Introduction and Practice Gap/Need:

The 48th MPS Annual Symposium brings together two distinguished scholars and clinicians who will invite all participants to consider the possibility of internalized misogyny within all of us, patients and clinicians alike. Misogyny has been rarely addressed in the psychoanalytic literature, and clinical attention to internalized misogyny has been scant.

The transference/countertransference implications and the defenses against recognition in the analyst/psychotherapist and in the analysand/patient have been part of this neglect. During this activity, learners will learn about the clinical benefits of examining the presence of misogyny within themselves in order to more realistically analyze the misogyny in their analysands, thus more effectively bringing to awareness these essential aspects to the transferential/countertransferential and defensive aspects to the therapeutic relationship.

These awarenesses could help foster the therapeutic alliance and the therapeutic action by removing possible resistances created by conscious, but more especially, unconscious misogynistic attitudes which can interfere with a working alliance and therapeutic action..

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

Learning Objective #1: Participants in the Symposium will be able to describe clinically the conscious and unconscious experience of misogyny.

Learning Objective #2:Participants in the symposium will be able to discuss and clinically address the internalized aspects of misogyny that influence psychoanalytic listening and interpretation.

Learning Objective #3: Participants in the symposium will be able to examine the dynamics of misogyny arising intra-psychically.

Learning Objective #4: Participants in the symposium will be able to discuss the history of misogyny in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory.

Learning Objective #5: Participants in the symposium will be able to examine the clinical moment in relationship to misogyny in the current social environment and in relationship to the patriarchal structure of the cultural background of both analyst and analysand.

48th Annual MPS Symposium Nov. 16th