NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Twenty-Fifth Annual Maurice R. Friend Lecture
Thursday, September 29, 2005,
8:30 pm Lecture, 7:45 p.m. coffee & dessert
Schwartz Lecture Hall "F", NYU Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Manhattan

Analyzing Disavowed Action: The Fundamental Resistance of Analysis
Henry F. Smith, MD
Introduction by Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

Dr. Smith will present several detailed analytic hours to illustrate the way patients use the analyst's words to gratify the very wishes they are analyzing, and in so doing disavow the work of analysis. These actualizations are themselves disavowed in the apparent pursuit of analytic understanding. The painful task for both analyst and patient is to interpret this process as it is occurring, moment by moment, in the real time of the hour.

Dr. Smith is the Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE).

The lecture is presented in memory of Dr. Maurice R. Friend, former Director of NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and Chair of the Child and Adolescent Division, who died in 1981.