"Ethical dimensions of the analyst's chosen paradigm: A patient asks,

'Am I not right for Relational Psychoanalysis?'"

with Anton H. Hart, PhD

Program Description
Drawing on case vignettes, this presentation, by a psychoanalyst who has significant influences from within the Relational tradition, looks into the ambiguities of psychoanalytic co-participation in light of the ambiguities and freedoms often associated with the "Relational Turn."

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About the Presenter:  Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, former Fellow, and on the Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute where he teaches and supervises in several training programs including the (Division I) Psychoanalytic Training Program, the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service Program (EDCAS), the Couples Therapy Training and Education Program (CTTEP), and the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program for Russian Speakers (RIPPP). He supervises at Teachers College, Columbia University and at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. He teaches at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, at Mt. Sinai Hospital, at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Program, and at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is a Co-Founder of the White Institute’s monthly Study Group on Race and Psychoanalysis (SGORAP) and the Institute’s Center for Public Mental Health (CPMH). He serves as Chair of the Diversities Section of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE) of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is completing a book for Routledge entitled, Beyond Oaths and Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, supervisory consultation, and organizational consultation in New York City. 

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

1. Describe the limitations of reliance on ethical codes, guidelines and other externally derived mandates for psychoanalytic practice.
2. Describe how to recognize ethical ambiguities inherent in many co-participatory aspects of the psychoanalytic process.
3. Explain and apply the concept of "radical openness" in their own clinical work.

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