6 optional CE credits offered
Lunch and coffee included
Bion’s Transformations Revisited and Expanded: On the Complexity of Psychoanalysis
Led by Arnaldo Chuster
Join us for a workshop with Arnaldo Chuster on using Bion’s Transformations to make our clinical work with patients come alive. Chuster links Bion’s complex concepts about analytic functions, transformations, and catastrophic change in the analytic situation with real clinical problems we encounter every day in our work with patients, including transforming psychotic states and hallucinosis. Focusing on his ethical-aesthetical principle of uncertainty, Chuster demonstrates how analysis progresses when analyst and patient can tolerate not-knowing, ambiguity and the terror, beauty, and ugliness of emerging truth in the analytic session. Using a spectrum model to address issues such as narcissism-group identification, reverie-alpha function, finite-infinite, non-psychotic-psychotic, Chuster helps expand the range of what can be thought and felt by patient and analyst.
About the Presenter
Arnaldo Chuster is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society (SPRJ), affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), as well as a member of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute (NPI) in California, and an honorary member and Professor at the W.R. Bion Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Study Groups
Study groups available for registrants prior to the workshop. Please contact Tom Helscher at drhelscher@gmail.com to enroll.
Questions?
Please contact Martha Murillo at martha@laisps.org or 310-440-0333
Refunds/Cancellations: Refunds, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made if cancellation notification is phoned or postmarked three (3) business days in advance of this program. There will be no refunds on requests received after the refund deadline. Full refunds are made in the event that LAISPS must cancel this program.
Returned Checks: A $35.00 service charge will be assessed for checks returned by the bank.
Confidentiality: By registering for this educational event, attendees agree to strictly maintain confidentiality of any clinical material shared and will not distribute or convey such confidential material outside of the workshop.
Workshop Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Describe how Chuster reinterprets Bion’s original categories of transformations and explain their relevance for contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and practice.
Identify and differentiate key forms of psychic transformation discussed by Bion and expanded by Chuster (including transformations in O, in hallucinosis, and those linked to catastrophic change) and relate them to clinical practice.
Analyze the role of ethics and aesthetics in Bion’s model of transformation as elaborated by Chuster, and apply the “ethical–aesthetical principle of uncertainty” to moments of impasse in the analytic process.
Explain the function of the psychoanalytic object and the analytic field in processes of transformation, and formulate interventions that support the development of new symbolization and meaning in sessions.
Discuss the clinical implications of catastrophic change and turbulence as presented by Chuster, and develop strategies for using these states to facilitate, rather than foreclose, psychic growth in patients.
Describe Chuster’s expansions on Bion’s concept of O and time–space into a coherent framework for ongoing clinical reflection, enhancing the capacity to think imaginatively with patients at the edge of representability.
CE Credit Information
All planners, faculty, staff, and others involved in this activity have reported no relevant financial relationships with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. This activity has not received any commercial support.
Accreditation Statements:
Psychologists: LAISPS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. LAISPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Board of Behavioral Sciences: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA-approved courses for Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, and LEP licenses.
Psychiatrists: CME credit will not be offered for this program.
To Earn Credit:
Participants must complete an online evaluation within 2 weeks of completing this CE activity to receive credit.
Attention Psychologists:
Psychologists can earn a maximum of 6 CE credits for this program. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines.
*Clinicians with any other licenses should check with their Licensing Boards to ensure that APA-sponsored programs are accepted for CE credit.