The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting Friday, October 25, 2019 – 7:30 PM
DEVELOPING TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA IN AN ADULT PATIENT: THE ANALYST’S ROLE PRESENTER: Debra Gill, LCSW
Winnicott’s 1953 paper, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena is widely recognized as contributing seminal ideas that have been further developed by generations of psychoanalysts. In his original description, Winnicott emphasized the impact of the environmental mother who is central to the infant’s development and its capacity to make use of the transitional object. The mother’s breast is made available just when the infant is ready to receive, which allows for a period of omnipotence where Continue reading DEVELOPING TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA IN AN ADULT PATIENT: THE ANALYST’S ROLE with Debra Gill, LCSW at MITPP