Lectures organized by The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust
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The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust
Description
Following the large worldwide interest in our former lectures we would like to invite you to participate in the new series of lectures that will be organized by The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust during the first half of 2021.
The new series of lectures will take place on Sunday evenings (Jerusalem time). Please pay attention to the beginning time of each lecture. The lectures take place through zoom and are recorded.
The Zoom link will be sent one day prior to the lecture to those who register. Links to the recording will be sent to registrants a few days after each lecture.
Registration to each lecture will be open till the date mentioned for each lecture.
The first lecture will take place on Sunday, February 28th, 2021, between 20:30-22:15 (Jerusalem time) featuring Prof. Didier Houzel (Paris, France). Registration will be open till Wednesday, February 24th, 2021, midnight (Jerusalem time). Prof. Houzel will lecture on: “Splitting of Psychic Bisexuality in Autistic Children.”
Abstract: The topic inspired me when I read Frances Tustin stressing that, for an autistic child, there has been no right “marriage” between the nipple-breast and the mouth. My hypothesis is that the autistic child fails to reach an internal bisexuality inside his/her caregiver (usually the mother). The psychic bisexuality is a kind of primitive oedipal triangle previous to the classical oedipal triangle mother/father/child. The consequence for the psychoanalytic treatment is that the therapist has to constantly reduce an internal splitting within his/her internal world of his/her own psychic bisexuality which is regularly split by the autistic child’s projections. I intend to give a clinical illustration.
Registration will be open till Wednesday, February 24th, 2021, midnight, Jerusalem time. Payment by Visa or Mastercard only.
Price (all proceeds go to support continued activities of the Frances Tustin Memorial Trust):
Registration: 20 USD for non FTMT members; 18 USD for FTMT members
Link for registration and payment to Prof. Didier Houzel’s lecture:
For Registration please click here.
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The second lecture will take place on Sunday, April 25th, 2021, between 19:30-22:30 (Jerusalem time, please notice that this is a long evening), featuring Jeff Eaton (Seattle, USA) and Joshua (Shuki) Durban (Tel Aviv, Israel). Registration will be open till Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, midnight (Jerusalem time).
The topic of this evening is: Encountering Autism: The Analyst’s Inner Workspace and the Language of Emptiness and Suchness.
Description: This presentation features a discussion between Eaton and Durban, two psychoanalysts who have spent decades treating children on the Autistic Spectrum. Building on the work of Klein, Bion, Tustin, Meltzer, Alvarez, Rhode, Houzel, and others, both presenters have developed perspectives on how working with autistic states of mind differ from neurotic, psychotic, and narcissistic configurations. Both theoretical and technical issues will be considered. The aim of the meeting is to offer personal realizations gained from the clinical encounter and to share how these encounters with autism have impacted the inner workspace of the analyst. Attention is given to the challenge of registering and welcoming primitive levels of communication in order to make emotional contact with difficult to reach patients. Central to this emotional contact is the analyst’s openness to absorb and be absorbed by the autistic variant of emptiness and suchness. These concepts will be examined from both the clinical and Buddhist perspectives.
Registration will be open till Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, midnight (Jerusalem time)
Payment by Visa or Mastercard only.
Price (all proceeds go to support continued activities of the Frances Tustin Memorial Trust):
International Registration: 35 USD for non FTMT members; 30 USD for FTMT members
Link for registration and payment to Jeff Eaton and Joshua Durban’s discussion:
For International Registration please click here.
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The third lecture will take place on Sunday, June 20th, 2021 between 20:30-22:15 (Jerusalem time) featuring Dr. Maria Pozzi Monzo (London, England). Registration will be open till Wednesday, June 16th, 2021, midnight (Jerusalem time).
Dr. Pozzi will lecture on A Three-Year-Old Boy With A.D.H.D. AND Asperger’s Syndrome Treated With Parent-Child Psychotherapy.
Abstract: In this talk, I will start with some theoretical ideas mostly about Asperger’s Syndrome since – in this context – much has already been said on autism. The little boy Pilar had a diagnosis of Asperger’s as well as hyperactivity and was first seen together with his parents in the context of the Underfive’s short Counselling Service, which is part of the National Health Service in England, then in open-ended family psychotherapy. He was referred to a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by his speech therapist for severe language delay and poor concentration. The treatment offered to Pilar together with his parents (he was the only child) was psychoanalytic, but aided by behavioral interventions necessary to contain and support these “lost” parents in search of concrete answers. Detailed session material will be presented as well as references to the concurrent issues of immigration, losses, cultural habits, bilingualism and early maternal depression, which all contributed to Pilar’s disturbance. The family treatment lasted about one and-a-half year and led to enough changes in parents and child to allow individual psychotherapy for Pilar to be possible.
Registration will be open till Wednesday, June 16th, 2021, midnight (Jerusalem time). Payment by Visa or Mastercard only.
Registration: 20 USD for non FTMT members; 18 USD for FTMT members.
Link for registration and payment to Maria Pozzi’s lecture.
If you have any questions please address Alina Schellekes, the chair of FTMT.
