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About the Presenters: 

Kerry L. Malawista, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, and co-chair of New Directions in Writing at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is permanent faculty at the Contemporary Freudian Society and has taught at The George Washington University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Smith College School of Social Work.

Dr. Malawista is the co-author of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011) and of Who’s Behind the Couch (2017), co-editor of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), and author of many professional chapters and articles. Her second “Tutu” book, When the Garden Isn’t Eden will be released by Columbia University Press later this year. Her essays have appeared nationally in newspapers, magazines and literary journals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Delmarva Review, Zone 3, Washingtonian Magazine, Voice, The Account Magazine, and The Huffington Post. Her novel, Meet the Moon, will be out in the Fall of 2022. She is in private practice in Potomac, MD and McLean, VA.

Discussant: Anne Adelman, PhD
Anne Adelman is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She is the co-editor of JAPA Review of Books, as well as co-author of two books, Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories and The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, and editor of Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults, along with several articles. She is a co-chair of the New Directions Writing Program and maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, MD.

Leaning Objectives: By the end of the session, learners should be able to:

1. Identify and describe the challenges involved in trying to decide whether or not to share certain personal information with patients.
2. Describe the fine tension between a patient’s curiosity about the analyst and the analyst’s wish for privacy.
3. Discuss the impact of the analyst’s own conflicts on their technique regarding answering questions/sharing information, in the therapeutic setting.

Related Readings:

1. Brody, S.R. (2013). Entering night country: Reflections on self-disclosure and vulnerability. Psychoanalytic Dialogue, 23(1), 45-58.
2. Siebold, C. (2011). What do patients want?: Personal disclosure and the intersubjective perspective. Clinical Social Work Journal, 39(2), 151-16.
3. Richards, A. (2018). Some thoughts on self-disclosure. Psychoanalytic Review. 104(2)1, 37-156.

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