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DR. JEFFREY SEINFELD MEMORIAL PSYCHOANALYTIC LICENSE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS NEURO-PSYCHO-EDUCATION
2010 Annual Conference:
Psychoanalysis and Spirituality
When: Sunday, April 11, 2010
Where: Lafayette Grill, 54 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013-4009
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Presenters: Dr. Lewis Aron and Dr. Jeffrey Rubin
Discussants: Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld and Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler
Dr. Lewis Aron: Going out to meet You, I found You coming toward me:
Transformation in Jewish mysticism and
contemporary
psychoanalysis...
With its goal of enhancing and revitalizing human experience, and in
its primary concern with felt meaning,
significance, and purpose,
contemporary psychoanalytic theory deconstructs the sharp division
between religion
and psychoanalysis. Freud’s Enlightenment ideal of
science saw it as liberating the individual from the illusion of
religion. Psychoanalysis offered Truth as replacement for regressive
fantasy. Religious belief was “a lost cause,”
a “childhood
neurosis,” and Freud paid homage only to “Our god Logos—Reason,”
arguing that religion was the
only worthy “enemy.” Both science and
rationality on the one hand and religion and spirituality on the
other are
more complex and multidimensional than Freud envisioned.
In this presentation we will consider mysticism and
psychoanalysis
through the lens of a personal anecdote.
BIO: LEWIS ARON, Ph.D. is the Director of the New York University,
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis. He has
served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the
American Psychological
Association; founding President of the
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy
(IARPP); founding President of the Division of
Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological
Association (NYSPA). He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Sandor
Ferenczi Center at the New School for
Social Research, and is an
Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society.
Dr. Aron has
received the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA)
Distinguished Service Award and the Division
of Psychoanalysis (39)
Leadership Award. He holds a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis from the
American Board of
Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of both
the American Psychological Association and of the Academy
of
Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Aron is the author of “A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in
Psychoanalysis” (The Analytic Press, 1996). He is the
Editor (with
Adrienne Harris) of “The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi” (TAP, 1993), the
Editor (with Frances Sommer
Anderson) of “Relational Perspectives on
the Body” (TAP, 1998), the Editor (with Stephen Mitchell) of
“Relational
Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition” (TAP,
1999), the Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of “Relational
Psychoanalysis II: Innovation and Expansion” (TAP, 2005), and the
Editor (with Melanie Suchet and Adrienne
Harris) of “Relational
Psychoanalysis III: New Voices” (TAP, 2007). His most recent work,
co-edited with Libby
Henik: “ Answering a Question With A Question:
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought” is to be
published
this year by Academic Studies Press. He was one of the founders, and
is an Associate Editor of
“Psychoanalytic Dialogues,” and he is the
series editor (with Adrienne Harris) of the “Relational Perspectives
Book Series,” published by The Analytic Press. Dr. Aron is in
private practice in New York City and in Port
Washington, Long
Island, N.Y.
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin: Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Partners in
Healing.
We live in a universe in which psychoanalysts meditate and
meditators—including Buddhist teachers—avail
themselves of therapy;
and there is a burgeoning interest in the potential interface
between them. In this
presentation we’ll explore why psychoanalysis
and meditation need each other—how each not only supplements
blind
spots in the other, but makes it richer than if pursued alone—and
how to integrate them. After exploring
the way meditation cultivates
heightened attentiveness, refines sensory clarity, lessens
self-criticism, and
increases affect tolerance; thereby deepening
psychoanalytic listening; we’ll examine how psychoanalytic
understandings of unconscious communication and meaning illuminates
and transforms the near-sightedness
of meditation. In the concluding
section, Dr. Rubin will delineate meditative psychotherapy, his own
integration
of meditation and psychoanalysis. Meditative exercises
and clinical material will illustrate his theoretical reflections.
BIO: Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD practices psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in New York
City and
Bedford Hills, New York. The author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism;
The Good Life; and A Psychoanalysis
for Our Time, Dr. Rubin has
taught at various universities and psychoanalytic institutes
including Union Theological
Seminary, The Postgraduate Center for
Mental Health, The C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, The American
Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Yeshiva University. A Dharma
Holder in the White Plum Sangha and Red Thread
Zen Circle and the
creator of meditative psychotherapy, Dr. Rubin is considered one of
the leading integrators
of the Western psychotherapeutic and Eastern
meditative traditions. He runs private study groups on dreams
and
meditation and meditation and psychotherapy and lectures around the
country on two forthcoming books,
The Art of Flourishing, and
Psychotherapy and Meditation: Partners in Healing. Dr. Rubin is a
training and
supervising analyst at the Westchester Institute for
Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and can
be contacted
through his website (drjeffreyrubin.com).
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis: Moderator
BIO: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD - Ferenczi scholar, reviewer for the
American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Faculty & Board
Member of the
Object Relations Institute, and Faculty member at St. John’s
University.
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will discuss Dr. Aron’s moving presentation,
and will bring a lot of clinical examples from her
book Mourning,
Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of
Psychoanalysis, which was
distinguished by the National Gradiva
Award (2004) of the National Association for the Advancement of
Psychoanalysis.
BIO: Susan Kavaler Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.LItt -Founder,
Executive Director, Senior Training Supervisor of the
Object
Relations Institute, Object Relations theorist in the British Object
Relations tradition; author of The Compulsion
to Create; The
Creative Mystique; Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change, and
over 50 articles and book chapters.
Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld will discuss Dr. Rubin's intriguing paper and
clinical cases from the perspective of Shaolin Chan,
Tai Chi, and
object relations theory. He also will discuss the connection between
therapeutic aspects of Buddhism
and psychoanalysis, as described by
Rubin.
BIO: Jeffrey Seinfeld, MSW, PhD is a Professor at The Silver School
of Social Work, NYU; Author of The Bad Object;
The Empty Core;
Containing Terror, Rage & Despair: An Object Relations Approach to
Psychotherapy; Interpreting &
Holding: The Paternal and Maternal
Functions of the Psychotherapist; A Primer on the Negative
Therapeutic Reaction,
and other books and articles. He is a
Scientific Faculty member of the Object Relations Institute.
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