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“The Analytic Frame Revisited: Individual and Couple Psychotherapy” presented by Dr. Vivian Eskin, Ph.D. & Debra Gill, LCSW

Date: Sunday, January 12th, 2025
Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm EDT
Location: Zoom
2 CEU credits available
MSPP Member: Free
MITPP Candidate: Free
Non MSPP Member: $50 per individual, $30 per student
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The analytic frame is understood through a complex lens that supports the development of a treatment. In this seminar, we will explore the theory and purpose of the analytic frame in both individual and couple psychotherapy. In individual therapy, the frame is shaped through the subtleties of analytic listening and a nuanced attention to the patient’s inner narrative. The frame in couple therapy creates the experience of a shared couple space that will take precedence over the needs of each partner. All contemporary treatments encompass an ever-changing social and psychological world, one that will challenge the relational field. When the therapist encounters impasse, the frame offers a steady structure that holds anxieties while facilitating the potential for new emotional experience. We will rely on clinical vignettes to demonstrate our thinking.

Learning Objectives

  1. After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
  2. Discuss the purpose and function of the setting and frame in individual and couple treatments.
  3. Explore similarities and differences in the frame between individual and couple therapy.
  4. Identify how the analytic therapist’s internal setting is crucial to the frame.

About the Presenters

Vivian Eskin, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervisory Analyst with The Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City, a member of IPTAR ( NYC), graduate of the NYFS/IPTAR Anni Bergman Parent Infant Program (NYC) and holds a Qualifying Diploma from The Tavistock Relationships, London, UK. Dr. Eskin teaches at psychoanalytic institutes, and her own platform on topics related to Psychoanalysis and Couple Psychotherapy. She has published articles pertaining to the Holocaust; Ambiguous Loss; The Ladies in Waiting, a support group for wives and mothers of soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan War and When a Parent is Deployed. She has a private practice in New York City.

Debra Gill, LCSW is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society where she is a Training and Supervising Analyst. She is also a graduate of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy where she teaches, supervises and offers continuing education seminars to the mental health community. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She presents at conferences through both organizations and serves on an international committee that supports humanitarian efforts in underserved communities, globally. She remains immersed in the study of the addictions and their relationship to trauma, dysregulated moods, and early anxieties.

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