A former Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he is on the Editorial board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and on the scientific advisory committees of various journals.ĭr. He recently retired from his tenure as full professor at the Université de Montréal. Sunday 10:00 am – 2:00pm EST Dominique Scarfone, MDĭominique Scarfone, MD is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a training and supervising analyst at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The course will use lecture, large group discussion, small group/GAM group discussion, case presentation and discussion and informal discussion to achieve the course objectives. He will describe using the transference relationship to allow the patient to recover from trauma, and thus move from passivity to reacquiring the emergence of an active self. He will discuss the process of making sense of what did not make sense for the individual at the time of the trauma. His Saturday morning presentation is entitled, “Trauma, Subjectivity and Subjectality”. He will discuss the treatment of trauma in its various manifestations as an attitude that can facilitate an openness to the patient’s material a reopening of dark, closed, and frozen places in the psyche and the uses of the transference, attention, and empathy in clinical practice. He will offer four presentations to describe his understanding of trauma and its treatment based on his interpretation of the French translation of Freud’s work. The clinical vignettes he describes are vivid and engaging. Scarfone’s work shows how the repetition compulsion can be used in the process of weaving a new shield, a new psychic organization.ĭominique Scarfone brings a poetic, erudite, and generous mind, as well as a sparkling wit, to his understanding of trauma’s inception and of its symptoms, which he calls “survival techniques of the soul”. Dominique Scarfone, MD, our guest presenter for this IPI weekend, asserts that the crack in the psychic fabric, and the instrument of violence that made the crack, manifest in life and in treatment as repetition compulsion. The tear, the crack, is of such violence that it introduces an ongoing psychic disorganization that lives on as “a thing”. Freud described traumatic experience as a tear, as a crack in the psyche’s protective shield. The understanding of traumatic experiences is central to therapeutic theory and practice. REGISTER Dominique Scarfone and Michelle Kwintner share a sneak peak of the weekend Sheila Hill, LCSW-C and Michelle Kwintner, PhD, LCSW-R
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