2009-2010 Relational Perspectives Institute
The Cosmos Club
Relational Psychoanalysis has its foundations in Freud’s inner circle when Sandor Ferenczi and Otto Rank broke with Freud’s purely intrapsychic one-person model to consider the role of relationship and mutuality in treatment. The groundbreaking work of Melanie Klein, D.W. Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Harry Stack Sullivan, Karen Horney, Eric Fromm, John Bowlby, Hans Loewald, Heinz Kohut and Heinrich Racker went further, making relationship central to development, personality and psychopathology. The American Relational movement, guided by the late Stephen Mitchell, has taken this “turn” toward relationship and moved psychoanalysis toward a two-person model that has transformed psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This fundamental paradigm shift has generated renewed excitement within psychoanalysis and stimulated an explosion of creativity that is continuing to redefine psychoanalytic theory and treatment.
The Relational Perspectives Institute (RPI) will consist of four intensive weekend conferences. Each weekend is uniquely designed to immerse the participant in the foundational theories and techniques that define the Relational Perspectives. The Institute will feature speakers and faculty who represent the very best and most innovative voices from the American Relational Perspectives. Our featured speakers: Lewis Aron, Donnel Stern, Margaret Black, Karen Maroda and Steven Cooper have been central voices in defining the field of Relational Psychoanalysis. Together with the Relational Faculty of ICP&P, these speakers will provide the participants with an engaging, interactive and stimulating learning experience.
For more information on the RPI please visit our website or download the brochure.
This post was submitted by Roger J. Segalla, Jr., Ph.D..