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Symposium
2007: EMPATHY: CLINICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Empathy--The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas and actions. So simple, and yet so enigmatic! How does empathy develop? Are there developmental conditions that interfere with empathy and encourage non—relatedness—or worse, a wish to destroy the other? Are there conditions in treatment that interfere with an analyst's empathy for a patient? How do different psychoanalytic schools use empathy? Is it a central technical resource, or a function of countertransference—or both? What is the role of culture in the development and use of empathy? How can people become more able to "put themselves in other people's shoes"? This conference will bring together theorists from different psychoanalytic theoretical and technical persuasions and different parts of the country, to explore this crucial concept and how it can be used effectively in our work.
EMPATHY: CLINICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Saturday, March 3rd
9:00am
Welcome: Carolyn Ellman
Introduction: Theodore Jacobs
9:30am to 11:30 am
“The Development of Empathy”
Theodore Shapiro, Arietta Slade, Ed Tronick (panelists); Susan Coates
(moderator).
11:30am to 11:45am Coffee Break
11:
45 to 1:45 pm
“The Limitations of Empathy”
Charles Hanly, Judy Kantrowitz, Warren Poland (panelists); Joseph Reppen
(moderator).
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm Lunch
3:00pm
to 5:00 pm
“The Influence of Theory on Empathy”
Marianne Robinson, James Fosshage, Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber
(panelists); Steve Levy (moderator).
Sunday March 4th
9: 00 am to 11:00 am
“The Role of Culture in the Determination and Use of Empathy”
Dorothy Holmes, Lynne Layton, Anna Ornstein (panelists); Joerg Bose
(moderator).
11:00am to 11:30am Coffee Break
11:30 am to 12:15 pm Final Discussion by Glen Gabbard
12:15
PM–1:00 PM Final Discussion with the Audience
and All of the Participants
Moderator of the Discussion: Owen Renik
Closing Remarks: Arnold Richards
Participants:
Joerg Bose, MD, Director, Training and Supervising Analyst, Teaching Faculty,
William Alanson White Institute; Clinical Associate Professor, College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
Susan Coates, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University; member of the teaching faculty at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Editor, with Dan Schechter and Jane Rosenthal, of the book, September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds.
Carolyn Ellman, PhD, Fellow at IPTAR and Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society, and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Senior Editor of Modern Freudians, Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique published by Jason Aronson in 2000 and Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self published by Jason Aronson in 1997.
James L. Fosshage, PhD, President, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; Founding Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies and Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute; and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Charles Hanly, PhD, in full time private psychoanalytic practice. Professor Emeritus (philosophy) University of Toronto; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis;. Author of books and papers on theoretical, clinical and applied psychoanalysis.
Dorothy E. Holmes, PhD, ABBP, Professor and Director, Clinical Doctor of
Psychology Program, the George Washington University; Training and Supervising
Psychoanalyst, the Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Theodore J Jacobs, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Training and Supervising analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute and New York University Psychoanalytic Institute. Author, The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation.
Judith Kantrowitz, MD, Training & Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute & Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Author of The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst & Writing about Patients. On the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Lynne Layton, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Editor, of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press, 2004); co-editor, with Susan Fairfield and Carolyn Stack, of Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2002); and co-editor, with Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, 2006).
Steven T. Levy, MD, Bernard C. Holland Professor and Chief of Psychiatry at Grady Health System; Vice Chairman for Faculty Affairs, Vice Chairman for Clinical Services, Section Chief in Psychiatry, Emory Clinic.
Anna Ornstein, MD, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; retired Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, and Co-Director of the International Center for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.
Warren Poland, MD, Author, Melting the Darkness: The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice, former editor of JAPA Review of Books, and author "Clinician's Corner" in American Imago along with multiple papers on the analytic process.
Owen
Renik, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Psychoanalytic
Institute, and Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center
at San Francisco. In private practice in San Francisco.
Joseph Reppen, PhD, Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and former Editor of Psychoanalytic Books; Member of the faculty of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, NYU Medical Center, and Secretary of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.
Arnold Richards, MD, former editor of the Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association.
Marianne Robinson LICSW FIPA, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in private practice in Seattle, on the faculty of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society (NPS) and COR/Northwest Family Development Center. Her current interest and writing focus on investigating and understanding the earliest physical, emotional and mental experiences as they manifest in the transference/countertransference relationship. Following the tendrils of these states often reveal hitherto unseen opportunities for growth.
Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East; Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Theodore Shapiro, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York; Professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic; faculty member, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Arietta Slade, PhD, clinical psychologist. Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York, and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. Co-Director, Minding the Baby Program at the Yale Child Study Center.
Edward
Tronick, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human
Development, and Health Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Havard
School of Public Health; Program Director of the Child Development Unit at
Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard
Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sponsors:
The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry; American Institute
for Psychoanalysis; American Psychoanalytic Association; Division of
Psychoanalysis (39) American Psychological Association; The Association for
Child Psychoanalysis; Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies;
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Institute of Psychoanalysis, London;
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Karen Horney Clinic; Los
Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; The Manhattan
Institute for Psychoanalysis; The Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy; The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy; National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical
Social Work; National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; The New
York Freudian Society; The New York School For Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy And
Psychoanalysis; New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Center of California; The Washington Square Institute ; Westchester Center for the
Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; William Alanson White Institute.
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Organizing Committee:
Arnold Richards, Conference
Chair. Carolyn Ellman, Program Co-Chair, Owen Renik, Program Co-Chair.
Lewis Aron, Jill Delaney, Steven Ellman, Lawrence Friedman, Glen Gabbard,
Sheila Hafter Gray, Nancy Cromer Grayson, Jay Greenberg, Alicia Guttman, Jane
Hall, Irwin Hirsch, Leon Hoffman, Ruth Imber, Harvey Kaplan, Linda Larkin,
Joyce A. Lerner, Holly Levenkron, Joseph Lichtenberg, George Makari, Judith
Pearson, Miriam Pierce, Joseph Reppen, Elizabeth Ronis, Arnold Rothstein,
George Satran, Henry F. Smith, Donnel Stern, Kenneth Winarick