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A Comparative Exploration of Field Theories 

Holly Levenkron LCSW

6 Saturdays, September 15-October 27

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This six week course offers an overview of different aspects of “Field Theory”. Not limited to one body of theory, or one group of theorists, we will look at “Field theory” as addressing the widening scope of intersubjectivity in our work. Comparative Field Theory encompasses many psychoanalytic approaches to relationality and change. While the course will focus on how several select theories fall under the rubric of “Field Theory”, we hope to learn how “Working with Fields” affects our clinical work. Time permitting, we will look at brief examples from the instructor’s and the group’s clinical experiences. 

 

Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at MIP, Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis, and ICP, The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (in New York City), where she is also the Director of Psychoanalytic Training. She is the author of papers on Enactment, Dissociation and Affect and has lectured and taught in the United States and Internationally on these and other subjects. She is in private practice in both Cambridge, MA, and in New York City, where she works with individuals and couples and has a sub-specialty with Adult Asperger’s.

Holly Levenkron will be presenting live via video-link from New York City

 

Program and Reading List

Week 1: September 15, 9-11

Field Theory I: Harry Stack Sullivan and the Barangers

Stern, D.B. (2013) Field Theory in Psychoanalysis, Part 1: Harry Stack Sullivan and Madeleine and Willy Baranger. Psych. Dial., V23: no 5, pp 487-501. 

Optional: 

* Barranger, W., Barranger, M., Mom, J., (1983) Process and non-Process in analytic work. Int. Journal of Psychoanalysis, V64:1-15. 

* Foehl, J.C., (2013) Field Theory: Commentary on paper by Donnel B. Stern, Psychoanal. Dial. V23: no. 5 pp 502-513. 

 

Week 2: September 22, 9-11

Field Theory II: Bionian Field Theory and Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis

Stern, D.B. (2013) Bionian Field Theory and contemporary Interpersonal/Relational psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Dial. V23: no. 6, pp, 646-653. 

Optional:
* Civitarese, G. (2016). Ways of 'dreaming' the session and the analytic field theory. Published as 'Reverie and the aesthetics of psychoanalysis.' In From reverie to interpretation: Transforming thought into the action of psychoanalysis. Dana Blue and Caron Harrang (Eds.) [pp. 55-69], London: Karnac. 

• Levine, H.B., (2013) Comparing Field Theories.

Discussion of Donnel B. Stern, Psychoanal. Dial. V23 no 6.667-673. 

 

Week 3: September 29, 9-11

Dynamic Systems Theory 

Stolorow, R.D.,(1997) Dynamic, dyadic, intersubjective systems: An evolving paradigm for psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 14:337-346. 

Optional
* Ringstrom, P. (2010) Meeting Mitchell’s challenge: A comparison of Relational Psychoanalysis and Intersubjective Systems Theory, Psychoanal. Dial. V20 pp196-218.
*Seligman, S., (2005), Dynamic Systems Theory as a metaframework for psychoanalysis. Psychoanal.Dial. V15: no ( ) pp285-319.

Week 4: October 6, 9-11

Implicit Relational Knowing 

 

Levenkron, H., (2009) Engaging the implicit: Meeting points between Relational Psychoanalysis and the Boston Change Process Study Group, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, V45, No 2, pp 179-217. 

Optional:
* Levenkron, H., (2006) Love (and hate) with the proper stranger: Affective honesty and enactment. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, V26, No2, pp157-181

 

Week 5: October 13, 9-11

Therapeutic Action and the Field 

Grossmark, R., (2014) The flow of enactive engagement. Contemp. Psychoanalysis, V48: 00 287-300.
Ehrenberg, D.B., (1974) The intimate edge. Contemp. Psychoanalysis. V.10 pp423-437

 

IAPSP CONFERENCE VIENNA October 17-20

 

Week 6. October 27, 9-11

Relational and Interpersonal Views 

Benjamin, J. (2013) Thinking together, differently: Thoughts on Bromberg and intersubjectivity. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, V49, no. 3, pp 356-379. 

Optional:
* Stern, D.B., (2013) Relational freedom and therapeutic action. JAPA V. 61 pp227. 

 

Message from Holly Levenkron:

 

Dear Colleagues, Wishing you a prosperous and peaceful new year! I am really looking forward to meeting those of you who will be new faces, and to seeing acquaintances I had the good fortune to meet in Sydney last May. I’m sending a preliminary bibliography and as we near next June, 2018, I will finalize it for you. All the articles are good to look at if you want to get a head start with this list as a guide. I’ll most likely stick to it and if I do make any changes, I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. Very best wishes. Holly 

 

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