Announcing:
An International Conference
Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition
At the Freud Museum London
7th – 9th March 2014
Co-sponsored by
The Freud Museum London, The International Psychotherapy Institute,
and Essex University.
Ronald Fairbairn
was the father of object relations theory, which now permeates modern psychoanalytic thought. He developed a distinctive psychology of dynamic structure that began with the infant’s need for relationships, and in which mental structure is based upon the relations between ego-structures and the internal objects that result from introjection and psychic modification of these early relationships. This conference will outline the basics of Fairbairn’s contribution, and then explore the ramification and development of these ideas to clinical work, and broadly to applications in modern psychoanalytic thinking.
Final Program
Friday evening, March 7, 6:00-8:30
6:00 Museum will open for registration and visiting museum
6:50 Welcome: Conference Organizers
7:00 – 8:30 Opening Panel
Internalization and the Status of Internal Objects
Norka Malberg: On Being Recognized
Viviane Green: Internal objects: Fantasy, Experience and History Intersecting?
David Scharff: Internal Objects and External Experience
Saturday, March 8, 9:00 – 6:30
9:00-9:45 Registration continues with coffee
9:45-11:00
Presentations
1) Marie Hoffman: Fairbairn and Religion
2) James Poulton: Philosophical Foundations of Fairbairn
3) Gal Gerson: Hegelian Themes in Fairbairn’s Work
4) Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:50
Steven Levine: Fairbairn’s Theory of the Visual Arts and its Influence
Jonathan Sklar: Discussion of Steven Levine’s Presentation
12:50-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:30
Presentations
1) Tamas Pataki: Wish Fulfillment and Fairbairn
2) Molly Ludlam: Fairbairn and the Couple: - Still a Creative Threesome?
3) Jill Scharff: Fairbairn’s Clinical Theory
4) Discussion
3:30-4:00 Break
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Saturday, March 8, 9:00 – 6:30, continued
4:00 – 5:30 Panel
Psychic Growth
Lesley Caldwell Being at Home with One's Self: the Condition of Psychic Aliveness?
Anne Alvarez: Paranoid-Schizoid Position or Paranoid and Schizoid Positions?
Graham Clarke: Psychic Growth and Creativity
5:30-6:45
Wine and Cheese Reception
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition
(Karnac Books) on sale in museum shop
Sunday, March 9, 9:00 - 4:30
9:00-9:45 Coffee
9:45 -11:00
Presentations
1) Eleanore Armstrong-Perlman: The Zealots and the Blind: Sexual Abuse Scandals from Freud to Fairbairn
2) Carlos Rodriguez-Sutil: Fairbairn’s Contribution to Understanding Personality Disorders
3) Valerie Sinason: Abuse, Trauma and Multiplicity
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -1:00
Presentations
1) Ruben Basili: Recent Work from Argentina’s Espacio Fairbairn
2) Video Reflections on Fairbairn from Otto Kernberg and John Sutherland
3) Hilary Beattie: Fairbairn and Homosexuality: Personal Struggles amid Psychoanalytic Controversy
4) Discussion
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:45 Panel
Groups, Social Issues and the Social Unconscious
Earl Hopper, Chair and Discussant
Julian Lousada: Psychoanalysis Goes to Market?
Stephen Frosh: What Passes, Passes By: Why the Psychosocial is Not (Just) Relational.
Ron Aviram: The Large Group in the Mind (With Special Reference to Prejudice, War, and Terrorism).
3:45 – 4:30
Closing Group Discussion
Drs. Clarke and Scharff, Co-Chairs
Registration via the website
http://www.freud.org.uk/shop/CONFERENCE--FAIRBAIRN-AND-OBJECT-RELATIONS.html
