61st Annual Conference
Friday,
February, 27
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:00
P.M.
Workshop 63
Authorizing Women: Analysis of the “Bitch”
Transference
Chairs:
Christine
Kieffer, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA, Private Practice, Chicago,
Illinois
Jeffrey Roth,
M.D., FAGPA,
Private Practice,
Chicago, Illinois
Open to participants with less than four years of
group psychotherapy experience
Deep ambivalence
about women’s power and authority pervades our culture and thus
shapes psychoanalytic theories of development and therapeutic
action. This workshop will examine transferences to female and male
leaders as they unfold within a group. Implications for the
group-as-a-whole will also be examined.
demonstration-sharing of work experiences-experiential-didactic
Course References:
1. Benjamin, J. (1988).
The Bonds of Love:
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the
Problems of Domination . New York: Pantheon Books.
2. McWilliams, N. (1991). Mothering and fathering processes in the
psychoanalytic Art.
Psychoanalytic Review, 78, 525-545.
3. Kieffer, C. (2004). Selfobjects, oedipal objects and mutual
recognition, The Annual of
Psychoanalysis, in press. |
