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Complexity Theory and Moments of Change in the Psychoanalytic Setting | View Full Calendar

Presented by Mark Leffert, M.D.

2/18/2010

Fee: $20.00

(Scientific Meeting/PROGRAM COMMITTEE EVENTS)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

8 PM–10 PM

New Center for Psychoanalysis

$20 fee for 2 CE/CME Credits

Complexity Theory and Moments of Change in the Psychoanalytic Setting

Postmodernism and complexity theory have only recently been drawn into contemporary psychoanalytic theory. Dr. Leffert looks critically at some recent attempts to incorporate these concepts and considers their relationship to each other. This presentation advances why therapists should be familiar with complexity and its clinical utility. Postmodernism and complexity theory can inform psychoanalysis but constrains some of its assumptions. The nature and occurrence of qualitative events of psychoanalytic change are illustrated with clinical vignettes. A published version of this presentation is available.

Course Objectives:

· Understand complexity theory and how it plays out in therapeutic situations

· Understand how complexity theory expressed itself in such diverse situations as understanding marital outcomes and the treatment of anorexia

· Develop techniques to incorporate these concepts the clinical practice

Mark Leffert, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at New Center for Psychoanalysis and is the author of numerous articles on postmodernism and psychoanalysis including Complexity and Postmodernism in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory of Change and the book Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations: Postmodernism, Complexity Theory, and Neuroscience London: Routledge. Dr. Leffert is in private practice in Santa Barbara.

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