THE CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL SENSIBILITIES OF JAMES GROTSTEIN: REVISING THE SUBJECT IN INTERSUBJECTIVITY

Gretchen Schmutz, PsyD

Mondays, January 6, 13, 20, 27 & February 3 2025
8:00-9:30PM (ET)
On Zoom
7.5 Contact Hours = 7.5 CE Credits

 

James Grotstein was a distinctive American psychoanalytic thinker. Strongly influenced by Klein and Bion, he helped fuel the growing interest in Bion in the United States. Grotstein’s own writings are extensive, but this class will focus on his unique conceptualizations of subjectivity and its influence on our understandings of intersubjectivity.  How are we to know the self?  What are psychoanalytic subjects?  What aspects of the self are unknowable?  We will explore Grotstein’s distinction between the dreamer who dreams the dream and the dreamer who understands the dream, and we will consider how the intersubjective nature of the analytic situation allows for transformation as the patient reclaims lost selves.

 

 

7.5 contact hours = 7.5 CE credits

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will have opportunities to use Grotstein’s concepts by thinking about their application to clinical practice.
2. Participants will expand their capacities for analytic listening as we think about what defines subjectivity.
3. Participants will consider how conceptualizations of subjectivity impact their thought process about the analytic interaction.

 

Gretchen Schmutz, PsyD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Chicago. She teaches psychoanalytic theory and technique at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and the Institute for Clinical Social Work and is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society. She is an associate board member as well as North American Editor for Book Reviews for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

7.5 CE credits

• $400 general admission
• $300 members
• $280 candidates / students

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will have opportunities to use Grotstein’s concepts by thinking about their application to clinical practice.
2. Participants will expand their capacities for analytic listening as we think about what defines subjectivity.
3. Participants will consider how conceptualizations of subjectivity impact their thought process about the analytic interaction.

7.5 CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.

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