Johanna Dobrich Seminar

Please Note: To preserve and respect both intellectual property rights and confidentiality, the seminar will not be recorded, nor is recording permitted.

Expanding Dissociation Informed Psychoanalysis: The Self State Continuum Model & “Survivor Siblings”

Seminar Description:

In recent years, psychoanalysis has undergone a very welcomed transformation away from a predominant emphasis on repressive symptomatology and intrapsychic conflict, toward an appreciation of dissociative symptomatology and the unformulated. And yet, much ambiguity surrounds our understanding of dissociation as a process, defense, and structure of the self. In this presentation, Johanna will outline a self-state continuum model to help formulate the different ways defensive dissociation may be operating from a discrete process into becoming a structure of the self.  
Johanna will then elaborate on her research regarding the impact of dissociative coping on "survivor siblings" – patients in which one or more of their siblings has a serious disability that includes persistent medical and developmental features.   A contemporary psychoanalytic model for addressing experiences that have been unspeakable/unknowable is articulated.

About the Speaker:

Johanna Dobrich, is an LCSW and psychoanalyst with a private practice specializing in the treatment of dissociative disorders. Johanna obtained her MA from Rutgers University in Political Science, her MSW from NYU and completed psychoanalytic training at ICP. Johanna is the winner of the 2023 Sandor Ferenczi Award from the International Association for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation for her book Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis, which explores the developmental impact of growing up alongside a severely disabled and medically complex sibling. In addition to clinical practice, Johanna teaches courses and supervises therapists in psychoanalytic training at PPSC, NIP and ICP and is joining MIP as a consultant in their Trauma Training Program.

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