Grateful to to be part of an Ethics Panel, along with Dr Micha Weiss, a senior clinical psychologist and supervisor from Tel-Aviv,  member of the board of directors of IARPP, and member of the Ethical Committee of the Israeli Psychological Association. senior clinical lecturer at Colman Academic Institute and he teaches Ethics and Relational Psychoanalysis, and leads various experiential workshops that deal with the Ethical Presence of the psychoanalytic therapist. He has written various papers, among them 'Ethical Presence in the Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Role of Apology' (AJP, 2018). 

and Rex Kintanar, a Filipino American psychologist in private practice in New York City, a Candidate in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and an Adjunct Supervisor at the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. 

What it was about-

Our panel sought to bring out the grey-er , nuances of relational injuries between a patient and therapist often ignored owing to its complex and private aspects- therefore not studied enough and understood enough. These injuries demand individual attention, since they are different from the harsher ethical breeches which are more black or white, therefore more familiar to all and often addressed in training and supervision.

Discussion was around how one can own this in their practice and work through such painful ruptures that a patient might experience from the hands of the therapist, not because of a skill deficit, incompetency, ethical violation from the therapist's end, but more cause he/she is human.

This might make in fact make the work more real-er  and transformative if embraced and alchemized right. 

Discussion points were around the how and what of the same.