The Ambulant Cemetery: Secret Projects of Repair

with Adrienne Harris, PhD

Saturday, January 27, 2018

This lecture will address the presence and function of damaged internal objects, ghosts of various forms and kinds, that find their way into analytic work. Drawing from the work of Henri Rey and the work on intergenerational transmission of trauma (Faimberg, Apprey, Grand and Salberg and others) I will discuss the often secret and also often unconscious project in analysis where the patient arrives not to change themselves but to repair someone else. Extended clinical examples are also presented.

Educational Objectives:  At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:

1. To understand the theoretical concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma as it appears in clinical. 
2. To understand the forms of transmission of traumatic experiences interpersonally and intergenerationally particularly through the mechanisms of attachment  and early interpersonal engagement.
3. To gain a clinical and hands-on understanding of the appearance of trauma in clinical situations and the resistance to change that often accompanies these kids of patient/analyst dyads.

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is the 2017 recipient of the Helen Meyers Traveling Psychoanalytic Scholar Award.  This award aims to promote dialogue and shared learning among women in psychoanalysis on women's issues. Dr. Harris is on the Faculty and a Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In 2009, She, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safron established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University. She writes about gender and development, about analytic subjectivity, about ghosts, and about the analysts developing and writing around the period of the First World War.

9:00 am – 1:00 pm/ 4 cmes
Lewis and Clark College – Miller 105
$150 Non-Members / $135  Members/ $75 Residents-Interns
University Students can attend for free with a valid student ID on day of the event pending available seating.

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.