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SUMMARY:The Never-Ending Challenge of Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the 
 Unknown with Ofra Eshel
DESCRIPTION:Saturday, March 29: 9 AM - 1 PM, Pacific Time\n\nSunday, Marc
 h 30: 9 AM - 1:30 PM, Pacific Time\n\nRegistration closes at 4:30 PM th
 e day before the event starts. Late registrations cannot be accommodated
 . Please refer our Policies page for more information.\n\nPLEASE MAKE N
 OTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:\n\n* This is a two-day program which 
 is being presented on Zoom only. \n\n* Pre-registration is required. Y
 ou will receive confirmation and details by email. \n\n* 8 CE/CME credi
 ts are offered for this program. Attendance both days is required for 
 credit. Signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for credit.\n\n* Con
 tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\n \n\n-- NCP PR
 ESENTS: --\n\n-- The Never-Ending Challenge of Reinventing Psychoanalysi
 s for the Unknown --\n\n“Psychoanalysis goes far deeper than any other
  form of communication in a relationship that anybody knows so far. But.
 .. especially if we are going to have to deal with patients which are no
 t really like the sort of patient which is spoken of in classical psycho
 analysis, then not only are we to treat these patients, but we have to i
 nvent the methods by which we are going to treat them.”  (Bion, Los A
 ngeles, 1967/2013)\n\nDuring this two-day conference, Ofra Eshel will pr
 esent two works, which will be evaluated and discussed by contemporaries
  Charles Levin, Aner Govrin, and Mary Tennes, as well as a clinical case
  presentation by Margaret Rubin. The works focus on recognition of the p
 aradox of learning uncertainty and multiplicity of knowledge as well as 
 helping clinicians withstand the Unknown while building capacity to cont
 ain psychodynamic dislocation. The discussions of Dr. Eshel’s papers w
 ill focus on the brilliantly creative and fundamental quality of her psy
 choanalytic work, which draws deeply on the analytic tradition, particul
 arly Winnicott and Bion; but also on how she helps us to think beyond th
 em. \n\nThe Leonard J. Comess Israel Teaching Fund has underwritten thi
 s program.\n\nIf you cannot attend the live session but want to receive 
 a recording, please register. An event recording will be emailed to you.
  The case presentation will not be recorded. Please allow up to one week
  for NPC to email the recorded material.\n\n \n\n-- Conference Schedule
 :  --\n\nSaturday – March 29, 2025 - Reinventing psychoanalysis for t
 he great unknown\n\n9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome and opening remarks: Dahlia Ni
 ssan Russ, Psy.D., LCSW, Conference Coordinator  \n\n9:15 – 10:30 | B
 eing Totally in the dark: On working analytically within the depths of t
 he great unknown of psychic catastrophe: Ofra Eshel, PsyD \n\n10:30 –
  10:45 | Break\n\n10:45 - 11:30 | Discussion I: How Ofra Eshel helps to 
 guide us into the theoretical wilderness, where psychanalysis needs to g
 o: Charles Levin, PhD \n\n11:30 – 12:20 | Discussion II: Enchanted an
 d troubled in contemporary psychoanalysis: Ofra Eshel’s extension of t
 he Bion-Winnicott framework for working with severe trauma: Prof. Aner G
 ovrin, PhD\n\n12:20 – 1:00 | Q & A\n\nSunday – March 30, 2025 - The 
 Enigma of telepathic dream\n\n9:00 – 10:00 | Where are you, my beloved
 ? On absence, loss and the enigma of telepathic dreams: Ofra Eshel, PsyD
 \n\n10:00 – 10:45 | Discussion III: To approach what is radically Othe
 r: Mary Tennes, PhD\n\n10:45 – 11:00 | Break\n\nReinvention psychanaly
 sis for severe perversion\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 | Clinical Case: Calamit
 ies and secrets, the power of the fetish: Margaret Rubin PhD\n\n12:00 �
 � 1:00 | The never-ending challenge of reinventing psychanalysis for sev
 ere perversion Discussion: Ofra Eshel PsyD\n\n1:00 – 1:30 | Q & A\n\n-
 - Learning Objectives: --\n\nAs a result of attending this program, part
 icipants will be able to:\n\n* Re-think and discuss the essence of the u
 nknown in different areas in psychoanalysis: massively traumatic states,
  patients’ telepathic dreams, and sudden death.\n\n* Assess clinically
  the meaning of the ontological-experiential shift in psychoanalysis - f
 rom epistemological (knowing) exploration and interpretation to being an
 d becoming in the experience.\n\n* Explain how the development of the an
 alyst’s imagination and experience allows the analyst to reinvent ways
  of working within the patient-analyst “withnessing,” while transcen
 ding subjective boundaries in order to establish a new analytic experien
 ce and understanding. \n\n* Demonstrate increased capacity and willingn
 ess to work within the darkest abysmal traumatic depths of unrepressed a
 nd unrepresented unconscious states.\n\n* Identify new essentials of ana
 lytic work emerging from the spectrum of analytic oneness, and apply the
  understanding of Winnicott-Bion-Eshel spectrum to their analytic work w
 ith difficult patient and difficult analytic situation.\n\n* Describe th
 e meaning of the patient’s experiencing and living through “for the 
 first time” the hitherto unexperienced and unrepresented breakdown in 
 treatment (Winnicott).\n\n* Explain the difference between projective/in
 trojective identification and the process of at-one-ment (late Bion). \
 n\n* Examine how Eshel deepens the late Bion-Winnicott ontological appro
 ach and points the way beyond the psychoanalytic canon, particularly thr
 ough her concepts of "the spectrum of analytic oneness," "projective rea
 lization," and "vicarious self-state dissociation, " in work with severe
 ly traumatized patients.\n\n* Evaluate how the “enchanted-troubled pos
 ition” can lead to meaningful theoretical and technical developments i
 n psychoanalysis while maintaining connection to established frameworks.
  \n\n* Re-think and discuss the years-long enigma of telepathic dreams.
 \n\n* Compare and clarify the links between Eshel’s psychoanalytic mod
 el of analytic oneness, the emergence of telepathic experiences within p
 sychoanalysis, and the pressing need to attend, at this moment in time, 
 to collective global catastrophes. \n\n* Discuss the reliving of the ea
 rly breakdown and catastrophic loneliness in the treatment experience wi
 th the analyst as described in Rubin’s analysis of a severely fetishis
 tic patient.\n\n* Summarize the spectrum of analytic oneness and how to 
 apply it to analytic work.\n\n* Demonstrate increased capacity to work w
 ith unrepressed and unrepresented unconscious states.\n\n-- Program Coor
 dinator: Dahlia Nissan Russ, PsyD, LCSW --\n\nCommittee: Dahlia Nissan R
 uss, PsyD, LCSW, Tom Brod, MD, Meiram Bendat, JD, PhD, and Peter Loewenb
 erg, PhD\n\n-- Presenter: --\n\nOfra Eshel, PsyD, is a training and supe
 rvising analyst and senior faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic S
 ociety and Institute; fellow, the International psychoanalytic Associati
 on (IPA); Honorary Member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Ange
 les, and former vice-president of the International Winnicott Associatio
 n (IWA).  Founder and head of the post-graduate program “Winnicott, B
 ion, and Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the adv
 anced studies of the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Faculty of
  Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. Founder (in 2024) of the advanced progra
 m “Radical Breakthroughs in Contemporary Psychoanalysis” at Deepspri
 ngs, Beijing, China. A prolific writer, her papers have been published i
 n psychoanalytic journals and book chapters, translated into ten languag
 es, and presented at national and international conferences across four 
 continents.  She has been the recipient of several honors and awards, m
 ost recently the 2022 Leonard Comess Award. In 2023 she was ranked as t
 he first of the top 10 authors writing on Winnicott between 1978-2023. A
 uthor of The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoana
 lysis (Routledge, 2019), with translations into Chinese (2024) and Braz
 ilian-Portuguese (2025).  She is in private practice in Tel Aviv, Israe
 l.\n\n-- Discussants: --\n\nCharles Levin, PhD, FIPA, is a training and 
 supervising analyst in private practice in Montreal. He has served over 
 many years in a variety of capacities at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Soc
 iety and Institute, including director of training and editor-in-chief o
 f the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. In addition to clinical psycho
 analysis, his work focuses on issues related to culture, aesthetics, and
  psychoanalytic ethics. His publications include: The mind as an interna
 l object, Psychoanalytic Quarterly (2010), Art in the offertorium: Narci
 ssism, psychoanalysis and cultural metaphysics (Rodopi, 2012), and the e
 dited volume Social aspects of sexual boundary trouble in psychoanalysis
  (Routledge), which received an award from the APA Division 39 in 2021. 
 He is currently completing a book-length study of Bion.\n\nProfessor Ane
 r Govrin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalys
 t in private practice in Tel Aviv. He serves as director of the Psychoan
 alysis Hermeneutics doctoral program at Bar Ilan University’s Program 
 for Hermeneutics and Culture. A training analyst at the Tel Aviv Institu
 te of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP), he co-founded the School of P
 sychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tel Aviv Institute and was its first 
 director. He is the editor of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporar
 y Psychoanalysis book series. His recent book, How Philosophy Changed Ps
 ychoanalysis: From Naïve Realism to Postmodernism (Routledge, 2024), ex
 plores the intersection of philosophical thought and psychoanalytic theo
 ry. His forthcoming work, The Craft of Psychodynamic Case Study: Practic
 al Guide, will also be published by Routledge.\n\nMary Tennes, PhD, is a
  Training and Supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Nor
 thern California, where she is also faculty and the head of Faculty Deve
 lopment.  In the last several decades, she has written and presented ex
 tensively on the intersection of psychoanalysis and the mystical, the te
 lepathic and the uncanny. Her most recent article, Tell all the truth bu
 t tell it slant: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny is about to be published
  in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  She is in private practice in Oakland
 , CA.\n\nClinical Presentation:\n\nMargaret Rubin, PhD, is a member and 
 senior faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP). She graduated
  from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society in 2000 a
 nd was awarded Thesis of the Year. Additionally, she has twice been awar
 ded Faculty of the Year at NCP for teaching Relational Theory to the psy
 choanalytic candidates in the training program. She has also taught in N
 CP’s psychotherapy program. Dr. Rubin has been published in Contempora
 ry Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Her paper Calamities and
  Secrets, The Power of the Fetish is being published in the upcoming Mar
 ch/April Symposium Issue in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She practices in S
 anta Monica, CA.\n\n----------------------------------------------------
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