03/03/2026
Please save the date for the IPI Study Group on Monday, May 4 from 7:30 to 9. Kathy Harting will present on the topic of Love and Aggression, and the challenges of those who come to us with a refusing love orientation to life, exhibiting chronic anger, contempt, hatred on a spectrum from subtle to obvious. We will view our topic from the vantage point of recent research published in Neuropsychoanalysis, Otto Kernberg’s incorporation of Mark Solm’s theories into an object relations framework, and our clinical experiences shared together to help us think about chronic anger, hatred, contempt, and other forms of refusing love, as well as case material to bring life to the material and
the lived experiences of participants as they treat such clients and perhaps wrestle with some of these challenges themselves.