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Lawrence Brown
Lewis and Clark College - Miller 105
615 SW Palatine Hill Rd
Portland, OR 97219
United States

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Saturday, April 28, 2018, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
Category: Special Programs

The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center Presents

A Program Sponsored by
Marianne Buchwalter 

“Bion’s Theory of Transformations and its Clinical Application.”

with Lawrence Brown, PhD

Saturday, April 28, 2018

 Bion’s book, Transformations, is seen as enigmatic, difficult to understand and is the most challenging of all his works.  Participants in this program will have the opportunity to read a paper by Dr. Brown in advance of the program that reviews and contextualizes Bion’s Transformations.  The program will begin with a synopsis of Transformations by Dr. Brown with an emphasis on the clinical applications of these ideas, which will be followed by a general discussion.  Dr. Brown will also present a clinically oriented paper, “Three Unconscious Pathways to Representing the Analyst’s Experience: Reverie, Countertransference and Joke-Work,” that will illustrate some of the clinical relevance of Bion’s book.  Following the paper presentation, there will be a Discussant and a general conversation with the audience.    

Educational Objectives:  At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
1. To understand Bion’s Theory of Transformations.
2. To learn about the clinical applications of this theory.
3. To understand the three unconscious pathways to representing the analyst’s experience in the session.

Dr. Brown is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI) in both Child and Adult psychoanalysis and is a supervising child analyst there.  He is also on the faculty of BPSI and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He is on the Editorial Board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and is President of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies.  He was Co-Chair of the Bion in Boston International Conference held in 2009 and also co-chaired the Bion in Marrakech meeting in 2013.  His book, Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives, was published in 2011 and he also co-edited two other recent books  He has another book in progress, Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Technique of Transformations to be published by IPA Publications and Karnac.  He is the author of many papers dealing with such topics as the Oedipus complex, trauma, countertransference dreams, the analytic setting, aspects of Bion’s work, and autistic spectrum disorders in children. 

9:00 am – 1:00 pm/ 4 cmes
Lewis and Clark College – Miller 105
$150 Non-Members / $135 Members/ $75 Residents-Interns
University Students can attend for free with a valid student ID on day of the event pending available seating. 

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.


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