Wednesday, May 16, 2012; 07:30PM - 09:30PM
In the series: Clinical Dialogues
Presented by Annie Reiner, Ph.D., Psy.D., L.C.S.W.
In this lecture we will focus on dissociative states in terms of the patient's emotional presence or absence, states of being, selfhood, and mindfulness as opposed to states of non-being, which obstruct mental development. Drawing from clinical examples, patients' dreams, and the subtle attention required to what is being played out in the analytic relationship, we will examine some of the ways in which these elusive states of mind can communicate aspects of the self struggling to be born.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the difference between dissociative states and states of non-being
- Give an example of a dissociative state as presented in the analytic relationship
Annie Reiner, Ph.D., Psy.D., L.C.S.W., is a Member and Associate Faculty at PCC and is in private Practice in Beverly Hills. Her psycholanalytic writings have been published in several journals and anthologies and her first psycholanalytic book The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind was published in 2009. In addition to her analytic writing, Dr. Reiner is a playwright and the author of a book of short stories, four books of poems and four children's books, which she also illustrated.
