Jill Salberg: “Ruptures and Crises When Ending Treatment”
Ruth Lijtmaer: “Social Trauma, Nostalgia, and Mourning in the Immigrant Experience” AND
“Sense of Self in Immigrants & Refugees”
Ruptures and Crises When Ending Treatment
Presentation Announcement by Jill Salberg (USA)
Saturday, October 6, 2018 – London
Ending treatment can feel like a rupture. As a result, it can be explosive, or, even worse, deadly silent, creating a kind of crisis in ending the work (Salberg, 2015). Certain traumas and early losses might not get activated until a real rupture is looming. When the history of the patient and/or the therapist includes problematic attachments or early losses or traumas, the dyad is at greater risk for ending enactments. However, these kinds of disruptions and/or wishes to suddenly end might be necessary to discover where the work needs to move before ending can occur. In this presentation I am utilizing two clinical cases with very different ending processes, demonstrating a flexible approach to endings rooted in the dyad’s dialogue. In one case the patient understood needing to stop before I did, and in the second a crisis occurred that stalled the ending, revealing dissociated material needing to be worked through. Each case reflects and expands upon what I believe is catalytic within a crisis around ending.
This presentation will be part of a workshop entitled Negotiating Endings in the Psychotherapy Relationship, featuring presenters Professor Jeremy Holmes, Dr. John Andrew Miller, Anne Power, as well as Dr. Jill Salberg
Link for more information and to register: http://www.confer.uk.com/endings.html
Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP
155 West 71st Street, Suite 1D
New York City, NY10023 USA
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Presentation Announcements by Ruth Lijtmaer (USA)
Social Trauma, Nostalgia, and Mourning in the Immigrant Experience, in the panel, “The Migration of Ideas a la Ferenczi”
May, 2018 – International Ferenczi Conference, Florence, Italy
In this presentation, Lijtmaer discussed the concepts of nostalgia and mourning in the migration process that can be a source of trauma. Sometimes nostalgia cannot evolve, particularly in forced migration, like in the case of exiles. In this case, the individual enters a depressed state with accompanying feelings of self-pity, resentment, envy, and guilt, which prevents the mourning process from developing.
Sense of Self in Immigrants and Refugees
May-June, 2018 – International Psychohistory Association, New York City, USA:
In this presentation Lijtmaer discussed the sense of self, of knowing who we are, both as individuals and as members of a group, that is increased when we are responding to a threat, like in the immigrant experience. There is an immediate psychological payoff to prejudice in that we more clearly know who we are. It is a matter of degree due to the conditions of immigration. However, in the case of refugees, the loss of sense of self is more dramatic due to the urgency that they experience to leave their native country.
Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD
88 West Ridgewood Ave.
Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450 USA
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