Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc.
Speaker Program Meeting: October 9, 2021
Presenter: Dr. Oren Gozlan, C. Psych., ABPP, FIPA
Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalyst
Dr. Oren Oren Gozlan, C. Psych, ABPP, FIPA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the Chair of the Scientific Committee, and Faculty at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is a member of the IPA committee for Gender Diversity and Sexuality. His book ‘Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach’ won the American Academy & Board of Psychoanalysis’ annual book prize for books published in 2015. He is also the winner of the Symonds Prize for 2016 and the Ralph Roughton Award for 2022. His edited collection titled: “Critical Debates in the Transsexual Studies Field: In Transition” (Routledge) was a runner up for the 2019 Gradiva Award.
DATE: Saturday, October 9, 2021
TIME: 8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. / 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. /1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
CHARGE: 8:15am: $15member/ $20 non-member; (1 CME/CEU upon request);
9:30am: $10 to all ($45 non-members and friend members if requesting CME/CEUs; 3 CME/CEUs free to Clinical Members upon request, 9 CME/CEUs per speaker year free to Corresponding Members upon request,)
1:30pm: $35 to Members, $45 to non-members (3 CME/CEUs included), $25 student rate (No CME/CEUS) The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society is able to give CME/CEUs to those registered with the Florida Board of Medicine, The Florida Board of Psychology, and the Florida Board of Social Work.
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9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. : “Adolescent Ruthlessness”
Summary: Features of ruthlessness may come into play in the encounter between adolescents who are coming into the therapeutic space with precise and clear demands to be supported through their gender transition, and the analyst, who may experience anxiety over the adolescent’s future regret. By extending Winnicott’s concept of ruthlessness from the infant-mother matrix to the emotional situation of the clinic, I consider the conditions under which the analyst can think about adolescent demands. The conditions involve the patient and analyst’s desire for certitude and the analyst’s urgency to respond, as well as the adolescent’s contradictory desires for both destroying and creating gender. I lean on the work of Sally Swartz, who brought Winnicott to a notion of ruthlessness in protest to consider the qualities of ruthlessness in constituting gender. I present a snippet of my work with a nonbinary patient to show how questions of gender cannot be understood separately from the intersubjective transferential field. By tying ruthlessness to the enigma of desire, I consider the emotional situation of the clinical encounter between the non-binary or trans patient and the analyst; a situation that is also libidinal. I argue that an analytic move from the question of gender identity to the realm of an emotional situation allows the analyst to meet adolescent ruthlessness. This meeting is not only as an ethical attempt to understand the other, but also a study of one’s own resistance to giving up something in order to understand.
Objectives: Upon completion of the program the participant will be able to:
1. Describe the dilemmas analyst might face in treating non-binary/ non-normative adolescents.
2. Apply the analytic concepts of ruthlessness, anthropological situation and dispersal to clinical case with a non-binary or trans patient.
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1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. : "Gender as Emotional Situation"
Summary: Recent advancements of trans rights follow significant developments in medical and technological interventions in transforming the body. With the emergence of new forms of gender variance, developing forms of community accompaniment provide gender non-conforming children with emancipatory possibilities. Medical interventions lean on the approval of a healthcare professional, and it is at this stage that the analyst is called upon to act as gatekeeper, that is, to decide whether the demand for transitioning ―the initiation of hormonal treatment or surgery as well as requests for name or pronoun change―should be supported. The transitioning youth’s demands for recognition and/or support for initiation of medical intervention may push against the analyst’s theories of gender as this challenge traditional understanding of sexual identity, now increasingly understood as overdetermined. In this paper I focus on the emotional situation created by the analyst’s confrontation with new subjectivities in the clinic—trans and nonbinary children and adolescents—about which there may be no prior knowledge to lean upon. In addressing concerns regarding the analyst’s stance in relation to trans youth’s demands to transition, I specifically focus on two papers recently published by the International Journal of Psychoanalysis: David Bell’s article “First do no Harm” (2020) as well as Rachel Blass’s paper “Can we think psychoanalytically about transgenderism?”. With attention to a series of metaphors and signifiers such as contagion, castration/amputation and disruption that recur through the debates, I ask, what do these apparently disparate metaphors and signifiers reveal about the anxieties in the field regarding these new clinical situations? And how do these new situations change the nature of our work?
Objectives: Upon completion of the program the participant will be able to:
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Deadline for Payment Online is Wednesday, October 6th, by 5:00pm. Registered attendees will be sent a Zoom invite late Friday night, the 8th. If you paid and did not receive an invite to the Zoom meeting , please contact Alan Alonso, LMHC, President of TBPS, at: PresidentTBPS2020@gmail.com , or call (813) 265-3859, ext. 4.