Anton Hart, PhD, FABP,FIPA

January 28-30, 2022

CANCELED

Dr. Hart is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He presents and consults nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual, and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy.  He is a member of the group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak and, also, Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The Manhattan Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.

Seminar Title: Negative Impact and Radical Openness in the Psychoanalytic Process

Seminar description : This clinically focused course addresses the problem of analysts’ attachment to their own senses of personal goodness, an attachment that can prevent analysts from being maximally receptive to their analysands’ conveyance of information about negative impact and about aspects of analysts’ participation that are “bad”. Through presentation of case material by class members and the instructor, we will explore the instructor’s concept of Radical Openness as a pathway to ethical psychoanalytic conduct that may emerge from within the psychoanalytic relationship itself.

Selected Readings

Hart, A. H. (2019). Why diversities? The American Psychoanalyst, 53(3), 8-10. 

Matheny, B., Teng, B., & Hart, A. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part I). Room, 2:21, 14-17.

Matheny, B., Hart, A., & Teng, B. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part II). Room, 6:21, 38-43.

Hart, A. H., Shadbolt, C., Fowlie, H., Minikin, K. (2018). IARTA On-line symposium: “Psychoanalytic ethics that go beyond oaths or codes: Seeking safety from within the analytic dialogue Itself.” 

Levinas, E. (1969). Totality and infinity. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. [selections]

Levinas, E. (2003). Humanism of the other. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. [selections]

Levenson, E. A. (1988). The pursuit of the particular: On the psychoanalytic inquiry. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 24, 1-16

Spotnitz, H. (1976). Psychotherapy of Preoedipal conditions: Schizophrenia and severe character disorders. New York: Jason Aronson. (Chs. 1-4)