(in Ann Arbor - see
map, directions & parking)
Sunday March 14,
2010 ~
11:30 to 1:30
(Coffee
& Conversation
from 11:00 ~
11:30)
East Hall Auditorium, Room
4448, 530 Church St.
University of Michigan, Central
Campus, Ann Arbor, MI (enter on Church Street)
JOINT
PRESENTATION
with
U of M INTERDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES
PROJECT (UMIPS)
Narcissism, ego ideal and the superego in the current financial
crisis
Paper presentation by
Michael Shulman, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT:
The current financial
crisis emerges historically as a paroxysm of modern economic
deregulation. It is a phenomenon linked psychologically to
idealizations, both of the notion of deregulation and of powerful
financial figures. Freud’s work suggested a series of basic
understandings of idealization’s functioning in large group
psychology. His conceptualizations of narcissism, ego ideal and
the superego's origins are organized around a central relational
paradigm of onlooker(s) and idealized object. Applying this
paradigm of idealization, and appreciating its origins in the
parent-child relationship, I consider accounts of financial child
geniuses in an effort to illuminate one psychological piece of the
origins of this particular crisis of public trust.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS:
Michael
Shulman, Ph.D. is a
Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan,
as well as a psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice in
Ann Arbor. A graduate of Wesleyan University, the University of
Michigan, and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (MPI), he is
currently on the faculties of MPI and Madonna University, as well
as U-M. He is also current Co-Chair of the Committee on
Psychoanalysis and Undergraduate Education of the American
Psychoanalytic Association.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 ~
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Coffee & Conversation 11:00 ~ 11:30
a.m.)
Providence Hospital, Fisher
Auditorium, 16001 West Nine Mile Rd., Southfield Michigan
Multiple Subjectivities:
A Relational Approach to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Paper
presentation by Maria Slowiaczek, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT:
In
treating a patient with DID, the analyst enters into a world of
multiplicity where each alter wants to be approached with an
openness to their differing developmental needs and distinct
subjectivities. The analyst’s attunement to these multiple
subjectivities helps to process traumatic experiences and to
develop new capacities for relatedness and self-awareness.
Within the context of the analytic relationship, the alter
personalities begin to engage in relationships with each other,
moving from a position of isolation to cooperative, internal
communication. In the case described in this paper, a
traumatized child alter who cannot speak learns to use her hand
as a puppet to communicate. She begins to process her traumatic
experiences, to grow into new ways of relating and to
communicate with other alters.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS:
Maria L. Slowiaczek, Ph.D.
is in private practice in Ann Arbor where she works with adults
and couples. She did her analytic training at The National
Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York.
She has taught and supervised graduate students at the
University of Michigan for 14 years. She is active in the
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
where she is on the Council, the Advisory Board and also Chair
of the Welcoming Committee.
