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Sunday, November 11, 2007 ~ 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (Coffee & Conversation 11:00 - 11:30 a.m) Providence Hospital, Fisher Auditorium, 16001 West Nine Mile Rd., Southfield Michigan
From Playing Out to Playing With: Transforming Enactments Into Play Paper presentation by Jean Wixom, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT: The process by which enactments might turn into therapeutic play will be the focus of this presentation. Specifically, the analyst's selective exposure of his or her subjectivity can provide leverage for moving out of destructive enactments that can lead to clinical impasse, and into more playful, productive consideration of the patient's intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts. Expression of the analyst's subjectivity for the purpose of generating therapeutic play holds curative potential for each member of the therapeutic dyad. A case presentation of a suicidal patient with an entrenched sadomasochistic character style will help illustrate the presenter's points.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT: Jean Wixom, Ph.D., practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Ann Arbor with adults, couples, and adolescents. She provides clinical supervision to local professionals and to postdoctoral fellows at the University of Michigan Psychological Clinic. Dr. Wixom is a board member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, and is Continuing Education Coordinator for the National Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York City, where she received her certification as a psychoanalyst. |
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