DSPP Fall Workshop
Galit Atlas, Ph.D.
11/12/2021 - 5pm-7pm (2 CE Credits)
11/13/2021 - 9am-12pm (3 CE Credits)
Meeting Location: Zoom
This workshop will focus on ideas from Atlas' new book Emotional inheritance. It will introduce a relational model to thinking about the ways two subjectivities collude in promoting dissociation and the ways inherited trauma both finds shelter and comes to life in the analytic dyad. Atlas will discuss cases from her upcoming book to illustrate how patient and analyst enter each other's inner world and discover themselves as participants within each other's psychic life. The cases will focus on loss and early trauma, the regulation of aggression, as well as the power of analytic love to address the many faces of inherited trauma.
Learning objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define inherited trauma.
2. Participants will be able to explain the term Erotic Reparation.
3. Participants will be able to identify the analyst's dissociation as a defense against her family trauma.
4. Participants will be able to explain the ways emotional inheritance shapes are behavior.
5. Participants will be able to give at least one example of how analyst and patient collude in order to avoid pain.
6. Participants will be able to describe the relation between analytic love and regulation of aggression.
Presenter Bio:
Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and faculty at the Four Year Adult and National Training Programs at NIP. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015) and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron, Routledge, 2017). She is the editor and a contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron (Routledge,2020). Her next book Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma will be published by Little Brown in January 2022. Atlas serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is the author of articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Her New York Times article "A tale of Two Twins" was the winner of a 2016 Gradiva award. Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City.