PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” Presenter: Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW Discussant: Kimberly S. Kleinman, MS, LCSW Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00-9:30pm EDT Online via Zoom 1.5 CEUs Available
This paper will present clinical material in the form of brief narratives and vignettes while posing difficult questions for the analytic community to consider. I hope that listeners can consider some, if not most, of these questions on a personal professional level. A key question is whether emotional and professional confraternization occurs within the analytic community. Throughout this paper, when I use the term confratricide, I am referring to the emotional and professional killing off of colleagues, rather than literal physical killing. What is our part when such problems occur within psychoanalytic centers, institutes, and larger organizations? Do we participate by increasing splitting? Do we address the difficulties at deeper levels, asking what causes the collegial splitting? Do all members at the local, national, and international levels participate in confratricide in varying degrees? Collectively and most importantly if so, is confratricide, an unacknowledged and unaddressed intergenerational psychoanalytic collegial destruction, preventing adequate attunement to this issue within the larger community? That is are our collective unanalyzed blind spots hindering effective professional psychoanalytic initiatives for the community?
Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW is a graduate of the Infant, Child Adolescent, and Adult Clinical Psychoanalytic Training Programs at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute (STLPI). She is a Contemporary Freudian Society Member and STLPI child and adult faculty member. She is the STLPI Child Analytic Committee Chair and Child Analytic Study Group Assistant Chair. She is the founder and director of Clinical Matters International Program. As well as operating a full-time private practice. She is a past STLPI Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program director, past director, and founder of the Clinical Fundamentals Program at STLPI. She received the 2020 K. Lynne Moritz Leadership Award. She provided international instruction and consultation, both remotely and in person, for 18 years, working with a core group of teachers, caregivers, and staff within a specific group of orphanages in South America.
Kimberly Kleinman, LCSW is certified in Psychoanalysis of Adults and Children and Adolescents, Contemporary Freudian Society. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program; Contemporary Freudian Society, Harlem Family Institute; NYIPT; Zhendao Institute, Sino-American Program. Training and Supervising Analyst: FIPA. Co-Editor: From Cradle to Couch, Essays in Honor of Sylvia Brody and Giving New Analysts a Voice. Grant Recipient: The American Psychoanalytic Association, to co-edit a book of Jacob Arlow’s unpublished papers.
Program Fee: $60 General / $50 CFS Members / $30 Candidates & Students
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and consider two traits or themes of the unwelcome child.
2. Describe and discuss the idea of an intergenerational co-created analytic community in the field of collegial sibling killing.
3. Describe how intergenerational psychoanalytic collegial envy impedes advancement within psychoanalytic organizations at the national and international levels.
Peer Reviewed Articles/Readings:
Ferenczi, S. (1929). The Unwelcome Child and his Death-Instinct. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 10:125-129.
Ferenczi, S. (1929). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 10:125-129.
The Unwelcome Child and his Death-Instinct
Biran, H. Chattopadhyay, G.P. (1997). The Burden of the Barbarian Within. Free Associations, 7(2):151-170.
Schmidt-Hellerau, Cordelia. (2018). Driven to Survive: Selected Papers by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD
Ben-Bassat, Shiri. (2023) IPA interview with Harvey Schwartz.
https://ipaoffthecouch.org/2023/03/04/episode-129-from-immunology-to-psychoanalysis-reflections-on-primitive-mental-states-with-shiri-ben-bassat-tel-aviv/ Google her and several of her wonderful papers come up.
(She has several interesting papers if you Google her name and psychoanalysis.)
Guingard, Florence. (2021) The Infantile In Psychoanalytic Practice Today. First Edition.
Solms, Mark. (2022) The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness.
Panksepp, Jakk. (2017). Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science).
Guingard, Florence. (2021) The Infantile In Psychoanalytic Practice Today. First Edition.
Solms, Kaplan-Solms, Karen, and Solms, Mark. (2000) Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology.
Winnicott, D. W. (1960). The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 41:585-595.
Who Should Attend:
The instructional level for this activity is advanced. Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g. LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Continuing Education Credits:
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Psychologists: The Contemporary Freudian Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The CFS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. (DC, MD and VA Psychologist licensing boards accept CE credits provided by an APA approved Sponsor. All other psychologists should check with their licensing boards.)
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CE credits will only be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form. No partial credit will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted CE credits.
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