PASSION (Passione)
Grand Hotel Baglioni
FLORENCE, Firenze, ITALY
4-6 July 2014
4-6 Luglio 2014
CO-SPONSORED BY:
Sponsored by:
Adelphi Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Istituto di Psicoanalisi H.S. Sullivan
The Psychoanalytic Society of the NYU Postdoctoral Program
Toronto Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society
The Seventh Joint International Conference will focus on the theme of Passion in psychoanalytic work and everyday life. Psychoanalysis has been described as a journey into the interior, a creative and mutual process which enables participants to contemplate experiences, explore reactions and generate thoughts that broaden their perspectives and make them more present in life. Central in this intense and deeply personal process is the passion to make sense, to create links between the past and the present and the personal and the interpersonal, and to give voice to internal states and experiences. Yet, side by side with the passion analysts feel for the work they do is the reality of clients devoid of passion, or full of destructive if not obstructive passion. Maintaining passion in working with patients who are fearful of intense emotions, tolerating the emotional turbulence patients generate with their intense reactions and rigid beliefs, and facilitating exchanges that feel meaningful and resonant, are challenges familiar to every analyst. The conference will offer presenters an opportunity to address a range of issues related to different experiences and manifestations of passion including, but not limited to: passionate beliefs and ideas; passions that blind; passions that give meaning and structure; failure to find/maintain passion in life and relationships; destructive, self-destructive, and pathological passions; obsessive, alienating and ritualistic passions; shared passions; passions in the transference/countertransference; commodification, objectification of passion and desire; differences in passion between males and females, gay and straight.
Joint International Conference Committee:
Lori Bohm, White
Carlo Bonomi, Istituto di Psicoanalisi
Rebecca Curtis, White & Adelphi
Ionas Sapountzis, Adelphi
Michael Stern, Psa Soc
Rhonda Sternberg, Psa Soc, Chair
Brent Willock, Toronto
Programma:
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014
6:30 Registration, Cocktail Party
8:00 Dinner, Welcoming Remarks: Rhonda Sternberg, Psa Soc
9:00 Keynote Address: Carlo Bonomi, Istituto di Psicoanalisi, My Passion for Psychoanalysis
10:00 Small Group Activity: Passion, Professional and Personal
SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014
9:30-11:00 PANEL 1A
Passionate Fantasy:
Rhona Kaplan, White, Love Bites: Fears and Wishes in Romantic Attachments
David Braucher, White, Passion (or Past-Shunned): The Use of Fantasy to Recreate Past Loving and Sexual Self-Experiences in the Present
Bruce Herzog, Toronto,Romancing the Man—Lessons from Middle Aged Men Who Have Had Affairs
9:30-11:00 PANEL 1B
Passionate Journeys:
Maria Emanuela Novelli, Societa Italiana di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica, Passion, Impro- visation and Transfer Between Psychoanalysis and Jazz
Rhonda Sternberg Psa Soc, Wanderlust: O’ the Places We Can Go
Maurizio Pinato, Assoc. Sandor Ferenczi, The Dream as Art Practice: Contaminations Between Oneiric Experience and Art Practice in Architecture
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 PANEL 2A
Crimes of Passion:
Silvia Fiammenghi, NYU, I Love You to Death: On Loving the Patient Who Loved Too Much
John V. O’Leary, White, Romantic Passion Gone Awry: The Long Shadow of Humiliation
Karen Lombardi, Adelphi, Passion, Desire, Perversion: Love and Death in Psychoanalysis
11:30-13:00 PANEL 2B
Problems with Eros:
J. Gail White and Michelle Flax, Toronto, Relationships: Wanted Dead or Alive
Harriette Kaley, Psa Soc, The Vicissitudes of Passion: Clinical Work and Research Findings
Andrew M. Eig, Adelphi, Erotic Passion, Fertile Thoughts, and Space for Intercourse: Working with Sexless Couples Using In Vitro for Procreation
13:00-14:15 LUNCH
14:15-15:45 PANEL 3A
Passionate Counter transference:
Jillen B. Axelrod, Psa Soc, Love and Let Live: How an Erotic Transference Enabled Mourning in the Child of Two Holocaust Survivors
Cynthia Heller, Adelphi, The Effects of a Female Therapist’s Loving and Passionate Counter-transference on the Treatment of a Male Patient
Judith E. Levene, Toronto, Shared Passion: One Path Toward the Construction of Empathy
14:15-15:45 PANEL 3B
Bion and Passion:
Ionas Sapountzis, Adelphi, On States of Resignation and Retreat: Musings on Passion, Com-passion and Being
Luca Caldironi, Societa Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI), Art and Psyche: A Passion Looking Forward
Matthew J. Tedeschi, Adelphi, Passionate Links: Clinical Notes on Containing Trauma And Reawakening Hope from Despair
15:45-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-18:00 PANEL 4A
Passion and Professional Life:
Gianni Guasto, Assoc. Sandor Ferenczi, Passio Curandi—The Passion for Healing
Sandra Buechler, White, Fire in the Belly: Can Love (for Psychoanalysis) Last?
Giorgia Zandanel, Sibilla Abrami, Daniele Santoni, Istituto di Psicoanalisi H.S. Sullivan, Passion as a Therapeutic Instrument for Young Analysts
Sarah Calvert and Jane Gilbert, Aotearoa New Zealand,Chapter of IARPP, Passionate Encounters: Resilience and Capacity—Passion as An Essential Component
16:15-18:00 PANEL 4B
Passionate Struggles:
B.J. Cling and Phillip K. Shinnick, Psa Soc, Passion: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jean Principe, Psa Soc, Passion: Moments of Suffering in Psychoanalysis or No Pain, No Gain
John A. Sloane, Toronto, The Passion of Christ: The Passion of Humanity
Anthony Wilson, Toronto, Psychoanalysis, Tempering Passion and the Environmental Crisis Crossroads
20:00-22:30 DINNER
Società Canottieri Firenze
SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014
9:00-10:45 PANEL 5A
Passion and Attachment:
Mary Beth Cresci, Adelphi, What’s Love Got to Do With It? Passion vs. Attachment
Amira Simha-Alpern, Adelphi and Alma Krupka Klein, SIPP, What Do I Really Want? Passion and Attachment
Lori C. Bohm, White, Mother-Daughter Love: A Passionate Attachment Gone Awry
Linda Jacobs, Psa Soc, Seduced and Abandoned: A Patient’s Sexual Acting Out and the Mutative Impact of the Analyst’s Maternal Embrace
9:00-10:45 PANEL 5B
Healing and Passion:
Jeffrey Rubin, The Marriage of Intimacy and Meaning: A Psychoanalytic-Meditative Approach to Feelings
Heather MacIntosh, Toronto, Passion Past in the Present: Dyadic Traumatic Reenactment, Integration of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Psychoanalysis for Trauma Survivors
Sarah Turnbull, Toronto, The Analyst’s Passion and Other Asymmetry
Robert Watson, White, A Relational View of Passion and the Group
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00 PANEL 6A
Moments of Passion Throughout Life:
Michael Stern, Psa Soc, Moments of Passion
Anna Maria Loiacono, Istituto di Psicoanalisi H.S. Sullivan, The Middle Age Between Renunciation and Passion
Joan Lipton, Psa Soc, Aging and the Life Review
Renee Cherow-O’Leary, Columbia University, Aging, Passion and Death: Passion as Meaning and Structure in the Face of Time and Change
11:15-13:00 PANEL 6B
Noir Aspects of Passion:
Susanne Cooperman, Adelphi, Mystery: Sexual Passion Masquerade
Veronica Fiske, Adelphi, The Boring Girl: Finding the Passion of the Femme Fatale Within
Herbert Gingold, Adelphi, Good Girl vs. Femme Fatale: Igniting Passion and Surviving Annihilation
Julie Lehane, Adelphi, D.O.A: The Murder of Passion
13:00-14:15 LUNCH
14:15-15:45 PANEL 7A
Passions in Growing Up:
Marcelo Rubin, White, An Interpersonal Perspective of the Role of Passion In the Development of Children and Adolescents
Brent Willock, Toronto, A Passion for Pink
Elizabeth Allured, Adelphi, Passions Lived and Denied: Working With and Working Through Passions in Our Offices
14:15-15:45 PANEL 7B
Passion Overboard:
Rebecca Curtis, White, Passion and Passion Plus in Work, Sex, Smoking And Other Pursuits
Jeanne Even, IPTAR, Internet Video Gaming: From Passion to Addiction
Hilary Offman, Toronto, Undercover, or Under the Cover of Passion?
15:45-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-18:00 PANEL 8A
Passion Killers and Passion Rekindlers in Therapy And in Life:
Susanna Federici-Nebbiosi, ISIPSE, Remembering One’s Passion in the Process of the Clinical Encounter
Mark Borg, White, Human Anti-Depressants and the Dynamics of Sustained Dispassion
Janet Benton, White, Passion Gone Awry
Gail Levin, CUNY, An Enduring Passion for Art:The Case of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
16:15-18:00 PANEL 8B
Passion and the Clinical Space:
Velleda C. Ceccoli, Psa Soc, The Chemistry of Passion: Elemental Alchemy and Inner Experience
Robi Akret, White,The Pole Dancer
Cristiano Rocchi, Societa Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI), The Passion in a Countertransference Bodily Experience
Mark Egit, Toronto, The Development of Passion and the Clinical Space
18:00-19:30 CLOSING COCKTAIL PARTY
Roof Garden, Grand Hotel Baglioni
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY:
6:30-8:00 pm Registration and Cocktail Hour
8:00 pm Welcoming remarks, Rhonda Sternberg
8:15 pm Dinner
9:00 pm Keynote Address
Carlo Bonomi: My Passion for Psychoanalysis
10:00-10:45 pm Small Group Activity
SATURDAY:
9:30-11:00 Panels 1A and 1B
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Panels 2A and 2B
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:45 Panels 3A and 3B
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-6:00 Panels 4A and 4B
8:00-10:30 Dinner
SUNDAY:
9:00-10:45 Panels 5A and 5B
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-1:00 Panels 6A and 6B
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:45 Panel 7A and 7B
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-6:00 Panels 8A and 8B
6:00-7:30 Closing Cocktail Party
For Registration Information Contact:
isapountzis@adelphi.edu
bonomi.carlo@fastwebnet.it
info@ipasullivan.it