The Sándor Ferenczi Center

Please join us for the next installment of the “Ghosts and Demons” series:

DEMONS IN THE 21st CENTURY CONSULTING ROOM

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2018
10am-3pm

Wolff Conference Center, D1103, 6 East 16th Street

Ticket Price: $35
Reduced Student Rate: $20
NOTE: If you previously purchased tickets for both the Ghosts and Demons workshops together at the special rate, you do not need to purchase another ticket at this time.

Please Register here!
Space is limited

CEs for social workers in NY State will be provided. The New School for Social Research’s Department of Psychology SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0199.
This training provides 5 hours of continuing education.

Please note: If you arrive without having registered beforehand you will not be able to attend.

The Sandor Ferenczi Center presents:

DEMONS IN THE 21st CENTURY CONSULTING ROOM

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2018  |  10am-3pm

Faculty/Participants:
Adrienne Harris, Moderator
with
Michael Feldman, Heather Ferguson, Arthur Fox, Susan Klebanoff, Margery Kalb, Jade McGleughlin
Discussant: Hillary Beattie and Richard Brockman

Freud was not joking when he wrote that the psychoanalyst grapples with phenomena that were, in pre-scientific times, the professional domain of the exorcist. But Freud never really explained how neuroses and psychoses of his time corresponded to what earlier mental- health workers had understood as “demonic possession.”

Ronald Fairbairn did, in his 1943 paper “The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with special reference to the “War Neuroses).”  Fairbairn’s paper is famous for its chilling use of demonological images in a theory of how bad objects work, and how problems of “possession” by them can be addressed in psychoanalytic treatment.

What does Fairbairn’s paper have to offer the 21st-century clinician who is grappling with demons in the consulting room? This workshop will start with a condensed close reading of Fairbairn’s 1943 paper (a sort of “demonology for dummies”). Then we will look at detailed clinical material to see if Fairbairn’s insights can help us understand how our patients’ demons work. We will also look at how Fairbairn’s own demons might have influenced his thinking about the workings of bad objects, and how Fairbairns theory–and his life–can help us think about ways that our patients’ demons might interact with our own.

Includes: clinical and theoretical presentations, and breakout groups.