Mutual Creation of Souls in the Shadow of Shared Trauma: Thought and Technique in Thomas Ogden

Thomas Ogden's encounter with psychoanalysis is his journey to rediscover it as a theory and practice. Ogden invites us to dream, experience, live, and speak - rediscovering our deepest experiences as human beings, through the contact of souls with one another in therapy, guidance, and other human encounter areas in times of routine and war.

Thomas Ogden is one of the most creative, intriguing, innovative, and prolific psychoanalysts of our time. His writing invites a renewed encounter with and between previous psychoanalytic theorists, as he transforms and transforms fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis and juggles them with philosophy, literature, and sometimes even politics and other fields of knowledge. Under his pen, concepts such as the unconscious, the human psyche, pleasure, control, dreaming, free associations, the Oedipal conflict, guidance, and more take on additional meanings and layers. Sometimes he is a thinker, sometimes a narrator, sometimes a guide, and sometimes an imaginer. He is always moving and 'dancing' with language, rediscovering, inventing, and paving paths through it to new psychic realms.

The seminar brings several fascinating perspectives on Ogden's thought and clinical path. The lecturers have all been engaged for years with his writing and their points of contact with him in reality and his way of thinking.

Today's program:

🔸8:30-9:00 Gathering

🔸9:00-10:15 Dr. Sharon Ziv-Beiman - Opening and greetings

Naama Greenwald - Introduction: 'Turning Performance into Composition' in Co-Reation

Dr. Boaz Shalgi - Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Ogden's Path to Creating a Psychoanalytic Model of Mental Movement.

🔸10:30-12:00

Michal Aroch Tamir - 'Being without desire' in the treatment room - things I learned from Thomas Ogden.

Kobi Avshalom - 'A Song of Ice and Fire': Means and Failures in Deciphering Internalized Object-Relationship Images.

🔸12:00-12:30- Break

🔸12:30-14:00

Dr. Shimshon Vigudar - 'Waking Up to Life' – Between Symptom and Metaphor

Panel of speakers – Re-listening to our bond and ourselves in the shadow of a shared trauma.

About the lecturers and the moderator:

Kobi Avshalom, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst supervisor, teacher and instructor, former chairman of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Michal Aroch Tamir, a clinical psychologist, works in a private clinic in Tel Aviv. Her articles deal with psychoanalytic aspects of pre-Oedipal stages. She is accompanied by Thomas Ogden in training and writing.

Naama Greenwald, clinical psychologist and group analyst. Engaged in psychotherapy in a private clinic in Jerusalem and in organizational consulting. Lecturer at the Hebrew University in the clinical program for children and at the School of Public Policy. Coordinator of the 'Afikim' seminary, instructor and lecturer at 'Ogen', the school of psychotherapy at the Mifarashim Institute.

Dr. Shimshon Vigudar, psychologist, member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He wrote introductions to several of T. Ogden's books (which were translated into Hebrew), and also co-edited with Prof. Emanuel Berman his book "On the Inability to Dream". He taught Ogden's teachings in various settings, including the psychotherapy studies program at Bar Ilan University. He was previously tutored individually by Thomas Ogden.

Dr. Boaz Shalgi, clinical psychologist, teacher and instructor in the psychotherapy program at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Editor-in-Chief (joint) of the journal "Sichot" - an Israeli journal of psychotherapy.