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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Psychoanalysis – Beyond the Individual
DESCRIPTION:Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd\, Houston\, TX 77006) \nThis event addresses: Views beyond the intrapsychic approach towards interpersonal formulations\, dyadic and group aspects of human mental functioning \nPresenter: M Sagman Kayatekin MD – This session is targeted to help the treaters to have a multilayered\, psychoanalytically informed systemic formulation of the patient\, and strategize the treatment within that complicated formulation. Dr. Kayatekin has extensive experience in Psychoanalytic individual\, family\, group\, milieu and hospital teamwork. These contexts\, with their regressive/progressive capabilities on the person and the psychopathology\, provide a unique window to the fascinating interrelatedness of intra-psychic and interpersonal matrices of human minds. Clinical vignettes and publication from psychoanalytically informed multiple treater settings and discussion will expand participants’ understanding beyond the intrapsychic/dyadic psychoanalytic approaches that dominate the psychoanalytic theory.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-psychoanalysis-beyond-the-individual/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T070000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T203725Z
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SUMMARY:ACP 2023 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Association for Child Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Child Analysis \nThe Annual Meeting is open to ACP members and includes three days of workshops\, panel presentations\, breakout groups\, special lectures\, and sessions for Candidate members. CE credits are available. Non-members are welcome to join and then register for the Annual Meeting.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/acp-2023-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 333 W Harbor Drive\, San Diego\, CA\, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 333 W Harbor Drive\, San Diego\, CA\, San Diego\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T230626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T171645Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group – Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter
DESCRIPTION:Houston Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter \nFacilitated by Cynthia Mulder\, LCSW-S and Nancy Warren\, PhD \nCollisions and uncomfortable countertransference in the clinical process may have both conscious and unconscious contributions. The patient’s and therapist’s histories\, character structure\, wishes\, and expectancies may clash\, often fueled by external stresses and events\, and these factors may cause the treatment to flounder\, stagnate\, or end altogether. We will begin by considering Joyce Slochower’s notion of psychoanalytic collisions in the consulting room. Slochower\, who is a relational analyst influenced by Winnicott\, examines situations in which the clinician’s personal and professional wishes clash with the realities of everyday clinical work. We will explore ways that psychoanalytic collisions can be productively engaged even if they cannot be fully resolved\, which generally requires a maintenance of therapeutic hopefulness along with an acceptance of the therapist’s human fallibilities. \nWe will then undertake a closer examination of countertransference\, specifically\, Irwin Hirsch’s notion of coasting in the countertransference. Hirsch is relational analyst and intersubjectivist whose writings over the years have focused largely on countertransferential issues. Coasting refers to the clinician persisting in certain behaviors even after becoming aware of them\, behaviors indicating our apparent willingness to sacrifice the patient’s interest for our own comfort and equilibrium. As such\, we will examine how clinicians’ character structure and situational stresses influence their preference for certain types of patients and their clinical participation. We will consider how theory\, however helpful and necessary\, can also become a crutch. Finally\, we will examine how money complicates the therapist-patient relationship. \nThis study group is appropriate for beginning and seasoned clinicians with an intermediate level of knowledge about psychoanalytic theory. We will utilize readings with case examples\, which will hopefully stimulate open discussions about our own practices and patients. Study group participants must obtain a copy of the 2 textbook that we will use: Psychoanalytic Collisions (Slochower\, 2012) and Coasting in the Countertransference (Hirsch\, 2008).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-collisions-and-uncomfortable-countertransference-in-the-clinical-encounter/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230428T012158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T203109Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Steven Cooper
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday\, May 1\, 2023\, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST for a virtual Meet the Author with Steven Cooper\, PhD\, presenting his new book Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis. The discussion will be moderated by Rita Teusch\, PhD. The online audience will have a chance to ask questions via a Q&A chat or “on camera”.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/meet-the-author-steven-cooper/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T060000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T163452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230429T004905Z
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SUMMARY:A Musical Model for Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia \nThis event addresses: Dr. Leopold Nosek will discuss his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis. \nDr. Leopold Nosek will join us in person\, on Sunday\, April 30th\, for an intimate program that will focus on his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis. This program will involve playing the last movement of Beethoven’s Sonata 32. Dr. Nosek will use literature references as well to consider T. W. Adorno’s argument and the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory. Dr. Nosek will develop the argument that dreams configure a synthesis of opposites belonging to the past\, being substituted today by the identification of a moment of thought. In this presentation\, Dr. Nosek will explore the qualities of musical language as distinct from ordinary speech\, show how understanding musical language facilitates psychoanalytic work\, and furthers the analyst’s capacity to empathize with patients who have musical talents and interests.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-musical-model-for-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia\, Rockland East Fairmount Park – 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T161700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173913Z
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SUMMARY:The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 2
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory \nBion’s Analytic Technique \nJoseph Aguayo\, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst\, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty\, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member\, British Psychoanalytical Society \nFor this presentation\, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a seasoned psychiatrist who had worked intensively with groups. Maintaining that his group work informed the kind of Kleinian analyst he subsequently became\, specific attention will be paid to how he instigated variations on Kleinian technique by emphasizing that all analysis occurs in the ‘here and now\,’ and need not rely on making past-to-present Freudian or Kleinian transference links. Bion’s taking up of the wider notion of countertransference work\, which allowed the analyst to be equally informed by the patient’s subjective reactions—as well as his own—will also be addressed. While Bion fundamentally remained Kleinian in his clinical practices\, he did so in his own distinctive way.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-2023-grotstein-memorial-lectures-part-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T230523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T162638Z
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SUMMARY:The Provisional Psychoanalyst
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia \nThis event addresses: International Scholar Forum. \nDr. Leopold Nosek\, Sao Paulo\, Brazil\, will discuss his ideas about how analysts participate in an analysis with a particular theoretical ensemble\, an ethical conception\, and an aesthetic development. He will explore how the analyst’s entire being is mobilized by the analytic encounter and how this initiates a never-ending reflection that is permanently renewed\, even in its most secure convictions. Dr. Nosek intends to present a brief moment in his trajectory as an analyst in order to demonstrate his conceptualization of the analyst’s transformation. He will explain his belief that “treating such moments as merely spontaneous\, does not remove them from the field and creates the potential emergence of prejudiced convictions…[and he will address his ideas about how] “the unconscious\, the object of our practice\, may only be presented metaphorically\, and this always requires the renewal of the constructions intended to account for its presence…we cannot use old metaphors for new loves\, just as we cannot send a new bunch of flowers with the same card.”
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-provisional-psychoanalyst/
LOCATION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia\, Rockland East Fairmount Park – 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T143000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T160156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173758Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Karen Horney Lecture: Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:The American Institute for Psychoanalysis (329 East 62nd Street\, New York\, NY 10065) \nThis event addresses: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis \nRage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis – presented by Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards
URL:https://apsa.org/event/annual-karen-horney-lecture-rage-and-creativity-how-feminism-sparked-psychoanalysis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T190000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20260327T173407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T173407Z
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part II: Group Therapy with Chronic Shame and Abject States
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nIn Part II of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nGroup and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy\, anxiety\, entitlement\, and rage may be caught off guard by patients who developed autistic defenses to manage terror\, shame\, and powerlessness. We will explore the abject self as an enacted manifestation of relentless despair. My group work centers primarily on high functioning\, non-abused individuals with disorganized attachment and mild dissociation. Judith Herman suggests that along with terror\, shame is linked to the development of disorganized attachment. Relentless despair and abject states are complex enactments that contribute to failed individual and group therapy experiences because they are difficult to recognize and manage effectively. We will focus tonight on abject states: a neural network which leads to enactment of worthlessness and despair about connection.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-ii-group-therapy-with-chronic-shame-and-abject-states/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T155406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T155417Z
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SUMMARY:Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory \nOur Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year\, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz\, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious thinking which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/our-unconscious-relationship-with-psychoanalytic-theory/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T230326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
UID:20000050-1682150400-1682150400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific meeting
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory \nOur Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year\, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz\, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious thinking which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T130000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T145417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T155112Z
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SUMMARY:Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Analyst Boredom: Deadness\, Aliveness\, and the Spaces in Between
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas \nThis event addresses: Clinician boredom \nPresented by Steven Kuchuck\, DSW\, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something about the normative clinical encounter that engenders these states more often than we care to admit. The deadened analyst’s resultant shame\, guilt and other complex feelings will be explored via extensive theory and clinical material.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/theoretical-and-clinical-perspectives-on-analyst-boredom-deadness-aliveness-and-the-spaces-in-between-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T044500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T164500
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T230004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy
DESCRIPTION:Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy\, hosted by Mount Sinai Medical Center\, will take place virtually and in person on April 22\, 2023 from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm. \nJonathan Lear will be the keynote speaker. \nBrochure: https://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Symp-2023-Brochure-FIN-9R.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/symposium-2023-love-and-empathy/
LOCATION:In-person & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T040000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T154226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T154245Z
UID:20000073-1682136000-1682136000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Attachment\, Separation-Individuation\, Love\, and Intimacy: Adaptation Over the Life Cycle
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia \nThis event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment\, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. \nPresenters: Wendy Olesker\, PhD\, Miriam Steele\, PhD\, Robert Waldinger\, MD \nDiscussants: Diana Diamond\, PhD\, Otto Kernberg\, MD \nModerator: Lawrence D. Blum\, MD \nThis program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment\, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. The presenters and discussants are leading clinical researchers on attachment\, separation-individuation\, and child and adult development. The program will appeal to mental health professionals of all disciplines\, including psychoanalysts\, psychiatrists\, psychologists\, social workers\, and counselors\, as well as trainees in all of these fields. The central topics of attachment\, individuation\, love\, and intimate relationships are human universals\, important to all clinicians.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/attachment-separation-individuation-love-and-intimacy-adaptation-over-the-life-cycle/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T143000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T153421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173411Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Dissociative Disorders
DESCRIPTION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Dissociative Identity Disorder \nThis presentation\, given by Ira Brenner\, M.D.\, will focus upon the very controversial\, very misunderstood\, and very difficult to treat condition\, currently known as D.I.D.\, Dissociative Identity Disorder. By reconceptualizing it as a “lower level dissociative character” in which dissociation is the central underlying defense\, it may become possible to work psychodynamically with such patients. Within this paradigm\, 5 stages of treatment can be considered as guidelines.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/towards-a-deeper-understanding-of-the-dissociative-disorders/
LOCATION:In-person & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T130000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T153756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T153756Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: C’mon\, C’mon
DESCRIPTION:New Center of Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Racism \nJoin NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytical discussion on a topical Film! \nThis month we analyze C’mon\, C’mon (2021\, 108 minutes) which is an emotionally rich film from writer-director Mike Mills starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman. One of the salient and most interesting aspects of C’Mon\, C’Mon for psychoanalysts is that the film\, which derives most of its power from its portrayal of intimacy developing between the characters\, and particularly a man and a boy\, is that the narrative setup insulates the characters from sex and sexual temptation. Mills carefully and subtly delineates the incest barriers and builds relationships on the repressive force of (sexual) Latency. The 9 year old child at the center of the film uses “Adult” language as an adult might\, but is subjectively unpulled by the adult magnetic power of “sex”. \nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nExplain emotional honesty and discuss your opinion how early should it be offered to children. \nUsing the film as a springboard\, discuss forms of ego strengthening that can be offered to children who seem to be fated (by genetic predisposition) to develop Bipolar I disorder \nAnalyzing this film as its own form of dream-like creation (mise-en-scene)\, describe how this non-narrative\, non-verbal function is used by writer-director Mills to demonstrate the adaptative capacity of human youth in the face of ceaseless media-spread klaxon alarms \nDescribe Latency as described by Freud in The Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and explain what those observations offer to the understanding of C’Mon\, C’Mon.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-cmon-cmon/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T152823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173326Z
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SUMMARY:Connections and Conversation: Power and Vulnerability in Supervision: a exploration for both supervisors and supervisees
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis LA \nThis event addresses: Elaborating psychoanalytic thoughts and creating community \nConnections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting\, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. In April Lynne Jacobs\, Ph.D. will help us explore together the vagaries of power and vulnerability\, in hopes we can become more sensitized to the interplay of power and vulnerability in our supervisory relationships\, and perhaps we can also become more graceful when these themes become disruptive forces in our work. Both participants in the supervision relationship are personally and professionally vulnerable. Thus the power is bidirectional\, just as it is in therapy.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-power-and-vulnerability-in-supervision-a-exploration-for-both-supervisors-and-supervisees/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T160501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T160645Z
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SUMMARY:The Fee In Our Helping Profession: Change and Continuity
DESCRIPTION:THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY \nThis event addresses: This workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee in clinical practice. \nPRESENTER: BARBARA STIMMEL\, PH.D. \nSUNDAY\, APRIL 29\, 2023 \n10 AM – 12 Noon \nThis workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee in clinical practice. Money\, its real and psychically real meanings\, always has an impact on the working relationship in psychotherapy. This is true whether the fee is paid by the patient\, an insurance company\, or the state. And telehealth has added challenges to respecting and working through this essential context for enactment. We will review some of the literature and then look at the fee in its practical and psychic force. Participants are invited to bring a vexing or successful example of the fee and its place in the work. \nLearning objectives: \nParticipants will: 1) gain a heightened sensitivity to this essential piece of the therapeutic work\, 2) gain an increased ability to work with patients on this real and symbolic part of the therapeutic relationship\, and 3) leave with a more comfortable self-representation as a professional wage-earner.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-fee-in-our-helping-profession-change-and-continuity/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T152453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173247Z
UID:20000079-1681560000-1681560000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Virus U.S. Psychoanalysis Needed
DESCRIPTION:Western New England Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: COVID-19 \nSpeaker: Paola Contreras\, PsyD \nThe presenter will describe how Ogden’s description of two forms of thinking ––dream thinking and transformative thinking–– are preceded by the Magical of the session. Drawing on her external and internal experiences amidst the unrest experienced in response to the COVID pandemic\, the author describes the use of what she terms the analyst’s my-person involvement. She explains the my-person concept. She argues that the involvement of the analyst’s my-person permits the Magical of the session to continue to occur\, especially during times of great social unrest. The author uses my-person content\, clinical examples\, and references to magical realism to describe the Magical of analytic work and how the analyst contributes to it. Additionally\, the presenter will discuss how the covid pandemic helped psychoanalysis question and rework the frame revealing its malleability. The external and intrapsychic are intimately connected\, an idea that has challenged psychoanalysis from its very inception\, and that resurfaced in the covid crisis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-virus-u-s-psychoanalysis-needed/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T152216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173154Z
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SUMMARY:The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 1
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory \nWinnicott’s Analytic Technique: Learning from the Patient \nProfessor Lesley Caldwell\, MA\, PhD — Visiting Professor\, Psychoanalysis Unit\, University College London \nIn this first presentation\, Lesley Caldwell examines Winnicott’s clinical trajectory as a pediatrician\, adult analyst\, and child analyst from the 1930s to 1971 with a major focus on the developments of the 1960s. Winnicott’s consistent attention to the primacy of the earliest environment and his work with babies\, children\, and disturbed adults in a variety of settings placed him firmly in the Middle\, now Independent\, group of British analysts; though he always considered Melanie Klein\, one of his supervisors\, to have made a profound contribution to psychoanalytic theory. He was particularly concerned with the development of the self and its absence as this emerged in the transference countertransference dynamic in certain patients; he argued for different forms of analysis for different kinds of patients\, introduced an idea of ‘regression to dependence\,’ and questioned the centrality of interpretation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-2023-grotstein-memorial-lectures-part-1/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230417T151810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T151810Z
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Vital Moment
DESCRIPTION:Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: How the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma. \nIn this workshop\, Dr. Peter Shabad will use a psychoanalytic-existential framework to describe how the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma and its aftermath of shame. He will describe the origins of shame and how shame leads to problems of adult passivity\, such as self-pity\, resentment\, envy\, and ultimately regret for life’s opportunities that were missed. He will then address the clinical issues of mourning and respect for the patient as a human agent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/seizing-the-vital-moment/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T083000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T151022Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: The Mother-Daughter Dyad- Why It’s Important and Why It’s Often Overlooked
DESCRIPTION:Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd\, Houston\, TX 77006) \nThis event addresses: Renewed focus on women in today’s world \nPresenters: Sylvia Gonzalez\, MD\, PLLC and Adriana Martinez Crane\, LCSW – The current socio-political climate has forced a renewed focus on women in today’s world. We see women of all ages\, ethnicities\, socio-economic status and spiritual beliefs uniting not only to hold their ground but to continue the plight of their mothers and grandmothers for the sake of their daughters and granddaughters. The world now calls for a re-focusing on the mother-daughter dyad and all of its intricate\, delicate and complicated dynamics. It is in this dyad that little girls become women; and for some\, where they learn to become mothers.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-the-mother-daughter-dyad-why-its-important-and-why-its-often-overlooked-2/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T060000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T150824Z
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SUMMARY:BESIDES HUMAN BEINGS: Time\, Space\, Animals\, Things\, and God
DESCRIPTION:International Psychotherapy Institute \nThis event addresses: the role of the non-human shapers and regulators of personality\, both as it develops and functions over the human lifespan. \nKeynote Speaker: Salman Akhtar\, MD \nPsychoanalysis\, including psychoanalytic psychotherapy\, is a discipline devoted to studying psychic development\, well-adapted and maladapted mental functioning\, the unfolding of the inner world of real and imaginary formative figures during a therapeutic dialogue\, and the subterranean existence of the personal in the cultural and vice versa. The building blocks of the inner world and outer edifice are held\, in psychoanalysis\, to be the dialectics of interactions between a growing child’s given potentials and the actual and felt attitudes of his or her caretakers. Mother\, father\, and to a lesser extent\, grandparents and siblings are viewed as the major players in this drama. Also\, recently the study of culture and diversity have been given some attention. \nStrikingly\, psychoanalytic theory has largely ignored the role of the non-human shapers and regulators of personality\, both as it develops and functions over the human lifespan. Exceptions do exist (e.g.\, Freud’s fetish\, Winnicott’s transitional object\, Searles’s study of anthropomorphization and animism\, Volkan’s linking objects). However\, by and large the impact of the non-human environment has been ignored. This set of presentations and group discussions seek to rectify this error by addressing the role of time\, space\, animals\, things\, and God in normal and abnormal psychic functioning and in the latter’s amelioration\, and will delineate their developmental\, psychopathological\, and therapeutic implications. Material from literature\, poetry\, movies\, and day-to-day clinical practice will be included to highlight the proposals made.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/besides-human-beings-time-space-animals-things-and-god/
LOCATION:5601 River Rd Rockville MD\, 5601 River Rd\, Rockville\, MD\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T163000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Compromised Analyses: On the Failure to Productively Use Difficult Countertransference Experience
DESCRIPTION:Houston Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Compromised Analyses: On the Failure to Productively Use Difficult Countertransference Experience \nPresented by Irwin Hirsch\, PhD \nPsychoanalysts have long questioned the relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalytic treatment. Currently\, most analysts believe that insight has value\, but is not sufficient in and of itself to produce structural change in most patients. The increasingly prevalent view is that the analytic relationship has more explanatory power in understanding why patients change. This presentation will explore which elements of the patient-analyst relationship have the most mutative power. Through the use of clinical examples\, it will be shown that the analyst’s productive use of countertransference experience is key to successful analyses\, whereas the failure to use conscious uncomfortable countertransference is a primary factor in compromised analyses.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/compromised-analyses-on-the-failure-to-productively-use-difficult-countertransference-experience/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group – Conflict: Various Psychoanalytic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Houston Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Study Group – Conflict: Various Psychoanalytic Perspectives \nFrom its beginning\, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. As such\, conflict is considered ubiquitous and unavoidable\, central to the formation of human character and maladaptive symptoms. Freud’s tripartite structure of id\, ego\, and superego\, and the subsequent development of modern conflict theory\, made conflict the center of inner life. The understanding of psychic conflict became the goal of therapeutic action. As the scope of psychoanalysis broadened and various schools of thought evolved\, our views of mental conflict also changed. This study group will examine the major schools of psychoanalytic thought with regard to their perspectives of inner conflict—its origins\, nature\, role in character development and psychopathology\, and clinical implications. \nThis study group is intended for clinicians with an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge about psychoanalytic theory. We will utilize readings\, discussion\, and case examples in exploring inner conflict from the concepts of classical psychoanalysis\, ego psychology\, Kleinian theory\, object relations\, self psychology\, intersubjectivity\, and relational psychoanalysis. These viewpoints are summarized in readings by renowned scholars and clinicians from the various schools of thought. Group participants must obtain the textbook that we will use\, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict\, edited by Christopher Christian\, Morris Eagle\, and David Wolitzky (Routledge\, 2017).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-conflict-various-psychoanalytic-perspectives/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T060000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Coming Together When Things are Falling Apart: Writing Together About Racism  with Beverly Stoute and Michael Slevin
DESCRIPTION:Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Racism \nBeverly J. Stoute\, MD\, who is African American\, and Michael Slevin\, MA\, MSW\, who is white\, will discuss the personal and historical moments that precipitated their decision as colleagues to tackle their five-year project co-editing The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter (Routledge\, 2023). Slevin\, who published about his community work in an urban hospital emergency room\, and Stoute\, who published about racial socialization and conceptualized Black Rage as an intrapsychic adaptation to racial trauma while editing the book\, will tell the story with personal immediacy how their relationship and work deepened their racial awareness and clinical understanding and influenced the trajectory of the book. Such work can lead to splits and injuries navigating racism’s searing effects on personal\, clinical\, and community understandings. How did we come together and not fall apart? What did we learn that might speak to cross-cultural considerations that can be applied more widely as we tackle issues of diversity in our current polarizing social and political climates? There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/coming-together-when-things-are-falling-apart-writing-together-about-racism-with-beverly-stoute-and-michael-slevin/
LOCATION:GWU (Foggy Bottom Campus) – Ross Hall Room 117\, GWU (Foggy Bottom Campus) – Ross Hall Room 117
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Resistance: Problems\, Possibilities and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute \nThis event addresses: This paper presentation is designed for psychoanalytically oriented clinicians who work with children\, adolescents\, and adults. The focus is on understanding the sources of resistance in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies and psychoanalysis\, and
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-resistance-problems-possibilities-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T225017Z
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SUMMARY:Trauma\, the Zero Process\, and the Construction of Reality
DESCRIPTION:Western New England Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: trauma \nSpeaker: Joseph Fernando\, Mpsy\, MD \nThis paper delves further into the nature and clinical applications of the zero process\, an idea I introduced in my 2009 book on defenses to designate a specific form of mental functioning that is a product of trauma. The formation of zero process memories through the shutting down during trauma of various functions such as integration and abstraction that usually construct the present moment leads to unintegrated\, unsymbolized bits and pieces of raw experience. While being retained over time like a memory\, in most other ways they behave as a present or future experience. The experience refuses to retreat from the perceptual systems of the mind to the memory systems\, and thus does not become part of the psychological past. Specific ideas about the nature of the zero process will be contrasted with other theories of post-traumatic functioning\, as well as with Freud’s idea of the primary process. Specific defenses that use the “just happening or about to happen” nature of the zero process\, such as temporal shifting and splitting of the identity\, will be described\, as will zero process structures such as introjects. One of the main findings of zero process theory is that the repetitions of trauma\, rather than being merely passive\, are phenomena that have specific dynamics and structures. While pointing out the similarity between a present action or feeling and a past trauma has little effect\, analyzing the defenses and structures that hold the repetition in place allows us to crack it open and achieve structural change. Because the superego is a structure with zero process elements\, these same techniques are helpful in superego analysis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trauma-the-zero-process-and-the-construction-of-reality/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230325T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230325T070000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T224857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics Conference – Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision
DESCRIPTION:Houston Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Ethics \nPresented by Nancy McWilliams\, PhD \nBeginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency\, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the literature on psychoanalytic supervision\, especially in the domain of ethics\, is quite limited\, there is a need for meetings at which practitioners consider the unique and highly complex ethical problems that psychodynamic therapists may encounter. Rather than construing ethics as a set of rules of procedure\, this conference anchors ethical questions within the general principles of the psychological and medical professions\, placing clinical and supervisory choices within the broader humanistic goals that underlie the exploratory psychotherapies.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethics-conference-conflicts-and-ethics-in-psychoanalytic-consultation-and-supervision-2/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260715T100730
CREATED:20230317T224749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:COWAP North America Film Series: Discussion of the film “Call Jane” (2022)
DESCRIPTION:Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Gender \nAdrienne Harris and Abby Pariser will each give a brief discussion of the movie\, followed by an open conversation with the audience. We look forward to your participation. The discussion will focus on the importance of abortion being legal and of women fighting for their rights.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-north-america-film-series-discussion-of-the-film-call-jane-2022/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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