The Seduction of Money: The Analyst and Patient’s Experience of Money in Psychoanalytic Work
Presented by Arnold Rothstein, MD
October 22nd, 7:00 pm via Zoom
2 CEUs will be offered for this workshop
Do you feel uncomfortable setting fees? Is it challenging to confront a patient that has an outstanding balance? Why do we shy away from talking about money with our patients, supervisors, etc. when it is critical to our livelihood? This talk will begin with introductory comments about the experience of money in psychoanalytic work. This will be followed by detailed clinical material in which money was a central issue in the manifest content of the process. The various meanings of money in the process became clearer as our work proceeded.
Course Objectives:
Understand how a psychoanalyst manages the seemingly competing roles of helping patients understand and overcome their personal conflicts and of being a provider of services who demands payment for those services.
Understand how the financial relationship between clinician and patient may highlight and bring to the fore core issues in the patient's relationships.
Recognize the importance of understanding the patient's transference and the analyst's counter-transference as they are played out in the financial relationship.
Arnold Rothstein, MD, is a member of the faculty and former Director of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY), a Training and Supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and an honorary member of the William Alanson White Institute. He is the author of The Narcissistic Pursuit of Perfection, The Structural Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Perspective, Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients, and Making Freud More Freudian, as well as the editor of several books and the author of numerous scientific papers.
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