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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T094500
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DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
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SUMMARY:Gay and Lesbian Couples as Parents
DESCRIPTION:Colleen Sandor presents as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/gay-and-lesbian-couples-as-parents/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T161500
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225404Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing the Heart of Addiction: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Treatment of Addiction
DESCRIPTION:Using psychoanalytic papers and a case material participants will examine analytic perspectives on SUD’s and deepen their understanding of the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic underpinnings of their own cases.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/addressing-the-heart-of-addiction-psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-the-treatment-of-addiction/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240212
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SUMMARY:APsA’s 2024 National Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsas-2024-national-meeting/
LOCATION:New York Hilton Midtown Hotel\, New York City\, New York Hilton Midtown Hotel\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T120000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240130T233910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T022158Z
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SUMMARY:How We Do This Work: The Analyst's Holding Environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Mendelsohn. \nTopic:  Working as a therapist is irreducibly challenging. We deal with loss\, adversity\, and preoccupation\, and we live and work in a time of considerable instability and dysfunction.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-we-do-this-work-the-analysts-holding-environment/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Coral Gables\, Florida and Virtual\, Coral Gables\, FL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T010000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T231033Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Past Lives
DESCRIPTION:Past Lives (2023\, 2hr\, 23 min) written and directed by Celine Song. The film follows the line of connection/disconnection over 24 years of a Korean boy and girl who are separated when her family moves to Canada. From the opening moments\, we wonder how that friendship will affect her American marriage\, which we are shown over the course of the film to be cozy and companionable. The film is beautifully and clearly rendered. The sense of emotional truth in each of the three characters is one of the film’s pleasures. When the husband speaks his frustration\, “You dream in a language that I don’t understand. I’m afraid there’s a place inside of you that I can’t get to…”\, we understand.\nLearning Objectives:\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nDiscuss the impact for immigrants of reveries that idealize the country of origin and require adjustments.\nDiscuss the psychodynamics of romantic fixation.\nSummarize the internal conflicts that arise with actively mourning lives that were never lived with emphasis on the consequences for assuming responsibility for decisions made. \nDiscussants: \nPeter Rainer is the Christian Science Monitor film critic and appears regularly on “Film Week” on LAist\, the local NPR affiliate. He was a finalist in 1998 for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and has won numerous first-place awards for his criticism from the Los Angeles Press Club. Prior to the Monitor\, Peter was a film critic for New York magazine\, the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He is the author of “Rainer on Film\,” which collected his best reviews and essays over a thirty-year span. He also edited the criticism collection “Love and Hisses.” Peter is also the writer and co-producer of A&E Biographies on Sidney Poitier and John Huston. Peter received a B.A. in 1973 from Brandeis University\, majoring in English and American literature and graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn an M.A. in film from USC. He has lectured on film worldwide\, including India and Abu Dhabi\, and served on the main juries for the Venice and Montreal film festivals. Peter has lectured and taught classes in film at\, among other institutions\, Columbia University\, NYU\, the New York Film Academy in Burbank\, Loyola\, UCLA\, AFI\, and USC. He has also appeared over the years as a film commentator for such outlets as CNN\, ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. His father\, Dr. John Rainer\, M.D.\, was a prominent New York psychoanalyst who was chief of the Department of Medical Genetics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is recognized especially for his pioneering work on the psychiatric problems of the deaf. \nBettina Soestwohner\, PhD\, PsyD holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine. She is a Graduate Research Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. She is a member of the California Circle of the EFQ (Freudian School of Quebec) and of the IFLF (International Forums of the Lacanian Field.) She has a private practice in Los Angeles.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-past-lives/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230826T014022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T015200Z
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SUMMARY:The Therapeutic Importance of Screwing Up-and Owning It:  Repair\, Epistemic Trust and the Active Ingredients of Effective Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg\, MD \nDescription: This presentation will discuss the acquisition of trust and social learning in normal development and in psychotherapy and success that such acquisition is facilitated by the therapist’s ability to model repair by taking responsibility for one’s inevitable mistakes and misattunements and the impact they have on the patient. Examples of breakdowns in the therapeutic relationship will be discussed from this perspective.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-therapeutic-importance-of-screwing-up-and-owning-it-repair-epistemic-trust-and-the-active-ingredients-of-effective-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T220000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240130T233910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T021701Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Trauma and Shame: Clinical Implications
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Dr. Peter Shabad describe how shame results from traumatic ruptures in human relationships. I will describe the developmental trajectory of shame in self-pity\, resentment\, entitlement\, and regret for missed opportunities. I will illustrate shame with a clinical example\, and talk more generally of my clinical values and principles in working with people with shame.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-trauma-and-shame-clinical-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T140000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230929T182454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T190703Z
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SUMMARY:Donnel Stern\, PhD. Interpretation: “Voice of the Field”
DESCRIPTION:For patients\, it’s seldom the content of the analyst’s interpretation that’s memorable but rather the feeling of being understood. Within the interpersonal field\, the analyst’s interpretation gives voice to field shifts that are jointly created between analyst and patient and make way for a new freedom to think and feel.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/society-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T230936Z
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SUMMARY:Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories And the Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth
DESCRIPTION:Jack Drescher\, MD discusses the study of human sexual identities is changing\, and these changes oblige analysts to think about sexualities in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forbears. These changes also require that they be aware of some of the limitations imposed upon by their own theoretical traditions. Toward that end\, this presentation begins with a definition of terms related to modern conceptions of sexuality and sexual identities. This is followed by a review of historical assumptions underlying the theory of bisexuality. The next section introduces the audience to the role of categories and hierarchies in general\, and to the clinical meaning of sexual hierarchies in particular. This is followed by a discussion of the meanings and uses of the “natural.” The final section concludes with a commentary on intersexuality as an example of both the social and surgical construction of gender.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/bisexuality-to-intersexuality-rethinking-gender-categories-and-the-evolving-controversies-in-treating-gender-dysphoric-youth/
LOCATION:UTSW\, NC8.212 (Dallas Psychoanalytic Center) & Virtual\, 2201 Inwood Rd\, Dallas\, TX\, 75390\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T120000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231228T233432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T233728Z
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SUMMARY:Children's Defenses Against Painful Affect: The Case of Philip and an Introduction to Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic interventions occur in manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy through the Regulation Focused Psychotherapy approach. In this presentation\, Drs. Leon Hoffman and Timothy Rice will review the history of the psychoanalytic technique of interpreting defenses against painful affect with children\, demonstrate its effectiveness in the case history of Philip\, a six-year-and-five-month old boy who was felt to be autistic\, and introduce the Regulation Focused Psychotherapy project. A discussion on the benefits to the analytic and academic communities of incorporating psychoanalytic interventions within testable manualized approaches as well as models for formulation and intervention in children with autism spectrum disorders will follow with audience participation and conversation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/childrens-defenses-against-painful-affect-the-case-of-phi-l-ip-and-an-introduction-to-regulation-focused-psychotherapy-for-children/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T110000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230908T140925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T142708Z
UID:20000174-1706346000-1706353200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning\, Narrative and Time in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop presented by Robert Grossmark\, PhD\, ABPP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/explorations-in-psychoanalytic-companioning-narrative-and-time-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230908T140924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T154245Z
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SUMMARY:The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactive Engagement and Psychoanalytic Companioning
DESCRIPTION:This Scientific Meeting will address the challenges met when working with patients who cannot “work together” with an analyst\, who are not sufficiently able to symbolize and mentalize. We will address both patients who suffer disturbances in the area of self-other definition\, continuity and regulation of self\, as well as patients who can appear to be more related and reflective\, but harbor sequestered self states that are dominated by areas of unrepresented and unsymbolized trauma and neglect.\nThis presentation will present the position of the unobtrusive relational analyst who companions the patient in the emergence of illusion\, fragmentation and non-relatedness and privileges the inner world of the patient that becomes the signature and defining sculptor of the clinical interaction and process. \nUnrepresented and unformulated trauma and neglect announce themselves in the flow of mutual enactive engagement and rather than seek to move the patient into greater relatedness and insight\, the analyst companions the patient in the emergence of yet to be known and thought narratives of trauma and fragmentation. The tilt is toward an ontological position that privileges being-with the patient rather than epistemological where meaning can be symbolized and interpreted.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-unobtrusive-relational-analyst-enactive-engagement-and-psychoanalytic-companioning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T183000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T230144Z
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SUMMARY:COWAP Film Series:  Discussions on Gender
DESCRIPTION:Discussants: Oren Gozlan and Willa France.   Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman \nThe discussion will focus on issues pertaining to transgender people and society’s prejudices against them. We encourage audience participation. \nParticipants should view the film beforehand. It is available on Netflix and Hulu.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-film-series-discussions-on-gender/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T230442Z
UID:20000256-1706268600-1706299200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (2-day program)
DESCRIPTION:This is a two-day program. Registration is only available for the full two days. Check in starts at 8 AM each day. The program presentation is from 8:30 AM to 5 PM  See below for full schedule. \nThe New Center for Psychoanalysis and TFP New York present a two-day training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy \nNCP\, in association with TFP New York\, presents the two-day training “TFP for Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism” with Master TFP Clinicians Diana Diamond\, PhD and Frank Yeomans\, MD. \nIn this two-day follow up to last year’s training\, day one offerings will focus on TFP method of interpretation\, working with dyads and the Dominant Object relation. Day two will focus on TFP for NPD\, dissolution of the “Grandiose Self.” \nTransference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized\, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). \nTFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience. \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 26\nDay One will focus on working with patients with personality disorders organized at the borderline level with special emphasis on TFP tactics: the Structural interview\, Contract Setting\, and identifying Dominant Object Relations. \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 27\nDay Two will focus on TFP for Narcissistic Personality Disorder with an emphasis on the Grandiose Self that separates NPD from other personality disorders and make it especially challenging to work with. \nDiana Diamond\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who specializes in theory\, research\, and treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. She is Professor Emerita in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also a professor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and is on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the recipient of several awards\, including most recently the Aaron Stern distinguished visiting professor award from Weill Cornell Medical College for her contributions to understanding the etiology and treatment of narcissistic pathology. She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and heads their research committee for the Department of Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Diamond currently teaches\, lectures\, and supervises TFP nationally and internationally\, and is in private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City and Sag Harbor\, NY. \nFrank Yeomans\, MD\, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College\, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell\, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy. Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development\, investigation\, teaching\, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at the Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally. \nIn addition to their individual published works\, Dr. Diamond and Dr Yeomans have co-authored Treating Narcissistic Pathology with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy with Barry Stern and Otto Kernberg.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/transference-focused-psychotherapy/2024-01-26/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T114500
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T232358Z
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SUMMARY:Couples as Parents
DESCRIPTION:Damian McCann presents on Couples as Parents as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/couples-as-parents/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T225941Z
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SUMMARY:Scientific Program:  A Heart Shattered\, the Impenetrable Self\, and a Life Unlived: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Relentless Despair
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Martha Stark\, MD \nHighlights the primary difference between relentless hope and relentless despair\, elaborate upon the patient’s intense ambivalence about entering the world of objects\, explains the relevance of the concept of dreading surrender to resourceless dependence upon another\, expounds upon the importance of moments of authentic meeting as offering opportunity for restoring purpose\, direction\, and meaning to a life otherwise unlived .
URL:https://apsa.org/event/scientific-program-a-heart-shattered-the-impenetrable-self-and-a-life-unlived-an-existential-humanistic-approach-to-relentless-despair/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231228T233433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T234336Z
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SUMMARY:Othering Enactments in Psychoanalytic Organizations: Problems and Promises
DESCRIPTION:Although we might wish for them not to\, racial enactments in psychoanalytic organizations can be observed to happen regularly\, exposing schisms that are borne of personal\, social\, and structural elements. Now\, in the wake of contemporary racial polarization and galvanizing instances of brutality\, and in the ongoing context of widespread social division\, upheaval\, and international warfare\, the psychoanalytic world is grappling with where we have been\, where we are now\, and where we are headed. \nThis presentation offers a framework for understanding the problems and promises of enactments involving race\, culture\, and other forms of divisive difference\, placing awareness of safety and the need for openness at its center. It can be perpetually difficult to engage in dialogue across the borders of entrenched difference\, and not infrequently\, as in the case of enactment experience\, communication can seem to break down when polarization overwhelms dialogic co-commitment. Through the consideration of vignettes involving racial (and other diversity-related) enactments\, the obstacles to participants’ capacity for humility and receptive\, “radical” openness will be explored. Attention to matters of safety and unsafety\, for all those involved\, will be seen as an essential component in the creation of new dialogic possibility.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/othering-enactments-in-psychoanalytic-organizations-problems-and-promises/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
ORGANIZER;CN="Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute":MAILTO:library@bpsi.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230922T184517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T190636Z
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SUMMARY:Expanding Psychoanalytic Passion: A Conference In Memory Of And Inspired By Christina Emanuel
DESCRIPTION:Participants will explore challenging places of analytic work from different theoretical perspectives of working in the psychoanalytic field: Autism is the Treatment: Suturing the Rupture Between Body and Mind by Leon Brenner\, Ph.D; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Substance Use and Mis-use by D. Bradley Jones\, Psy.D\, LCSW; Placement\, Displacement\, Replacement: Where the Social and the Unconscious Interpenetrate by Steven H. Knoblauch\, Ph.D.; On Using Metaphors In the Analytic Conversation by Giuseppe Civitarese\, M.D. Ph.D.; Metaphors and Their Storylines by Daniel Goldin\, M.F.T\, Psy.D.; Interpretation: Voice of the Field by Donnel B. Stern\, Ph.D. \nWe will experience Christina’s contributions as we elaborate on areas of her passion and expand our psychoanalytic perspectives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/expanding-psychoanalytic-passion-a-conference-in-memory-of-and-inspired-by-christina-emanuel/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T120000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230810T152234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T192737Z
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SUMMARY:28 week program: Luminaries of the Interpersonal Tradition starts January 2024
DESCRIPTION:This is a course for seasoned clinicians who wish to learn about the “Luminaries of the Interpersonal Tradition”. Four senior analysts teach the psychoanalytic contributions of Ed Levenson\, Donnel Stern\, Philip Bromberg\, and Jay Greenberg.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/28-week-program-luminaries-of-the-interpersonal-tradition-starts-january-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T120000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231228T233432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T233922Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Morning Case Conference: On Stranger Waves: Orienting One(s) Self in the “I Don’t Know"
DESCRIPTION:The word “stranger” comes from the Latin word extraneus\, meaning “one who is on the outside.” In this latest installment of our case conference series\, targeted to early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy\, PCOP Psychotherapy Associate Member\, Jasmine Gibson\, LCSW\, will present from her work with a young bisexual woman that looks at the role of the therapist as “the stranger” as a means of navigating intersectional identities\, co-creating a therapeutic space\, and understanding through the statement “I don’t know.” Within this “I don’t know\,” does there lie “transgenerational haunting” (Apprey\, 2014) waiting to be given a form and answer?\nDiscussant Jill McElligott\, LCSW\, psychoanalyst\, and PCOP faculty member\, will provide insight into how the patient’s evolving identit(ies) were shaped by her history and how these issues of identity manifest via the therapy relationship. \nDiscussion will focus on clinical interventions and case formulation\, including concrete examples of “what to say\, when” from a psychodynamic lens that attendees can apply to their own clinical work. In the question and answer period that follows\, attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the case with Ms. Gibson and Ms. McElligott.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/saturday-morning-case-conference-on-stranger-waves-orienting-ones-self-in-the-i-dont-know/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T010000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20240105T225512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T225815Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: The Master Gardener
DESCRIPTION:The Master Gardener (2022\, 2 hr\, 25 minutes)\, directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader\, continues Schrader’s long filmic exploration of the psychology of redemption. Here\, a former skinhead gang enforcer lives an apparently monastic life as he tends the grounds of a beautiful estate until others’ needs impinge on his ascetic resolve.\nLearning Objectives:\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nSummarize three forms/stages of Eros-Thanatos dynamics as demonstrated in The Master Gardener\nDescribe power dynamics in opportunistic sexual relations as portrayed in this film\nDescribe/discuss the place of psychoanalytic treatment in social change toward eradicating racism \nDiscussants: \nElena Bezzubova\, PhD\, is a research psychoanalyst. She teaches at UCI and NCP. Dr. Bezzubova has published a wide range of chapters and articles as well as has organized and presented at numerous conferences around the world. She maintains a private practice in Newport Beach. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, is a Psychoanalyst and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Pedro\, CA. He holds two Master’s degrees in Psychology and is an active member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)\, serves on the APsA Finance Committee\, and the American Psychoanalytic Foundation\, and is Treasurer of the APsA Candidates Council. In addition\, he is Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-the-master-gardener/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T110000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T232513Z
UID:20000240-1705050000-1705057200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Anne Alvarez - Erotic Transferences in Children
DESCRIPTION:Anne Alverez presents on erotic transference as part of our Master Speaker Series videoconference.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/anne-alvarez-erotic-transferences-in-children/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T223000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230810T205922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T171557Z
UID:20000137-1704918600-1704925800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Radical Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Harold Braswell\, PhD\, MSW. The word “radical” is generally understood to mean a break from tradition. But\, etymologically\, the term also connotes a return to one’s roots. A “radical” psychoanalysis would\, in this sense\, seem paradoxical—but perhaps\, in the process\, faithful to the nature of the unconscious itself. This course explores this paradoxical radicality in three areas of psychoanalytic inquiry: clinical practice\, political action\, and the mind-body relationship. First\, we read Barnaby Barratt’s rethinking of oedipality alongside Dagmar Herzog’s analysis of Felix Guattari’s relevance to the “psychoanalytic left;” then we will read Daniel Gaztambide’s account of Freud as a “proto-postcolonial theorist” alongside Lara and Stephen Sheehi’s study of psychoanalysis in occupied Palestine; finally\, Jamieson Webster’s rethinking of conversion disorder will be considered alongside Michelle Stephen’s argument about the centrality of Black Lives Matter to psychoanalytic subjectivity. \nCE available.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/radical-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T114500
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T232621Z
UID:20000239-1704879900-1704887100@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Family Reconciliation-A Case Study
DESCRIPTION:David Scharff\, MD presents a case study on Family Reconciliation as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/family-reconciliation-a-case-study/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T232743Z
UID:20000237-1704828600-1704834000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Shari Thurer\, Sc.D.
DESCRIPTION:Join Shari Thurer\, Sc.D.\, and a panel of discussants as she discusses her new book\, Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender with Dan Jacobs\, MD\, and the online audience.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/meet-the-author-shari-thurer-sc-d/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T153000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231023T212737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T155832Z
UID:20000224-1704544200-1704555000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Allure of Fascism: A Psychoanalytic Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Allure of Fascism and the Appointment in Samarra (presented by Era A. Loewenstein\, PhD with discussion by Michael J. Diamond\, PhD\, FIPA)\nIncreasingly we are observing the rise of proto-fascist parties around the world and in the American MAGA political movement. Building on the fable The Appointment in Samarra\, the presentation will discuss the characteristic features of fascistic states of mind. Reflecting on her own history that began when her father was forced to escape Vienna in 1938\, following the Austrian Anschluss\, Dr. Loewenstein will trace the subsequent generational futile efforts to escape extreme forms of nationalism and fascism\, first in Israel\, where she was born\, and then in United States following the election of Donald Trump. The talk will address the author’s own blindness to the fate of the Palestinians during the Nakba\, the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948.  Era will address the disturbing allure of fascistic states of mind\, an allure that makes it increasingly apparent that the hideous face of fascism may be a permanent by-product of modern democracies. The talk will expand on a considerably shorter version published in February 2023 in Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: https://analytic-room.com/essays/fascism-the-appointment-in-samarra-by-era-loewenstein \nDialogue: Following the presentation and the discussion\, Era and Michael will engage in a conversation with John DiMartini\, PhD\, Moderator\, and with the audience.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-allure-of-fascism-a-psychoanalytic-conversation/
LOCATION:In-person & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T133000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230831T050259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T050948Z
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SUMMARY:Connections and Conversation with George Bermudez\, Ph.D.: Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming\, Community Psychoanalysis\, & Reflective Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. The core thesis\, threading through several publications is that if contemporary psychoanalysis aspires to contribute to addressing our socio-political and ecological challenges\, we must develop an enlarged repertoire of theory and practice. The distinguished Harvard Law School Professor\, Lawrence Lessig has eloquently argued that repairing our dysfunctional democratic project is the “first problem” that must be fixed if there is to be any hope in effectively addressing all the other problems. I’ve developed the conviction that unless we co-create inclusive democratic processes and structures that authentically facilitate a citizenship which is engaged\, informed\, imaginatively deliberating together about the existential challenges we face\, and having a meaningful impact on political decision-making—we will remain stuck in systemic dysfunction. However\, I do believe (aligned with Kohut’s call for psychoanalysts to reflect on their group dynamics) that psychoanalysis has in fact\, over the course of its long history and multiple streams\, generated both theory and practice which has great promise for a socio-political contribution. In our conversation\, I will outline some of the pieces of an emergent socio-centric psychoanalysis and suggest an emergent path forward: Community Psychoanalysis; the Psycho-social Unconscious Citizenship Dream Group process; Social Dreaming integrated with Deliberative Democracy.\nThe “Community Psychoanalysis” paradigm proposes an integrative path forward with which psychoanalysis can contribute robustly to multidisciplinary strategies to addressing the multivalent “wicked problems”\, which are challenging our institute\, regional\, national\, and global communities. \n“Wicked problems” have no definitive formulation: these are problems which in a seemingly infinite regress are symptoms of other problems; problems which involve multiple stakeholders who like the proverbial blind men and the elephant have divergent and often incommensurable perceptions of the problem and its causes; problems which generate attempted solutions which in turn generate unintended consequences and new problems; problems with no objective right or wrong\, requiring reliance on human judgment\, subjectivity\, and collective wisdom.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-with-george-bermudez-ph-d-towards-a-socio-centric-psychoanalysis-contributing-to-deliberative-democracy-social-dreaming-community-psychoanalysis-reflective-cit-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T140000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230826T014022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T015309Z
UID:20000157-1704457800-1704463200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Core Principles of Treating the Suicidal Adult
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD \nDescription: We are acutely aware of the fear and dread of losing a patient to suicide. Unlike other medical crises\, there are no biologic tests to accurately determine the level of suicide risk\, nor metrics for determining when a suicidal crisis may occur (Fowler\, 2012; Franklin et al.\, 2017). It should be no surprise then\, that when our patients speak of suicide\, we are anxious and eager to discern if the thought is a fleeting fantasy\, a declarative statement of imminent purpose\, or something else. In this zone of the unknown\, countertransference fears can disrupt clinician’s capacity to mentalize our patients and can lead to precipitous unilateral crisis management before we have a chance to understand our patient’s communication and the emerging dynamic. While it is always necessary to intervene in a suicidal crisis\, the most impactful intervention is curiosity and interest in the individual’s inner experience. In this roundtable discussion we will focus on 3 core principles in reducing the acute and long-term risk of suicide: 1. Engaging our radical curiosity (via mentalizing) to help patients feel understood and joined\, 2. Reducing emotion dysregulation by focusing on the affective experiences driving suicidal ideation\, and 3. Restoring effective mentalizing in order to reduce suicidal risk. In time our mentalizing interventions aim is to build epistemic trust (Fonagy & Campbell\, 2017). An extended clinical vignette will highlight specific mentalizing interventions in the treatment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/core-principles-of-treating-the-suicidal-adult/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T110000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20231215T225405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T232924Z
UID:20000238-1704445200-1704452400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Generating Psychic Structure - 8 session course
DESCRIPTION:Learn how interpersonal processes become internalized and create the structure of the conscious and unconscious mind. Through readings\, discussions\, and case presentations you will gain a deeper understanding of core object relations concepts including internalization\, identification\, mentalization\, splitting\, repression\, projective identification\, and containment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/generating-psychic-structure-8-session-course/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260714T074931
CREATED:20230929T182454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T210427Z
UID:20000195-1702123200-1702130400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Donald Moss\, MD. “The Traumatizing Disorder of Everyday Life”. \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/society-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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