Thirteenth International Evolving British Object Relations

Thirteenth International Evolving British Object Relations
Confirmed

EBOR 2022: "Truth & Lies"
with Nicola Abel Hirsch & Avner Bergstein

The Thirteenth International Evolving British Object Relations (EBOR) Conference is a virtual event of four sessions spanning two weekends.

Registration and contact details available here: https://conta.cc/3e8O8vb?

Individual papers:
October 8, 2022 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time
October 9, 2022 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time

Bion observes that truth is to the mind what food is to the body. When the truth about reality cannot be faced, meaning is lost. Paradoxically, Bion suggests only lies require a person to think them. Furthermore, that lies are used to escape an emotional disaster. Since truth is an essential component of successful analysis, we invite papers that address questions such as:

How do we define emotional truth?
What differentiates truth from lies in the clinical situation?
Can we analyze a liar?
Are illusions lies?

Plenary presentations with Nicola Abel-Hirsch and Avner Bergstein:

October 15, 2022 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time
October 16, 2022 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time

Nicola Abel-Hirsch is the author of Bion 365 Quotes (Routledge, 2019) and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society with a full-time psychoanalytical practice in London. She has given clinical and theoretical papers and seminars on Bion in the UK; Taiwan (annually 2005-2012); the USA and in Europe. From 2013–2015 she was the visiting professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Her publications include "The Life Instinct" Int. J. Psycho-Anal. (2010); "A Note and a Short Story" in The Bion Tradition (2015); "Bion, Alpha-Function and the Unconscious Mind" Brit. J. Psychother. (2016), and "The Devil is in the Detail" in The Melanie Klein Tradition (2017). She is the editor of Hanna Segal’s last book Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2007). Under the auspices of Understanding Primitive Mental States (NYC) she has recently given a series of online seminars on ‘Bion’s Questions’.

Avner Bergstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He works in private practice with adults, adolescents, and children and has worked for several years at a kindergarten for children with autism. He has authored numerous papers and book chapters elaborating on the clinical implications of the writings of Bion and Meltzer. His papers are translated into many languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. He is the author of the book Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis. He conducts reading seminars internationally focusing on the writings of these two authors.

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When
15/10/2022 - 16/10/2022
Where
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