CANCELLED - The Impact of the Analyst's Real Life and Other External Factors on the Psychoanalytic Process with Aisha Abbasi, MD (Lecture)

CANCELLED

Description:  In this presentation, Dr. Abbasi will emphasize the importance of the analyst being able to discuss how external events either in her life or in the environment surrounding the analytic dyad, impact the analytic process. She will use detailed clinical material to illustrate these ideas, which are often given short shrift in analytic work.

Objectives: 

1. Identify how external factors affect the analytic work in subtle and not so subtle ways.
2. Employ the knowledge gained to listen to their patients in increasingly sophisticated ways.
3. Modify the way they work when issues of external reality come up in analytic material.

Biography:  Dr Aisha Abbasi is a training and supervising analyst at the Michigan psychoanalytic Institute and it’s immediate past president. She is  the pro bono executive director of the Mel Bornstein Clinic for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, which is a supporting organization of the Michigan psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Abbasi is an associate editor of the journal of the American psychoanalytic association. She’s also on the editorial board of the psychoanalytic quarterly and on its Board of Directors.

She is the author of the book The Rupture of Serenity: external intrusions and psychoanalytic technique . It was originally published by Karnac books and now under Routledge press. She has recently also co-edited a book with Dr. Salman Akhtar on the topic of privacy: developmental, Cultural and technical perspectives.

Location: McCollum Room within Montview Blvd. Presbyterian Church