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The Freud Museum is delighted to welcome author Dr Dhwani Shah to discuss his debut publication The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (2022, Phoenix). The conversation will be guided by psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Dr Aisha Abbasi.
Sigmund Freud addressed countertransference in his paper Future Prospects of Psychoanalysis (1910). He considered it the result of “the patients’ influence on [the physician’s] unconscious feelings” and “as a personal problem for the analyst”.
SPEAKERS:
Dhwani Shah, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in Princeton, NJ. He is a clinical associate faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored articles on topics ranging from neuroscience, mood disorders, and psychoanalysis. Dr Shah’s book entitled The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference was recently published by Phoenix Publishing House and was featured in Brett Kahr’s “Top Ten Books of 2022.”
Aisha Abbasi, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and a Supervising Analyst at the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She’s the author of the book The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique (2014).
All registrants will receive their Zoom link after registering. A recording will be circulated to all registrants after the event, available to watch back for 1 month.
