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How can psychoanalysis continue to learn from psychosis?
The Freud Museum welcomes psychoanalyst Bret Fimiani, who will be in discussion with the Palgrave Lacan series editor, Calum Neill, for his latest publication Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2021, Palgrave). The book offers a new framework for practitioners and scholars to understand psychosis and to develop treatments that are effective for the experience of psychosis.
The discussion will cover themes such as: listening to delusion as itself a form of knowledge, the treatment of delusion and voices through the work of the dream, the reversal of transference in the field of psychosis, the ‘ethics’ of the analyst and analysand, and the possibilities (hope) for the subject of psychosis to achieve a new freedom from the most distressing aspects of psychotic experiences.
Speakers
Dr. Bret Fimiani is an analyst of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. He works with people experiencing psychosis and extreme states in his private practice in Oakland, California. He is the chairperson for the Northern California Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis and he is on the board of directors for the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network. His recent book on psychosis is titled Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2021, Palgrave).
Calum Neill
All registrants will receive their webinar link to join via Zoom. All attendees will also receive access to the recording, available to watch back for 1 month.
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