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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:20260715T040622
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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:20260715T040622
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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:20260715T040622
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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
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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:20260715T040622
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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:20260715T040622
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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:20260715T040622
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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
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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:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T224857Z
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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:20260715T040622
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T150000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T224659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153809Z
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SUMMARY:The Elusive Construct of “Therapeutic Action”
DESCRIPTION:Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute \nThis event addresses: Therapeutic Action \nThe Elusive Construct of “Therapeutic Action” is one of the major sources of frustration among psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic clinicians. The title of the presentation reflects the fact that after many decades of study and practice\, it is still difficult for clinicians and researchers to adequately describe how the patient changes and what roles the clinician has in facilitating change. What approaches have been developed to help us understand how patients can expand their understanding of the source of their difficulties and what they can do to improve their lives? Dr. Gabbard will discuss some of the historical and recent efforts that have been made to understand what constitutes therapeutic action in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. He will illustrate some of these recent advances with clinical vignettes.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-elusive-construct-of-therapeutic-action/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T103000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T224614Z
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SUMMARY:Trans in Transition: An online Scientific Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists \nThis event addresses: Gender Identity \nPRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA\, MD \nAt a time when various states are criminalizing transgender care\, it is important for clinicians to be well-educated about gender identity and gender expression\, as well as how gender and sexuality may be interwoven. Misinformation and disinformation are widely prevalent in media sources. This talk discusses basic concepts about the development of one’s gender identity\, mental health concerns\, evidence-based treatments for transgender people\, and current psychoanalytic concepts about gender identity. \nLearning objectives: \nParticipants will: 1) define terms and constructs associated with gender identity and gender roles\, 2) understand current evidence-based Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual\, Transgender\, and Gender Nonconforming People and 3) understand how mental health concerns may or may not be related to a person’s gender identity. \nDr. McNamara recently retired as Medical Director at Connecticut Valley Hospital\, a long-term public psychiatric hospital\, where she treated patients with serious mental illness\, including severe trauma and profound schizophrenia. Dr. McNamara was prior Co-Chair of the Committee on Gender and Sexuality of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a past winner\, with Dr. Barbara Marcus\, of the Roughton Paper Award for “Strange and Otherwise Unaccountable Actions”: Category\, Conundrum\, and Trans Identities. She is board certified in psychiatry and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trans-in-transition-an-online-scientific-meeting/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T100000
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SUMMARY:Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare with Richard Waugaman
DESCRIPTION:Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare \nRichard Waugaman\, MD will present excerpts from his chapter on “Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare\,” to be published by Routledge in a book on psychoanalytic approaches to Shakespeare. Psychoanalysis has helped illuminate the astonishing complexity of Shakespeare\, arguably the greatest creative writer in history. Exploring various dimensions of Shakespeare’s complexity will highlight his psychological insights\, and help explain his astonishingly universal appeal–across the centuries\, across the globe\, across social classes\, and across all age groups.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychological-complexity-in-shakespeare-with-richard-waugaman/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230318T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230318T080000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
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SUMMARY:Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers
DESCRIPTION:New Center For Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers \nThis program is designed to address clinically relevant theorizing and its clinical applications on a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives revolving around transferences\, states of being and the place of love in the analytic setting. \nThe day’s program will be divided into two parts. The morning program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences with verbatim clinical process. Bringing her special gift for freshly communicating clinical and theoretical perspectives\, Dr. Celenza will clarify “maternal eroticism\,” differences in related concepts\, and how femininity and femaleness are internalized at different levels. \nThe afternoon program will involve a selection of Andrea Celenza’s evocative musings on transference\, love and being. A rich audience discussion is invited as we think through each brief reading.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/maternal-erotic-transferences-and-the-fate-of-feminine-signifiers/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T060000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T223349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:The Music and Madness of Money: Psychoanalytic Reflections
DESCRIPTION:International Psychotherapy Institute \nThis event addresses: the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy \nThis one hour lecture features guest presenter Salman Akhtar\, MD\, the keynote speaker for our April Weekend Conference. \nAbout the Presentation: \nThis presentation will address the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy. The ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ agendas of money in and individual’s emotional life will be highlighted and five pathological syndromes will be described. These include (i) chronic miserliness\, (ii) characterological over-spending\, (iii) inordinate generosity\, (iv) monetary masochism and\, (v) pathological gambling. Setting of fees for psychotherapy\, charging (or not charging) for missed sessions\, and other transference and countertransference reverberations of monetary exchange within the clinical dyad will also be discussed. Finally\, some unusual situations where a firm refusal to accept money offered by a patient as an ethical intervention will be underscored.s \nThis special event does not offer CE credits\, however the April Weekend will offer up to 14.5 hours of CE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-music-and-madness-of-money-psychoanalytic-reflections/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T190000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T223248Z
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SUMMARY:Scientific Meeting: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire \nDr. Celenza presents the case of Laura\, who considers her sexual desire to be perverse\, to illustrate ways in which subjective positions and affective\, embodied states can be defended against\, split off or otherwise dissociated\, reflecting a perverse intra-subjective position. A schematic is offered that depicts various subjective positions (The Embodied Subject\, The Reflective Self or “I\,” The Subjective Object or “Me\,” The Objectified Self or “It\,” and Unconscious Processes or “Not Me”). These positions are conceived as phenomenal subjective states that are universal potentials. The schematic also depicts the extent to which each position is integrated and interpenetrates with other positions. In addition\, a modification of this schematic is proposed to illustrate perverse modes of intra-subjective functioning where the position of the Embodied Subject is split off or dissociated\, resulting in a deadening of affective experience. The case of Laura is presented to illustrate an example of the latter mode of functioning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/scientific-meeting-embodiment-and-the-perversion-of-desire/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T153000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T222712Z
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SUMMARY:Meditative Psychoanalysis: The Marriage of Mindfulness\, Meaning\, and Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:The American Institute for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: On the aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions \nInterest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning\, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this presentation—a combination of lecture\, meditation practice\, and dialogue with the audience—Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin will explore what he terms meditative psychoanalysis\, a practice that blends the best aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions (heightened concentration and mindfulness\, decoding unconscious meaning\, and liberated intimacy) into a more encompassing synthesis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/meditative-psychoanalysis-the-marriage-of-mindfulness-meaning-and-intimacy/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T073000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
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SUMMARY:Ferenczi’s Secret Life: Mutual Analysis as a Relational Paradigm with Peter Rudnytsky\, PhD\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:Oregon Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Ferenczi’s Secret Life \nFerenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. Routinely attacked by conservative commentators as a boundarv vio ation and an exploitation of the patient\, Rudnytsky defends Ferenczi’s experiment on both counts and argues that mutual analysis serves as a paradigm for the two-person model of relational analysis\, as Freud’s self-analysis is a paradigm for the one-person model of classical analysis. Ferenczi’s return to Freud’s pre-1897 (misnamed) “seduction theory\,” and his concomitant modifications of therapeutic technique\, caused him to go underground and develop a secret life trom Freud in a way that has until recently been necessary for trauma theorists. \nPeter L. Rudnytsky\, Ph.D.\, L.C.S. W.\, is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of theCommittee on Confidentiality of APsaA. He is Editor of the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and Coeditor of the Psychoanalysis series for Bloomsbury. He received the Gradiva Award for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud\, Rank\, Ferenczi\, Groddeck (Cornell\, 2002)\, and his most recent book is Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi\, Severn\, and the Origins of Trauma Theory (Routledge\, 2022). \nClinical material will be presented by a local analyst Jeanne Johnson\, MD.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ferenczis-secret-life-mutual-analysis-as-a-relational-paradigm-with-peter-rudnytsky-phd-lcsw/
LOCATION:5441 SE Belmont St\, 5441 SE Belmont St\, Portland\, OR\, 97215\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T070000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T222257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward the Other
DESCRIPTION:San Diego Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Shame and Guilt \nIn the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received\, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience\, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment and fault. \nSelf-shaming becomes paradoxically intertwined with self-pity\, which then eventually leads to resentment and the entitlement of feeling owed\, which is contrasted with the remorseful guilt that leads to a sense of owing others. Since a patient’s curiosity about the person of the therapist reflects an attempt to emerge from shame and take responsibility for what she comes to discover and know\, it is of crucial importance that the therapist responds respectfully and actively engages that curiosity on a democratic rather than hierarchical basis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/owing-and-being-owed-shame-and-responsibility-toward-the-other/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T053000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T053000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T222103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt\, Religion\, and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia \nThis event addresses: Conscious and Unconscious Guilt\, Religion\, Psychoanalysis \nCo-Facilitators Sonja Ware\, TH.M.\,M.DIV. & David Sachs\, MD. present THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt\, Religion\, and Psychoanalysis. \nGuilt is part of the emotional spectrum of human life. As a function of the superego\, it can be a healthy compass helping us to make choices. Yet\, guilt also has the capacity to burden us in painful and inhibiting ways. Guilt is a societal reality as well. Courts\, judges\, and juries are put in place to hear cases and then declare a person either guilty or not guilty. In Religion\, guilt is addressed through the concept of sin defined as acting against God’s will. Discussing guilt automatically opens the door to concepts like penance\, punishment\, forgiveness\, and reconciliation. Guilt is a hot topic in Psychoanalysis as well as Religion and is large and deep enough to be explored for hours\, days\, and months. Many theories and concepts have been developed about both conscious and unconscious guilt. \nWith this in mind\, David Sachs and Sonja Ware invite you to explore the aspect of conscious and unconscious guilt in a very practical manner in this year’s discussion between the Pastor and the Analyst. Sonja and David will introduce the conversation by sharing some initial reflections and then present practical examples of situations in which they discovered conscious and unconscious guilt. The clinical examples are made up of a blend of different people to foster discussion and to maintain privacy. The conversation will then be opened to give most of our time together for mutual discussion\, thriving through the insights of the participants and their experiences. This program intentionally is an interdisciplinary invitation to all who are curious about exploring guilt\, psychoanalysis\, and/or religion.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-pastor-and-the-analyst-an-interactive-discussion-of-conscious-and-unconscious-guilt-religion-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T050000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T221905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Aggressive Enactments: Containing the “No” in Clinical Work with Survivors of Abuse
DESCRIPTION:Dallas Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: survivors of abuse \nDr. Marilyn Charles and Dr. Zane Dodd\, Co-leaders\, expand on their understanding on enactments in working with deeply traumatized persons.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/aggressive-enactments-containing-the-no-in-clinical-work-with-survivors-of-abuse/
LOCATION:2201 Inwood Rd. NC8.212\, 2201 Inwood Rd. NC8.212\, Dallas\, TX\, 75390\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T040000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T220019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Leadership for the Emergent Future
DESCRIPTION:Western New England Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: climate crisis and leadership \nSpeaker: Merritt Gardiner Juliano\, JD\, LCSW This half-day workshop will explore Otto Scharmer’s Theory U Leadership principles of “presencing\,” or operating from the future as it emerges. During this time of great disruption as evidenced by the planetary health crisis\, and massive failures in our social\, political\, and economic institutional systems\, Scharmer sets forth a framework to address these challenges drawing from the work of Fritjof Capra\, and calling for us to heal the ecological\, the social and the spiritual. Participants will become familiar with Scharmer’s three arenas of the social world: (1) objective structures and systems\, (2) enacted structures and systems or intersubjectivity\, and (3) deep sources of enactment or trans-subjectivity. Finally\, we will explore principles and practices of presencing. Participants will discuss parallels in the psychoanalytic process\, and contrast learning from the past with operating from the future (that wants to emerge). We will also consider aspects of psychoanalysis that can nurture presencing\, as well as aspects of psychoanalysis that may no longer be useful in light of emerging complexity and systems science.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-and-leadership-for-the-emergent-future/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T215901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:NCP’s 2023 Open House
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Overview of training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy . \nNCP offers four postgraduate training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for licensed mental health professionals. \nJust as the landscape for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis has evolved during the past year\, NCP continues to evolve through the integration of theories and our commitment to inclusion and diversity. \nJoin us for a lively discussion with students from each of our programs\, who will engage regarding how their training fostered personal growth\, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nYou’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and dean\, learn about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nNCP actively welcomes a broad range of psychoanalytic perspectives and fosters discussion among clinicians from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and life experiences. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the future\, all are welcome to attend.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncps-2023-open-house/
LOCATION:In person (Los Angeles) and online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T070000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T215719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient \nWriting and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad\, Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context. \nDr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad\, a difficult to reach patient\, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an authentic and intimate part of himself that resonates with his patient Tad.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T050000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230317T215409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Advance Ethical Planning for the Therapist’s Unexpected Departure: The Professional Will
DESCRIPTION:New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Ethics/Professional Will \nIn the event of death or disability or other unexpected circumstances that would prevent a clinician from continuing to provide services\, many tasks typically need to be completed\, which should be set forth in the clinician’s Professional Will. Deb Henson\, attorney and LCSW\, will address the ethical obligations of therapists to engage in advance planning for such an unexpected event. Deb will lecture on specific ethical\, clinical\, & legal challenges\, including a thorough analysis of methods to protect client confidentiality. Unconscious resistance to this task is understandable and we will discuss various facets of this issue. Participants will be invited to share their ideas\, experience\, and thoughts about this evolving ethical aspect of practice so often overlooked. The workshop will cover the entire process of planning and creating the Professional Will\, implementing advance team preparation\, and incorporating notice to clients by amending Intake paperwork. Participants will have time to create their own first draft.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/advance-ethical-planning-for-the-therapists-unexpected-departure-the-professional-will/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T073000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230111T121245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: The Challenges of Emergent Adulthood
DESCRIPTION:Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd\, Houston\, TX 77006) \nThis event addresses: Challenges of Emergent Adulthood \nPresenter: B. James Bennett\, MD – In recent years there has been an increasing understanding of emergent adulthood as a distinct developmental stage from late adolescence through mid to late twenties. In this discussion\, we will explore some of the features of this time with particular reference to the analyst/analysand dyad and challenges encountered.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-the-challenges-of-emergent-adulthood/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230211T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230211T040000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230111T121043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Scientific Meeting “On the Genesis of Interpretation in a Changing Landscape”
DESCRIPTION:Florida Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session\, the thing-in-itself\, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens\, know what the participants say happens\, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient in the listener.” \nHoward Levine\, M.D.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/scientific-meeting-on-the-genesis-of-interpretation-in-a-changing-landscape/
LOCATION:Hybrid-In Peson at Florida Psychoanalytic Center and Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T073000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230111T120907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Libido in the Lunchbox
DESCRIPTION:Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd\, Houston\, TX 77006) \nThis event addresses: Woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair. \nPresenter: Jennifer Gardner\, LCSW – In this talk we will aim to explore these concepts\, in addition to using a case to demonstrate a woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-libido-in-the-lunchbox/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T140000
DTSTAMP:20260715T040622
CREATED:20230111T120732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Adult Clinical 4 week seminar
DESCRIPTION:Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute \nLocation: virtual \nVisit: https://cpi.memberclicks.net/adult-clinical-4-week-seminar \nThis event addresses: The faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate\, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments\, practical\, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work with adult patients who have complex\, seemingly intractable problems. \nThe faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate\, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments\, practical\, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work with adult patients who have complex\, seemingly intractable problems. Rita Robertson\, MSW and Andrew Klafter\, MD will be the instructors.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/adult-clinical-4-week-seminar/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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