and Galit Atlas-Koch at IEA in NYC

[Guest guest]

THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPRESSIVE ANALYSIS

INVITES YOU TO ATTEND

The " Too Muchness " of Excitement and the Death of Desire-

Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives

Presenters

Ph.D.

Galit Atlas-Koch Ph.D., LCAT

Moderator

Kuchuck, LCSW

This panel will treat the experience of disregulation or, as it has been

called by LaPlanche, Stein and " Excess, " that is inherent in the

formation of sexuality. In particular, we will focus on the effects and

trajectory of male sexuality, where classic themes of overstimulation,

seduction and betrayal in the early relationship to mother are crucial. One

effect is that overexcitement and anxiety become indistinguishable;

excitement becomes dangerous and shut down of desire is the result. In

treatment, the work with the mother-baby relationship is essential to deal

with what appear to be problems of sexual inhibition and death of desire.

The therapist is constantly monitored by the patient in relation to the

threat of overstimulation by maternal desire as well as the threat of

abandonment and betrayal, all of which contributes to destabilizing the

attachment relationship. The most minute sign of the therapist's

subjectivity can arouse anxiety and fear of being overwhelmed, seduced and

then dropped, reverberating with insecure attachment. Nonetheless, the

therapist must find a way to facilitate play in the relationship, in order

to move from concrete to symbolic modes and use the intersubjective

potential of the treatment. The delicate balance of restraint and play will

be explored in the clinical presentation.

The panel will start with a theoretical framework, be followed by a clinical

paper detailing two cases, and then a discussion of both clinical and

theoretical implications.

PhD is a faculty member of the NYU Postdoctoral psychology

program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and a co-founder of the

Center for Relational Studies in New York. The author of three books: Bonds

of Love; Like Objects Love Subjects; and Shadow of the Other which have been

translated into many languages. She has written about Intersubjectivity and

Recognition as well as Gender and Sexuality. More recently she has directed

a project on acknowledgment in the Middle East for Palestinian and Israeli

mental health professionals and written about collective trauma and the need

for acknowledgment.

Galit Atlas- Koch PhD is a psychoanalyst, licensed creative arts therapist

and a clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is on the

faculty and a board member of the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA),

serves as an editorial consultant for Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is an

author of several psychoanalytic articles on Post-modernism and Gender and

Sexuality.

Kuchuck, LCSW is Dean of Training, IEA, Faculty IEA, NIP, ICP and co

editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

Friday, March 25th, 2011

7:30-9:30pm

NPAP

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis

40 West 13th Street

New York, NY

3 CEU credits will be provided

The presentation is free of charge

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