Scientific Program featuring Anne Alvarez, PhD
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 Dep't. 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, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005 and is an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. Her latest 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.