New Center for Psychoanalysis

2010 FRANZ ALEXANDER LECTURE

  Robert D. Stolorow, PhD

 The Contexuality and Existeniality of Emotional Trauma

This presentation explicates two critical and interrelated dimensions of emotional trauma—its context-embeddedness and its existential significance. On one hand, emotional trauma is exquisitely context-sensitive and context dependent. On the other hand, the possibility of emotional trauma is built into our existential constitution. These two dimensions are shown to come together in the bonds of emotional attunement required for effective therapeutic work with traumatized people, bonds made possible by our common finitude.

  Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., is a founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (2007) and coauthor of Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (2002), along with seven other books. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University in 1970 and his Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York City, in 1974. He also received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Riverside in 2007. He holds diplomas both in Clinical Psychology and in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). In 1995 he received the Distinguished Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, in which he is a Fellow.

  Course Objectives:

• Recognize how the traumatized states encountered are embedded in

broader relational contexts

• Work therapeutically with the existential themes implicated in trauma

• Acquire enhanced ability to attune to traumatized states. 

 

Friday, February 26, 2010

7 PM–8 PM Book Signing, Wine and Cheese Reception

8 PM–10 PM CE Credits: 2 

 

Fee: $30;

         $20 for Clinical Associates, residents & mental health interns



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