CO-ORGANIZAD BY THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION (IPA) STUDY GROUP OF TURKEY: PSIKE ISTANBUL and
ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE 1: Critique of New Developments in Psychoanalytic Theory
This conference will focus on the neo-Bionian analytic approach and on relational psychoanalysis as two presently dominant new psychoanalytic developments. A brief outline of the Neo-Bionian Approach and of Relational Psychoanalysis will be followed by a critical review, and some general problems of contemporary psychoanalytic techniques examined in this context.
CONFERENCE 2: Socially Fostered Violence
This conference will explore group processes, personality issues in leadership functions, general qualities of political ideologies, social trauma and bureaucratic mechanisms affecting institutional functioning, as reflecting the combined features determining and facilitating social violence against social subgroups. The potential of preventive and protective measures will be explored.
OTTO F. KERNBERG
As one of the most renowned psychodynamic theorists worldwide, Otto Kernberg has made significant contributions to psychoanalysis with his original work on narcissism, object relations and personality disorders.Born in Vienna, Kernberg has migrated to Chile from Nazi Germany with his family in 1939. He has completed his education in biology, medicine, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Santiago (Chile), and migrated to the USA in 1961. Since 1974, he works as a training and supervision analyst at Columbia University (NY) Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Cornell University (NY) Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College since 1976. Since 1995, he works as the director of the Personality Disorders Institute of New York Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division. Member of the editorial board of various international psychoanalysis and psychotherapy journals, Dr. Kernberg is also a member of numerous national and international psychoanalytic associations. He is the recipient of 58 awards including the Mary S. Sigourney Award (1990) for distinguished contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. He has acted as the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association between 1997 and 2001.
Dr. Kernberg has developed “Transference Focused Psychotherapy” which serves as a useful frame for coordinating personality disorders in terms of structural organization and violence. His work is also significant in terms of combining post-war ego psychology with Kleinian and other object relations approaches. The development of modern object relations theory; the theory of the mind which is perhaps most widely accepted by modern psychoanalysts today, owes a great deal to his integrative writing. Dr. Kernberg has also authored important articles on psychoanalytic training. Author of 12 books and co-author of 12 volumes and over 400 scientific articles,
Kernberg’s books include:
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology (1995); Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations (1998); Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications (2004); Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations (2006); Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology (2007).
PROGRAM
Sunday, 23 October 2011
9.00 – 10.00: Registration
10.00 – 12.00: Conference 1
13.00 – 15.00: Conference 2
PARTICIPATION: Open to everyone.
LANGUAGE: Conferences will be in English with simultaneous translation into Turkish.
VENUE: İstanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus (www.bilgi.edu.tr)
REGISTRATION FEE: 250 TL
Psike İstanbul members and students: 230
– Please deposit registration fee to İstanbul Psychoanalytic Association for Training, Research and Development bank account at Garanti Bank Erenköy Branch (Branch Code: 150), account no TR420006200015000006299074. Please fax bank deposit receipt and registration form to (212) 224 10 03.
– You may also email your deposit receipt and registration form to psikeistanbul@gmail.com. In this case please send the registration form as an attachment and indicate the bank deposit number and which branch the payment was made at in the inline text.
