Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Critical Thinking - Technique

Perspectives on Unconscious Conflict

Drs. Jeff Halpern and Ellen Rees

Two classes for senior candidates provide an opportunity for candidates to hear faculty present clinical material and debate issues of technique. These two classes are designed to provide a forum for candidates from different years to hear each other’s ideas and to hear faculty articulate their ways of thinking about controversial questions of technique in relation to clinical process.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit per hour of instruction. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLUSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial information to disclose.

We would like to welcome you to Methodology Technique. These sessions are intended to offer an opportunity for you to hear faculty give their views on controversies and ideas that involve psychoanalytic technique and to explore the larger themes that underlie these differences. We have chosen perspectives on the use of support, a notion that is controversial to the psychoanalytic point of view.

Our focus will be on clinical process material. I will continue the presentation of an analysand that some of you heard about in these classes last year when our focus was on unconscious conflict. This year’s process will reflect supportive interventions within the context of a psychoanalytic process. I will review the case for those who did not hear this presentation.

Our goal is to have a dialogue that will stimulate an active discussion and we invite you to think with us and to add your perspectives.

We are looking forward to seeing you