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Current Program Year (2006 - 2007)

September 17, 2006

The Relationship Between
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy:
Getting It Right At Last!

Melvin Bornstein, MD.

11:00 A.M.-1 P.M.

The relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy remains confusing, ambiguous, and problematic for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Volumes devoted to this topic have not been helpful in promoting an understanding of the similarities and differences of the therapies because the concepts and formulations that have been used are on a level of abstraction that is distant from clinical experience. With an experiential perspective and the clinical theory of psychoanalysis, greater clarity can be achieved in understanding the relationship of the two therapies. In developing my premise, I demonstrate that my approach and technique with all patients whether the therapy is psychotherapy or psychoanalysis is similar, i.e. to reduce the effect of resistances against telling one’s story that will increase the capacity to be in touch with oneself and experience an increase wholeness and solidity of self.

In psychoanalysis and at times in psychotherapy an emotional relationship develops, that becomes the subjective organizing center of the psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The subjective organizing center promotes the progress of the therapy and envelopes the resistances that retard the progress of the therapy. For the author, the term psychotherapeutic third captures this subjective entity. In psychoanalysis in addition to the development of a psychotherapeutic third a co-construction of an ideal fostered by the analyst also develops.

The ideal is based upon a conviction that by consistently applying the analytic attitude the resistances that analyst and patient are struggling to overcome which are enveloped in the psychotherapeutic third will be reduced enabling the patient and analyst the achievement of greater freedom and autonomy. This conviction of the analyst that becomes the catalyst for the co-constructed ideal generally develops in psychoanalytic training while being immersed in the psychoanalysis of several patients with the support of an institute and the guidance of supervisors.

Melvin Bornstein, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute; Past Chairman of the Education Committee, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University and University of Michigan; Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry

University Club
East Lansing, Michigan

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

The Therapist's Patience

David Klein, Ph.D.

11:00 A.M.- 1P.M.

Patience is one of the many components of the analytic attitude. It is generally regarded as an invaluable attribute for a therapist to
possess, yet it is usually treated as if it goes without saying.
Regarding its inverse, it is hard to imagine a therapist characterized
by impatience as very helpful with most clients. In this paper, the use of patience by the therapist is explored, especially in relation to certain issues of technique. As well, some developmental aspects regarding the acquisition of patience will also be considered. Clinical vignettes will illustrate the concepts.

David Klein, Ph.D. is the President of MPC after serving as MPC Treasurer for 5 years. Dr. Klein is the Editor of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council Bulletin and is currently the instructor for MPC's Continuous Case Conference. He practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Ann Arbor, working with children, adolescents and adults

Providence Hospital: Fisher Center Auditorium
16001 W. 9 Mile Rd.
Southfield, Michigan 48075
248-849-3000

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November 19, 2006

Stage Beauty:
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
(movie and paper presentation)

Ellen Toronto, Ph.D

11 A.M.-1:00 P.M.

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The Michigan League
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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January 21, 2007

Title to be announced

Bertram Karon, Ph.D

11:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M.

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Bertram Karon, Ph.D....

University Club
East Lansing, Michigan

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