will be considered through the lenses provided by Jose Bleger, an Argentinian psychoanalyst, who wrote extensively about their importance in shaping psychodynamic psychotherapy. Until rece...

12/10/2024

https://ccpsa.org/event-5814236

10/29/2024

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Unlock the layers of your mind with psychoanalysis. Dive deep into your subconscious and discover hidden truths about yourself. Let go of old patterns and embrace growth. Your journey to self-discovery starts now.

💬 “The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them." ~Harriet Lerner

If you or someone you love needs someone to speak to call the Treatment Center at (312)-897-1420

09/16/2024

Otto kernberg compie, oggi, 96 anni. Auguri!

La teoria psicoanalitica delle relazioni oggettuali, nuovi sviluppi in neurobiologia, O. Kernberg
Commento di C. Pirrongelli

https://www.spiweb.it/la-ricerca/ricerca/ricerca-empirica/la-teoria-psicoanalitica-delle-relazioni-oggettuali-nuovi-sviluppi-in-neurobiologia-o-kernberg-commento-di-c-pirrongelli/

Secondo Kernberg è l’insieme dell’esperienza emozionali positive che convergerà in quello che Freud chiamava pulsione di vita (Freud 1920), come un livello secondario e sovraordinato. Altrettanto, per quanto riguarda le esperienze negative che convergeranno in modo sovraordinato e secondario in una pulsione globale che per Freud corrispondeva alla pulsione di morte (Freud 1920) e che Kernberg colloca completamente sotto l’ombrello dell’aggressività. Concorda peraltro con tutte le osservazioni freudiane riguardo all’esistenza di un’aggressività autodiretta includendo fenomeni come la coazione a ripetere, il sadismo/masochismo, la reazione terapeutica negativa, il suicidio, le tendenze distruttive e auto distruttive nei processi di gruppo. Include le riflessioni di Andrè Green sul concetto di “narcisimo negativo”.

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09/16/2024

Continued mental growth requires dealing with alexithymia, or the inability to express emotions through words or images

09/16/2024

“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

09/16/2024

09/16/2024

“…the child would rather be bad himself than have bad objects … In becoming bad he is really taking upon himself the burden of badness which appears to reside in his objects. By this means he seeks to purge them of their badness; and, in proportion as he succeeds in doing so, he is rewarded by that sense of security which an environment of good objects so characteristically confers.

To say that the child takes upon himself the burden of badness which appears to reside in his objects is, of course, the same thing as to say that he internalizes bad objects. The sense of outer security resulting from this process of internalization is, however, liable to be seriously compromised by the resulting presence within him of internalized bad objects. Outer security is thus purchased at the price of inner insecurity”

- Ronald Fairbairn

From the book, "Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality" (1952), p.65.

Find it on PEP-Web here: ▶️ https://pep-web.org/browse/document/ZBK.007.0000A

Image / "L' élève puni [The punished pupil], Paris, 1956" by Robert Doisneau.

09/16/2024

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"

Remembering Karen Horney, born on this day in 1885!🎉

Quote from 'Our Inner Conflicts' (1945) New York: W.W. Norton and Co., p.240.

Karen Horney on PEP-Web: https://tinyurl.com/mudbhzyn
Audio lecture: https://aipnyc.org/lectures/

09/12/2024

A classic.

09/12/2024

09/12/2024

"Therapy's basic process is not to fill vacancies, but to liberate what has been kept hidden, which is, first and foremost, the loving self."

Joseph Natterson, MD
"The Loving Self"

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09/12/2024

New Date Added! Following two sellout summer screenings of Freud's Last Session we've added an extra date.

Experience the film in Freud's own home! The evening includes an intro by the Museum's Director, a welcome drink, after-hours access to the Museum + a special exhibition with props from the film. Book now! https://ow.ly/EaVt50T0VoF

12 September, 7pm-9pm
Ticket Price: £30

09/12/2024

Provides information on all things social work, including direct practice (both clinical and community organizing), research, policy, education... and everything in between.

09/12/2024