ALWAYS THERE AND NEVER BEFORE: THE ECLIPSE OF “EVERYDAY LIFE”

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Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies and Carlow University present Donald Moss, MD:

Some time ago, Freud could confidently write about "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life". Given a steady and reliable backdrop, he, and the rest of us, could reasonably direct our focus to intrapsychic variables. We psychoanalysts can no longer count on the regular, safe and predictable world of "everyday life". The "everyday" is over, replaced now by the "day-to-day", the baseline expectation that something unexpected, disruptive, and fracturing has taken place in the immediate past-- today, yesterday, NOW. Patients, therapists and analysts are unavoidably caught up in these fracturing events. This poses new clinical challenges to all of us. In this presentation, I will take up some of those challenges, via examples in which I both met and evaded them..