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Continuation of Opening Phase to Early Middle Phase
February 5, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Diane Wolman, MSW
Scot Gibson, MD
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February 5, 2021 — What’s happening in the body? Somatic and Behavioral Disturbances: Substance Use, Eating Disorders, etc.
Presenter: Scot Gibson, MD
[34 pages]
The use and treatment of somatic-behavioral symptoms could take up a class by itself, and a fear of them has often been used by analysts as a way of refusing treatment. However, they are symptoms like any other and do not have to be a barrier to treatment. To the contrary, they can be a way in to understanding a patient’s basic needs and dynamics, and also how they hold their affects in their bodies. Ron Levin, who is on SPSI Faculty, writes a chapter on a successful analytic treatment of a woman with an eating disorder. My (Scot’s) recently delivered case presentation can also shed some light on working with addictions in psychoanalysis.
Levin, Ronald W. (1992) “Somatic Symptoms, Psychoanalytic Treatment, Emotional Growth” in Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Elaine V. Siegel, ed., pp44-62.
Gibson, S.N. (2017) “Thinking Psychoanalytically about Addictions.” Unpublished.
Optional Reading
Dodes, L.M. (1990). Addiction, Helplessness, and Narcissistic Rage. Psychoanal Q., 59:398-419.
Dowling, Scott., ed. (1995) The Psychology and Treatment of Addictive Behavior. International Universities Press, Inc.
Marlatt, G. Alan. (1998) Harm Reduction: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors. New York, London: The Guilford Press.