co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst
Presenter: Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time
By Zoom Only
Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups and couples and conducts psychoanalytic consultation and study groups online and in person. He teaches and supervises at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies and The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, and lectures nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-edited The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory.
Description:
This presentation will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the space within which the fullness of the patient’s unsymbolized internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned. It will incorporate both Laplanche’s idea that the analyst provokes the transference and Winnicott’s Fear of Breakdown to outline how treatment hinges on mutual enactments that narrate the earliest object relations, trauma, neglect and un-experienced breakdown such that unsymbolized states can be companioned, known and thus transformed. This involves the un-telling and un-doing of prior “translations”, personality structures and relational patterns such that being and time can be re-assembled and re-integrated.
Approximate breakdown of time:
First Hour: presentation
Second Hour: discussion with audience
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Participants will be able to describe three elements that comprise the concept of the unobtrusive relational analyst.
- Participants will be able to describe specific examples off unworded phenomena expressed in mutual enactment
- Participants will be able to describe the phenomena of untelling and narrative in enactment.
Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.
The presenter, Robert Grossmark, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.
Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: 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 (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091).
Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.
