- On Sunday, September the 14th, 2025, at 20:30, Israel time, Dr. Anne Alvarez will present her lecture.
Abstract
In this paper I am emphasizing the importance of the prosody which accompanies our verbal interpretations and the way in which it can be lifegiving where the patient has lost contact with his own and the world’s aliveness. I have suggested five components in such an approach- making it matter, making it last, building a sense of agency and of abundance, going beyond containment to build aspects of a new identity, and knowing when to own boredom and address non-meaning.
Dr. Anne Alvarez
PhD, M.A.C.P is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Dep’t. Tavistock Clinic, London, where she still teaches). She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children. and has edited with Susan Reid, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005 and is an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. Her latest book, The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children was published in April 2012 by Routledge. A book by Kai Wung on Alvarez in a series on influential thinkers in psychoanalysis is in preparation for Routledge.
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- On Sunday, September the 14th, 2025, at 20:30, Israel time, Dr. Anne Alvarez will present her lecture.
