BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-909-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260412T165816 DTSTART:20210123T100000 DTEND:20210123T140000 SUMMARY:Stoller Memorial Lecture with Ofra Eshel DESCRIPTION:This meeting will take place online via Zoom. Once you regis ter, you will receive an email with the link and more information.\n*** Registration will close at 4:00 PM the day before the event. No registr ations are possible after this time.\n\nThe New Center for Psychoanalysi s is pleased to present the\n\n-- 2021 Robert J. Stoller Lecture --\n\n- - with --\n\n-- Ofra Eshel --\n\nBeyond “Perversion - The erotic form of hatred” (Robert Stoller, 1975):\nInto the depths of deadness, empt iness and despair, and the emerging need for love in the analysis of sev ere fetishistic-masochistic perversion\n  \n\nPart I. Pentheus Rather than Oedipus: A theoretical-clinical context, begins with a review of the main developments in psychoanalytic thinking on perversion over the last hundred years, starting with Freud's early writing (1905) on the su bject. This is followed by Dr. Eshel's own understanding of perversion  and its treatment, which is based on the psychoanalytic treatment of pat ients with severe sexual perversions. She uses the term “autotomy” t o describe perversion formation as an “autotomous,” massive splitti ng defense in the service of psychic survival within violent, deeply tra umatic, early childhood situations. Thus, a compulsively enacted “des ire for ritualized trauma” ensues — a last-ditch attempt to prevent , by its corporeality and intensity, a collapse into dread, psychic de adness, and annihilation. Rather than an oedipal world, severe perversio n is rooted in the world of Pentheus, Euripides's most tragic hero — a world dominated by a mixture of a mother's madness, devourment, destru ction, and rituals of desire. From this perspective she addresses the difficult question: Is perversion treatable? Dr. Eshel emphasizes the i mportance of the analyst’s abiding “presencing” and “withnessing ” or interconnectedness with the perverse patient, which gradually cre ates a new, alternative experiential-emotional reality within the patie nt’s alienated world. This is followed by two clinical vignettes that illustrate the genesis of her thinking on perversion. \n\n \n\nPart II .  The Analysis, presents the years-long, difficult analysis of the s everely fetishistic-masochistic patient described earlier. The cessation of his perverse practices in the third year led to an extreme collapse into profound devastation, emptiness, psychic death, and violent, suicid al despair. Working within this collapse in analysis enabled the deep re ason for the patient’s breakdown in early life to unfold. And, most im portantly, it engendered the crucial possibility that had never been exp erienced before, of reliving the patient’s unbearable breakdown and de adness — this time patient-with-analyst t(w)ogether — and experi entially coming through it differently. Yet it still remains without an ending of love.  \n\n \n\nSchedule\n\n \n\n10:00 - 10:15 am\n \nWe lcome and introductions\n\n10:15 - 11:30 am \n \nOfra Eshel: theoretic al presentation\n\n11:30 - 11:45 am\n \nQ&A & discussion with the parti cipants\n\n11:45 am - 12:15 pm\n \nBreak\n\n12:15 - 1:45 pm\n \nOfra E shel: clinical analysis\n\n1:45 - 2:00 pm\n \nQ & A & discussion with t he participants\n\n \n\n-- Learning Objectives: --\n\nAs a result of at tending this program, participants should be able to:\n\n* Summarize th e psychoanalytic understanding of perversion and its changes over the la st hundred years: Freud's classical drive model and its vicissitudes, th e object-relations model (Stoller, Socarides Khan, Ogden, and French the ories of perversion), and the Kohutian Self-psychology model\n\n* Explai n the understanding of perversion and its treatment by regarding perve rsion formation as an “autotomous,” massive splitting defense in th e service of psychic survival within violent and deeply traumatic early childhood situations\n\n* Discuss the reliving of the early breakdown and deadness in the treatment experience with the analyst as described i n this analysis of the severely fetishistic-masochistic patient\n\n* Ass ess the patient’s longing to experience and feel, within the psych oanalytic treatment, a core capacity to love that has been subjected to annihilative destruction or hatred\n\n-- Presenter:  --\n\nOfra Eshel  is a faculty member, training and supervising analyst of the Israel Psyc hoanalytic Society and Institute, and member of the International Psycho analytical Association (IPA); vice-president of the International Winnic ott Association (IWA); founder and head of the postgraduate track "Indep endent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs" at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv Uni versity. Her papers have been published in psychoanalytic journals and b ooks and presented in national and international conferences all over th e world. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv, Israel. \n\n--   --\n \n“Ofra Eshel offers a radical change in the way we conceive of the an alytic endeavor, a change that opens new possibilities for everyone... S he discusses and clinically illustrates what it is to be there with the patient so thoroughly that a new subjective entity and depth of experien cing emerges...” --Thomas Ogden\n\n  \n\nTarget audience: Experienc ed mental health professionals\n\n3.25 CE/CME Credits\n\nRegistration: F ree, with CE/CME credit\n\n \n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n \n\n \n\nThis Conference was mad e possible by the Leonard J. Comess Israel Teaching Fund, the Stoller L ecture Fund, and the New Center for Psychoanalysis.\n\n \n\nConference Coordinator: Dahlia Nissan Russ, PsyD, LCSW\n\nConference Committee: Pet er Loewenberg, PhD; David James Fisher, PhD; Meiram Bendat, JD, PhD; Rin a Freedman, PsyD; and Committee Chair Dahlia Nissan Russ PsyD, LCSW\n\nP rogram Subcommittee: Michael Gales, MD, Heather Silverman, MD, co-chairs ; and Thomas Brod, MD\n\n \n\n----------------------------------------- -------------------------------\n\n  \n\n \n\n"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"\n\n* Pre-Register below\n\n* If you are registering for the fi rst time you will receive a welcome email. You must follow the direction s in this email to complete your registration in order to access your ce rtificates. \n\n* You will receive an email with an evaluation 2 days a fter the event\n\n* Complete the evaluation\n\n* Wait 2 business days\n\ n* Download your Certificate on the NCP website\n\n \n\n-- CONTINUING E DUCATION CREDIT  --\n\nIMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNER S: None of the planners and presenters of this CME/CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. \n\nPHYSICIANS: This ac tivity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accredita tion requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continui ng Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Ameri can Psychoanalytic Association and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Th e American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to prov ide continuing medical education for physicians. \n\nThe American Psych oanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for the maximum of 3 .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the cr edit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity .  \n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is approved b y the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibili ty for this program and its content. Full attendance is required for psy chologists to receive credit; partial credit may not be awarded based on APA guidelines. For the psychologists’ records, certificates of atten dance are provided at the completion of the course.  \n\nSOCIAL WORKER S, MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS (LCSW, LMFT, ASW, IMF, LEP, LPCC, PCC I): The New Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a Cal ifornia Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency. \n\nRE GISTERED NURSES: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is an accredited pro vider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider # CEP1112). Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours sp ent in the educational activity for credit.\n\n \n\n-- Continuing Educa tion Policies and Information --\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR