June 2018 Scientific Meeting

 
The June Scientific Meeting is the fourth in a series NPSI is offering this spring for those interested in our Twelfth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference on "The Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond" (October 12-14, 2018). Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this meeting will function as a study group oriented to the conference theme. 

Thomas H. Ogden, more than any other current psychoanalyst has interpreted Freud, Klein, Winnicott & Bion's ideas about the grounding of the mind in the body. In his two papers, "On the Concept of an Autistic-Contiguous Position" and "Some Theoretical Comments on Personal Isolation", he highlights the role of early infantile sensuous experience as foundational in the development of the mind and in the experience of a subjective sense of self. As such, the body then becomes a life long representation of the creative couple, of not only sensuality and sexuality, but of an essential element in representation and symbol formation.

The group will discuss together this integral role the body plays in the functioning of the mind.

Required readings will be emailed to all who pre-register for this event.

Learning objectives:

1. Participants will be able to recognize body states as representative of primitive mental functioning. 

2. Participants will discover the grounding in the body that underlies the development of the mind. 

3. Participants will  recognize the integration of mind and body as embodiment.

About the presenter

Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA where she also teaches, writes, and consults. She is a full faculty member of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, of Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and of COR Northwest Family Development Center. Dr. Eekhoff is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her writing emerges from her clinical experience. Her book, Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective, is due out from Routledge by the end of the year.

To register as an NPSI candidate, or if you have questions, email the NPSI administrator at admin@npsi.us.com.