In my midnight confession...when I tell all the things that I want to... The Grass Roots
short video introduction to class here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/sWCQpSRcGUQ?feature=share
In the ragged kingdom of the psyche that both therapist and patient inhabit, the "midnight" truth of desire, anger and want are shackled under the double-bond of both wound and grievance.
To say everything? Good luck!
Ever since we left the womb, we are wounded and aggrieved by the knowledge that we must abide by the "ways of the world." What remedy is there?
If the therapist can give enough love and life, it is possible -- as if by magic -- to reset life at least a bit -- if only we could say everything -- there.
Just Say Everything, Spotnitz would say and the poet/analyst Marc Kaminsky crucially added – “and expect good things.”
The analyst’s hunger to hear everything and feel everything on the patient’s mind is not a mere technique. Rather, what emerges from the core of the therapist’s sense of freedom and delight has the best chance to create a space where there are “two souls bouncing around in the room” (Kaminsky)
How do the therapist and patient get to that exalted place?
It may be a different road for each.
The patient may (unconsciously) challenge her therapist to (if only for a moment) give up "sacred" ideas, beliefs and prohibitions: Does one always have to behave? Does the therapist always have to act with (tyrannical) integrity?
What other thoughts, ideas or prohibitions do therapist and patient have to relinquish in order to connect? What would happen if we surrendered to the awesome task (and responsibility) to be human? Can we do it? Can it be done together?
If the concept of emotional freedom enchants you or even just intrigues you, come join us. When you register you will receive a copy of Hyman Spotnitz' article The Therapeutic Resistance to Verbal and Preverbal Resistances for Patient and Analyst
2 ways to register and pay: (your payment is your registration)
Venmo (@simon-feuerman)
or
Zelle to Yisrael Feuerman 646-554-5768
*Ncaps is co-directed by Robin R. Benjamin, PsyA, LCSW and Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW. We provide modern psychoanalysis education and supervision via telephone and in-person.
Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW is based in Passaic, NJ. he is a novelist and essayist. A portion of his writings can be found through google search
It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster to not be found -- Winnicott
On the seashore of endless worlds, we play -- Tagore
