A SPECIAL ONLINE INTERVIEW TO CELEBRATE THEIR NEW BOOK 

Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing

DORIS BROTHERS, PhD, and JON SLETVOLD, PsyD

Live Streamed, online only

Interview conducted by Dr. Helena Vissing

FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6th from 5:00-6:30PM/Eastern

Join us!  Audience participation encouraged.

(Sorry, please note that CEs are not offered for this event)

In their new Routledge book, Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing, Drs. Brothers and Sletvold explore both patient and analyst longings –  to know, be known and not known in psychoanalytic relationships.

Weaving together the powerful influences of culture, history, politics and world events with the therapeutic encounter, they bring us into a deep understanding of embodiment through their informed and compassionate perspectives.

In this important and timely exploration of the nature of knowledge, Brothers and Sletvold address the heart of the therapeutic endeavor and the question of what it means to be human. They demonstrate unequivocally that knowing and understanding are never individual achievements, but fundamentally relational and embodied in nature, shaped by historical circumstances and our interactions with others. They invite us to learn from and live with uncertainty and thus to recognize that experience may be more or less known, formulated or unformulated, in any moment in time.

— Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, R.Psych, University Professor of Psychoanalysis and Education, University of Vienna and Co-Editor in Chief, Contemporary Psychoanalysis

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Drs. Brothers and Sletvold are well known to WAWI audiences. For four years they have run and co-produced with the Institute, the Embodiment Series, drawing an international audience of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to their live-streamed, Saturday panel discussions. The series has covered subjects ranging from embodiment as related to Trauma and Dissociation, Early Development, Madness, Sex and Gender, Blackness and Whiteness, Fascist Experience, Memory, and more. Upcoming this December will be Embodied Perspectives on Supervision, and later, the topic of Autism will be explored.

Doris Brothers, PhD,  is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has served on the executive and advisory boards and council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP).  Dr. Brothers has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as five books. Her forthcoming book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled, Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. Earlier books include, A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES written with Jon Sletvold, Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.

Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the authorof The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015.  In 2019 he wrote, From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His forthcoming book, written with Doris Brothers, is Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing. His last book, also written with Doris Brothers, is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and he co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.

ABOUT OUR INTERVIEWER

Helena Vissing, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health, and an Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where she teaches in the Somatic Psychology program. She is the author of Somatic Maternal Healing. Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health, (Routledge). She is also host on the podcast channels New Books in Psychoanalysis and New Books in Somatics and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal.