Using a new theoretical framework for comparative analysis in psychoanalytic work, David will explore the different ways transference is understood, detected, and interpreted by different psychoanalysts practicing today and attempt to highlight the vulnerabilities in each approach.
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- Cite four different ways in which psychoanalysts can suppose transference.
- Cite three sources of "data" for more reliably uncovering a patient's unconscious beliefs and responses in a session.
- Describe the characteristics of a clinical situation in which a cinema perspective on transference would be vulnerable to repetitive impasse and another where a theater perspective might be advantageous.
Presenter Information
David Tuckett, Ph.D. is a distinguished Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society as well as Emeritus Professor of Decision-Making and Director of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College London (UCL). For 2024-25, he is also a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
He founded the New Library of Psychoanalysis (1987), was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1988-2001) and President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (1999-2004). The author of books and journal articles in psychoanalysis, economics, finance, and sociology, he received the IPA Training Award (2004) and the Sigourney Award for distinguished contributions to the field of psychoanalysis once in 2007 and again (as a CEO of Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, PEP) in 2018. His most recent work written with colleagues, the book Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know, is the outcome of a 20-year European project that used a newly created workshop method to collect and analyse the largest number of ordinary psychoanalytic sessions yet attempted. It was published in February 2024 and develops a new theoretical framework for asking how different psychoanalysts work.
As well as researching psychoanalytic practice and training he investigates how to apply the fruits of psychoanalytic understanding to strategic decision-making and economic and finance understanding and policy. He has spoken at the Davos meetings of the World Economic Forum and other similar occasions and is the author of Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability as well as many academic papers. He is the principal architect of Conviction Narrative Theory - a new approach to the foundations of decision-making under uncertainty, published in the journal Behavioural and Brain Sciences in 2022.