IPSO PSİKE 2018 EVENT

MAURICE APPREY

The Wound of an Absence: Strategies Infants and Adults Use to Suture the Gap

Maurice Apprey, PhD, DM, FIPA, is a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. A member of the Academy of Distinguished Educators at the School of Medicine, he has taught medical students and residents of psychiatry for nearly forty years. He trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. He is a training and a supervising psychoanalyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington, DC, a Component Society of the International Psychoanalytical Association, where he trained in adult psychoanalysis. He has published widely in psychoanalysis, human development, film and conflict resolution.

Seminar on Separation Individuation with Film Illustration

In clinical psychoanalysis and in psychotherapy the clinician who works with adults, encounters enactments in the psychoanalytic setting without knowing what actual historical experiences have formed the sedimentations of history. As a result of not knowing how the events of history have translated into a sense of history, the representational world of the patient can present challenges in how to understand the reactivations of history into the present. Without knowing how the saturated developmental events have informed the transference-countertransference continuum, the clinician is often at a loss on how to understand and interpret the transference wishes and transference demands. With the help of two theoretical papers by Margaret Mahler and John McDevitt we will study the course of development and study how developmental issues translate into technical issues in treatment.

PROGRAM

14:30 Registration

15:00 – 15:15 Opening Speeches
Yavuz Erten (PSIKE Istanbul President)
Nergis Güleç (IPSO Europe Vice President, Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association)
Yücel Yılmaz (IPSO PSIKE Representative)
Maurice Apprey – Separation Individuation with Film Illustration
Moderator: Meltem Temiz

15:15 – 16:15 –Video I “Case of John” and Discussion

16:15 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 18:00 – Video II “Case of Kate” and Discussion

For Information: dryucelyilmaz@yahoo.com – cemileserin@hotmail.com – ryeroham@hotmail.com

Objectives of the Seminar:

At the end of the Seminar:

1. Candidates will know the course of development from 0-3.
2. They will know how developmental issues are mentalized and transformed into the representational world.
3. They will know what interventional challenges can hinder the reconfiguration of pathological formations in the psychoanalytic process.

Teaching materials:

1. Readings before attending:

i. Mahler, M.S. and McDevitt, J. (1980). The separation-individuation process and identity formation. In: The Course of Life, Vol.1, edited by Stanley Greenspan and G.H. Pollock, pp.395-405.
ii. McDevitt, J. and Mahler, M.S. (1980). Object Constancy, Individuality and Internalization. In: The Course of Life, Vol.1, edited by Stanley Greenspan and G.H. Pollock, pp.407-421.

2. Films by James and Joyce Robertson:

i. Film illustrations # 1:: Young Children in Brief Separation: “John” aged 17 months (43 minutes).
ii. Film Illustration # 2: Young Children in Brief Separation: “Lucy” aged 21 months (31 minutes).

Teaching Format:

1. We will discuss the theoretical papers at in the first 30 minutes.
2. We will watch the first film and discuss its emotional impact. (90 minutes).
3. We will watch the second film and discuss the clinical implications of separation individuation, self and object constancy, individuality, and internalization. (30 minutes).