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Monday, November 16, 2009
8:15 pm
Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital
131 East 76th Street, New York, NY
Presenter: Claudia Lament, PhD
Discussant: Samuel Abrams, MD
Educational Objectives
To understand the concept of transformation in psychoanalytic theory and to
explore how transformational
processes can be leveraged to facilitate therapeutic action. Clinical
material will be presented to illustrate
these propositions.
Summary
Transformations refer to the new intra-psychic changes in structures and
functions, which occur when
children experience biologically determined forward movement from one
developmental organization to the
next. A transformational process from latency to adolescence is tracked in
this story of a disturbed boy who
required an innovative therapeutic action that did not rely on the standard
technique of interpretation of
defense and conflict. The de-stabilization of the patient's mind-set as a
victim was leveraged by the analyst's
taking an extreme stance in keeping her own reflections to herself and
instead assisting the boy's capacity to
experience himself as an agent in his own right as he took them both on his
journey towards self-discovery.
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