Upcoming Event

[Guest guest]

THE INSTITUTE

FOR EXPRESSIVE ANALYSIS

Friday, March 27,

7:30PM

 

To Have and To Hold:

 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on

the Desire to Own

 

Galit Atlas-Koch & Kuchuck

Discussant- Merle Molofsky

 

This presentation is an

investigation into the psychodynamic and cross-culturally determined

underpinnings of the desire to own and be owned as they manifest in our

clinical work. We will be looking at these issues through the lens of a female

Israeli analyst and her male Israeli patients living far from their original

homes, and also an American born, Jewish male analyst with strong ties to,

criticisms of and longings for his ancestral homeland.  Broadening our scope, we will look

beyond nationality and reflect on additional ways in which owning, very often

related to gender and sexuality, serves as a means for processing personal and

cultural trauma. Sharing the experience of co-writing this paper, we will raise

the question of how two people can create a " third " and still feel

ownership both of their original ideas and the joint product. Can two parents

equally own one baby? Can two nations equally own one land? We hope that an

examination of these clinical, internal and interpersonal struggles will help

clarify patients' experiences in and out of treatment and  clinicians’

transference-countertransference responses around the desire to own and be

owned.

 

Galit Atlas-Koch Ph.D: Psychoanalyst, licensed creative arts

therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan, board

member of the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), author of several

psychoanalytic articles and a former psychology columnist for SBC publishing

house, Israel. Her work as a musician and writer has been performed and

published in Hebrew.

 

Kuchuck LCSW, LP: Faculty, supervisor, Board of Directors,

Dean of Training, IEA, Editorial Board and Submissions Editor, Psychoanalytic

Perspectives and Chair of the Trauma Committee, International Forum for

Psychoanalytic Education. Formerly Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU and Board

of Trustees, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Author

of articles on relational psychoanalysis, book chapter and encyclopedia entry.

 

Merle Molofsky: NAAP-certified, NYS-licensed

psychoanalyst. Board member, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education

(IFPE) and NAAP, and editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Review.  Former Director of Education and board

member, IEA, former Dean of Training and board member, NPAP.  2008 Conference co-chair, IFPE.

Supervises at IEA, NPAP, and Harlem Family Institute.  Publications include professional articles, poetry, and a

chapter in Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey (2005).

 

Location: Pure

Vision Arts 114 West 17th Street. NYC

Free admission                           

         Refreshments

will be served

 

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