A Workshop Presented by Salman Akhtar, MD
Event Price: This event is free. CE fee is $10. HP and CPC students and candidates receive CEs for free.
Continued Education (CEU/CME): 2.0 credits
Attendance: This is a hybrid event - in-person and online attendance is available. Online attendees will have a webinar experience, which will not include the ability to ask questions of the speaker. There is no attendance limit.
NOTE: Pre-registration is encouraged. Walk-in registration is available, but only cash and check payments will be accepted. No CEs are available for walk-ins.
Course Description: While retaining the 'trio of guideposts' ( Pine, 1997) constituted by anonymity, abstinence, and neutrality, contemporary psychoanalysis has witnessed many changes in its theoretical base and its clinical praxis. These include (1) a greater developmental orientation, (ii) a tendency to judiciously accommodate the frame to the patients' sociocultural ethos, (iii) a greater appreciation of bilingualism as it affects associations and revelations and, paradoxically, of the multiple functions of silence, (iv) refinement of the concepts and uses of both transference and countertransference,(v) the deployment of development-facilitating interventions, (vi) responsiveness to the religious and spiritual dimensions of the patients' lives, and (vii) inclusion of newer and unusual interventions like refusing to listen to certain kinds of material or invocation of imaginary interlocutors for the purposes of interpretation.
Learning objectives
As a result of attending this session, the attendee shall become able to:
Enumerate the major changes in the clinical practice of psychoanalysis.
Identify the components of developmental work done during treatment
Treat patients more effectively by employing the concepts outlined in this presentation.
Salman Akhtar, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson, Medical College, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia is an internationally known psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and poet based in the United States. He has published 114 authored or edited books and given lectures and workshops in over 40 countries. Dr. Akhtar has served on the editorial boards of the three most important journals in our field, namely Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His books have been translated into many languages and he has received numerous professional honors, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Recently a 10-volume set of his Selected Papers was released at a festive ceremony at the Freud House & Museum in London. Dr. Akhtar has published 18 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theater Company in Philadelphia.