In this presentation the speaker will address the psycho-social roots of violence.
Though his perspective and focus will be mostly that of the psychoanalyst working clinically with individual patients and consulting to staff groups who manage some such patients resident in closed institutions, he will make tentative links with cultural, social and political violation and violence.
He will briefly address how and with what impact, external, real world disruption and violence inevitably filters into the consulting room and into the therapeutic relationship.
He will differentiate between aggression and violence, with aggression being understood as a life force, resulting in potency, creativity and passion, and hence healthy relationships; and violence being understood as a malign and destructive force resulting in the destruction of relationships and the negation of the life force.
Finally, he will ask whether our experience in the consulting room, where we might come to some understanding of violating and violent patients, might be helpful to our understanding of social and political violence.
2 CEUs
Instructor: Stanley Ruszczynski
Dates: February 16, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM –1:00 PM EST
Location: Online
Fee: $ 175, Candidate: $85
Learning Objectives:
Participants will benefit from:
- Some understanding of the psycho-social roots of violence
- Being able to differentiate between aggression and violence
- Reflecting on the interaction during analytic treatment between internal world and external world forces
- Thinking about how to approach the inevitable and complex tension between the primary task of the psychoanalytic clinician and their patient, and the fact that both are also citizen in the external world.
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