in collaboration with: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
What is Mine, Yours, Ours? Unpacking Enactments and the Threat of Being Known
Presenter: Dale Gody, PhD, FABP
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time
In person at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute,
8 S. Michigan Ave, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL
And By Zoom
Dale Gody, Ph.D., FABP is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute where she teaches relational and advanced relational theory, psychoanalysis and feminism, and case report writing. She previously served as the Director of the Exploring Psychoanalysis Program at CPI. For over forty years she has presented papers at APSAA, APA Division 39, CAPP, IASPP on topics such as chance encounters between patient and therapist, maternal desire, analyst vulnerability, and countertransference. Her articles are published in the Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and The International Journal of Controversial Discussions in Psychoanalysis. She is currently in private practice in Salt Lake City.
Description:
Drawing upon both relational and object relations theories, this presentation will explore the challenges the therapist faces in coming to understand “What just happened here?” From a two person model of mind, enactments are unconscious, inevitable, mutually co-constructed, and always contain an interaction of the patient’s and therapist’s attachment and object relationship patterns. The therapist’s anxiety about being known by the patient is often an impediment to the resolution of enactments. Using case material we will explore the possibilities not only for working through frustrating repetitive impasses, but also for enlivening generative enactments which move treatment forward and facilitate emotional growth not only for the patient, but also for the therapist.
First Hour: presentation
Second Hour: discussion with audience
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the inevitability of the therapist’s unconscious influencing analytic process.
- Develop an awareness of the threat to the analyst of being intimately known by the patient, common defensive maneuvers, and the importance of the analyst’s vulnerability in facilitating change.
- Understand the role of enactment to understand the role of the unconscious and bidirectional influence between patient and therapist in creating enactment and its potential generative capacity.
Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.
The presenter, Dale Gody, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.
Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091).
Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.
