THE
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Vasile
Dem. Zamfirescu (the President of the Scientific Committee),
Daniela Irimia,
Simona Regintovschi, Ina Focşăneanu
Simona Regintovschi, Ina Focşăneanu
THE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Daniela
Irimia (Project Coordinator), Olivia Birdici (Secretary),
Gianina Micu, Camelia Ovezea, Gabriel Balaci
(Local co-organizer)
LECTURERS
1.
Michael Brearley
Psychoanalyst, Member of The British Psychoanalytic Society- IPA Component Society, Trainer, recent past President of The British Psychoanalytic Society (2008-2010)
President
of the Department for Applying Psychoanalysis
within the British Institute
of Psychoanalysis
Doctor Honoris Causa – University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Honorary Fellow - Lancaster University
Doctor
Honoris Causa - Lancaster
University
Honorary Fellow- St John's College Cambridge
Doctor Honoris Causa - Oxford Brookes University
Honorary Fellow- St John's College Cambridge
Doctor Honoris Causa - Oxford Brookes University
Among the books published:
- Emotional Intelligence and the Secondary Classroom, London, 1982
- The Art of Captaincy, London, 1985
- The Thrive Project – an alphabet of learning from A to Me, Crown House Publishing, London
Title of the paper: "Desire: danger and denial"
Broadly speaking, desire is the essence of the sense of being. We want things, we fight for them, we want people to be our friends, our support, our lovers. We want to do everything right (ambition). There are dangers, risks implied by these desires. There is the danger of loss and disappointment. There is the danger of envy and jealousy. What we want may enrage or destroy the others. Our desires can be destructive or perverse. It is clear however that desire inevitably generates fear and anxiety and defences such as - denial, repression, displacement, projection, mortification. I shall speak of these vicissitudes of desire and of what prevents desire.
2. Vasile Dem. Zamfirescu
Psychoanalyst, Member of Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis – IPA Provisional Society
RSP
founding member
Vice-President of the RSP –Scientific Responsible
PhD Professor, Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest
Doctor of Philosophy – PhD thesis: Ethics and Psychoanalysis, University of Bucharest, 1972
Primary psychologist, Trainer and Supervisor credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
President of the Insight Association for promoting theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis
Books and handbooks published recently:
- Nevroza balcanică (Balkan Neurosis), "Trei" Publishing House, 2012;
- Filosofia inconștientului (Philosophy of the Unconscious), "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009;
- Povestiri de psihoterapie românească (Tales of Romanian Psychotherapy), volume coordinator and author, "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest 2009;
- Introducere în Psihanaliza freudiană și postfreudiană (Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis), "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008;
Title of the paper: „ How psychoanalysis cures the narcissistic deficit”
The paper aims to provide a synthetic image of the psychoanalysis of the self established by Heinz Kohut. Unlike classical psychoanalysis that focuses on treating and studying neurosis (unconscious psychological conflict), psychoanalysis of the self tackles the narcissistic issue in terms of deficit, advancing new theoretical and clinical perspectives. Known as a promoter of empathy as a therapeutic tool, Kohut draws up a well articulated theory of clinic and technique, with specific terms: "grandiose self", "idealizing transference", "mirror transference" etc. The presentation, which contains various clinical vignettes, will review the specific terms of Kohut and will lay stress on the relationship between empathy and interpretation.
- Applied Psychoanalysis – illustrating film on pathological narcissism - “Ogre”, (1996) Directed by V. Schlondorff
Vice-President of the RSP –Scientific Responsible
PhD Professor, Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest
Doctor of Philosophy – PhD thesis: Ethics and Psychoanalysis, University of Bucharest, 1972
Primary psychologist, Trainer and Supervisor credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
President of the Insight Association for promoting theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis
Books and handbooks published recently:
- Nevroza balcanică (Balkan Neurosis), "Trei" Publishing House, 2012;
- Filosofia inconștientului (Philosophy of the Unconscious), "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009;
- Povestiri de psihoterapie românească (Tales of Romanian Psychotherapy), volume coordinator and author, "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest 2009;
- Introducere în Psihanaliza freudiană și postfreudiană (Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis), "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008;
Title of the paper: „ How psychoanalysis cures the narcissistic deficit”
The paper aims to provide a synthetic image of the psychoanalysis of the self established by Heinz Kohut. Unlike classical psychoanalysis that focuses on treating and studying neurosis (unconscious psychological conflict), psychoanalysis of the self tackles the narcissistic issue in terms of deficit, advancing new theoretical and clinical perspectives. Known as a promoter of empathy as a therapeutic tool, Kohut draws up a well articulated theory of clinic and technique, with specific terms: "grandiose self", "idealizing transference", "mirror transference" etc. The presentation, which contains various clinical vignettes, will review the specific terms of Kohut and will lay stress on the relationship between empathy and interpretation.
- Applied Psychoanalysis – illustrating film on pathological narcissism - “Ogre”, (1996) Directed by V. Schlondorff
3. Brîndușa Orășanu
Psychoanalyst, Member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
RSP
founding member
Vice-President of the RSP –Responsible with training candidates in psychoanalysis
Director of the RSP’s Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis
PhD Associate professor - Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest
Doctor in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII – PhD Thesis: Projective identification, the enigmas of a concept, University of Paris VII, 2001
Primary psychologist, Trainer and Supervisor credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
Corresponding member Paris Psychoanalytic Society (PPS)
Books and handbooks published recently:
- Notiuni de Psihopatologie in psihanaliza, "Renaissance" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012
- Biografia unui concept psihanalitic: identificarea proiectiva, "Trei" Publishing House, 2005;
- L'identification projective, les enigmes d'un concept, ANRT, Lille, 2009
Title of the paper: "A psychoanalytic perspective on cynicism"
The paper aims to address cynicism as a variant of cruelty in thinking. Cynicism would be, on the one hand, in a kinship relation with narcissistic perversion, distortion of reality and operative thinking and on the other hand, in a relation of defensive opposition with mourning, ideal, beauty and poetic function. A particular relation of cynicism with the mental space and time is set forth, in an action of "contraction" of the latter in order to control it. Cynicism is seen as an «ideology of the limit», at the extreme, the cruel limit of life and death. As an illustration of this idea, comparative references are made to several movies: Life Is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni, Ivan's childhood directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and The Messenger directed by Oren Moverman, as well as in the novel Everything Is Illuminated: by J.S. Foer. The paper also sets forth two clinical vignettes.
Vice-President of the RSP –Responsible with training candidates in psychoanalysis
Director of the RSP’s Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis
PhD Associate professor - Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest
Doctor in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII – PhD Thesis: Projective identification, the enigmas of a concept, University of Paris VII, 2001
Primary psychologist, Trainer and Supervisor credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
Corresponding member Paris Psychoanalytic Society (PPS)
Books and handbooks published recently:
- Notiuni de Psihopatologie in psihanaliza, "Renaissance" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012
- Biografia unui concept psihanalitic: identificarea proiectiva, "Trei" Publishing House, 2005;
- L'identification projective, les enigmes d'un concept, ANRT, Lille, 2009
Title of the paper: "A psychoanalytic perspective on cynicism"
The paper aims to address cynicism as a variant of cruelty in thinking. Cynicism would be, on the one hand, in a kinship relation with narcissistic perversion, distortion of reality and operative thinking and on the other hand, in a relation of defensive opposition with mourning, ideal, beauty and poetic function. A particular relation of cynicism with the mental space and time is set forth, in an action of "contraction" of the latter in order to control it. Cynicism is seen as an «ideology of the limit», at the extreme, the cruel limit of life and death. As an illustration of this idea, comparative references are made to several movies: Life Is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni, Ivan's childhood directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and The Messenger directed by Oren Moverman, as well as in the novel Everything Is Illuminated: by J.S. Foer. The paper also sets forth two clinical vignettes.
4. Rita Teodoru
Psychoanalyst, Member of Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
Chief Physician Psychiatrist credited by the Romanian College of Physicians
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis and individual and group psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Member of the Romanian College of Physicians
Member of the Romanian Free Psychiatrists Association
Founding
member of the Romanian – Dutch
Foundation for
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy;
Trainer and supervisor
Member of the Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Member of the Romanian Association for Transactional Analysis
Member of the Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Member of the Romanian Association for Transactional Analysis
Title
of the paper: "Talking
about mental change in terms of desire, ability and need”
The
mental change expected from the analysand in the analytical process
has changed along with the development of psychoanalytic theory.
After a review of the main theories on change, this paper brings up
major questions raised by the subject of mental change: Is a real
change possible? How does it work, when and why does change occur?
The focus then shifts on the internal loops of this process, as it is
seen, played and reflected by the two protagonists-analyst and
analysand. And all this happens in order to handle with attention and
curiosity the game of desire, ability and need in the field of mental
change.
5. Georgiana Dobrescu
Psychoanalyst, Member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
RSP
Secretary - SP
Primary psychologist – Clinical psychology and Psychoanalysis credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists;Clinical practice of psychoanalysis in hospital and in private
RAPP founding member (Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)
EAP member (European Association for Psychotherapy)
Title of the paper: „Desire, Conflict and Oedipal Development”
Desire underlies phantasm, relationship scenarios but it can also be a source of conflict and a vehicle for various affects: culpability, shame, etc. Desire plays an important role for all those involved in the Oedipal scenario. From the coarse model of hysterical patients, described by Freud, to the more subtle models of relationship in which Oedipal development is entwined in the netting of dyadic relationships, we meet a variety of manifestations that reveal blockages, inhibitions or the ability to manage both desire and inherent conflicts. Parents, children, what they are separately and especially the relationship between them and the way in which they function together represent the premises for development or on the contrary for present and future relational blockages.
Primary psychologist – Clinical psychology and Psychoanalysis credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists;Clinical practice of psychoanalysis in hospital and in private
RAPP founding member (Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)
EAP member (European Association for Psychotherapy)
Title of the paper: „Desire, Conflict and Oedipal Development”
Desire underlies phantasm, relationship scenarios but it can also be a source of conflict and a vehicle for various affects: culpability, shame, etc. Desire plays an important role for all those involved in the Oedipal scenario. From the coarse model of hysterical patients, described by Freud, to the more subtle models of relationship in which Oedipal development is entwined in the netting of dyadic relationships, we meet a variety of manifestations that reveal blockages, inhibitions or the ability to manage both desire and inherent conflicts. Parents, children, what they are separately and especially the relationship between them and the way in which they function together represent the premises for development or on the contrary for present and future relational blockages.
This
paper sets forth a theoretical and clinical review of these aspects
in which desire and conflict in Oedipal relationships are managed
more or less in a manner that would lead to development.
6. Daniela Irimia
Psychoanalyst, Member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
Member of the RSP’s Scientific Committee - SP
Summer School 2012 Project Coordinator
Clinical practice of psychoanalysis in private
RAPP member (Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)
EAP member (European Association for Psychotherapy)
Title of the paper: „The problem of poisoning desire in sexual abuse, narcissistic deficit created by the trauma. Features and problems of therapeutic intervention”
The presentation is built on current psychoanalytic ideas that organize clinical approach to patients who have survived sexual abuse during childhood. The relational perspective on the most serious prejudice brought to the patient's mental integrity is presented. The sources of this prejudice and the complex issues that it raises for therapeutic intervention are examined.
What
is obvious to most therapists in practice is the extremely compelling
aspect of interaction with the patient. The story of an abuse, the
way in which the patient presents himself verbally and non-verbally
awaken in us a strong emotional response, extremely hard to find in
the relation with other patients. Therapists often feel so
overwhelmed that they act upon this response. The therapist's ability
to be responsible for his reasons and actions, so for his unconscious
mental reality, during treatment casts loose the patient's ability to
be the agent of his own desires.
As
therapists we cannot say that we know what happened but we cannot
remain in the position of one who denies what he sees. For this, of
course, the therapist ability to know and assume his own mind so that
the patient can find an anchor for believing in his mind is
fundamental.
7. Gianina Micu
Psychoanalyst, Member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
President of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis
Member of the Editorial Board of the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis
Anatomopathologist Chief Physician credited by the Romanian College of Physicians
Doctor of Medicine
Specialist in psychology credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
PhD student in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII – PhD thesis: Creativity and pulsional destiny, between sublimation and symptom (in progress at the Department of Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII , coordinator Prof. Dr. Francois Richard)
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
Direct member in the Association for Counseling and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Bucharest (ACPPB), trainer and supervisor
Member of the Romanian College of Physicians
Member of the European Federation of Pathology
Member of the European Federation of Psychotherapy
Books published recently:- Sexul și dragostea la adolescenți (Sex and love in teenagers), Publishing House Booklet, Bucharest, 2006
Title of the paper: „The desire to become a psychoanalyst”
One possible perspective on this matter is that through which the profession of psychoanalyst can be defined as a vocation. This involves among other things, the fact that its practice is subordinated to the intention of having as a priority the desire for the other's wellbeing, above, sometimes, the desire for your own wellbeing , as it is commonly conceived. Being a psychoanalyst implies more than being valid in the therapeutic cabinet or in a certain situation, stating, rather, a paradigmatic way of looking at things, people, relationship, life in general. The premise of the subjective truth is, from this kind of perspective, the depth provided by the postulation of the existence of unconscious as a psychic reality validated by personal experience. This paper aims to review some questions and reflections on what could animate, consciously, but also unconsciously, one's desire for a profession so particular, that, as you can see, implies delay and / or subordination of various personal desires in favor of the desire to work for the discovery of the other’s wellbeing. Keywords: desire, analyst’s desire, unconscious, narcissism, creativity, sublimation.
7. Gianina Micu
Psychoanalyst, Member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society
President of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis
Member of the Editorial Board of the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis
Anatomopathologist Chief Physician credited by the Romanian College of Physicians
Doctor of Medicine
Specialist in psychology credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists - Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis
PhD student in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII – PhD thesis: Creativity and pulsional destiny, between sublimation and symptom (in progress at the Department of Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of Paris VII , coordinator Prof. Dr. Francois Richard)
Private clinical practice of psychoanalysis
Direct member in the Association for Counseling and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Bucharest (ACPPB), trainer and supervisor
Member of the Romanian College of Physicians
Member of the European Federation of Pathology
Member of the European Federation of Psychotherapy
Books published recently:- Sexul și dragostea la adolescenți (Sex and love in teenagers), Publishing House Booklet, Bucharest, 2006
Title of the paper: „The desire to become a psychoanalyst”
One possible perspective on this matter is that through which the profession of psychoanalyst can be defined as a vocation. This involves among other things, the fact that its practice is subordinated to the intention of having as a priority the desire for the other's wellbeing, above, sometimes, the desire for your own wellbeing , as it is commonly conceived. Being a psychoanalyst implies more than being valid in the therapeutic cabinet or in a certain situation, stating, rather, a paradigmatic way of looking at things, people, relationship, life in general. The premise of the subjective truth is, from this kind of perspective, the depth provided by the postulation of the existence of unconscious as a psychic reality validated by personal experience. This paper aims to review some questions and reflections on what could animate, consciously, but also unconsciously, one's desire for a profession so particular, that, as you can see, implies delay and / or subordination of various personal desires in favor of the desire to work for the discovery of the other’s wellbeing. Keywords: desire, analyst’s desire, unconscious, narcissism, creativity, sublimation.
8. Simona Reghintovschi
Psychoanalyst, Associated member of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - IPA Provisional Society RSP Treasurer - SP
Assistant Professor, PhD candidate - Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest
PhD thesis: Hate in countertransference. The connection between practicing psychoanalysis and conflicts in psychoanalytic societies (in progress at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, coordinator Prof. Dr. R. D. Hinshelwood) Specialist in Clinical psychology; Specialist in Psychotherapy – Psychoanalysis credited by the Romanian College of Psychologists
Founding member of the Insight Association for promoting theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis
Founding member of the Interdisciplinary Association of Applied Psychoanalysis
Books/chapters from books published recently:
- Dumnezeu mi-a dat-o în locul mamei (God gave me her to replace my mother), in Tales of Romanian psychotherapy. 19 ground-breaking cases, "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009
- Psihanaliză şi film (Psychoanalysis and film), "Trei" Publishing House, Bucharest (coming soon)
Title of the paper: „Narcissistic deficit, paradoxical transference and the double connection in relational blockage”
A paradoxical transference that recreates an infantile situation repeated for a long period of time and characterized by the paradoxical communication between parents and their children often appears in the case of patients with narcissistic deficit. If the analyst remains trapped in this game of transference and paradoxically countertransference, a therapeutic deadlock is reached, a relational blockage in which the analyst finds himself in a frustrating situation in which no matter what he/she does or says is doomed to failure. The paradigm of the double connection can be used to understand these moments of analysis and may allow the analyst to continue to support the negotiation of this problematic relationship. Clinical illustrations of therapeutic deadlock in which the use of double connection paradigm offers a way to find a solution together and at the same time represents a transforming experience will be brought forward.
- Applied Psychoanalysis - illustrating film:“Dangerous liaisons” (1988), Directed by S. Frears – in debate – the issue of incest
