Scientific Meeting
Saturday, December 13, 2025
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Event will also be available
via Zoom (link will be sent via email the day before the event)
New Haven, CT 06510
New Frameworks: Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know
Speaker: David Tuckett
Discussant: Angela Cappiello, MD, PhD
Non-WNEPS member
$35.00
WNEPS members, candidates and all students/trainees
$0.00
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Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know is the product of a 20-year international collaborative study examining ordinary psychoanalytic sessions conducted by leading analysts and subsequently discussed in depth by more than a thousand colleagues across three continents. Based on the detailed discussion of sixteen clinical psychoanalytic cases, the project addresses a central question: What do psychoanalysts actually do when they are practicing psychoanalysis?
From this work emerged a new “common” framework designed to help both experienced analysts and students clarify what they aim to do in their clinical work and to evaluate for themselves how fully they are achieving it.
This presentation will first outline the study as reported in Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know. It will then focus on:
- Four distinct ways psychoanalysts operationalize their ideas about the emergence of underlying unconscious templates (i.e., transference) within sessions.
- Two primary approaches to structuring sessions in order to infer unconscious content.
- Three principal sources of data available for making such inferences.
Speaker: David Tuckett
David Tuckett is Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Professor at University College London, UK. Recently honoured with a Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis, the highest prize in the field, Professor Tuckett has brought together his initial training as an Economist with his subsequent work in Sociology and Psychoanalysis to initiate a new line of research; the significance of which has been recognised with recent invitations to speak at the Global Economic Symposium and the Global Risks Network of the World Economic Forum. Previously Principal of the Health Education Studies Unit at Cambridge University and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he is the author of many papers and several highly successful books.
