Sunday, March 4 th INVITED PANEL SESSION VI #2: Invited Panel: Exploring the Dynamics of the Supervisory Dyad-in vivo

Abstract: The panel will present the movie: "Por el Flamenco" by Director Shem Shemy, followed by a lecture; "The roots of pain, the roots of life: Between Flamenco and Tango" by Boaz Shalgi. Shemy's movie, which has been screened in many film festivals around the world, deals with the connections between multi-generational trauma (the director grew up in the shadow of his father's trauma, the impact of which he reveals "through the flamenco"), pain, the human need to know and say the truth, and the overwhelming powers of the most basic human means of expression: singing and dancing. The movie makes the audience both fall in love with these human means of expression, and encounter the tremendous healing potential they have. Shalgi's lecture was written in an effort to use and enhance the power of the movie to broaden the psychoanalytic discussion regarding one of the most basic human/therapeutic questions: how one deals with pain, both his own and that of his fellow subject/patient. Using the psychoanalytic conceptualizations of Bion, Winnicott, Searls, Ogden, Ghent and Bucci, the lecture compares the Flamenco with the Argentine Tango to show how the need and the fear to feel one's pain in all its grace and terror evolves within the dialectic of self creation and mutual creation, presence and absence, and now-moment (both one mind and two minds) and no-moment. Educational Objectives 1. Observing the work of art as a therapeutic process (the film) and as a form of life (the flamenco and the Argentine Tango) from a modern psychoanalysis perspective. 2. Broaden the conceptualization of pain and its connection with the basic human need to "dream oneself into existence" (Ogden, 2006). 3. Examine the way the therapeutic encounter can use the dialectic of subjectivity and intersubjectivity and of presence and absence in order to help the patient expand his emotional capacity to experience life and its inevitable pain with their full intensity and power. This panel will focus on the emotional dynamics of supervision, through the observation and discussion of an actual supervisory session. Supervision will take place in the first half of the panel, and in the second half the moderator (Berman) will invite the supervisor (Ringstrom), the supervisee (Pariser) and the audience to join him in figuring out the subtle interactions and relational patterns they experienced and observed. The goal will be to avoid the traditional focus on the patient, and to focus on the supervisory process as an intersubjective phenomenon in its own right. Educational Objectives: 1. To sensitize participants to conscious and unconscious levels of the supervisory process. 2. To help formulate major dimensions of the supervisory experience which go beyond its stated educational goals. 3. To allow participants to utilize these insights to deepen and improve supervisory relationships in which they are involved, either as supervisors or as supervisees

Final Program Fifteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

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