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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis\, Authoritarianism and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:What is authoritarianism? Do we live in an authoritarian society? What is the difference between the authoritarian impulse and the artistic impulse? Can art help us resist the allure of authoritarianism? Across two 90-minute panels\, scholars from Tulane University and clinicians from our community will present their work\, engage with the audience and discuss how psychoanalytic ideas help us understand our culture\, our patients and ourselves.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-authoritarianism-and-the-arts-an-interdisciplinary-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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SUMMARY:Examination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique Fundamentals
DESCRIPTION:Transference\, countertransference\, resistance\, neutrality\, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar.  The speaker will use video clips from the HBO series “In Treatment” (2008-2010) in which a psychotherapist meets with patients in a re-enacted version of actual therapeutic material.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/examination-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-technique-fundamentals/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Place of Love & Erotics in Psychoanalytic Practice
DESCRIPTION:The centrality of love and sexuality in our work will be illustrated through the use of clinical vignettes\, including a variety of erotic fantasies and transferences that can emerge in treatment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-place-of-love-erotics-in-psychoanalytic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Rockland – East Fairmount Park 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr. Philadelphia\, PA & via Zoom)\, 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lee Jaffe Candidates’ Council Paper Prize's Semifinalist Zoom Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Free Association\, Racial Slurs\, and Social Justice: A Psychoanalytic Collision Course\n\nAuthor and Presenter: Emily Frank\, Ed.D.\nDiscussant: Dorothy E. Holmes\, Ph.D.\n\n\nEmily S. Frank\, Ed.D. will elucidate the dilemmas that can arise when a clinician seeks to promote free association and simultaneously attaches pejorative value to racial slurs\, silently deeming some words unspeakable because of a conscious desire to embody social justice values. The judgment of a patient’s words as unspeakable may have innumerable unconscious meanings for the clinician as well as the patient. The author examines potential dynamic meanings of patients’ use of racial slurs in white clinician/white patient dyads and also considers how the clinician’s social justice values can operate as a tension–potentially expansive or constricting–within psychoanalytic treatment. \n\nSaturday\, October 17\, 2026 from 1-3 PM ET. This is a free event open to all members. Register via the Member Portal.\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily S. Frank\, Ed.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Boston and a candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI). Her article\, “Profile: Dorothy Evans Holmes: Psychoanalytic Visionary” has been published online in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and will be in print in an upcoming issue of the journal. \n\n\n\n\nDorothy Evans Holmes\, PhD\, is a Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas and Teaching and Training Analyst Emerita at the same Center. Dr. Holmes is widely published on the psychoanalytic understanding of race\, class\, and gender. Her most recent peer-reviewed article is: Evans Holmes\, D. (2026). Hatred: A Traumatizing Underpinning of Racism. Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, 46(8)\, 828–832. She currently serves in several capacities on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA): on the Board on Race in Psychoanalysis\, the Advisory Board\, and the Book Review Advisory Board. Formerly\, she has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and JAPA. She is a recipient of the JAPA Prize (2021)\, the Sigourney Award (2022) and the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award (2025). She was the eponymous chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis (2020-2024). Dr. Holmes lives and works in Bluffton\, SC.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lee-jaffe-candidates-council-paper-prizes-semifinalist-zoom-presentation/
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Donald Winnicott’s 1968 Encounter and the Ongoing Limits of Regional Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:The history of psychoanalysis since Freud has been marked by fragmentation into multiple theoretical schools\, often with limited dialogue across them. M. Nasir Ilahi\, LLM\, LP’s paper examines the deeper reasons for such failures of communication—focusing on schools that originate across transatlantic traditions\, specifically the US and the UK. It proposes that these failures cannot be explained solely in terms of intellectual divergence\, but must also be understood in relation to “internalized psychoanalytic cultures”—the non-conscious cultural value systems that shape the development\, reception\, and practice of analytic theories within a given geographical culture. Focusing on the reception of D.W. Winnicott’s “The Use of an Object” paper at NYPSI in 1968\, Ilahi illustrates how a lack of awareness of differing underlying cultural frameworks and implicit worldviews—especially between British Object Relations theory and American Ego Psychology—obstructed meaningful dialogue despite a shared professional language on the surface. Whereas British approaches emphasize the preverbal mind\, unconscious phantasy\, and early object relations\, American ego psychology privileged adaptation\, verbal processes\, and later developmental stages. These transatlantic confusions continue to the present day\, as will be briefly illustrated by the case of Thomas Ogden\, where despite an explicit affinity at the level of theoretical statements\, clinical work remains firmly—and unknowingly—rooted in North American traditions. These divergences demonstrate that theories in psychoanalysis migrate unevenly across cultural contexts\, often undergoing unconscious transformations. While recognizing the influence of such internalized cultures—rather than assuming universal agreement on psychoanalytic concepts—may create anxieties that our theories are not free of local values (and thus not totally “scientific”)\, it nevertheless offers a way forward for more genuine dialogue across schools and geographies\, helping to differentiate what is regional versus universal in our theories. The paper argues that without acknowledging the cultural and non-conscious foundations of theoretical orientations\, psychoanalysis risks perpetuating confusion\, false consensus\, and seriously missed opportunities for growth and global relevance.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-donald-winnicotts-1968-encounter-and-the-ongoing-limits-of-regional-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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