Working with families and groups, analysts are afforded a front-row seat to intense unresolved feelings, regression, inner conflict, turmoil, and unmentalized energy. In this talk, participants will learn how Modern Analysis uses “emotional communication” to promote healing and growth in light of the most challenging feelings that can emerge in the office.

At the age of 19 Sabina Spielrein became the first psychoanalytic patient of Carl Gustav Jung when she was admitted to the Burghölzli asylum in Zürich. She was discharged some nine months later, and enrolled in medicine at the University of Zürich, later returning to the Burghölzli as a medical student. Her first published paper, her psychiatry thesis, was a case history regarding a female psychotic patient who was in love with Jung. Spielrein then went on to write her best-known paper, “Destruction as Cause of Becoming”, which was an attempt to distance herself from Jung theoretically, and, together with other papers of that era, was also an endeavour to finish her analysis through writing.