Visiting Lecturer Series Special Event with
Brian Feldman, PhD, IAAP

Friday, April 27, 2012: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Creating Desire: The Body, Sexuality and the Psychic Skin

Location: Great Hall located in the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln St., Newton, MA (off-street and municipal lot parking available). For directions, visit: http://www.nhcc.net/map.htm

This lecture will examine the emergence of the human capacity for desire within the relationship between baby and (m)other as the primary caretaker. Using video of infant-parent interactions, Dr. Feldman will discuss how this desire manifests in the bodily and emotional interactions between infant and caregiver, in the face-to-face, skin-to-skin and unconscious-to-unconscious emotional interactions between the two. Dr. Feldman also discusses how the skin becomes an important container of symbolic and erotic/sensuous experience and how the somatic skin transforms into an internalized psychic skin, thus providing space for the emergence of aesthetic and spiritual experience.
This lecture relates specifically to clinical work with children, adolescents and adults and is based on infant observation material.

Reception after the lecture, 9 - 10 PM
Cost: $25.00
Credits: 2 Psychology CE credits, 2 NASW and MHC CEUs.

Saturday Workshop: April 28, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
The Aesthetic and Spiritual Life of the Infant: Towards a Jungian Theory of the Origins of the Symbolic Life

Location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities Mandel Theater, First Floor, G03 415 South St., Waltham, MA 02453 (There is a parking lot located next to the Mandel Center)

Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul.” (C. G. Jung)

This workshop will focus on the origins of the aesthetic and spiritual attitude as it develops in infancy. Dr. Feldman proposes that it is the way in which the polarity of connection/disconnection is mediated by the infant/(m)other dyad that determines the capacity to create an inner space where the terrifying beauty of aesthetic and symbolic experience can be reflected upon to facilitate the process of individuation.
The workshop participants will be introduced to infant observation sequences, cross-cultural representations in art of the mother-infant couple, and case material. Dr. Feldman will place special emphasis on how an integration of infant observation and attachment theory may help our understanding of the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in contemporary Jungian analysis.

Cost: $85.00
4.5 Psychology CE credits, 4.5 NASW and MHC CEUs

Brian Feldman, Ph.D., IAAP, is a child, adolescent and adult analyst and infant observation (Tavistock model) seminar leader. He is on the training faculties of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is a member of the International Group of Infant Observation Trainers - Esther Bick Method, and lectures and publishes widely in the areas of infant observation and child and adolescent analysis. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology from U.C. Berkeley, has been chief psychologist in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Stanford where he received the distinguished teaching award, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and at the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Psychology, Moscow.
This program is co-sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and the C. G. Jung Institute - Boston. NAAP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NAAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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