66th Annual Conference
Thursday, February
19
Early Bird
Open Sessions
7:15-8:15 A.M.
Session
206
Vissicitudes of Identification Processes in a Mixed Group of
Perpetrators
and Victims of Sexual Abuse
Presented
under the auspices of the AGPA Large & Median Groups and Group
Analysis SIG
Presenter:
Werner Knauss,
Teaching Psychoanalyst and Group Analyst, Private Practice,
IGA(Heidelberg) Institute of Psychoanalysis Heidelberg, IGA(London),
Heideberg
Unconscious
identification with the aggressor works as a defense against the
trauma of being a victim in early childhood and could be acted out
in becoming a perpetrator. The presenter will explain the
effectiveness of treating both victims and perpetrators together in
a group analytic process: the perpetrators start to identify with
the suffering of the victim as well as with their own suffering
during traumatic experiences in early childhood; and the victims get
in touch with their own murderous aggression which was kept
unconscious by identifying masochistically with the aggressor.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee
will be able to:
1. Differentiate
identification as a defense and a developmental force.
2.
Differentiate masochistic identification with the aggressor and
acting out identification.
3. Differentiate
an "equivalent mode" from an "as if mode" of mental functioning in
identification processes.
Course References:
1. Fonagy,
P.(2002) Affect regulation, mentalization and the development of
the self. Other Press. New York.
2. Welldon,
E. (1997) Let the treatment fit the crime. Forensic group
psychotherapy. groupanalysis.vo.30,no.1,march, pp9-26.
3. Hirsch, M. (2004)
Psychoanalytische Traumatologie. Schattauer. Stuttgart.
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