Title: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic, Borderline, and Psychotic Personality Organizations.
Presenter(s): Avedis Panajian, PhD
Date(s)/Time: Saturday, September 27, 2025 9:00 am - 4:00 pm CENTRAL TIME
Location: via Zoom from Dallas
Credit Hours: 6 credit hours
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Description:
The conference will be divided between exploring four different psychoanalytic models and their relevance to the treatment of major primitive psychopathologies. Dr. Panajian will discuss Freud’s understanding of two principles of mental functioning, thinking, negation, disavowal, and delusions as an attempt to recover psychic functioning. Klien’s paranoid schizoid position, depressive position, manic and obsessive defenses will be discussed. Depressive position and capacity to tolerate paradoxes will be viewed by clinical examples. Winnicott’s psych-soma and the relation to the mind, transitional phenomena, and fear of breakdown will be explored. Bion’s model of complexity, theory of thinking, and various types of transformations and disturbance of time and space will be discussed. Dr.Panajian will discuss Piaget’s model of cognitive development of concrete operation and their significance in understanding schizoid, borderline, and psychotic functioning. The significance of space centered interpretations will be illustrated in primitive pathological functioning. Dr. Panajian will demonstrate clinical examples of the treatment of narcissistic, borderline, schizoid, psychotic personality, bipolar psychotic and a schizophrenic patient. Such concepts as negation, the work of the negative, negative hallucination, infinity and emotional experience, the emergence of the body in time and space will be discussed. Furthermore, infantile psychic withdrawal, chaotic analytic field, vertical and horizontal splitting will be discussed clinically. The notion of time and space continuum, sensory-motor schemas and their role in developing internal and external space will be demonstrated in borderline and psychotic patients.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the major four models of psychoanalysis in order to learn about the work of Freud, Klein, and Bion in relation to primitive pathological mental states.
2. Examine the difference between patients who are dominated by sensory world from those who are dominated with symbolic capacities.
3. Analyze the dynamics and the treatment of narcissistic, borderline and psychotic disorders, including the various types of splitting, negation, and negative thinking and their relationship to time and space.
Reading/References:
1. de Masi, F. (2020). A Psychoanalytic Approach To Treating Psychosis. Routledge Press.
2. Weiss,H. (2021) The Conceptualization of Trauma in Psychoanalysis: An Introduction. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 104 (4):755-765.
3. Ogden,T. (2021) What alive means: On Winnicott's "transitional objects and transitional phenomena." International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 102 (5): 837-856.
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September 12, 2025:
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Registration Fee
September 13-26, 2025:
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DPC Candidate/Fellow $0
DPC Adv. Candidate $100
DPC Member $150
DSPP Member $150
Non DPC Member $200
Early Career Clinician*/Resident $150
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DPC Candidate/Fellow $100
DPC Adv. Candidate $150
DPC Member $175
DSPP Member $175
Non DPC Member $225
Early Career Clinician*/Resident $175
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