Clinical Ferenczi: Ferenczi’s Contributions to Clinical Technique and Their Applications to Contemporary Therapeutic Work
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Clinical Ferenczi
Ferenczi’s Contributions to Clinical Technique and Their Applications to Contemporary Therapeutic Work
A seminar with Anthony Bass, Ph.D.
Mondays 10/26, 11/30, 1/4, 3/1, 4/5, and 5/10
7:30 to 9:15 PM, US Eastern Time
Online via Zoom
General Admission for all six sessions: $400
General Admission + CE credits: $500
New School/NYU Postdoc students: Free (email NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com with your student N# to reserve a spot)
CE Credits (10 hours) available
for Social Workers and MHCs
In this seminar, we will consider Sándor Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on the role of countertransference in psychotherapy and its uses in the therapeutic situation. We will read Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary, and other of his late work including The Confusion of Tongues between the Adults and the Child: the Language of Tenderness and of Passion and Tenderness, Child Analysis in the Analysis of Adults, and the Elasticity of Technique. We will also discuss contemporary works which consider the application of these ideas in clinical practice.
We will consider Ferenczi’s many contributions to the development of a clinical theory of technique, in the light of challenging moments that seminar members and the seminar leader will present. We will take up the therapist’s conscious and unconscious uses of her or himself in light of our understandings and experience of countertransference, unconscious communication between therapist and patient, enactment, and a variety of other clinical therapeutic phenomena as they emerge in our discussions.
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| Anthony Bass, Ph.D. is an associate professor and a supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the teaching faculty and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In addition, he is on the faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program. He was a founder and is president of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and a founding director of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was a founding editor and is an editor in chief emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: the International Journal of Relational Perspectives. He leads study groups and conducts clinical workshops around the US and Europe on the therapeutic relationship, and Ferenczi studies. He is on the board of the Ferenczi Center of New York. |
