Course Description
In this course we will explore ideas and practice in psychoanalysis through the work of Donald Winnicott and Emmanuel Ghent. We will read Essential Aloneness—Rome Lectures on DW Winnicott (2023), by Christopher Bollas and The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent (2018). In the Rome lectures Bollas addresses the question of how to apply Winnicott’s concepts such as aloneness, transitional object, true/false self, and playing and creativity in the clinical space. The papers of Emmanuel Ghent, one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, address such topics as the mutuality of the psychoanalytic encounter, the notion of need, and submission and surrender. Both Winnicott and Ghent emphasize development and growth as well as loss and the fact that change is often painful. We will examine these themes through discussion of readings and cases with an eye to expand participants’ understanding of psychoanalytic theory and clinical skill with patients.
Course Time and Location
10 meetings, every other week, starting Thursday, September 5, 2024 and ending Thursday, February 6, 2025.
Time: 11:45am to 1:15pm.
Location: 63 Park Ave. Rochester, NY 14607
Cost: $750, due by the registration deadline.
Registration
Please confirm with Dr. Berkeljon by September 1, 2024. Registration is limited to 10 participants.
Contact information: arjan@berkeljon.com; office number: (585) 371-8172
Instructor
Arjan Berkeljon has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is board certified in Group Psychology. He obtained Master’s degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he conducted research in developmental psychology. A former faculty member in the departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology at the University of Rochester, Dr. Berkeljon is currently in private practice where he provides supervision as well as psychoanalytic psychotherapy to individuals, couples and groups.