When: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 12 pm - 2 pm Eastern US
Attendance: Open to ACP members only as a member benefit
Cost: $25 for Regular and Collegial Members $10 for Candidates and Collegial Candidates
No CEs/CMEs are available
Zoom Link will be included in confirmation email
For our first Discussion Forum, Dr. Judy Yanof has agreed to discuss the Marianne Kris Lecture that she delivered during the 2024 annual meeting, related to the topic of trauma. Judy will begin by summarizing the paper, and this will include material from an analytic case that illustrates the ideas under discussion. Registrants will receive a summary of the paper but the full paper will not be available.
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Summary: Trauma, Dissociation, and The Life of Pi
I presented this paper for the Marianne Kris Lecture at the 2024 ACP Annual Meeting. In the paper, I discuss the case of a young boy that I treated analytically earlier in my career and raise questions about whether I had considered trauma and dissociation sufficiently in assessing his diagnosis and in understanding what emerged during the treatment. The play was engaging, disturbing in its content, and creative, but my patient could never seem to leave the play to relate to it as metaphor, going back and forth, in the way that children who are good players can be in both worlds at once, real and pretend. In the paper, I refer to my increased understanding of dissociative phenomena in children, the ubiquity of trauma in the general population, and my greater reliance on parent work for the children I treat as factors that stimulated this retrospective gaze and questioning. I also reference Martel’s novel, The Life of Pi, as part of my associative threads. During the seminar, I will present process material from the treatment, which I hope will initiate a fuller discussion of the topic and the case.
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