Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst

Name: Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst
Start: 2024-10-18T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 33 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 10023

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

33 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 10023 | Manhattan, NY

Approved for 2 NYS CE Credits! To Register: https://icpnyc.org/event/enactment/
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.