SEMINARS OUTSIDE THE MELANIE KLEIN TRUST PROGRAM
1. September 2001, Kharkov. Weekly R. Hinshelwood’s seminar on his book ‘Clinical Klein’. Lectures in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University ‘Projective Identification and Marx’s Concept of Man’ and ‘Kleinian investigations of children development’.
2. November 2006, Kiev-Moscow. Presentation of Russian translation of R. Hinshelwood’s ‘Dictionary of Kleinian Thought’. Lectures ‘Social dynamics and individual symptoms’, ‘British kleinian technique’, ‘Countertransference and kleinian approach today’.
3. June 2011, Kharkov. R. Hinshelwood’s seminar ‘Countertransference and therapeutic relationships’.
4. May 2012, Kharkov. First Kleinian weekend ‘Unconscious phantasy’. Clinical and theoretical presentations by seminar participants. Discussion of E. Spillius paper ‘Freud and Klein on the Concept of Phantasy’. Pre-seminar discussion – I. Romanov ‘Kleinian marginalia. Culture contexts of British psychoanalysis’.
5. April 2013, Kharkov. Second Kleinian weekend ‘Here and now in analytic interaction’. S. Grachev presentation ‘It has nothing to do with you! Thinking of transference from kleinian point of view’. Clinical and theoretical presentations by seminar participants. Discussion of R. Blass paper ‘On the immediacy of unconscious truth: Understanding Betty Joseph’s ‘here and now’ through comparison with alternative views of it outside of and within Kleinian thinking’. Pre-seminar discussion – ‘M. Roper interviews R. Hinshelwood’.
6. April 2014, Kharkov. Third Kleinian weekend ‘Envy: theoretical, clinical and social aspects’. V. Zimin presentation ‘Phenomenology and metapsychology of envy’. Clinical and theoretical presentations by seminar participants. Pre-seminar discussion – Film-play on Y. Olesha novel ‘Envy’.
SEMINARS BY SUPPORT OF MELANIE KLEIN TRUST (2003-2011)
1. May 2003, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, J. Milton ‘Psychic changes’. Lectures in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — E. Hargreaves ‘The depressive position and defences against it’ and J. Milton ‘Psychic change in the analysis of Mr. P’. Discussions of papers by B. Joseph ‘Psychic Change: Some Perspectives’ and ‘The patient who is difficult to reach’, by H. Segal ‘The Curative Factors in Psychoanalysis’ and by J. Steiner ‘The aim of psychoanalysis in theory and in practice’. Background reading – E. Spillius’ ‘Developments in Kleinian thought: overview and personal view’.
2. March-April 2004, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, J. Milton ‘Interpretation, transference and countertransference’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — J. Milton ‘Psychoanalysis and cognitive behaviour therapy – rival paradigms or common ground’. Discussions of papers by P. Roth ‘Mapping the landscape: levels of transference interpretation’, by J. Steiner ‘Problems of psycho-analytic technique: patient-centered and analyst-centered interpretations’, by I. Brenman Pick ‘Working through in the countertransference’.
3. October 2004, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, J. Milton ‘Projective identification’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — E. Hargreaves ‘Projective Identification, countertransference and interpretation: on going against the grain’. Discussions of papers by D. Bell ‘Projective identification’, by B. Joseph ‘Projective identification: some clinical aspects’, by E. Spillius ‘Clinical experiences of projective identification’.
4. April 2005, Kharkov. J. Milton, P. Garvey ‘Oedipus complex: evolution of concept’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — J. Milton ‘Unconscious phantasy: orifices and internal spaces’. Discussions of papers by R. Britton ‘The missing link: parental sexuality in the Oedipus complex’, by R. Britton ‘Oedipus on depressive position’, by I. Sodre ‘Obsessional certainty versus obsessional doubt: from two to three’.
5. October 2005, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, P. Garvey ‘Pathologic organization’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — P. Garvey ‘Bringing deadness to life: an appreciation of Rosenfeld’s contribution to thinking about narcissism’. Discussions of papers by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘A clinical study of a defensive organization’, by H. Rosenfeld ‘A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism’, by J. Steiner ‘Paranoid-schizoid and depressive position’.
6. April 2006, Kharkov. J. Milton, P. Garvey ‘Internal and external setting’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — J. Milton ‘The analytic setting and its disturbing consequences’. Discussions of papers by S. Freud ‘On introduction to treatment’, by W. Bion ‘Attacks on linking’, by R. Caper ‘Does psychoanalysis heal? A contribution to the theory of psychoanalytic technique’.
7. October 2006, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, J. Milton ‘Symbol formation and psychic development’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — E. Hargeaves ‘From separateness to symbol formation: in the search of meaning’. Clinical presentation by J. Milton. Discussions of papers by H. Segal ‘Notes on Symbol Formation’, by R. Caper ‘Symbol formation and creativity: Hanna Segal’s theoretical contributions’, by G. di Ceglie ‘Symbol formation and the construction of the inner world’. Further reading – R. Caper ‘Symbol formation and creativity Hanna Segal’s theoretical contributions’, D. Bell ‘Introductory Essay: Hanna Segal, the work and the person’, Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal, H. Segal ‘A psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics’.
8. April 2006, Kharkov. J. Milton, P. Garvey ‘Superego in clinical work’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — P. Garvey ‘An illustration of a harsh ego-destructive superego’. Discussions of papers by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘Relating to the superego’, by E. Brenman ‘Cruelty and narrowmindedness’, by R. Britton ‘Emancipation from the superego’.
9. October 2007, Kharkov. E. Hargreaves, P. Garvey ‘Thinking’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — E. Hargreaves ‘Some thoughts on the pull towards death’. Discussions of papers by W. Bion ‘The psycho-analytic study of thinking’, E. O’Shaughnessy ‘W. R. Bion’s theory of thinking and new techniques in child analysis’, by R. Britton ‘Belief and psychic reality’.
10. April 2008, Kharkov. J. Milton, A. Amos ‘Narcissism and development’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — J. Milton ‘Emerging from narcissism’. Discussions of papers by H. Segal and D. Bell ‘The theory of narcissism in the work of Freud and Klein’, by R. Britton ‘Narcissism and narcissistic disorders’, by J. Steiner ‘Review: narcissistic object relations and pathological organizations of the personality’.
11. October 2008, Kharkov. J. Milton, P. Garvey ‘Envy and gratitude’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — J. Milton ‘Envy in everyday life and in psychoanalysis’. Discussions of book by M. Klein ‘Envy and gratitude’, papers by E. Spillius ‘Varieties of envious experience’, by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘On gratitude’.
12. March 2009, Kharkov. J. Milton, A. Amos ‘Aspects of psychoanalytic technique’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — A. Amos ‘The mutability and immutability of psychoanalytic technique’. Discussions of papers by M. Feldman ‘The illumination of history’, by I. Brenman Pick ‘Working through in the countertransference’, by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘Enclaves and excursions’. Background reading – E. Spillius’ ‘Developments in Kleinian thought: overview and personal view’.
13. October 2009, Dnepropetrovsk. P. Garvey, A. Amos ‘Primitive mental states and defences’. Open lecture for Dnepropetrovsk psychoanalytic society — P. Garvey ‘Separating and splitting up’. Discussions of papers by H. Rosenfeld ‘Contributions to the psychopathology of psychotic states: the importance of projective identifications in the ego structure and the object relations of the psychotic patients’, by H. Segal ‘On the clinical usefulness of the concept of death instinct’, by M. Feldman ‘Projective identification: the analyst’s involvement’.
14. April 2010, Odessa. E. Hargreaves, J. Milton ‘Dreams’. Open lecture for Odessa psychoanalytic society – J. Milton ‘First and last dreams of an analysis’. Discussions of papers by H. Segal ‘The royal road’ and ‘The dream and the ego’, by J.-M. Quinodoz ‘Dreams that turn over a page’.
15. October 2010, Kharkov. P. Garvey, A. Amos ‘Hysteric character and somatization’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — A. Amos ‘Mind in body and body in mind’. Discussions of papers by P. Heimann ‘A contribution to the problem of sublimation and its relation to processes of internalization’, by C. Bronstein ‘On psychosomatics: the search for meaning’, by R. Britton ‘Getting in on the act: the hysterical solution’.
16. April 2011, Dnepropetrovsk. J. Milton, A. Amos ‘Sexuality and perversion’. Open lecture for Dnepropetrovsk psychoanalytic society – J. Milton ‘Sexuality and perversion- some Kleinian perspectives’. Discussions of papers by G. Fornari Spoto ‘Luxuriating in stupefaction. The analysis of a narcissistic fetish’, by B. Joseph ‘‘Where there is no vision’. From sexualisation to sexuality’, by D. Meltzer ‘The introjective basis of polymorphous tendencies in adult sexuality’ and ‘Adult polymorphous sexuality’, by D. Birksted-Breen ‘Phallus, penis and mental space’.
17. October 2011, Kharkov. J. Milton, P. Garvey ‘Depressive position’. Lecture in V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University — P. Garvey ‘Polystyrene and the black box: the catastrophe of evasion’. Discussions of papers by P. Roth ‘Depressive position’, by E. Spillius et al ‘Depressive position’ (New Dictionary), by R. Riesenberg-Malcolm ‘Pain, sorrow and resolution’.
RENEW PROGRAM OF SEMINARS BY SUPPORT OF MELANIE KLEIN TRUST
1. October 2012, Dnepropetrovsk. A. Amos, R. Anderson. General (big) seminar ‘Adolescence’. Open lecture for Dnepropetrovsk psychoanalytic society – R. Anderson ‘Adolescence and the body ego: the reencountering of primitive mental functioning in adolescent development’. Discussions of papers by I. Brenman Pick ‘Adolescence: its impact on patient and analyst’, by C. Bronstein ‘Two modalities of manic defences: their function in adolescent breakdown’, by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘The invisible Oedipus complex’. Background reading R. Anderson ‘Adolescence: the impact of a mind out of balance’, M. Waddell ‘Puberty and early adolescence’.
2. April 2013, Kiev. P. Garvey, D. Bell. Clinical (small) seminar. Lecture by D. Bell ‘Who is killing what or whom? Some notes on the internal phenomenology of suicide’.
3. October 2013, Dnepropetrovsk. J. Milton, A. Amos, D. Sympson. General (big) seminar ‘Internal objects’. Open lecture for Dnepropetrovsk psychoanalytic society – J. Milton ‘Who is the patient for the analyst? Why and how do we need our patients?’ Discussions of papers by C. Bronstein ‘What are internal objects?’, by R. Hinshelwood ‘Introjection and projection’, ‘Unconscious phantasy’ and ‘Internal objects’, by G. di Ceglie ‘Symbol formation and the construction of the inner world’. Background reading H. Segal ‘What is an object?’, G. Gabbard ‘Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis’, R. Hinshelwood ‘An elusive concept of internal objects’.
4. October-November 2014, Kiev. A. Amos, P. Garvey (additional clinical seminar) ‘Trauma’. Discussion of C. Garland’s paper ‘Thinking about trauma’.
5. May-June 2015, Dnepropetrovsk. J. Milton, A. Amos. D. Sympson. General (big) seminar ‘Intrusions and identifications’. Open lecture for Dnepropetrovsk psychoanalytic society – D. Sympson ‘Some Consequences of being the Wrong Child: Effects of the intergenerational transmission of an Ideal-ego’. Discussions of papers by E. O’Shaughnessy ‘Intrusions, by I. Sodre ‘Who’s who? Notes on pathological identifications’, by H. Rey ‘That which patients bring to analysis’.
6. (Planning) August 2015, Kiev. P. Garvey, I. Brenman Pick. Clinical (small) seminar.