Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD
April 22-23, 2023
Kinzie Hotel (Wolf Point room )
20 West Kinzie Street
& ZOOM
Seminar Title: When the Action is in the Interaction; The Origins of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and its Recent Innovations
Seminar Description: In this seminar I will lay out the foundations of interpersonal theory with an emphasis on the nature of anxiety, the use of countertransference, dissociation and enactment, and the interpersonal field. I will elaborate on the historical background to these concepts and more recent contributions in these areas. Detailed clinical examples will be provided along the way.
Selected Readings:
Bonovitz, C. (2007) Whose Who in the Psychoanalytic Situation: Subject, Object, and Enactment in the Relational and Contemporary Kleinian Traditions. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 17:411-437
Bonovitz, C. (2010) The Interpersonalization of Fantasy: The Linking and De-Linking of Fantasy and Reality. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 20:627-641
Davies, J. M. (2016) The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone): The
Unconscious Realities and Fantasies of Psychic Truth and Change.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly 85:361-389.
Hirsch I (1987). Varying modes of analytic participation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 15: 205-22.
Hoffman IZ (1998). Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process: A dialectical constructivist view. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
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