When Need Is Expressed as Hate with Dr. Kehinde Ayeni

In this 90-minute seminar, Dr. Kehinde Ayeni relates a harrowing personal case study detailing her encounters with a particularly hateful patient. Combined with her extensive clinical research, Ayeni elevates this shocking story into a series of lessons that are relevant to every clinician.

The discussion traces how she established necessary limits without retaliating, and how she came to understand the patient's hatred as protection against an unbearable need for the analyst herself.

Rather than treating hate as simple aggression to be managed, this seminar considers hate as a clinical force that can organize distance, control, and self-protection against loss and disappointment.