Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time: Light breakfast items and refreshments will be served at 9:30am.
Program will take place from 10:00am to 3:00pm.
There will be a 1-hour lunch break and boxed lunches will be provided. Choice to be made during event registration. Also, please let us know of any allergies or restrictions during registration.
An Ordinary Unhappiness Hour at another location (TBD) will follow the conference. Stay tuned for details!
Location:
The Carondelet Center
(on the campus of St. Catherine’s (St. Kate’s) University)
1890 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul Minnesota
Featuring:
- Jeanne Bailey, MD
- Deborah Pollak Boughton, MD
- Joan Sacks Lentz, PhD, LP
- Jan Search, MSW, LICSW
- Hal Steiger, PhD, LP
- Corbin Quinn, MSW, LICSW (Moderator)
Cost:
- $80 for Members
- $100 for Nonmembers
- $40 for Students
Register/RSVP by: Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Note that RSVP by this date will be required to confirm lunch selections and accommodate any dietary requirements. We cannot guarantee availability of your lunch selection for registrations after October 15th. Final registration deadline: Friday, October 24th, 2025.
More Information about the Conference:
While some aspects of the path toward becoming and working as a psychoanalyst have been prescribed by various institutions since Freud’s initial development of this field, the experiences of becoming and being an analyst hold unique foundations and processes for each individual. In a 1917 lecture on transference, Sigmund Freud presented a fundamental tenet of psychoanalytic practice – aspects of the process such as transference must be discovered by each and every analyst for themselves.
“You do not, I know, expect me to initiate you into the technique by which analysis for therapeutic ends should be carried out. You only want to know in the most general way the method by which psycho-analytic therapy operates and what, roughly, it accomplishes. And you have an indisputable right to learn this. I shall not, however, tell it you but shall insist on your discovering it for yourselves.”
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1916-1917): Lecture XXVII Transference
In this conference, several local analysts will share their reflections, insights, and expertise about the significance of transference and counter-transference in their process of becoming and being analysts.
Transference differentiates psychoanalysis from other treatment modalities, yet innumerable tensions and variations exist within the field around its nuances. How do we go about defining, recognizing, or using transference and counter-transference in analytic work? What has informed the particular stance, focus, or approach we take to these concepts?
We will hear stories of each presenter’s development as an analyst, including particular encounters – encounters with colleagues, patients, teachers, theories – that have shaped for each what these concepts offer the analytic process. Instead of agreement upon one way or definition, we hope to offer through their reflections various models of discovering these concepts for oneself.
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