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ForwardTuesday Seminar “The Freud-Klein Controversies” with David Mintz, M.D.
Tuesday Fellows Seminar
Following the Nazi Anschluss and the evacuation of many Jewish psychoanalysts to London, simmering conflicts between developing Freudian Ego Psychology and Kleinian Object Relations came to a head. Personal, political, and ideological tensions threatened the group identity of British psychoanalysis and the ability for the Psychoanalytic Society to function. In order to lay to rest, once and for all, the question as to whether the ideas of Klein had any legitimate place within psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein and her supporters presented a series of 4 papers to the Society. These papers, intended to represent the pinnacle of Kleinian thought, were to be debated over the course of 10 Special Sessions of the Society. The results of these discussions continued to influence psychoanalysis for the remainder of the Century, and beyond.
Target Audience
______ Introductory ______ Intermediate ____X__ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Describe the roles played in the Controversial Discussions by analysts important to the development of psychoanalysis in the latter half of the 20th century.
- Discuss some of the ways that theoretical differences within psychoanalysis have been shaped by extra-theoretical tensions, including personal strivings, guild tensions, economic pressures, and historical accidents.
- Describe major differences between Kleinian thought and Ego Psychology, particularly the role of phantasy, and the death instinct, the formation of internal objects, the timing of superego development, and the nature of psychosexual development
- Describe ways that differences in theory shaped differences in technique in the different schools
- Discuss how the conflicts explored in the Controversial Discussions have been resolved or continue to play out in contemporary psychoanalysis.
David Mintz, M.D. is a psychiatric member of the Medical Staff of the Austen Riggs Center, where he serves in the roles of psychotherapist, prescribing psychiatrist, Team Leader, Associate Director of Training, and Director of Psychiatric Education. A dropout from clinical psychology graduate school, Dr. Mintz received his medical training at the University of Miami before completing a Residency and Fellowship in the Cambridge Hospital/Austen Riggs Combined Program. Dr. Mintz is in his 28th year at Austen Riggs.
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Available Credit
- 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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- 9.00 APA
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 9.00 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.
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