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MSPP ARCHIVES:  Professional Education meetings since September 1999

 

MSPP Monthly Meeting Schedule for 2010

Winter-Spring 2010 Brochure

  MARCH 14th, 2010

(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.

 

 

  APRIL 11th, 2010

 

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.

 

 

Unless otherwise noted: 1) all MSPP  meetings begin at 11:00 a.m. to provide time for refreshments and conversation with colleagues. 2) All meeting are held at Providence Hospital~ Fisher Auditorium. Please see available Map if interested in further information about location of and/or directions to the meetings.