Workshop: Psychotherapeutic Exorcism of Internal Demonic Objects
in Regressed Persecutory and Schizoid Ego States
Presenters: Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D. & Sharmeen Khan, LMSW
When: Saturday, May 8th, 2010; 10AM – 4PM (Registration @9:30AM)
Where: 305 Seventh Ave (corner of 27th street), 11th Floor, NY, NY, 10001
Fees: Pre-registration - $40 for students/ $75 regular; at the door - $50 / $85 respectively.
To register, send your check or money order (recipient: ORI) to:
ORI Administrator, 75-15 187 street, Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725.
This workshop will draw on the theoretical and clinical views of Melanie Klein, Ronald
Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, and Masud Kahn. We will explore and describe the interface
between these views and contemporary spiritual, religious, and cultural issues. We will
demonstrate how we utilize object relations in the clinical situation today, in the context of
contemporary socio-cultural issues. These socio-cultural issues often manifest in client's
narratives, traumas and internalized object relations. Object relations clinical theory has always
drawn on spiritual cultural metaphors such as exorcism of internal demonic objects, possession
by bad objects, etc. While we present and discuss the interface between culture and object
relations theory, we will remain centered on the direct application to clinical practice.
Bio: Jeffrey Seinfeld, MSW, PhD is a Professor at The Silver School of Social Work, NYU; Author of The Bad
Object; The Empty Core; Containing Terror, Rage & Despair: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy;
Interpreting & Holding: The Paternal and Maternal Functions of the Psychotherapist; A Primer on the Negative
Therapeutic Reaction, and other books and articles. He is a Scientific Faculty member of the Object Relations
Institute.
Bio: Sharmeen Khan, LMSW, is a clinical Social Worker and a graduate of The Silver School of Social Work, NYU.
She received her BA (with Honors) from NYU , and her MA in Islamic Politics from the McGill University.
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