The Dr. Elmor Smit Memorial Lecture
Nancy Goodman, Ph.D., FIPA
Close attention to the transference and countertransference experience is brought to a case of sadomasochism in order to show how destructive aggression leading to negative therapeutic outcome can be avoided. I, the analyst, had to experience deep resonances of sadism and masochism in order to begin a symbolizing process, both for myself and for the patient. When unrecognized, repetitive sadomasochism can lead to a deadening of the mind and merger. Enlivenment comes about as symbolization takes place. An introduction to the clinical
portion highlights the developmental factors that often coalesce around sadomasochistic compromises. Commentaries about the case that appear in the book: Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: A Clinical Book (Karnac, 2013), co-editor/writers H. Basseches,
P. Ellman, & N Goodman will accompany the case discussion. Jim Grotstein’s ideas of a “psychoanalytic love affair” that is presented in the case captures well the deep involvement of analyst and analysand around sadomasochistic love and hate dynamics.
Sailing in Sadomasochistic Waters with Mr. B.: Transference/countertransference encounters
Nancy Goodman, Ph. D. F.I.P.A.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Location: The Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 Terrace Room
Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cost: Members & Guests: No charge | Non-Members: $ 40.00 | Students, VIP: $ 25.00
For further information please contact: Judith Setton-Markus at jsettonmarkus@gmail.com or 604 264-0002
3 hours CME credit
Please register by April 1, 2015
Nancy Goodman, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a member of the permanent faculty in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC Program. She is interested in unconscious fantasy, trauma and Holocaust trauma, enactments, female development, sadomasochism, and symbolization. Recent publications include: The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust—Trauma Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind (co-editor/writer with Marilyn B. Meyers), Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives (co-editor/writer with H. Basseches and P. Ellman) and editor of Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand—Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards. She is developing a Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum to display psychoanalytic ideas in a gallery format that will launch in September, 2014.
Scientific Program Committee: Karin Holland Biggs, James Fabian, Endre Koritar, Karla Maranhao, Donna Paproski, Judith Setton-Markus (Chair), Joseph Steiman, Catherine Young.
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