Building Blocks and “White Lies”: A Patient’s and an Analyst’s Struggle Toward a Common Language
October 25, 2025
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Graduate Analysts & Psychotherapists – $75.00
Candidates & Students – $40.00
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Overview:
The Child/Adolescent Training Committee of the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education (AAPE) invites child and adult analysts, candidates and psychotherapists to join us for a discussion focused on the applicability of Kleinian thinking to clinical work with children. The webinar will offer clear and clinically useful explanations of Kleinian concepts. Process material from an in-depth treatment will be used to demonstrate the potential clinical value of these concepts.
Presenters: Shirley B. Hiscock and Margaret Rustin
Objectives:
- Explain the defense of inhibition from an ego psychological perspective and a contemporary object relations perspective.
- Apply two theoretical understandings of sexual inhibition to effective interpretive strategies for working through this defensive structure.
- Discuss the relationship between sexual inhibition and superego functioning, from both an ego psychological perspective and a contemporary object relational perspective.
