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Date: 16 2022 12:00

SERIES OPENING

JON SLETVOLD, PsyD

 

DORIS BROTHERS, PhD

 

 

A New Embodied Language for Psychoanalysis:

 

The Silence Between Words

 

 

OPENING EVENT:

 

Friday, September 16th from Noon to 2:00PM/Eastern

 

This series is live streamed in Eastern Daylight or Eastern Standard time.

 

 

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ABOUT THIS TALK

 

We propose a shift from a word-and-concept-based psychoanalysis to one that is fundamentally body-based. Drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Lakoff and Johnson, we provide a rationale for using the words, I, you, we and world in place of traditional psychoanalytic language (whenever possible) in the hope that they will allow analysts to feel what is being conveyed in their bodies. We contend that while our attention tends to move from one of these aspects of mind to the others, many factors affect the fluidity and ease of the I-you-we-world flow. We explain how this language provides alternatives to some of the traditional psychoanalytic concepts such as repression/dissociation, transference, resistance and interpretation. Clinical illustrations are presented. We conclude our talk by discussing “the silence between the words.”  It is in this silence that the bodies of analysts and patients do a great deal of talking. We offer several embodied exercises for our online participants and provide ample time for discussion with them.

 

About the Speakers

 

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is a licensed specialist in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has published many articles on the role of the body in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is the editor of three books, and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, the Gradiva Award winning book of 2015.  In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. He co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment and traumatic experience in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers.

 

Doris Brothers, PhD, serves on the advisory board and council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). She was a co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context with Roger Frie from 2015 to 2019. She has written three books and many journal articles. Her last book is Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2008).  A forthcoming book with Jon Sletvold is entitled, A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: Talking Bodies (Routledge). She practices in Oslo, Norway and in Manhattan, New York, USA. 

 

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