A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction: The Analyst’s Internal Frame as a Technical Tool (on demand - member)

Title of Workshop:
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction: The Analyst’s Internal Frame as a Technical Tool

Format: On Demand
Credit: 3 Ethics CEUs approved for Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs

Cost:
$100 for Non-Members
$0 for Members - Log into the Member Area to purchase
$20 for *Students - Click here to request a student discount
*(Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Speaker: Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa

Description:

In this presentation Caron Harrang addresses the historically limited focus on addiction in psychoanalysis, which leaves analysts and analytically informed psychotherapists ill-prepared to address substance use disorders. Skepticism about psychoanalysis’s effectiveness can hinder treatment, whereas viewing substance use as a call for paternal function promotes adaptive approaches. Clinical examples show how the analyst’s at-one-ment with a patient's addictive behaviors can improve therapeutic engagement and facilitate containment of emotional turmoil thereby lessening the patient’s risk of reverting to addiction. Harrang emphasizes the importance of the analyst's internal frame and ethical application in the clinical situation, advocating for the evolution of psychoanalytic models to better address addiction treatment. Ample time will be allocated for participants comments, questions, and discussion of the presenter’s theoretical and clinical material.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will acquire an understanding of the major theories of addiction in the psychoanalytic literature over the past century.

2. Participants will learn what is meant by the analyst’s internal frame and how it may be influenced by one’s theoretical model(s) of addiction.

3. Participants will acquire an understanding of the concept of paternal function and its significance as a technical tool in working with substance use disorders.

Speaker’s bio:

Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa is board certified psychoanalyst with a full-time private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is an IPA training and supervising psychoanalyst on the faculty of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and teaches throughout North America. Recent publications include “River to rapids: Speaking to the body in terms the body can understand” C. Harrang, D. Tillotson, & N.C. Winters (Eds.), Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond (Routledge, 2021), winner of the 2022 Gradiva Award for best edited book; “Possibility Clouds Arising from a Close Reading of Civitarese and Berrini's ‘On Using Bion's Concepts of Point, Line, and Linking in the Analysis of a 6-Year-Old Child’” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2022); “Introduction. Truth and Lies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives” (American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2023a); “On Grotstein’s ‘truth’ in Bion's theory of ‘O’” (American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2023b); and Nancy C. Winters, Caron Harrang & Stefanie Sedlacek “Transformations in O Online: Group Process in the Virtual Realm” (The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2024).