Broadcast 17 May, 2023. Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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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”.

Dr Shah and Dr Abbasi will put the psychoanalyst’s subjectivity as the focus of the discussion and will touch upon uncomfortable feelings faced by the analyst, such as arrogance, dread, racism and jealousy. By understanding their own therapeutic motivations, mishaps, and stumbles with patients, analysts can understand what impedes their capacity to face up to their feelings and the impact of this in the therapy room.

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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).

 

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