Selma Kramer & Margaret Mahler Lecture: "Auto Mechanics: The Self in Dialogue and Contemplation" 

Presenter: James Herzog, MD (Boston, MA)
Discussant: Corinne Masur, PsyD 

This lecture will present child analytic cases that illustrate the uniqueness of each treatment, and the ways in which the child analyst’s job is the same as an adult analyst’s job: to learn the intrapsychic language of the analysand and to be accepted by him or her as a trustworthy accompanying person. This is often a long and complicated process in which the analyst expects to know and the analysand expects to learn. What distinguishes work with children is perhaps a greater willingness on the part of the child to expect that adults will be clueless, to tolerate grievous errors and to know that the analyst will likely be a slow learner. Adult analysands are often less tolerant.

James Herzog, MD is an adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a training and supervising analyst at BPSI and a Child Supervisory Analyst as well. He also supervises at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis and in Zurich, Switzerland at the Sigmund Freud Institute. Dr. Herzog is interested in play, co-constructed treatment conceptualizations, trauma, both historical and directly inflicted, and the role of the father. He is the author of Father Hunger (Routledge, 2001).

2.0 CE/CME credits available

Free for PCOP Members, Candidates, Full-Time Students, and Fellows
$40 for Non-Member Clinicians Seeking CE/CME Credit
Free for Non-Members not seeking CE/CME Credit

An optional dinner will be held at Rockland at 6:00 pm:
$45 for PCOP Members and Non-Members
$30 for PCOP Candidates, Students, and Fellows 

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze and discuss one’s own clinical work with children as it relates to intrapsychic language and acceptance by the patient.

2. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of this reversal in the usually assumed asymmetry of the analytic situation – that the analyst knows and the analysand learns.

3. Explain more than one meaning of the concept of play in analytic work with both children and adults.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION/CONTINUING EDUCATION

Continuing Medical Education (CME):

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Continuing Education for Psychologists (CE):

The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Continuing Education for Social Workers (CE):  In accordance with the requirements of the Commonwealth of PA dated 12/23/06 [49 PA. CODE 47—49], the American Psychological Association (APA) is a pre-approved provider for social workers and clinical social workers in the State of Pennsylvania and the Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs.

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