14th GEI Annual Conference, with Donna Orange
Being My Other's Keeper: Resources for the Clinician
a conference by Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D. *
Time: From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., lunch included at the hotel buffet restaurant
Registration starts at 8:00 a.m., continental breakfast included (juice, fruits, coffee and pastries)
Venue:
Le Nouvel Hôtel,
room Maisonneuve-Dorchester,
1740, René-Lévesque Blvd. West
,
Montréal
At 5 minutes from
Guy-Concordia
metro station, exit Saint-Mathieu/de Maisonneuve Saint-Mathieu St.
Parking in the vicinity, or hotel indoor parking at 11$ (taxes included),
entrance on Saint-Mathieu St.
Registration: See the Online registration section below
N.B. Lunch reservations will be possible only for registrations completed by Tuesday, September 19th
This conference is approved by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec for 6 hours of continuing education units (CEU) in psychotherapy. No OPQ: RA01975-17.
There seems to be a significant convergence between dialogic attitudes and radical ethical philosophical trends emerging in recent psychoanalysis. This ethical turn puts the Other first, the self turned toward the Other, making each of us my Other’s keeper. Our guest speaker, Dr. Donna Orange, has also been evolving through her intersubjectivist perspective on psychotherapy towards a dialogic hermeneutics inspired by Gadamer (1900-2002) and a radical levinasian ethics (Levinas, 1906-1995). Drawing on her intimate knowledge of both psychoanalysis and philosophy, through her teaching, she is conveying to psychotherapists and humanitarian workers this message of “infinite responsibility” (Levinas) towards the suffering Other. Recognizing the gap between this responsibility and our all-too-finite human capacities, Dr. Orange draws on psychoanalytic and philosophical resources in offering a way to ground our courage and support us in this kind of work.
Dr. Orange will first describe the differences between a hermeneutics of suspicion and a hermeneutics of trust (Ricoeur, 1965) and their consequences in the clinical dialogue, along with the ethics of response and responsibility to the “suffering stranger” (Levinas, 1982). Demonstrating the demanding clinical work related to this ethical turn in psychoanalysis that psychotherapists often undertake with fragile, devastated or traumatized people, she will then attempt some responses to the following questions: What forms of responsibility rest upon us all, and how do we keep responding? What personal, spiritual, and communal resources nourish us as we try to keep responding and living humanly? How can anyone live with an ethic that never allows us to say that we have done enough? Given our vulnerabilities, our human exposure to life’s vicissitudes and constraints, given our personal and human limitations, and the isolating character of much therapeutic work, how do we go on healing and restoring dignity to Others?
Dr. Orange invites the practicing clinician, as a practicing philosopher in the ancient sense, to internalize the crucial resources needed to nourish and sustain the kind of practice that clinical work in the best of psychoanalytic relational tradition, including the ethical turn, requires. Within acute social/political inequality and climate justice crisis, we need Dr. Orange’s prophetic voice to sustain us in our hope in humanity.
* The speaker
Partial bibliography
- Orange, D.M. (1995). Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology. New York: Guilford.
- Orange, D.M., Atwood, G.E. & Stolorow, R.D. (1997). Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
- Stolorow, R.D., Atwood, G.E. & Orange, D.M. (2002). Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Considerations. New York: Basic Books.
- Orange, D.M. (2010). Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies. New York: Routledge.
- Orange, D.M. (2012). The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice. New York: Routledge.
- Orange, D.M. (2016). Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.
- Orange, D.M. (2017). Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics. New York: Routledge.
Learning objectives
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At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the experience and the meanings of psychological trauma and its impact on the therapist and the intersubjective field.
- Situate the ethics of personal responsibility in the context of the therapeutic relationship with the traumatized Other.
- Differentiate between the ethics of responsibility of the therapist and self-denial or compliance.
- Identify the communitarian, spiritual and personal resources which can sustain the therapist in this ethical responsibility.
Schedule
20 minutes a.m. and p.m. breaks, snacks included (cookies and beverages)
| 08:00 | Registration, and continental breakfast |
| 09:00 | Introduction of speaker |
| 09:15 | Donna Orange: The Suffering Stranger: Attitudes for Everyday Clinical Understanding and Responding |
| Discussion with audience | |
| 12:00 | Lunch at the hotel buffet restaurant |
| 13:30 | Donna Orange: My Other's Keeper: Resources for the Humanitarian Workers |
| Discussion with audience | |
| 16:30 | End |
At the Vendredis intersubjectifs (evenings of text study at the GEI) of this year, three of Donna Orange's papers have been studied in preparation for her conference (n.b. it is not required to read the papers to fully benefit from the conference). They are available at a cost of 5$ (for copyright fees) in their original English version and their French transalation at this page: Trois articles de Donna Orange (the page is in French).
If you were a participant to the three Vendredis intersubjectifs Donna Orange : You have access to these papers by clicking on the My files link, in the User menu, located in the right margin of the site (it is necessary to log into your user account to access this link).
Clinical workshop
You are also invited to attend a clinical workshop (limited to 20 participants) with Donna Orange to be held the following day, on Sunday, September 24th, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Jean Leahey will present a clinical case, and after an exchange between him and our invited speaker, the discussion will be open to the group. To register, please go to the Atelier clinique page (in French).
Organizing committee
Marie Noël,
psychologist, treasurer
Sylvie Ledoux,
psychologist, administrator
Annette Richard,
psychologist, GEI president
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Registration fees
The registration fees include lunch at the hotel buffet restaurant.
Please note! : Lunch reservations will be possible only for registrations completed by Tuesday, September 19th. Participants registering after this date will be able to dine at their own expense at the hotel's restaurant (buffet, at 25$ plus taxes and service, or à la carte) or plan for their lunch (Ste-Catherine street is a 5 minutes walk).
| By Saturday, September 9th | After Saturday, September 9th | |
|---|---|---|
| Members 1 | 225$ | 240$ |
| Non-members | 250$ | 265$ |
| Students 2 | 165$ | 180$ |
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