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Institute Sypmposium

 

Wednesday April 29th, 2026 1pm to 230pm

Herbert Cibul MD and Barrie Richmond MD Memorial Lecture 
Working with Children and Parents. 

In this special additional symposium, Molly Witten, PhD and Marshall Kordon, PsyD will be discussing remembering our former colleagues by presenting and discussing two of their important papers.

Barrie Richmond MD
Countertransference problems in dealing with severely disturbed parents: Their potential value for understanding the patient.

Richmond, M. B. (1992). Countertransference problems in dealing with severely disturbed parents: Their potential value for understanding the patient. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 9(4), 61–80. https://doi.org/10.1300/J007v09n04_0

Abstract
Based on 3 illustrative composite clinical cases, the use of the analyst's countertransference is discussed as an organizer to formulate the diagnostic and therapeutic process in dealing with severely disturbed (psychotic) patients and their families. Three themes are stressed: the influence of dependency conflicts, competitive parental envy, and the process of identification with the aggressor. Counteridentification responses to projective identification are emphasized in stressing the significant role that the psychoanalyst's countertransference may play in clarifying the therapeutic process with very disturbed children, adolescents, and their parents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Herbert Cibul MD

Cibul, H. H. (1997). The organization of affect and the analytic experience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 14(3), 383–407. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0079732

Abstract
Describes parental affect dyskinesia, which may lead to a pathological affect exchange pattern between mother and child, ultimately disrupting the child's experience of self, including feelings, thoughts, wishes, perceptions, and tension states. Reparation occurs in the analytic treatment experience where the disrupted affect experience of the child is reimplanted within the more functional sort of the analytic relationship with the analyst. The author presents the case of a 14-yr-old male to demonstrate the uniqueness and effectiveness of analytic treatment for a dysfunctional mother–child dyad.
 

Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 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 1.5 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. 

Continuing Education credits (CMEs) are not available for physicians for this program.