Clinical Moments is a monthly series that explores pivotal moments in ongoing analytic treatments. Each session features a case presentation by a different analyst, focusing on a clinical moment that provides clinicians with an opportunity to think psychoanalytically about the material and deepen their understanding through shared insights. Whether you're seeking to refine your clinical skills or broaden your understanding of psychoanalytic work, Clinical Moments provides a rich forum for learning and professional growth.
Event Description:
This month's series is entitled: Shall I dim the light inside me to ensure I don't destroy someone? A teen's analytic journey into his odyssey years.
A 17-year-old boy, intellectually gifted and yet a high school dropout, presents for treatment due to profound depression and anxiety. In the course of the analysis, developmental deficits and a deep conflict around success become identified and worked through.
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Educational Objective(s)
- Examine the etiology of academic failure, and especially look at the role of internal psychic conflict as a contributing factor for academic failure.
- Examine the interplay of internal conflict and developmental deficit.
- Discuss the analyst’s countertransference amidst the patient’s rage.
- Examine the adolescent’s idealization of the analyst and how this affected the analysis.
Presenter Information
Ed Lowery, L.C.S.W. (Presenter)
Mr. Lowery is a licensed clinical social worker and a child and adult psychoanalyst. He is a graduate of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center's child and adult psychoanalytic programs. In addition to clinical work, Mr. Lowery is also a member and instructor in the Western Child Consortium. He maintains a private practice in Solana Beach, where he provides psychoanalytic therapy for both children and adults.
Arash Khatami, M.D. (Discussant)
Dr. Arash Khatami is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in La Jolla who works with adults, specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and medication treatments. He is a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center where he teaches candidates in the adult psychoanalytic program and serves on the Progressions Committee of the Education Department.
Dr. Khatami is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD as voluntary faculty where he teaches courses on psychotherapy and supervises psychiatry residents. He also provides supervision to mental health clinicians in the community.
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