with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP 1st Trimester of the Training Programs in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (This course can be taken also as a separate certificate course, with or without the Group Supervision class) October 3 – December 19, 2013; Thursdays, 8:15-9:30pm. Course Calendar: October 3; 10; 17; 24; (no class on 10/31); November 7; 14; 21; (no class 11/28); December 5; 12, 19, 2013.
Location: 136 East, 55th Street, Apt. 6A, NYC, NY 10022 (SE corner of 55th Street and Lexington Ave, on a IRT line)
or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only
This course will focus on the unconscious conflicts, which are at the center of Freudian psychoanalytic theory and the clinical situation.
First, the development of the concept of conflict throughout the history of Freudian psychoanalysis will be reviewed. Next, the analytic and synthetic aspects of conflict theory will be explored, and the role of conflict in the development of personality organization and pathogenesis will be clarified. Then, the contemporary extensions of structural theory and up to date complexity of modern Freudian thought will be presented and elaborated on. The pertinent historical and contemporary controversies surrounding such notions as the Oedipus Complex and Oedipal Conflict, Trauma and Unconscious fantasy, Conflict and Deficit, covering wide spectrum of theoretical and clinical orientations will be attended to throughout.
To illustrate analysis with neurotic patients focused on conflict, the clinical material covering the assessment of neurotically organized mind, as well as the phases of psychoanalytic process, will be examined. In this regards, such criteria as self-reflective capacity, capacity for affect regulation, capacity for narcissistic regulation, and internal conflict will be explored in the context of a “microscopic” moment-to-moment multi-level psychoanalytic inter- and intro-psychic communication of a given psychoanalytic session. The instructor’s as well as the candidates’ clinical experience and material will be utilized to further the depth of appreciation for the multiple forces of conflict present latently (and manifestly) in each psychoanalytic hour.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE:
Morning Session:
10:00am – 12:30pm
Lunch
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Afternoon Session:
1:00pm – 4:00pm
SYLLABUS:
Introductory Overview:
Eva D. Papiasvili (1995) Conflict in Psychoanalysis and in Life. Forum Psychoanal., 4, 215-220.
Conflict – Development of the Concept: Conflict/Clash between External-Internal Environments; Internalization of Conflicts – 1st Mental Topography.
Excerpts from:
Breuer, J., Freud, S. (1893-95), SE 2;
Freud, S. (1900), SE 4,5;
Freud S. (1905), SE 7;
Freud, S. (1910), SE 11;
Freud, S. (1911), SE 12;
Freud, S. (1914), SE 14.
Conflict – Development of the Concept cont.: 2nd Topographic Theory leading up to formulations of Structural Theory.
Excerpts from:
Freud, S. (1920), SE 18;
Freud, S. (1923), SE 19;
Freud, S. (1926), SE 20.
Conflict – Development of the Concept cont.: Further developments of Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology: Focus of Multiple defenses and developmental personality profiles; Adaptation; Ego Functions, Ego Autonomy and Ego Identity.
Excerpts from:
Freud, A. (1936/1966): Ego and Mechanisms of defense. NY: Int. Univ. Press.
Hartman, H. (1939/1958): Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation. NY: Int. Univ. Press.
Kris, E. (1955): Neutralization ad Sublimation. St. Child, 10:30-46
Rapaport, D. (1958): The Theory of Ego Autonomy. Menning. Clinic, 22:13-35.
Erickson, E.H. (1956): The Problem of Ego Identity. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 4:56-121.
Analysis and Synthesis in Conflict Theory: Continuum of Illness and
Health; Principle of Overdeterminism/Principle of Multiple Function
Excerpts from:
Waelder, R. (1930/1976): The Principle of Multiple Function, in: Guttman, S.A. Psychoanalysis: Observation, theory, Application. NY: Int. Univ. Press; 68-83.
Rangell, L. (1985): Defense and Resistance in Psychoanalysis and Life, in:
Blum, H. (1985): Defense and Resistance: historical perspective and current concepts. NY: Int. Univ. Press.
Presentation and Discussion of Clinical Case Material.
Conflict and Development: Conflict and Deficit; Trauma and Unconscious Fantasy: Roots of the Controversy and the Contemporary Classical View.
Excerpts from:
Blum, H, dtto (above).
Murray, J. (1995) On Objects, Transference, and Two-persons psychology: A critique of the new seduction theory. Psychology, 12(1):31-41.
Presentation and Discussion of Clinical Case Material.
7, 8, 9. Contemporary Perspectives on the Oedipus Complex/Oedipal Conflicts.
Excerpts from:
The entire vol. 30 of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry from December 2010, featuring authors like Elliot Adler, Harold Blum, Martin Bergmann, Joseph Lichtenberg, Rosemary Balsam, James Fosshage, and others, including contemporary research on the relationship between Attachment and Oedipal development by Miriam Steele. Prologue and Epilogue by Harriet Pappenheim and Eva D. Papiasvili, Issue Editors and co-chairs the Postgrad Conference in New York in 2010 of the same name, with most of the above authors presenting their original contributions.
Presentation and Discussion of Clinical Case Material.
Contemporary Extensions of Structural Theory: Compromise Formation; Signal Anxiety and Signal Affects; Reformulations of Superego; Choice Conflicts and Microscopic Tracking of Intro-Psychic Process; Theoretical and Clinical Integration of Topographic and Structural Theories; Theoretical and Clinical Integration of Intro-Psychic and Inter-Psychic Dimensions.
Excerpts from:
Brenner, C. (1979): Depressive Affect , Anxiety and Psychic Conflict in the Phalic-Oedipal Phase. Q., 48: 177-199.
Brenner, C. (1982): The Concept of Superego: A reformulation. Q., 51:501-525.
Brenner, C. (1994): Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation. Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 3, 473-488.
Arlow, J. (1991): Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice. Madison: Int. Univ. Press
Blum, H. (1976), ed. Psychoanalytic Explorations of Technique. NY: Int. Univ. Press.
Rangel, L. (1969): The Intrapsychic Process and its Analysis. J. Psycho-Anal. 50:65-77.
Rangel, L. (1969): Choice Conflict and the Decision Making Function of the Ego. J. Psycho-Anal. 50:599-602.
Bolognini, S. (2013/2015): The Inter-Psychic Dimension of Interpretation. (Oral Communication; paper currently being written for 2015 issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry; Eva D. Papiasvili, Issue Editor).
Presentation and Discussion of Clinical Case Material.
Clinical Assessment of Neurotically Organized Mind: Self-Reflection, Affect Regulation, Narcissistic Regulation, Intro-psychic Conflict; Plurality and Complexity of the Inner World of the Analyst and the Patient.
Excerpts from:
Sugarman, A. (2007): Whatever Happened to Neurosis? Who are we Analyzing? And How?: The Importance of Mental Organization. Psychol., 24: 409-429.
Bolognini, S. (2008): Plurality and Complexity in the Analyst’s Inner World and in his “Working Self”. Psychoanal. Annu., 2:43-57.
Presentation and Discussion of Clinical Case Material.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Celani, D. P. (2010). Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting. Chapters 2, 3, & 4 (pp. 51-151)
Celani, D.P. (2016). Fairbairn’s theory of change. Psychoanalytic Review, 103(3), 341–370.
Celani, D.P. (2021). Fairbairn’s Metaphor of Human Mind (Seminar handout).
Celani, D.P. (2024). The Impact of Early Family Relationships on Child Development: A Fairbairnian Perspective (Handout for parents).
INSTRUCTOR’S BIO:
Eva D. Papiasvili, Ph.D., ABPP is a Global Chair (Europe, North America and Latin America) of the IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED) Committee. She is a Senior Clinical Faculty and Supervisor in the Doctoral program of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University (NYC); Training, Teaching, and Supervising Analyst, Object Relations Institute and the Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society; as well as she is the Editorial Board member of the International Journal for Group Psychotherapy; Special Issues Editor and Editorial Reader of the International Forum for Psychoanalysis and of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Her many international journal and book chapter publications cover wide range of topics of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
2025 ORIPP Summer Training at ORI
June 7, 2025 – June 29, 2025
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (ORIPP). Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.
Professions in scope for this activity are listed below.
Psychologists
This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Amedco is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 23.0 hours.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Psychologists/Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, IO, KS, MA (LEP ONLY), ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY The following state boards accept courses approved by any other state for Psychologists/Counselors: CO, MD
MI: No CE requirements. *OK: Accepts APA credit for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WDC, WI, WY AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted. MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review. The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (held outside NY ONLY), OK*, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY
New York Board for Social Workers (NY SW)
Amedco 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 #0115. 23.0hours.
New York Board for Psychology (NY PSY)
Amedco is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0031. 23.0hours.
To receive CE certificates for the actual hours attended – please request them at the time of registration or any time prior to beginning of the conference. CE certificate fee: $25 (in addition to the registration fees). No fees charged for PD (Professional Development) certificates from ORI.
REGISTRATION AND FEES:
Early Bird registration (before May 15th, 2025)
$45 regular/ $35 grad students & candidates/ $15 undergrad students
Regular registration (from May 15th, 2025 – to June 28th, 2025 – before 6pm EDT/NYC time)
$60 regular/ $45 grad students & candidates/ $20 undergrad students
Registration ‘at the door’ (after 6pm EDT/NYC time on June 28th, 2025)
$70 regular/ $55 grad students & candidates/ $25 undergrad students
Please Note: IF CEs ARE REQUESTED — please use the “regular” registration (not a “student”) option. There is also an additional fee of $25 for CE certificate processing (can be paid on the day of the conference or in advance).
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for retired or disabled practitioners, or need-based.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Full refund before the date of the event.
No refund from the day of the event, but full paid tuition will be applied to any further ORI events.
