WORKSHOP: Psychosis and the Social Link at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

Detail of artwork by Judith Scott, fiber and found objects.

WORKSHOP: Psychosis and the Social Link November 1–3, 2019The School of Visual Arts 133 West 21st St. (between 6th and 7th Ave.) Room 101c, New York, NY

A three-day workshop on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis with
Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin
Psychoanalysts at GIFRIC (Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d’intervention clinique et culturelle), they co-founded The Psychoanalytic Treatment Center of Québec in 1982, a public service for the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis which has since treated more than 600 psychotic patients. Such a treatment implies a reconsideration of Freud’s metapsychology and of Lacan’s substantial contributions, taking a distance from the psychiatric approach which views psychosis as an illness of the brain.
Devoting itself to the study of the psychotic structure, The Center has developed a new conceptualization of the transference in psychosis. The analytic treatment thus made possible allows patients to transform their relation to the social link. This three-day workshop will allow an appreciation of the novelty of the GIFRIC approach, the study of clinical cases in depth, and a discussion of contemporary issues in psychosis.
Speakers include: Willy Apollon, Mihaela Bernard, Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin, Patrick Landman, Aileen Schloerb, Dominique Tourrès and Charles Turk

PROGRAM

Friday, November 1st
6:30 pm–9:30pm
The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis at the 388: the Results of the Last 37 Years

Willy Apollon, “From the Observation of an Object to Listening to a Subject”

Danielle Bergeron, “The Frame of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Sustains the Subject in the Analysis”

Lucie Cantin, “The Team’s Accompaniment to each Logical Stage of an Analysis”

Saturday, November 2nd
10:30 am–12:30 pm
Case Presentation by Charles Turk, followed by discussion

Case presentation by Aileen Schloerb, followed by
discussion

2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Case presentation by Mihaela Bernard, followed by discussion

Commentary by Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin

Sunday, November 3rd
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Case presentation by Dominique Tourrès, followed by discussion

Case presentation by Patrick Landman, followed by discussion

General discussion

REGISTRATION
The fee for the three-day workshop is $150; for students with ID, $120. The fee is the same whether attending all or only part of the colloquium. Advanced registration recommended.
Tickets can be purchased online at https://apres-coup-workshop2019.eventbrite.com, or you may register by mail. Print a Workshop Registration Form and send completed form and check to Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, P.O. Box 1039, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. Please send by Oct 26, 2019.
Registration at the door will also be possible (cash or check payments only).
Attendance is free for annual subscribers to Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.

PARTICIPANTS
Willy Apollon is a senior psychoanalyst at GIFRIC and philosopher (Paris, Sorbonne). He is supervising analyst and consultant analyst at the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Psychotic Adults, the “388”. He has published widely on topics including psychosis, the formation of analysts, the psychoanalytic clinic, perversion, aesthetics, family, and the analysis of cultural, social and political practices. He is the author of Le Vaudou, un espace pour les Voix and Psychoses: l’offre de l’analyste; La différence sexuelle au risque de la parenté; and L’Universel, perspectives psychanalytiques. He co-authored, with Danielle Bergeron and Lucy Cantin, Traiter la psychose, La Cure analytique du psychotique: enjeux et stratégies; Un avenir pour le psychotique: Le dispositif du traitement psychanalytique and After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious.
Mihaela Bernard is a member of the Chicago Circle of the Freudian School of Quebec and a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis’ Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. She is an Adjunct Faculty at DePaul University’s Counseling Program and owner of Inside Family Counseling private practice in the Chicago suburbs, where she works with children, adolescents and families, who struggle with behavioral and emotional issues, as well as with young adults, who have experienced trauma in their lives. She is a recipient of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis’ George J. Mohr Award for her paper “A Case of Childhood Psychosis: The Emergence of the Subject.”
Danielle Bergeron is a senior psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. She is medical chief for the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Psychotic Adults, the “388”. At GIFRIC, she is supervising analyst and responsible for training; she also conducts a control seminar of the analytic act with clinicians analysts and teaches a seminar in short term analytic treatment. Associate Professor for psychiatry at Laval University, she teaches psychoanalytic concepts and is supervisor of a fellowship program for psychiatrists at the 388. She is now Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.. She has published on psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis and neuroses, ethical questions, the analyst facing aesthetics and the Thing, femininity, science and psychoanalysis.
Lucie Cantin is a senior psychoanalyst and psychologist. She is psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Psychotics Adults, the “388”. Supervising analyst and co-responsible of teaching at GIFRIC. Responsible of a control seminar for the training of analysts; she conducts also a seminar on Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology. Vice-president of GIFRIC, where she is also responsible for publication, editor of Savoir, a journal of psychoanalysis and cultural analysis. A Supervisor for the Doctorate Program in Psychology at Laval University. Supervisor in the Master program in Psychology at the University of Gand (Belgium) and at the Université Libre of Brussels, she is responsible for the Orientation Council of the Freudian School of Quebec. She has published on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, the clinic of neurosis, on mysticism, femininity, masculinity and perversion.
Charles Turk is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and an analyst of the Freudian School of Quebec. He is a faculty and board member of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and a board member of Expanded Mental Health Services (an organization that founded the Kedzie Center, a taxpayer-funded community mental health center). He volunteers there as a clinician and conducts a case seminar for staff and trainees. For twelve years he was medical director of a partial hospitalization program in a community mental health center, in suburban Chicago, for which he received an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Aileen Schloerb is a member of the Chicago Circle of the Freudian School of Quebec and clinical consultant and clinician with the Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and with The City Project, which partners with public schools to bring psychoanalytic resources to parts of Chicago that are significantly impacted by gun violence and other structural sources of trauma..
Patrick Landman is a psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst in Paris. He is Chairman of the scientific board of AEVE (parents’ group for autistic children), former President of Espace Analytique, researcher at the University of Paris VII, President of Initiative pour une Clinique du Sujet STOP DSM. He is the author of Freud, Tous hyperactifs? Tristesse Business—Le scandale du DSM 5, Marx, Lacan (with Silvia Lippi) and Le Refoulement (with Gérard Pommier). He is currently working on the nature of Institutions and their positive or negative effects, on the link between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, on the problem of diagnosis in psychiatry and in particular in ADHD.
Dominique Tourrès is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Director of a Pediatric Hospital of Ville d’Avray, France and Clinical Director of the anti-addiction center Chimène in Issy-les-Moulineaux. She is a member of Espace Analytique and President of The House of Adolescents 92. A specialist in adolescent treatment she has written numerous articles on the subject and the book J’ai un ado à la maison: Guide de premier secours.
For further information, please contact Martin Winn of Après-Coup (martinhwinn@gmail.com) or Tracy McNulty of GIFRIC (tkm9@cornell.edu).