Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Online Evening Lecture
Metapsychology: Past, Present and the Future
Robert S. White, MD

Thursday, November 7, 2024

7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time


Live via Zoom

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This event will not be recorded


Registration Fees

HPS Active Member: Free

HPS Student Member: Free

Non-Member: $30


1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits


Instructional Level: Intermediate - Advanced

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From the point of view of classical psychoanalytic theory, I will survey what is established as the standard model of Freud, including drive/defense, compromise formation, oedipal conflict and development, free association, and interpretation. This is a one-person, intrapsychic model. Klein's addition did not fundamentally alter the Freudian model. Klein added a more primary set of anxieties/defenses/developmental structures that allowed understanding of deeper structures/conflicts. She also posed object need as a prime motivation. Current issues include integration with social forces, an intersubjective model, and inclusion of poorly or unrepresented mental contents.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Describe our current metapsychology in psychoanalysis, summarizing both its power and its limitations. 
  2. Formulate how we might integrate social issues and unrepresented mental contents into our clinical work.
Presenter

Robert S.White, MD is a graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he is currently on the faculty. He also directs the psychodynamic training program at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He has been a member of the North American Comparative Clinical Method Committee and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association's Committees on Clinical Observation and Working Parties. Dr. White has been in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New Haven, Connecticut. 

 

Dr. White has long been interested in comparative psychoanalytic theory. His lecture on metapsychology is based on a course he taught at the Institute on models of psychoanalysis. His mentors have described him as having “a passion for theory.” Dr. White’s involvement with the working parties of Clinical Comparative Method and Clinical Observation have broadened his interest in how psychoanalysis is practiced internationally. His following publications exemplify the comparative method: "The Interpersonal and Freudian Traditions: Convergences and Divergences" in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (49:427-454, 2001), and "Transformation and Interpretation: The Case of Adam, A Clinical Narrative and Discussion" in Psychoanalytic Quarterly (90:439-467, 2021), written with his collaborators in Clinical Observation (Hanly, Gullestad, and Bernardi). 


REFERENCES

Blass, R. B. (2017). Committed to a single model and open to reality. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65: 845-858.


Levine, H. B. (2023). A metapsychology of the unrepresented. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 92: 11-25.


Ogden, T. H. (2020) Toward a revised form of analytic thinking and practice: The evolution of analytic theory of mind. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89: 219-243.


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Agenda

7:30 - 7:35 pm | Introduction

7:35 - 8:30 pm Presentation by Dr. White

8:30 - 9:00 pm | Presenter-led question and answer session

Disclosures
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 1.5 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. 
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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