The Metaphors We Live By: The Psychoanalyst’s Biography and
its Influence on Pre-conscious Processes 

Presenter: Kathleen Kelley-Lainé

Saturday, March 4, 2023, 10:00 am - noon Chicago Time

By Zoom

Kathleen Kelley-Lainé is a trilingual psychoanalyst working in private practice (English, French and Hungarian). She is an active member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, the European Psychoanalytical Federation, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the International Sandor Ferenczi Society.  She is internationally known for her many conference presentations, her published articles in psychoanalytical journals, and her books. She is author of Peter Pan the Lost Child (released first in 1992, published in a new English translation by the Phoenix Publishing House, 2022); co-author with Dominique Rousset of Contes Cruelles de la Mondialisation (Bayard Ed. 2001); and author of Disabled Youth: The Right to Adult Status, (OCD Publications and Information Centre, Washington D.C., 1987).

Talk Description: Kathleen Kelley-Lainé will discuss how the analyst makes use of personal metaphors in working with patients. According to Freud, analysts can only take a patient to where they have been in their own lives.  The analyst’s own story, psychic processes, and the “metaphors” she lives by are fundamental tools in work with patients.  Having written the book Peter Pan, the Lost Child, Ms. Kelley-Lainé will explore how the process of writing a book that required intense self-exploration affected her listening to the unconscious world of her patients.  She also will look at the relevance of these matters in her work with one of her patients.

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. appreciate how a psychoanalytic therapist relies on her own experience to be able to relate to the landscape of her patient’s inner world;
2. describe how metaphors provide a richness lacking in simple description.

Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category I Credit(s) ^TM . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is approved as a continuing education sponsor for Psychologists by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The Institute designates this continuing education activity as earning 2.0 hours of Continuing Education Credit. CE Sponsor License #268.000091

Professional Counselors: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is approved as a continuing education sponsor for Professional Counselors by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The Institute designates this continuing education activity as earning 2.0 hours of Continuing Education Credit. CE Sponsor License #197-000202.

Social Workers: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is approved as a continuing education sponsor for Social Workers by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The Institute designates this continuing education activity as earning 2.0 hours of Continuing Education Credit. CE Sponsor License #159-000122.

Marriage and Family Therapists: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is approved as a continuing education sponsor for Marriage and Family Therapists by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The Institute designates this continuing education activity as earning 2.0 hours of Continuing Education Credit. CE Sponsor License #168-000204.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.