In this workshop, Harry Paul will present an extended paper tracing Kohut’s journey towards the leading edge, based on a paper co-authored with Peter Zimmermann. He will then address Tolpin’s advances beyond Kohut, and how Intersubjective Self Psychology further deepens the concept of the leading edge.
Following his paper, George Hagman and Karen Roser will present vignettes which will highlight the therapist’s decision tree in actively seeking to engage first the tendrils of hope and then the emergence of the leading edge in the transference, a process of therapeutic cure that enables the patient’s realization of who they know themselves to be or who they yearn to be.After the presenters’ talks, the discussion will be open to everyone in attendance. We look forward to seeing you there!
Harry Paul, PhD
Harry Paul, PhD is a clinical psychologist, and he practices in New York City and in Westchester County New York. He is a founding member, past president, faculty, supervisor and training analyst at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology and currently a founding member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation, both organizations known as TRISP. He has presented at annual IAPSP meetings, was a member of the National Council and has published work on addiction, intersubjectivity and intersubjective self psychology. In 2006 he co-authored with Richard Ulman, Narcissus in Wonderland: The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment and his current project which was published in 2020 is Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer, in which he was a contributor and co-editor, with George Hagman and Peter Zimmermann.
Karen Roser, PsyD
Karen Roser, PsyD is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. A graduate of Bank Street College of Education (MS in special education) and New York University (PsyD in child psychology), she graduated from TRISP’s psychoanalytic program in 2000. She has been treating children, parents, couples and adults since 1995. In addition to chapters in our book, Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer, she has published papers in the Psychoanalytic Review and presented numerous papers at TRISP’s Friday night workshops.
George Hagman, LCSW
George Hagman, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in Stamford, Connecticut. He is on faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology, and is a training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. George is the author of numerous published articles and several books and edited volumes. He is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and the editor of 2 book series for Routledge Press, Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis and New Directions in Self Psychology. George is also co-editor with Peter Zimmermann and Harry Paul of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer.
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