Moderator: Isolde Kielhofer

Sunday, March 30, 2025
5pm – 7pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
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Friday, March 28, at 1pm

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FRIDAY, MARCH 28

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“Free association” and the “fundamental rule” are bedrock for psychoanalytic therapy and apply to what both patient and analyst should experience in the process. In this presentation, the author traces Sigmund Freud’s recognition of the importance of free association that began with his tribute to the works of Ludwig Borne and Fredric Schiller. The author invokes similar proposals akin to free association made by artists and scientists including Keats, Dickens, Frost, Kuhn, Koestler, and Einstein. The emphasis is not only the importance of free association to effective treatment, but for both patient and analyst it is the “moral press” that permits free associative thoughts, particularly to question assumptions about how things are supposed to be. Lastly, the author suggests that for the patient the hope and purpose of therapy is to provide – in addition to solace – an encouragement of creativity.

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Discuss how the “moral press” that lies behind the free associative rule is received by the patient and is essential to defense analysis.
– Assess how the “moral press” leads to questioning and curiosity on the part of both analyst and patient and how encouraging creativity in the patient is a — too often unrecognized — goal of treatment.

Open to:
NPAP Members I $25
Other Professionals I $40
Other Candidates/Students I $15
Contribution I Strongly Encouraged

2 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

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