Conferences
February 25, 2012
IASP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
George Ignatieff Theatre
Toronto
Registration begins Fall 2011
Dr. Richard Geist:
The Analyst's Private Theories
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Dr. Richard Geist will present two papers dealing with the
therapeutic process from a contemporary Self Psychological perspective.
In the morning, he will describe detailed clinical material to
illustrate his thesis that the analyst's emotional convictions—his
private theory—may deepen or restrict every treatment. He will
demonstrate how this private theory, the analyst's attitude, affects the
treatment process in four important areas: our receptivity to mutual
connectedness, our capacity and willingness to disclose personal
feelings to our patients, our desire to protect our patients, and our
responsiveness to our patient's tendrils of health.
In the afternoon, Dr. Geist will continue to develop his ideas on the
clinical process by focusing on the concept of connectedness—the feeling
of being a felt presence in another's life. Dr Geist will emphasize how
the theoretical concept of connectedness shifts our listening
perspective when considering selfobject transference, resistance,
self-disclosure and the disruption-repair process. Once again, clinical
material will be used to illustrate his theoretical points.
About the Speaker
Richard Geist is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Newton,
Massachusetts where he conducts a private practice in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis working with children, adolescents, adults and couples.
He is a Founding Member, Faculty, Supervising analyst, and former member
of the Board of Directors of The Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis and a senior supervising psychologist at Children's
Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
He has been teaching and supervising the Self Psychological and
Intersubjective Approach for over 30 years in adult psychoanalytic and
children's treatment programs as well as its application in other
special areas. He is currently working on a book on the clinical use
of Contemporary Self Psychology in Psychoanalytic Work.
He has published broadly in the psychoanalytic, psychology and child
psychiatry literature and particularly in the contemporary Self
Psychology journals and has presented at many recent Self Psychology
conferences.
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