June 16 – 18, 2022

Luskin Center
Los Angeles, California, US

Expanding Our Clinical Experiences:
The Spoken, Unspoken, and Unspeakable in
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Schedule and accommodations:
https://whova.com/web/ieoce_202006/Documents.

Registration:
https://whova.com/portal/registration/ieoce_202006/

Plenary livestream registration:
app.ce-go.com/iarpp-2022-conference-plenary-papers-livestream

As our relational theories move us beyond the “talking cure” toward the unspoken and the implicit, the clinical encounter can seem both infinite in possibility and, simultaneously, unmoored. It challenges us to wonder how we navigate the verbal and nonverbal, the perceptual and experiential and what is permissible and impermissible in our clinical work. Drawing on more established as well as emerging insights from the multiple analytic perspectives within our comparative “big tent,” we will gather in Los Angeles to promote a clinically grounded, multi-generational conversation. By listening closely together to both the drama of specific clinical moments and the stories of patients and therapists deeply entwined in the ongoing therapeutic relationship, we hope to challenge and enlarge our vision of Relational psychoanalysis today and for the future.

This conference is intended for psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, marriage and family counselors, and clinical professional counselors. The conference is organized to facilitate maximum opportunity for questions, comments and dialogue between audience and presenters, allowing clinicians to engage in an extensive variety of topics relevant to the field.

Educational objectives:
At the conclusion of the conference, participants will be able to discuss

• The role of Relational analysis in transcending the traditional psychoanalytic “talking cure” by addressing much more than the spoken language aspect of the treatment
• The multitude of therapeutic activity revealed in both the implicit and explicit communication of what is spoken, unspoken and unspeakable
• The unique forms of engagement in the psychoanalytic field in terms of its implicit, co-creatively evolving drama, its narrative tales, and how these can be addressed in ways beyond mere interpretation
• How Relational psychoanalysis presents a theoretical and clinical “big tent” applicable to all forms of psychoanalytic treatment
• How Relational psychoanalysis plays a critical role in adapting to the 21st Century, the complexities of its radically transforming cultural, and its manifestation in profoundly novel and unfamiliar forms of media expression.