Master Speaker Videoconference Seminar
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Master Speaker Videoconference Seminar offers participants the opportunity to study with some of the most creative and experienced clinicians in the world today, and to apply their knowledge directly to their clinical work. The course will meet one Friday morning per month for 9 months (September-May). Each session meets for three hours: a two hour lecture and case presentation (via videoconference) with the visiting speaker, and a one hour large group discussion, which offers a chance to integrate theoretical and clinical ideas with group members’ personal and clinical experience. Space is limited: To ensure a seat and to receive readings, please be sure to register in advance.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: 27 CE credits (3 credits per session)
LOCATION:
Jewett (Performing Arts Building) 200, Westminster College
READINGS:
Unless otherwise indicated, all readings will be distributed to enrolled participants in advance
ENROLLMENT and COST:
The Master Speaker Series can be taken in its entirety (9 3-hour sessions from 7:00-10:15 am, $720) or in part (one or more sessions, $85/session).
TIMES and DATES:
All sessions 7:00-10:15 am.
SCHEDULE:
September 26, 2008: Nancy McWilliams (in Salt Lake City)
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual and Character Disorders
Readings: PDM section on Personality Patterns and Disorders, pp. 17-69 and the Profile of Mental Functioning (pp. 71-90).
October 24, 2008: Nasr Ilahi (British Psychoanalytic Society) in Long Island
Reflections on Narcissistic States - An Object Relations Perspective Part 1
Readings: Green, A. (2002). “A Dual Conception of Narcissism: Positive and Negative Organizations”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 71:631-649.
Segal, H. and Bell, D. (1991). “The Theory of Narcissism in the Work of Freud and Klein” in Freud’s ‘Narcissism: An Introduction’: Edited by Joseph Sandler, Ethel Spector Person and Peter Fonagy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Symington, N. (2007). Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis, pp. 199-279. London, England: Karnac Books Ltd.
November 14, 2008: Linda Hopkins in DC
Life and Work of Masud Khan
Reading: False Self: The Life of Masud Khan by Linda Hopkins. 2006, Other Press.
December 5, 2008: Richard Waugaman in Omaha
Dissociative Identity and Multiple Personality Disorders
January 16, 2009: Virginia Ungar (Argentine Psychoanalytic) in Long Island
The Work of Child Analysis
February 13, 2009: Steve Tuber in Long Island
Understanding Winnicott Part II
March 20, 2009: Steve Tuber in Omaha
Understanding Winnicott Part III
April 17, 2009: Judith Mitrani in SLC
The Problem of Empathy: Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis Toward a Better Understanding of Autism
Readings: Mitrani, J. (2001). 'Taking the transference': Notes on some technical implications in three papers by Bion. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82(6):1085-1104.
Optional Readings: Mitrani, J. (1992). On the survival function of autistic maneuvers in adult patients. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 73(2):549-560
Mitrani, J. (2007). Some technical implications of Klein's concept of 'Premature Ego Development.' International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88(4):825-842.
May 8, 2009: Nasr Ilahi in Long Island
Reflections on Narcissistic States - An Object Relations Perspective Part 2.
A screenshot of the September 26, 2008 videoconference. The screen shows live video feeds from Salt Lake City (large picture), Omaha, Chevy Chase, Panama City, New York, and Indianapolis.
