2025
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT ON ZOOM
MITPP presents: PATIENTS' SECRETS, ANALYSTS’ SECRETS: THEIR ROLE IN THE ANALYTIC PROCESS
PRESENTER: THEODORE J. JACOBS, MD
In this talk, Dr. Jacobs will discuss the role of secrets in analysis and psychotherapy. By means of several clinical examples involving secrets kept by patients and analysts, he will illustrate the impact that secrets can have on the analytic process.
Secrets that go undetected, or that are avoided by one or both participants, can have a profound effect on the course and outcome of treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1) understand the role that secrets kept by patient and analyst play in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
2) identify and discuss the various defenses and resistances utilized by patients and analysts to avoid exposure of their secrets.
3) identify and discuss the collusions between patients and analysts that not infrequently develop to avoid exposure of their secrets.
PRESENTER: THEODORE J. JACOBS, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry: The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Training and Supervising Analyst: The New York Psychoanalytic Institute; The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education. Author: The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation, The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process and The Process of Change, and co-author of On Beginning an Analysis (with Arnold Rothstein), as well as novels, The Year of Durocher and The Way it Ends. Dr. Jacobs has written numerous psychoanalytic papers and has published short fiction in Harpers Magazine, Humor from Harpers, Mutiny Magazine, and Martha Foley's Best Short Stories of the Year.
LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
FEE: $60 or $40 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS
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