Description:
Psychoanalytic clinicians often encounter the complexities of erotic transference and countertransference, yet struggle with conceptual frameworks and language that adequately capture these intense, often ambiguous experiences. Traditional models can obscure the subtle intersubjective and developmental meanings of erotic material, resulting in impasses or missed therapeutic opportunities.
This presentation aims to expand clinicians’ capacity to think about and work with erotic dynamics that emerge within the analytic dyad. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic theory, particularly relational and developmental perspectives, Dr. Schoen will examine how erotic experiences in the transference may reflect unconscious longings for recognition, repair, and vitality.
Learning Objectives:
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Describe key psychoanalytic theories related to erotic transference and countertransference.
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Identify how erotic dynamics may reflect developmental vulnerabilities and intersubjective enactments.
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Apply clinical strategies for engaging erotic material in the therapeutic relationship with greater clarity and containment.
Sarah Schoen, Ph.D. is Faculty, Supervising, and Training Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is Executive Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues, on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and co-editor of Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2023). She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
Discussant:
Alison Brown, Ph.D. is a faculty member at the CPTAR (Columbia Psychoanalytic Ctr for Training and Research) where she is a co-chair of the Curriculum Committee and a co-chair of Theory II, III, and IV. Her recent teaching and writing interests focus on gender, intersubjectivity, the psychological experience of technology, and the non-human environment. A former member of the JAPA editorial board, she is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is in private practice in New York City.
References:
Stefana, A. (2017). Erotic transference. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 33(4), 505–513. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12231
de Peyer, J. (2022). Unspoken rhapsody: Female erotic countertransference and the dissociation of desire. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 19(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000798
Little, R. (2018). The management of erotic/sexual countertransference reactions: An exploration of the difficulties and opportunities involved. Transactional Analysis Journal, 3, 224–241. https://doi.org/10.1080/03621537.2018.1471290
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Continuing Medical Education
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of _1.5_ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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