Scientific Program featuring Anne Alvarez, PhD
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
at via zoom
The Rosenblitt Lecture Series Presents: Elements of Vitalization in Psychoanalytic Work with Empty or Dissociated Patients
Presented by Anne Alvarez, PhD
Registration Fee: $60*
*Free admission and CE/CME credits for PCC members, LDC staff and board, full-time students with ID, and trainees in the Departments of Social Work, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health Counseling.
The speaker will emphasize the importance of the prosodic elements which accompany our interpretations and the way in which it can be lifegiving where the patient has lost contact with his own and the world’s aliveness. She will suggest 5 components in such an approach: making it matter, making it last, building a sense of agency and of abundance, going beyond containment to build aspects of a new identity, and knowing when to own boredom and address non-meaning.
About the Speaker
Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P, is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where she still teaches. She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children, and has edited with Susan Reid, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. Dr. Alvarez was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005 and is an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. Her most recent book, The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children, was published in April 2012 by Routledge. A book by Galit Gampel on Alvarez in a series on influential thinkers in psychoanalysis is in preparation for Routledge.
The Rosenblitt Lecture was established by the Lucy Daniels Center in 2019 in honor of Donald Rosenblitt, MD, to spotlight topics relevant to child and adolescent psychoanalytic treatment through an annual lecture presented by a child psychoanalyst.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss the importance of the process of vitalization
2. Describe different types of vitalization
3. Demonstrate how to use the above components in their own clinical practice
This program is intended for physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, and other clinicians or interested academics who want to increase their understanding of vitalization in psychoanalytic work with empty or dissociated patients.
Confidentiality Statement: All case material will be carefully disguised. We ask that participants agree to hold all material presented with the utmost care, following ethical and professional guidelines.
Accommodation Statement: To request an accommodation for this program, please email Kayla Schilke, PCC Training and Education Program Manager, at least two weeks before the start date.
Alvarez, A. (2016). Impaired interactions triggering defense or exposing deficit: Exploring the difference between the withdrawn and the “undrawn” autistic child. Commentary on “An integrative model of autism spectrum disorder: ASD as a neurobiological disorder of experienced environmental deprivation, early life stress, and allostatic overload” by William M. Singletary, M.D. Neuropsychoanalysis, 18(1), 3–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2016.1151250
Alvarez, A. (2018). The concept of the internal object: some defining features. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28(1), 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2018.1411722
Alvarez, A. (2019). Extending the boundaries of psychopathology and of its psychoanalytic treatment. [Review of the book Engaging primitive anxieties of the emerging self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin, Edited by B. Levine and D. G. Power]. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 88, 867-879.
CME credits: 2 / CE credits: 2 / NBCC: 2 clock hours / All others: Letter of Attendance
The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6518. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social workers will receive a letter of attendance documenting their hours of continuing education. This certificate may not be acceptable verification in all states.
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Contact: Kayla@CarolinaPsychoanalytic.org
