The 2012 Seattle InterInstitute Lecture

The Seattle Interinstitute Committee in co-sponsorship with SPSI proudly welcomes Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D.  

Friday, May 4, 2012

7:15 pm - 9:30 pm

 UW Kane Hall Room 110

Seattle, WA 

Directions:http://www.css.washington.edu/KNE_Directions 

Program Schedule

6:45 - 7:15 Registration 

7:15 - 9:30 Introductions

Dr. Stern’s presentation

InterInstitute panel discussion with Dr. Stern Audience Q &A 

Relational Freedom and Therapeutic Action: Sensing and Relaxing the 

Interpersonal Field 

Therapeutic action depends on our freedom to allow ourselves novel, unbidden experience. How does this nov-elty arise? What is the process by which some portion of the possibilities inherent in any moment’s unformulated experi-ence are created or selected and emerge in consciousness? And what does it mean to think of freedom in this context? What does it mean for the formulation of experience to be free? In my frame of reference, the formulation of experi-ence depends on the conscious and unconscious events of the interpersonal field. The field facilitates some formulations of experience and prevents others. Therefore, whatever we can do to make it possible for the analytic relationship to evolve freely, without constraint or constriction, is the best way we have to encourage the freedom to experience. “Relational freedom” underpins therapeutic action. A long case vignette illustrates these ideas.

Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D. is Training and Supervis-ing Analyst and member of the Faculty at the Wil-liam Alanson White Institute in New York City; and Faculty and Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psy-chotherapy. He is the Editor of a book series at Routledge, "Psychoanalysis in a New Key." He is the author of Unformulated Experience: From Dis-sociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1997), and Partners in Thought: Working with Unformu-lated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (2010). He is in private practice in New York City. 

Donnel Stern’s Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, audience members will be able to: 

1) define relational freedom and apply the concept to their own clinical work; 

2) describe the significance of novel experience in therapeutic action and the role it plays in treatments they are conducting; 

3) observe the interpersonal field in their own work and intervene with patients in ways that sense and relax it. 

InterInstitute Respondents 

Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA. Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst with NPS Ladson Hinton, MD. Senior Jungian Analyst with NPIAP Michael Miller, PhD, FIPA. Training and Consulting Psychoanalyst with SPSI Moderator: Lane Gerber, PhD, ABPP. Psychoanalyst with NCP 

Seattle InterInstitute Committee 

Our Mission Within the uniquely open-minded clinical community in Seattle, the InterInstitute Committee finds the opportunity to develop and safeguard a space for creative psychoanalytic conversations. With the convic-tion that the wellspring of passion is rooted within the personally held belief of each analyst, we will en-courage an exchange that respects the need for a kind and receptive space to hone the personal talents that enable us to be ever closer to our patients’ experience. Our aim is to foster listening that hears be-yond the theoretical stamp of our different training institutes. It is here at the growing edge that we dis-cover the courage to meet one another. 

“All this shows that a conversation has a spirit of its own, and that the language in which it is conducted bears its own truth within it – i.e., that it allows something to emerge which henceforth exists.” Hans-Georg Gadamer 

Seattle InterInstitute Committee Members 

Nancy Broaders, Candidate, NPIAP Joanna Goodman, Psychoanalyst, SPSI
Ken Kimmel, Jungian Analyst, NPIAP (Chair)
Shierry Nicholsen, Psychoanalyst, NPS
Nancy Stevens, Candidate, SPSI
Kathy Weissbourd, Psychoanalyst, NCP
Nicole Wiggins, Candidate, NPS

Registration 

Conference Fees: Full / Candidate / Student 
(Full and Candidate registrations include CEUs, Student does not) 
Donnel B Stern, PhD Philip Cushman, PhD 
Main Lecture: $50 / $40 / $25 Preconference Lecture $20/$15/$10 
Early registration by April 23 $45/$35/$20 
Make checks Payable to SPSI and mail with this form to : SPSI, 4020 E Madison St., Ste. 230, Seattle WA, 98112 
Credit Cards (Visa or Mastercard) 

Contact SPSI with questions at 206-328-5315 
CME/CPE/CEU: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoana-lytic Association and Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association desig-nates this Live Activity for a maximum of 0.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity 
This workshop has been approved for 2 (Stern event) and 1.5 (Cushman event) CEUs by the Washington Chapter, Na-tional Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Provider number is #1975-144. This presentation also meets the requirements of WA 308-122-520 (Definition of Category of Creditable CPE). 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CMS program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Frank N. MacMillan, II, C. G. Jung Society, 3-22-12 @ 7 pm

Frank N. MacMillan, II

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On Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m.,
in the C.G. Jung Society Library at
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North, Seattle
Come meet Frank N. MacMillan, III as he talks about his father and his book,
FINDING JUNG:  Frank N. McMillan Jr., a Life in Quest of the Lion  
(Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)
Free for members.
Come early as space is very limited in the library
Reviews (from Amazon.com)
"Finding Jung is a fascinating study of individuation told in a frontier American idiom. Written in a readily accessible form, the reader is swept into a modern fable telling how passion for the psyche lead a son of Texas into a lifelong engagement with the work of C.G. Jung and the wonderful fruit this bore for the entire Jungian community. The power of personalities and ideas nearly leap off the pages." -Joe Cambray
"This is the story of a man that had to be told – a great man from pioneer Texan stock who, lead by a childhood dream about an encounter with a lion, dared to differ, dared to break away and find himself. In doing so he left an indelible spoor on the soil of his world and the world at large, enabling, amongst many other things, the creation of the first academic chair in analytical psychology. Lovingly and masterly put together and narrated by his son, Frank, this is a moving testament to a life lived with honesty and integrity. In our modern world this is but all too rare…" -Astrid Berg, Analyst and Child Psychiatrist, Faye Lecturer 2010 and author of Connecting with South Africa.
About the Author
FRANK N. MCMILLAN III, an author, educator, and speaker, has been active in worldwide Jungian circles for the past twenty-five years. A former board member of the C. G. Jung Educational Center of Houston and a member of the International Association of Jungian Studies, he lives in Corpus Christi.
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