This event to the ISG will feature the instructors describing their approach to this year’s theme, Psychoanalysis: Breakdown & Breakthrough.
About this Event

This introductory event to NCSPP’s year-long Intensive Study Group (ISG) features the three instructors — Daniel Butler, Susana Winkel, and Deborah Melman — each describing their own approach to this year’s theme: Psychoanalysis: Breakdown & Breakthrough. The course will explore clinical aspects of cultural, social, and political upheaval, creating space for clinicians to process, grapple, and play with experiences of and responses to the ever-shifting reality in which we and our patients find ourselves. Whether it is dissociative experiences linked to the ubiquity of technology or the vicissitudes of early developmental ruptures, one of our primary tasks as psychoanalytic clinicians is to find a vocabulary to describe breakdowns and breakthroughs as they occur in the clinical process. How do we conceptualize these fractures — how do we speak to them from within the therapeutic relationship?