Transforming unbearable states of non-being

The Sydney Institute is delighted to present three eminent clinicians and Tustin scholars who describe these earliest infantile anxieties in their patients. They will demonstrate how they observe, listen to, and understand their patient’s psychic suffering in order to transform it.

Mental health clinicians are faced with understanding and treating children and adults whose primitive anxieties and psychic distress, make meaningful emotional contact in the clinical encounter very difficult.


Presenting:

Suzanne Maiello, Rome:
Primary psycho-physical shapes in Infant Observation and clinical practice with autistic children

Joshua Durban, Tel Aviv:
Nowhereness: Autisto-Psychotic anxieties in infants, adolescents and adults

Jeffrey Eaton, Seattle:
From Screaming to Dreaming: Notes on Forms of Distress and Their Transformation

When:
Suzanne Maiello | Chaired by Pam Shein

Saturday 19th June 2021
3.00-4.30 pm AEST (Sydney time)

Joshua Durban | Chaired by Rise Becker

Saturday 24th July 2021
3.00-4.30 pm AEDT (Sydney time)

Jeffrey Eaton | Chaired by Julie Meadows

Saturday 9th October 2021
4.00-5.30pm AEST (Sydney time)

Suzanne Maiello, Joshua Durban and Jeffrey Eaton | Chaired by Julie Meadows

Saturday 30th October 2021
4.00-5.30pm AEST (Sydney time)
In conversation with webinar participants

Where:
Live via Zoom

Link will be sent to participants closer to the event.

Cost:
One webinar $77 inc. GST
Two webinars $154 inc. GST
Three webinars $220 inc. GST

The Conversation included free with registration for three webinars Registration includes access to a recording of the series.

When Love Goes Awry

May, 2021

The Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis presented a live webinar by Professor Karlen Lyons-Ruth.

Disorganized attachment processes have been theorized to contribute to a range of psychopathologies in adulthood. Dr. Lyons-Ruth will discuss recent longitudinal findings regarding controlling, role-confused, and disoriented forms of parent-child communication and how these varied facets of disorganized relationships may contribute differentially to young adult psychopathology, including dissociation, borderline psychopathology, and suicidality. She will also focus on distinguishing the effects of trauma and attachment in these trajectories.

Chaired by Sonia Wechsler

Two Way: Learning from each other
A webinar series

The Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis invites you to join us as we bring together First Nations’ thinkers with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in a series of six webinars in the spirit of Two Way – working together and learning from each other.

All proceeds will be donated to CASSE’s SHIELDS FOR LIVING, TOOLS FOR LIFE, a dual cultural and therapeutic program, based in the Alice Springs region for ‘at-risk’ youth, providing an alternative to detention and reducing the likelihood of offending or reoffending. https://www.casse.org.au/

Program

Chaired by Rise Becker

13 OCTOBER 2020

Acknowledgement of Country
Dr Mishel McMahon

Dispossession, trauma, and primitive states of mind: an exploration of Australia’s ever-present past
Dr Matthew McArdle

20 OCTOBER 2020

Sorry Polly, Woman’s Law Still Touches Me
Mr Allan Tegg

27 OCTOBER 2020

First Nation’s World View & Childrearing Principles
Dr Mishel McMahon

3 NOVEMBER 2020

No Interests of her Own: Aboriginal Woman, Subjectivity and Maternal Ambivalence
Ms Cate Osborne

Trauma, silence, and the work of linking: Reflections on a group with Aboriginal mothers and their babies.
Ms Donna Jacobs

10 NOVEMBER 2020

Two Way Therapy
Dr Craig San Roque, Mr Ken Lechleitner Pagnarte and Ms Pamela Nathan

17 NOVEMBER 2020

Open Discussion – all presenters and members of the online audience
Discussant Ms Eve Steel