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Middle Phase
February 21, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Wyman Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD
Christopher J. Keats, MD
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February 21, 2020 — Identity, Splitting, and Multiple Self-States
[55 pages]
Bromberg’s writing introduces two important concepts that are valuable in treating trauma. The first is dissociation, and its manifestation as multiple self- states, as they impact analytic process. Secondly, he highlights the role of dialogue, both internal and interpersonal, as playing a curative role in reducing dissociation and denial. Can you think of ways that dissociation impacts your clinical experience? The second article addresses a child’s gender identity struggles as an expression of self, and how analysis can support identity formation.
53 pages of reading.
Bromberg, P.M. (2003). One Need Not Be a House to Be Haunted: On Enactment, Dissociation, and the Dread of “Not-Me”—A Case Study. Psychoanal. Dial., 13(5):689-709.
Saketopoulou, A. (2014). Mourning the Body As Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transexual Patients Analytically. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 62 (5): 773-806.
