Dr. Neal Vorus is a Training and Supervising analyst and Faculty member at IPTAR, where he also serves as an Associate Dean and as Chair of the Faculty and Curriculum Committee. He is also a faculty member of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Vorus has written a number of papers and book chapters on the history of the Freud-Klein Controversies and on comparative models of therapeutic action. He is currently Book Review Co-Editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Vorus is in full time private practice, where he treats adults, adolescents, and children.

Matthew von Unwerth, Ph.D., L.P., FIPA, is Faculty and Associate Member of IPTAR, Faculty and Member of the Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group (VPSG).  Until July he was Vice President of the Confederation for Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS). A graduate of the inaugural class of Columbia University’s Program in Narrative Medicine, he teaches psychoanalysis and narrative medicine at Macaulay Honors College/Hunter College of CUNY, and in the graduate psychology program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, as well as at IPTAR and VPSG. He is the author of Freud’s Requiem: Memory, Mourning and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk (Riverhead/Penguin); recent projects include “Listening to the Patient:  A Perspective from Narrative Medicine” in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (2020),and “It Takes One to Know One” in The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter (Routledge, 2022), and “The Kommos of COVID”, presentation given at Dartmouth College conference, In The Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, April 24, 2022. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Vermont.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss and critique the traditional conception of interpretation in psychoanalysis.
2. Summarize and explain the relevance of the process model of interpretation.
3. Apply the concept of interpretive process to a clinical example.