Date: Saturday 21 April 2018, 09:00am - 11:00am
Contact : info@iarppaustralia.com.au
Affect, Attachment, Trauma, Repetition, Negotiation: A clinical study of the work of Paul Russell
Barbara Pizer EdD
Four Saturdays Mar 24, Apr 7, Apr 21, May 5
Registration information will be announced shortly
Paul Russell’s writing is an attempt to convey the living clinical process as he discovers it. A unique and humane thinker, he pays tribute to our classical tradition by reaching back to take into account the history and nature of presumed truths before recasting them to form new sets of open questions and conceptual connections. His writings, deceptively simple in his step by step development of one hypothesis or another, takes us right along with him as he juggles back and forth the coming into being of a particular idea from this angle and that, shaking off the dust of whatever seems to stall its progress, and bending every effort to hold open room for unfolding potential.
Paul Russell’s explorations of five interlocking concepts— Affect, Attachment, Trauma, Repetition and Negotiation— actually operationalize the basic tenets of relational theory today. *
*Excerpted from “A Reader’s guide to the work of Paul Russell,” by Barbara Pizer in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, volume 42, October 2006
This Seminar Series will be divided into four sessions.
March 24, 9-11am
1-Necessary Crises in the Treatment Relationship; the paradoxical nature of
Enactments in Russell’s Theory of the Crunch;
also, B. Pizer’s When The Crunch is a (K)not: A Crimp in Relational Dialogue. These papers also illustrate Russell’s exploration of Attachment, Trauma, and The Repetition Compulsion
April 7, 9-11am
2- The necessary two-person relationship and its vicissitudes in Human Development as well as the Treatment Process. The centrality of Affect.
We are born with feelings (but) we have to learn to own them—in Russell’s The Negotiation of Affect. (Deceptively simple, this paper is so dense and so complex that it is the only assigned paper for this seminar session.)
April 21, 9-11am
3- The Role of Loss in the Repetition Compulsion.
Also, S. Pizer’s Facing the Nonnegotiable. The subject of this seminar is taken from Russell’s paper “The Role of Loss in the Repetition Compulsion. Also, S. Pizer’s Facing the Nonnegotiable.
May 5, 9-11am
4- An operational summary of Affect, Attachment, Trauma, The Repetition Compulsion, and Negotiation
— recapitulated in the treatment process—in Russell’s Process with Involvement. In this last class, I will read an illustrative case that is actually a short, short story by Lewis Nordan.
Barbara Pizer, Ed.D., ABPP is Faculty, Personal and Supervising Analyst, and former Board Member, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; Assistant Professor of Psychology(part time), Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Faculty and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia; Visiting Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Visiting Faculty and Member, Advisory Board, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member and Faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Member, The Contemporary Freudian Society; Member, International Psychoanalytical Association; Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; former Board Member, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; author of numerous articles on the analyst’s disciplined and creative use of self; in private practice in Cambridge.
Dr Pizer will be presenting live via video-link from Cambridge, MA.
Registration information will soon be available
