American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting Palmer House Hilton Hotel
17 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603
Friday June 22nd, 2018
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
MEET THE AUTHOR: DR. ARNOLD RICHARDS AND DR. STEVEN STERN
Chair: Henry J. Friedman, M.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Authors & Presenters: Arnold Richards, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
Steven Stern, Psy.D.* (Yarmouth, ME)
Books: “Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations Volume 1” “Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing:
A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process” This session will include presentations by Steven Stern, Psy.D. and Arnold Richards, Ph.D. Dr. Stern’s book, “Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing” extends Kohut’s self-psychology concept of the self-object and specificity theory to a fuller picture of what the analytic relationship provides for individual patients. He represents the expression of self-psychology’s best clinical practices. Dr. Richards’, “Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations Volume 1,” “follows the leitmotif of “integrative pluralism”: how to continue the dialogue between the contributors of disparate psychoanalytic schools of thought” with the larger psychoanalytic base. Together their presentations both contrast and enhance each other. In doing so the authors increase our understanding of the complexity of utilizing either a unitary or multiple theoretical approach in conducting clinical psychoanalyses. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Utilize the relational aspect of the analytic situation and the specificity of what the analyst needs to provide each patient; 2) Utilize multiple theoretical approaches in the service of effectiveness with each patient in the course of an analytic treatment.