Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Evening Speaker Series
Dreaming Up, Re-Finding, and Grieving Lost Objects:
A Case Study
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD
Thursday, April 11, 2024
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
This event will not be recorded

Registration Fees
HPS Full Member: Free
HPS Student Member: Free
Non-Member: $30

1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits

Instructional Level: Intermediate
Analyzing patient dreams is a well-documented clinical tool used in psychoanalytic treatment. During the dream state when the patient's defenses are relaxed, repressed material can emerge into consciousness. A traumatized patient suffering from "day-mares" or nightmares can benefit from dream work, if there is sufficient safety and trust in the setting.

This presentation shifts the ordinary focus of dream work from the patient to the therapist's dream, during a phase in treatment that appeared bogged down by the patient's repetitive drug and alcohol reliance and preoccupation with masochistic suffering. The therapist's emerging dream occurs while he struggles with hopeless attempts to provide a new holding while searching for the missing affects that promote acceptable suffering. During his attempts to unlock affects hidden by her childhood traumas, a dream emerges that provides a pathway to the therapist's unconscious identifications with the patient that produces a breakthrough in the treatment impasse.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Describe the usefulness of a therapist's dream in engaging the patient. 
  2. Explain how countertransference can open a new pathway in connecting with unconscious material.  
Presenter
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD, holds certificates from the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and The Long Island Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Carl was a Founding and Senior Faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute. He taught and supervised in the Child Psychotherapy, Couple Therapy and Supervision Certificate Programs, and has taught and supervised Russian and Chinese psychoanalysts by video-conferencing. He is a Clinical Faculty at the Adelphi University Derner Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis, and Couple Therapy. Carl is a clinical and supervising faculty at The Training Institute for Mental Health, in New York, where he teaches transference, countertransference and projective identification.

Carl has authored and co-authored 25 book chapters and journal articles on object relations clinical topics; He has presented at the International Psychoanalytic Association Working Group and is a featured presenter at US and international psychoanalytic conferences. He is an International Advisory Board member, the Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Carl’s book, Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth, (Aronson) was published in 2012. His private practice with individuals, couples and families is in Port Washington, New York, where he currently provides teletherapy, training seminars, and supervision.

REFERENCES
1) Amado, N. (2022). Psychoanalytic views of “writer’s block”: Artistic creation and its discontents. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 31:100-107.
2) Bagnini, C. (2012). Accessing the internal world of couples through their dreams. In C. Bagnini, Keeping couples in treatment: Working from surface to depth, Aronson, pp. 115-132 (Chap. 7).
3) Blechner, M. J. (2013). New ways of conceptualizing and working with dreams. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49: 259-275.

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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.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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-Updated July 2021-
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