SOLD OUT: In-Person Lecture: Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst

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Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst

with Robert Grossmark, PhD

Friday, October 18th, 2024 7pm-9pm

Refreshments and conversation at 9 following the lecture

Approved for 2 NYS CE Credits!

This presentation will address challenges when working with patients whose trauma and neglect are not available for symbolization and mentalization. I suggest that the analytic relationship offers a unique situation that – following Laplanche – provokes enactments in which the unsymbolized and unrepresented can speak in their own idiom. Rather than seeking to understand and get out of enactments, the analyst can unobtrusively companion the patient in states of fragmentation, disorganization and non-relatedness and thus make space for early and inchoate trauma to speak. Enactment is thus regarded as an “untelling” of what has been trapped in the “unpast” (Scarfone) of continual painful repetition. When the analyst can companion the patient in the emergence of early, wordless enactments and psychic spaces, old and constraining “translations” are transformed, pain that has never been suffered can finally be known by and with an Other, and time, self and relatedness are reconstituted.

About the Presenter:

Robert Grossmark, PhD

Robert Grossmark, Ph.D, ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups, and couples and conducts psychoanalytic supervision and study groups.

He is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, the NIP Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, National Faculty Member, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally.

He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-editor of The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory, all published by Routledge.

For any questions, please contact Dominika Mazurová at SICP@icpnyc.org. 

An important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).

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Continuing Education Information

NYS Continuing Education Information

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists.

*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.