The Perversion of Truth and the Disruption of Passion (member)

Saturday, August 23, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm

Title: The Perversion of Truth and the Disruption of Passion

Speaker: Judy K Eekhoff PhD FIPA

Format: Online

Cost:
$100 for Non-Members
$80 for Members - Log into the Member Area to purchase
$20 for *Students - Click here to request a student discount
$0 for current Foundation 1 Students

*Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Credit: 3 CEUs approved for Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs

Description:
This seminar explores the relationship between truth and lies. Lies as the bodyguard of truth, protect us from the absolute truth we cannot bear. In addition, the seminar will describe the means by which our body relations and our object relations aid us in developing an apparatus for thinking so truth might be found. It emphasizes object relationships as mediators of affect and emotion. The emotions of love, hate and curiosity, as components of passion, are bridges between the mind and the body as well as between self and other.

Unfortunately, when lies are the bodyguards of truth, distortions and delusions interfere with the perception of reality, distorting both body and object relations. Internal and external relationships that promote meaning-making and growth are compromised. When one or both members of an analytic couple are insufficiently differentiated, a fusion occurs that perverts emotional relationship. Mimicry takes the place of authentic connection. The person becomes a lie so healthy symbiosis is compromised. When each member of a dyad is individuated, their emotional relationship is passionate. It is also catastrophic for the internal organizations that have defended against unbearable realities.

Analytic dyads enact these realities and impasses can result. These enactments, when analyzed, enable truth to be found within the analytic relationship.

Clinical examples will be given.

Readings:

Eekhoff, J.K. Between the Real and the Imaginary: Truth and Lies in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

Eekhoff, J.K. The Perversion of Truth and the Disruption of Passion

Learning objectives:

1.Participants will learn to recognize primal states of mind that distort reality.

2.Participants will learn to use their own psychesoma to differentiate lies from truth.

3.Participants will find language for naming and using primal states of mind.

Speaker’s bio:
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA where she teaches, writes, and consults. She has published three books: Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective; Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link; and Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate, and Knowledge. as well as numerous papers and book chapters. Dr. Eekhoff is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and American Journal of Psychoanalysis.