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Speaker Program Meeting: November 11, 2023
TITLE: The Untelling: Enactment, Transformation & the Construction of the Past
DATE: Saturday, November 11, 2023
TIME: 9:30 am-12:30 pm
LOCATION: Virtual - Zoom
Presenter: Robert Grossmark, Ph.D., ABPP
SUMMARY
Building on the idea of enactment as narration, I advance the idea that enactment can be regarded as an “untelling” of an “unpast”. I embellish Scarfone’s concept of the unpast and foreground aspects of repetition, differentiation and atemporality at the heart of enactment. I suggest that what is healing when the analyst can unobtrusively companion the patient in the flow of enactive engagement is the creation of time and the past such that the patient can free him or herself from the constraints of the unpast, repetition and trauma and can thus find his or her own differentiation, subjectivity, being and aliveness. I will offer vignettes from a case to illustrate these ideas. Leaning on Laplanche I will subsequently suggest that the untelling is also an un-telling, an undoing of past translations and transcriptions of the enigmatic and will suggest that only when the hollow of the patient can meet the hollow of the analyst can the old translations be truly re-transcribed. I will argue for a differentiation between “filled in” enactments and “hollowed-out” enactments.
ROBERT GROSSMARK, PH.D., ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups and couples. He is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, National Faculty Member, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-edited The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory.
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
- 1. Describe mutual enactment and recognize the hidden narratives embedded in enactments.
- 2. Assess their involvement in filled-in and hollowed-out enactments and create a space for their emergence and flow.
CHARGE: Members get up to 21 CMEs/CEUs for free per year. Non-members pay $25 to attend a 3 hour speaker program meeting and (if licensed in Florida) an additional $20 for CEUs for a total of $45 (or $15/CEU).
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
-Updated July 2021-
The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society has been approved by the Florida Dept. of Health to provide Continuing Education Accreditation to Psychologists (Provider # PCE-46, Exp. 5/22) and Clinical Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors (Provider # BAP 423, Exp. 3/21). The Society certifies that these courses meet the requirements of the Board on an hour-per-hour basis for continuing education credits.
