Contemporary relational psychoanalysis’ shift to understanding the patient through the interactive effects of the therapeutic dyad requires a different language from the more historical objectivist stance that relied on authoritative interpretations by the analyst, with whom the patient projects dissociated aspects of the self onto the therapist, and the therapist interprets.
Join us for an Innovative Seminar in Relational Psychology with Dr. Steven Kuchuck, DSW
By the conclusion of this course, attendees will be able to:
Define what is meant by big R Relational psychoanalysis
Give at least one example from their own practice of a way in which some element of their subjectivity impacted a clinical intervention
Articulate at least one example of an enactment
Dr. Steven Kuchuck, DSW, is a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and clinical consultant in private practice in New York City. He is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Senior Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives: An International Journal of Integration and Innovation and Co-Editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series from Routledge. Kuchuck is the author of The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Confer, 2021), a contributor to and editor of the book Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Routledge, 2014) and contributor to and co-editor (with Adrienne Harris) of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (Routledge, 2015). He lectures throughout the United States and internationally.