SCIARPP invites you to the third presentation in the
Building Bridges Series
Saturday 19 July 2014 with a video of
Stephen Mitchell
presenting some of his most interesting and innovative ideas.
Stephen Mitchell was the founding voice of what has come to be known as
Relational Psychoanalysis. With his groundbreaking 1988 book “Relational Concepts
in Psychoanalysis”, Mitchell proposed an integration of object-relations and
interpersonal psychoanalysis. At the time, this was a radical shift from drive-based
psychoanalytic theories. At the heart of his thinking is that the individual mind is
fundamentally and irreducibly relational: it emerges and is shaped by early relational
experiences and remains embedded in relational contexts.
Mitchell is credited with beginning a radical paradigm shift in psychoanalysis from a
“one-person” psychology to a “two-person” psychology. Mitchell argued that the
analyst’s particular personal subjectivity is inevitably implicated in shaping what
transpires, even when the analyst thinks he is being abstinent or neutral.
Perhaps Mitchell’s greatest contribution was his vision to create an organisation
which would welcome difference and promote dialogue between the many relational
psychoanalytic models, including Object Relations, Interpersonal Psychoanalysis,
Self-Psychology and others. The journal he founded, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is
one of the outcomes of this vision.
The Building Bridges Series was initiated by the Institute of Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy (ICAPP) in 2013, with the aim of exploring and highlighting the
communality of thinking within the different psychodynamic orientations. It provides
attendees with the rare opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with people from
various organisations in Sydney involved in this work.
We will be screening a recording of a talk by Stephen Mitchell in which he
articulates some of the key points in his development of Relational thinking. A
panel of clinicians from a range of psychoanalytic approaches will be present to
engage in a discussion of these ideas from various theoretical perspectives and
in dialogue with the audience.
SCIARPP hopes this seminar will help to further the sort of open dialogue Mitchell
advocated.
Building Bridges Series:
Stephen Mitchell
Date: Saturday, 19th July 2014
Time: 11am - 1 PM (registration from 10:45am)
Venue: Pat Brunton Room,
Crows Nest Community Centre,
Ernest Place, Crows Nest
Cost: $35
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