If Freud Were a Woman – March 14, 2014
I’m very pleased to let you know that on March 14, 2014, I’ll be presenting a TRISP workshop that I’m calling, “If Freud Were a Woman: Gender, Trauma, and the Ethics of Care. “ I’ll ask participants to join me in a thought experiment that imagines how psychoanalysis would have been different if Freud had been born a woman. Carol Gilligan, a feminist theorist whose 1982 book, In a Different Voice, exposed the masculine biases underlying Kohlberg’s studies, has called our attention to the fact that women’s voices, in contrast to...
read moreConference on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders – February 21, 2014
TRISP kicks off the 2014 events with a paper I’m presenting entitled Bioself-Psychological Model of the Obsessive-Compulsive Character Disorder (OCCD). My colleagues Peter Zimmermann and George Hagman will discuss the paper and we’d love for you to be there! In this paper I’m building on my earlier work with Maria Miliora on panic disorder in which we developed the bioself-psychological model. In the new paper I use a graphic diagram to depict the multidimensional aspects of my OCCD model which synthesizes a variety of...
read moreForms and Transformations of Connectedness
The theme of this year’s Self Psychology conference in Chicago was “Forms and Transformations of Connectedness.” Connectedness is an idea that Dick Geist has examined and written about extensively in the past six or seven years, and I suspect the title of the conference was a tip of the Self Psychological cap in Geist’s direction. This suspicion was made stronger by the fact that Geist was the keynote presenter at the first plenary on Friday, the official first day of the conference. Implicit in the idea of connectedness is the...
read moreWelcome to the new TRISP blog!
Welcome to the new TRISP blog! We’re excited to use this new forum to share ideas with you about TRISP and Intersubjective Self Psychology, and to create dialogue among those in our community. And that’s just the beginning… For those of you who are new to TRISP, some history. TRISP opened its doors in 1987 with our four-year training program in Intersubjective Self Psychology and over the course of the last 25 years TRISP has brought forth 10 generations of psychoanalytic self psychologists. In 2006 we added a one-year introductory...
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