Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/10/2017
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Cambridge - Friends Meeting House
Categories
The role of emotion in thinking
Neglect and deficit in the internal object
Anne Alvarez
The talk discusses the passionless empty states seen in certain passive patients who seem to be lost rather than hiding, undrawn, rather than withdrawn. Is there a difference between a defensive retreat and a despairing giving up? Are such patients attacking links, or have links in some cases hardly been made? The paper discusses the difference between trauma and neglect and considers what might be missing and how this may affect clinical technique.
Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P, is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in 2005 and former Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London, where she still teaches. She edited with Susan Reid Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez, was edited by Judith Edwards. Her book, The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children, was published in April 2012 by Routledge.
Chair: Hilary Pounsett
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