More than a century ago, Freud gathered colleagues for Wednesday meetings that opened the world of psychoanalysis to a wide range of powerful ideas. Psychosocial Wednesdays are modeled on those Wednesdays and on Jung´s meetings at the Psychological Club, and feature speakers from various psychoanalytic traditions, schools, and associated fields.
Susie Orbach draws on her clinical experience and body countertransference to share new theory. She asks how bodies are made and looks at the apprehension of a corporeal sense of self. Psyche has dominated psychoanalytic discourse since the 1950s despite a profusion of body-based problems since the 1970s on. She will discuss how we might think about, and work with, the body in clinical practice.