CPC Welcomes Rachel Blass

Rachel B. Blass is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and on the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis where she is the editor of the Controversies section. She was formerly a professor of psychoanalysis at universities both in Israel and England. She has published a book and numerous papers that elucidate the foundations of analytic thinking and practice, with a special focus on Kleinian psychoanalysis and its Freudian roots. Her writings have been translated into 15 languages. While she lives and practices in Jerusalem, via the internet she also teaches and supervises in the US, Australia and several countries in Europe and Asia.

Friday, April 10

6:30PM Public Lecture: On the Central Role of the Oedipus Complex Today: From Freud to Klein

Saturday, April 11

9:15AM - 9:30AM Gathering and Introductions

9:30AM - 10:45AM Class 1: On how Kleinian analysis works

10:45AM - 10:55AM Coffee Break

11:00AM - 12:15PM Live Supervision

12:15PM - 1:15PM Lunch

1:15PM - 2:30PM Class 2: The Clinical Role of Projective Identification

2:30PM - 2:40PM Coffee Break

2:45PM - 4:00PM Live Supervision

5:00PM Banquet

Cleveland Skating Club, 2500 Kemper Road, Shaker Heights, OH 44120

Sunday, April 12

9:15AM - 10:30AM Class 3: On Forms of Interpretation in the “Here and Now”

10:30AM - 10:40AM Coffee Break

10:45AM - 12:00PM Live Supervision

12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch

1:00PM - 2:00PM Class 4: Countertransference: The Role of Analyst as Other

2:00PM - 3:00PM Discussion of the Place of Kleinian Thinking in Current Analytic Scene