From Enactment to Play, with, Jessica Benjamin

In this insightful video recorded workshop, renowned psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin explores the transformative difference between enactment and play in the therapeutic relationship. She explains how moving from the dissociated drama of enactment to the shared space of play creates a vital Third position — allowing meta-communication, mutual recognition, and the possibility of repair.

With her signature clarity, Benjamin shows how play holds the paradox between repetition and change, real and not real — making what is painful feel bearable enough to be reworked. Drawing on the dynamics of co-creation, attunement, and differentiation, she demonstrates how therapist and client can move together from stuck enactments to relational freedom.

A must-listen for psychotherapists and analysts who want to deepen their understanding of relational dynamics and the healing power of play.

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This webinar was originally recorded with a live audience on the 28^th May 2023 

Video lecture and article – 3hrs and 28 mins

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Jessica Benjamin is a supervising faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies where she is a founder and board member. She has been part of the relational psychoanalytic movement from its inception, and is known for her integration of clinical psychoanalytic and development theory with social thought, particularly feminist theory. She is the author of numerous books and papers. In 2015, she was awarded the Hans Kilian prize for meta-humanistic studies in Bochum, Germany.