January 4, 2025
Monica Vorchheimer
Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Time:
9:00 am – 11:00 am (PST)
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (EST)
Content Level: Intermediate
One-Session Program: 2 CEs
Member Fee: $80.00
Candidate/Student Fee: $50.00
This videoconference is co-sponsored by The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) and The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)
Reanalysis: Between Beginning and Termination by Monica Vorchheimer
Much has been written since Freud about initiating analysis. There is, however, a dearth of literature addressing an analysis that is not the first one. Is there anything special about this second or “reanalysis?” Sometimes reanalysis gives access to a psychopathology of the previous therapeutic process. And what about a reanalysis initiated after having been trained as a psychoanalyst?
A clinical case will be presented to discuss what Argentine psychoanalysts Puget and Wender have described as the perpetuation of analysis. They discuss eternalization of analysis as a field problem, a collusion between analyst and patient held by an unconscious shared phantasy – a disturbance in the transferential-countertransferential realm. This needs to be differentiated from what Freud described as “interminable analysis.”
Reanalysis can be a healing process from the transferential-countertransferential neurosis, perversion or even psychosis (folie a deux). The important question is whether there exists an actual desire of analysis or whether we are facing a case of ritualization of psychoanalysis.
The case presentation, specifically a consultation for reanalysis, will address these topics and allow for a stimulating discussion of analytic endings and new beginnings.
Monica Vorchheimer is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APdeBA). She has a private practice in Psychoanalysis with adolescents, adults, families, and couples in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She teaches and lectures locally and abroad in several countries. She was the Latin America Co-Chair of ING, the International New Groups Committee and past Co-Chair for Latin America at the IPA Committee on Psychoanalysis with Couples and Families (COFAP. Currently she serves on the IPA Board as a Latin America Representative.
She has published articles and chapters in books, and co-edited with David Scharff Clinical Dialogues on Families and Couples (Karnac, 2017).
References
- Eizirik, C. L. (2021) When is the Transmission of Psychoanalysis Creative?. The Italian Psychoanalytic Annual 15:125-136.
- Kantrowitz, J. Reflections and reconsiderations” in Myths of Termination: What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings. (2014). London: Routledge; 136 – 151.
- Levine, H. B. (2014) The Puzzle of Interminable Treatments. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 34:4-19.
- Balsam, R. (2024) Thoughts on the Beginnings of Psychoanalyses. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 93:675-699.
- Abramovitch, H. (2021) When is it Time to Stop? When Good Enough Becomes Bad Enough. Journal of Analytical Psychology 66:907-925.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Compare ideas about the idealization of analysis and considerations for ending and beginning a new analysis.
- List some of the defenses that might arise in the analysand and the analyst in the ending phase.
- Describe the components of a consultation for a re-analysis.
Who Should Attend
Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g., LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Continuing Education Credits
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CE credits will only be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program. No partial credit will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted CE credits.
Important Disclosure Information: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Cancellation Policy:
Full refunds will be issued if notification of cancellation is received 72 hours prior to the start of the course.