Tuesday Seminar - The Psychoanalytic Frame with Heather Forouhar Graff, MD and Edward R. Shapiro, MD

September 6, 2022 to October 4, 2022

The “frame” in psychoanalysis refers to Freud’s discovery of a set of constants within which “a conversation (can take place) between two people equally awake, but one of whom is spared every muscular exertion and every distracting sensory impression which might divert his attention from his own mental activity". Set up by the therapist (scheduled hours, vacations, fees, office structure), the patient can experience the therapist’s frame (and the therapeutic relationship) as representing aspects of their difficulties (from the security of the mother’s body, to the oppressive, withholding and abandoning other). For the therapist, the frame represents their commitment to the therapeutic task and their membership in a community of therapists. In this bounded space, patients can reexperience painful experiences and begin to understand them symbolically as metaphors, usable to help them to acknowledge, bear, and put in perspective painful past experience.

References 

Freud, S. (1912). Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 12:109-120

Langs, R. J. (1975). The therapeutic relationship and deviations in technique. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 4 1, 06–141. 

Winnicott, D.W. (1954). Metapsychological and Clinical Aspects of Regression within the Psychoanalytical Set-Up. In Through Paediatrics to Psycho-analysis. London: Hogarth, 1958.

Shapiro, Edward. (2019). Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens. Chapter 10: A Citizenship Laboratory. P. 97-107.

Target Audience

Target Audience

__x____ Introductory                ___x___ Intermediate                  ___X___ Advanced

Learning Objectives

1.  Gain Historical perspective on the analytic frame and its development

2. Identify components of the analytic frame.

3.  Explain what the function is of the analytic frame.

4. Describe the development of the analytical frame. 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 7.50 APA

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 7.50 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 7.50 ASWB-ACE

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this course will receive 7.50 continuing education credit(s).

Course opens: 
02/10/2023
Course expires: 
02/09/2024
Event starts: 
09/06/2022 - 5:30pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/04/2022 - 6:00pm EDT
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Heather Forouhar Graff , MD - Assistant Team Leader/Staff Psychiatrist.  Dr. Forouhar is a staff psychiatrist, therapist and assistant team leader at the Austen Riggs Center. She consults to process groups that are aimed at studying relationships to authority. Dr. Forouhar began her education as a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a special interest in perceptual phenomena such as pattern recognition and the interaction and relativity of color. As an undergraduate, she was a research fellow at The University of Chicago studying the neural correlates of learning and memory in songbirds as a model for language development. She has presented on the nocebo effect in treatment resistance, the value of process groups in the experiential learning of group dynamics in psychiatric residents and on the narcissistic vulnerabilities of trainees and the associated obstacles to learning within the supervisory relationship.

Edward R. Shapiro - Distinguished Faculty in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy. A board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, family researcher, and organizational consultant, Edward R. Shapiro, MD, is a distinguished faculty member in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center. He is the former Medical Director/CEO of the Center (1991-2011).

Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.

 

* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

General CME/CE Information  

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Accreditation    

(Physicians, Psychologists, Social Work and Nursing)

The Austen Riggs Center designates this live interactive webinar for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.    

The Austen Riggs Center Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.   

The Austen Riggs Center’s policy on disclosure, in keeping with requirements of the Massachusetts Medical Society, requires continuing education planners and speakers to disclose any relevant financial interest or other relationship with commercial entities that could pose a potential conflict of interest in the presentation of this educational activity. The Austen Riggs Center Continuing Medical Education Committee has established policies for identifying and resolving all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. The Austen Riggs Center accepts no commercial support of any kind to support our CME/CE activity.   

 The Austen Riggs Center Inc. also designates this live interactive webinar for 7.5 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology.   

Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115. 

The Austen Riggs Center Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. For additional information about this program, please call the Erikson Institute Education Coordinator, at 413.931.5230.   

The Austen Riggs Center Inc., #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Live interactive webinar will receive 7.5 continuing education credits.    

For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit www.aswb.org/ace/ace-jurisdiction-map/.   

Available Credit

  • 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    ICPE Logo

    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 7.50 APA

    APA Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 7.50 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 7.50 ASWB-ACE

    ASWB Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this course will receive 7.50 continuing education credit(s).

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