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| The 28th Annual Melanie Klein Lecture |
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Creating Potential Space:
Imagination and Countertransference
featuring
Clara Nemas, MD, FIPA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Saturday, April 29, 2017
8:30 am to 3:45 pm
New Center for Psychoanalysis Auditorium
2014 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025
5 CME/CEU's available
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Program Description
In today's conference, Dr. Clara Nemas of Buenos Aires will expand our thinking about the Kleinian model through its expansion in South America. In this region, Kleinian work is also greatly influenced by the work of Bion and Meltzer, so there will be a feast of ideas to share!
In the morning session, Dr. Nemas will present her paper, Imagination as Container of Potential Spaces, in which she
talks about imagination as a necessary quality of the self that comes to life in the depressive position and allows for the perception, recognition and acceptance of the creativity of the internal objects. She proposes that envy, when it takes the command of the self's view of the world, stifles imagination as it only allows for a very limited understanding of the emotionality of human links. In that sense, it has a fanatic quality as it deprives ideas, emotions or feelings of the capacity to combine one with the other and produce in consequence a new idea. In other words, an attack on linking implies an attack not only on the creativity of the internal objects, but also an attack on the capacity of the self to perceive the creative aspect of the link between objects and with the self. She will bring these ideas together by presenting
two vignettes, one of an adolescent and another of an adult patient.
In the afternoon session, Dr. Nemas will present her paper, Countertransference and Its "Discontent": A Latin American perspective. On it`s way from Cinderella to Princess, or in other words from Obstacle to Instrument, countertransference has been a subject for debate from the early 1950's. Probably due to the great influence of Heinrich Racker, the exploration of countertransference has been a matter of great interest in Latin America. In this paper, Dr. Nemas introduces some of these developments, including those by authors that are less known to colleagues from other regions. The analyst involved in the analytic process with pain and passion involves a change in paradigm, from the analyst as interpreter to the analyst as participant in inevitable enactments. She will identify how countertransference can be approached from three perspectives: as an obstacle (blind or "hallucinated" spots); instrument (to detect what is happening in the patient); and field (as a life experience).
Audience
MD's, Psychologists, LCSW's, MFT's, Registered Nurses, and other learners interested in developing psychoanalytic understanding.
Course Objectives
At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify obstacles to imagination in the internal object world
- Take steps to improve the links between internal objects, and between the self and objects, in psychoanalytic work with patients
- Summarize the development of Kleinian psychoanalysis in Latin America
- Distinguish three psychoanalytic approaches to countertransference
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Program Faculty
Clara Nemas,
MD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst and recent Scientific Secretary of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (APdeBA), and a member of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Association (FEPAL). She mantains a fulltime private practice in Buenos Aires. She is a member of the IPA China Committee and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also a member of the Latin American Working Party on Compared Clinical Methods. She is the editor of the website Desarrollos Meltzerianos on the work of Donald Meltzer. She has published articles and contributed chapters in books on ethics, psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique. She is currently chair of the department of Kleinian Developments in APdeBA.
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Program Schedule
| 8:30 am |
Registration and continental breakfast
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| 9 am |
Welcome, Dr. Jennifer Kunst, CE Chair
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| 9:15 am |
Imagination as Container of Potential Spaces, Dr. Clara Nemas
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| 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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| 10:45 am |
Audience discussion |
| Noon |
Lunch break
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| 1:30 pm |
Countertransference and Its "Discontent": A Latin American perspective, Dr. Nemas
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| 2:45 pm |
Audience discussion |
| 3:45 pm |
Closing remarks and adjourn |
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Continuing Education Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the IMQ and the CMA's CME accreditation standards through the PCC. The PCC is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The PCC takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.
The PCC designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.
Psychologists may apply hours in attendance at this CME accredited live activity toward their continuing education requirement for licensing.
The Psychoanalytic Center of California is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs and LCSWs (CAMFT Approved Provider #135374). The PCC maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 5.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
This course is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #CEP6003) for up to 5 contact hours.
Claiming Credit:
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance at the event, which can be used toward licensing requirements. Participants of all professional disciplines should only claim continuing education hours/credit commensurate with their actual participation in this activity. Credit is offered for actual instruction time and does not include breaks.
Refunds/Cancellations:
Refunds, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made if cancellation notification is phoned or postmarked three (3) business days in advance of this program. There will be no refunds on requests received after the refund deadline. Full refunds are made in the event that PCC must cancel this program.
Returned Checks:
A $25.00 service charge will be assessed for checks returned by the bank.
Grievances:
While PCC goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which come to the attention of the PCC staff which will require intervention and/or action on the part of the staff. Visit
www.p-c-c.org/ethics
for PCC's procedural guidelines for handling such grievances.
Special Needs:
Facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. If you have a special need and plan to attend the conference, please contact the PCC Office by phone at (310) 478-4347 or via email at 0ffice@p-c-c.org. Special needs requests will be fulfilled if received one week prior to the event, which will ensure we have ample opportunity to meet your needs.
Commercial Support Disclaimer
: The planners and presenters for this event have not received commercial support for the conference nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, PCC, and the presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.
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About PCC
CE Committee
Jennifer Kunst, PhD (chair); Persila Conversano, PsyD; Chris Minnick, MD; Susan Mitchell, PhD; Honey Pietruszka, PsyD; and Ellyn Singer, PsyD.
PCC Executive Committee
Leigh Tobias, PhD, President
Jennifer Langham, PhD, President-Elect
Janis Goldman, PhD, Secretary-Treasurer
The PCC Referral Service
PCC offers referral for low cost psychoanalysis and reduced cost psychoanalytic psychotherapy provided by PCC candidates in training. For information and referral call (310)208-1053 .
Contact the PCC Office
Telephone (310) 478-4347
Email office@p-c-c.org
Web
www.p-c-c.org
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