Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Online Conference
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Imagination, Interpretation, and the Analytic Field
Donnel B. Stern, PhD
with discussion by Jon G. Allen, PhD
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM Central Time
4 CME/CE/CEUs
Live via Zoom
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
This event will not be recorded
Registration Fees
HPS Active Member: $120
HPS Student Member: $60
Non-Member: $140
Instructional Level: Beginner - Advanced
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In my first model of unformulated experience (Stern, 1983, 1997), my intention was to study our capacity to reflect on our own experience; and that meant that the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience needed to be defined by verbal language: My first model held that if you can think or speak about a meaning in the reflective terms of verbal language, the meaning is formulated; if you cannot reflect on the meaning in verbal language, the meaning remains unformulated. Now, though, I think of the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience differently. Now I think of it in terms of the degree of personal meaningfulness of unformulated experience: Formulation is a matter of becoming someone for whom the experience in question is meaningful. One crosses the threshold into explicitly meaningful experience when one can accept the meaning in question. If one can accept it, one can use it in the construction of spontaneous, creative living. The formulation of experience is therefore the imaginative transformation of not-me into feels-like-me. The crucial point is not that particular, new experiences are given shape, but that one becomes the new and slightly different person who can shape experience in that new way.
AGENDA
10:00am-10:10am Welcome, upcoming programs, conference logistics, introduction of speakers
10:10am-12:00pm Presentation (Stern)
12:00pm-12:30pm BREAK
12:30pm-1:45pm Presentation (Stern)
1:45pm-2:00pm Discussion (Allen)
2:00pm-2:30pm Q&A with audience, conference evaluation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
- Assess the interpersonal field in their own clinical work to make judgments about their own participation in unconscious enactments.
- Describe their clinical interventions as expressions of the interpersonal field.
- Describe the clinical process they construct with their patients as expressions of the interpersonal field.
- Analyze their clinical interpretations as mutually constructed by themselves and the patient.
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Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City; and Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the Founder and Editor of a book series at Routledge, "Psychoanalysis in a New Key,” which has over 80 books in print. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters for over 40 years, and has co-edited four books and authored four others, the most recent of which is The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (Routledge, 2019). He is in private practice in New York City, where he sees adults and adolescents and leads private study groups.
Discussant
Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor on the Voluntary Faculty, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; an honorary faculty member of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies; and adjunct faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health, Texas Medical Center. He spent 40 years in clinical practice at Menninger Clinic, where he helped to develop an intensive inpatient treatment program for trauma, and created what became a hospital-wide psychoeducational program on recovering from trauma. Now retired from clinical practice, he continues to teach, write, and consult with psychotherapists. He has authored 7 books and numerous journal articles, coauthored 3 books, and co-edited 3 books, focused primarily on trauma, mentalizing, and the patient-therapist relationship. In recent years, Dr. Allen has become interested in relational psychoanalytic concepts and integrated these ideas into his writing, including Stern's model of unformulated experience. Dr. Allen's forthcoming book is Bringing Psychotherapy Back to Life.
REFERENCES
Stern, D.B. (2023). Distance and relation: Emerging from embeddedness in the other. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71: 641-668.
Stern, D.B. (2022). Feels like me: Formulating the embodied mind. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 42: 232-243.
Stern, D.B. (2022). On coming into possession of oneself: Witnessing and the formulation of experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91:4: 639-667.
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ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Houston Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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APA Accreditation Statement
Houston Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Houston Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
HPS, through co-sponsorship with the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, also offers approved CEUs for Texas state-approved social workers, licensed professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
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