Scientific Program featuring Howard B. Levine, MD
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
at 9003 Weston Pkwy , Cary
Interpretation in a Changing Landscape
Presented by Howard B. Levine, MD
Hybrid via Zoom or In-Person
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.
Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session, the thing-in-itself, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens, know what the participants say happens, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient in the listener.” (p. 33). In regard to what we might interpret, what we hope that our interpretations will do and our assumptions about the very epistemological ground on which we stand, our understanding of the psyche, language, therapeutic action and much, much more has shifted seismically. This paper will begin to address the complexity revealed by this shift and some of the implications and changes for our understanding of interpretation and the interpretive process, especially when working with patients and psychic organizations that lay beyond neurosis. A clinical illustration will be drawn from the published account of Harry Guntrip’s analyses with Fairbairn and Winnicott.
About the Speaker
Howard B. Levine, MD is a member of APsA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series, and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable space (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022). He is editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022), The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green, Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023) and Andre Green’s On The Destruction and Death Drives (Phoenix/Karnac 2023). His co-edited books include: Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil (Karnac 2017); The Clinical Thinking of W.R. Bion in Brazil (Routledge 2024); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); On the Destruction and Death Drives by Andre Green (Phoenix 2023); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Describe interpretation as a process as well as a descriptive statement
2. Apply the interpretive process to the creation and co-creation of new psychic contents (construction), especially in the treatment of non-neurotic sectors of the psyche.
3. Apply and understand the changes in Freud’s Structural Theory and their implications for the treatment of non-neurotic patients and psychic organizations.
This program is intended for physicians psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, PA's, and other clinicians or interested academics who want to increase their understanding of interpretation in a changing landscape.
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.
Levine, H. B. (2023). On looking into The Ego and the Id 100 years after its publication. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(6), 1054–1062. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2277010
Levine, H. B. (2023). To feel in my flesh: Receptivity, resonance, representation, and the beta screen. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 92(4), 641–664. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2290015
Levine, H. B. (2024). On the question of the internal frame. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 105(2), 234-241.