Visiting Professor Week - Professor's Choice

Dr. Perelberg discusses a favorite paper by an author who has influenced her development as an analyst.  The paper will be André Green's "The Intuition Of the Negative In [Winnicott's] Playing and Reality" in the 1997 International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 78:1071-1084.  It is available via PEP-Web or from the SFCP library (alyson.barrett@sf-cp.org).

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe and compare the difference between healthy and pathological uses of psychic negation: for example, the early differentiation of self from non-self can take different directions: "me" from "not-me" (healthy) versus the experience of negative hallucination, an erasure of an internal object that remains active as blank space and dissociated affect and that effectively can effectively stifle all future object relations (pathology).
2. Define the term "framing structure: and its relationship to holding and the creation of a transitional object (an object that both simultaneously separate from and continuous with the self and that is both "me" and "not me).
3. Describe two specifics in Green's clinical case, such as the failure to bond with adoptive families, that are clinical clues of a failure to develop a capacity for transitional objects and ultimately mature object relating.

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Faculty Disclosure: The following moderators and planning committee members have disclosed NO financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies who have provided products or services, relating presentation(s) or commercial support for this continuing medical education activity: Eric Glassgold, M.D. and Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Ph.D.. All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.