
Montana Katz. X, M.A., L.C.S.W
January 18-19, 2020
Montana Katz, Ph.D., LP is a psychoanalyst. She is the author of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Stories, Dreams and Metaphor (Routledge, 2017), co-Editor of Advances in Psychoanalytic Field Theory (Routledge, 2017), author of Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013), author of the award winning Gender Bias Prevention Book (Jason Aronson, 1997), and co-author of the award winning book, Get Smart: What You Need To Know But Won't Learn In Class About Sexual Harassment And Sex Discrimination (The Feminist Press at C.U.N.Y., second edition 1993, German edition 1993). Montana Katz is a founding co-Director of the International Field Theory Association. She is currently the editor of the Routledge Psychoanalytic Field Theory Book Series and was editor of the Gender in Crisis book series for the Jason Aronson Publishing Company. She has published numerous articles about psychoanalysis and gender.
Seminar Title:
Comparative psychoanalytic field theory
Seminar Description This seminar will describe and discuss the central contemporary approaches to psychoanalytic field theory. Both underlying theoretical principles and clinical technique will be explored; clinical examples will be offered to illustrate both.
Readings:
Baranger, M and Baranger, W. (2008) “The analytic situation as a dynamic field” IJP 89: 795-826.
Civitarese, G. and Ferro, A. (2013)”The meaning and use of metaphor in analytic field theory” PI 33: 190-209.
Ferro, A. (2009) “Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field” IJP 90: 209-230.
Katz, S. M. (2017) Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Stories, Dreams, and Metaphor Routledge.