Abstract
In this presentation, Dr. Ipp will explore the complex dialectics of safety and risk for both analyst and patient in the analytic setting. The dynamic and fluid quality of both safety and risk are considered in relation to the ongoing levels of conscious and unconscious communication that inhabit the analytic space. These dimensions of clinical work are expanded and illustrated through the detailed account of a 10-year analysis of a young woman battling for her psychic
and physical life.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize the bi-directionality of safety and risk and the factors contributing to it as the clinical process unfolds.
2. Identify the presence and impact of feelings of un-safety for both analyst/therapist and patient, and the need to exercise mindfulness to adjust the safety-risk dialectic.
3. Recognize the power of the use of self in the analytic/therapeutic discourse infurthering and animating the relationship between analyst/therapist and patient.
Biography
Hazel Ipp, Ph.D., is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada. She is a founding board member, faculty, and supervisor of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She also serves on the faculties of ISIPSÉ (Rome) and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Ipp is Chief Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and has served on the editorial boards of multiple psychoanalytic journals. She has also published numerous articles in major international journals of psychoanalysis. She is a founding and current board member as well as past president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She regularly teaches, supervises, and presents nationally and internationally.
References
Bass, A. (2015). The dialogue of unconsciouses, mutual analysis and the uses of the self in contemporary relational psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25(1), 2-17.
Ipp, H. (2016). Interweaving the symbolic and nonsymbolic in therapeutic action: Discussion of Gianni Nebbiosi’s “The smell of paper.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26(1), 10-16.
Lichtenberg, J. D. (2018) Reflections on safety. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 38, 569-574
