Conference: Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition

Space still available for participation by video link:
Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition

At the Freud Museum London 

7th - 9th March 2014

  

Registrations for the full conference have sold out, but a limited number of discounted tickets are now available for a video link room.

 

 The presentations will be relayed on a screen in a room above the main conference room. The tickets include tea and coffee breaks and the reception at the Freud Museum on Saturday evening.  

 

The cost is £100 and £80 (plus £10 / £5 reduction for members of the Freud Museum, IPI and Essex University).  

Only weekend tickets are available.

For more information, or to register: 

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75383/ronald-fairbairn-and-the-object-relations-tradition/ 

 

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.

Friday March 7   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   Presentations and Discussion Marie Hoffman: Fairbairn and Religion James Poulton: Philosophical Foundations of Fairbairn Gal Gerson: Hegelian Themes in Fairbairn's Work Steven Levine: Fairbairn's Theory of the Visual Arts and its Influence  Johnathan Sklar: Discussion of Steven Levine's Presentation Joseph Schwartz: Fairbairn and the Good Object: A bone of contention   Molly Ludlam: Fairbairn and the Couple - Still a Creative Threesome? Jill Scharff: Fairbairn's Clinical Theory   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   Wine and Cheese Reception Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition (Karnac Books)   on sale in museum shop   Sunday, March 9   Presentations and Discussion Eleanore Armstrong-Perlman: The Zealots and the Blind: Sexual Abuse Scandals from Freud to Fairbairn Carlos Rodriguez-Sutil: Fairbairn's Contribution to Understanding Personality Disorders Valerie Sinason: Abuse, Trauma and Multiplicity Ruben Basili: Recent Work from Argentina's Espacio Fairbairn Video Reflections on Fairbairn from Otto Kernberg and John Sutherland Hilary Beattie: Fairbairn and Homosexuality: Personal Struggles amid Psychoanalytic Controversy   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)   Closing Group Discussion Graham Clarke, Ivan Ward and David Scharff, Co-Chairs