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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 of 3 \n“Creativity and Resiliency” \nPresented by\nRosa Aurora Chavez\, MD\, PhD\, FABP \nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\,\n12:00 – 2:00pm (2 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \nPresentation:\nIn this seminar (in English) we will discuss the evolutionary relevance of creativity for resiliency form psychodynamic and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_psy_creativity_arts_25-26#/ \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Psychoanalysis%20Creativity%20and%20the%20Arts%202025_26%20flier%20Multi-Session%20program%20%28B%29.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-session-2-creativity-and-resiliency/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T100000
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SUMMARY:The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma\, Attachment\, and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-body-keeps-the-score-trauma-attachment-and-neuroscience/
LOCATION:In-Person: North Carolina State University\, Raleigh\, NC\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T230000
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Nickel Boys
DESCRIPTION:RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys (2024) is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two African-American boys sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. Shot entirely from first-person perspective\, the film explores institutional trauma\, systemic racism\, friendship\, resilience\, and the long-term psychological effects of childhood abuse. The story is inspired by the real Dozier School for Boys\, where extensive abuse occurred for over a century. \nThe film vividly portrays the brutality and dehumanization experienced by Black boys at Nickel Academy\, a fictional institution inspired by real-life abuses in reform schools in the Jim Crow South. This experience reflects a pervasive and ongoing racial trauma that continues to impact individuals and communities. Examining the psychological toll on the main characters can help in understanding how systemic racism inflicts lasting wounds on the psyche\, impacting development\, interpersonal relationships\, and a sense of self and belonging. \nThe narrative also highlights contrasting approaches to surviving and resisting oppression. Analyzing their individual and combined journeys helps recognize the diverse ways individuals navigate trauma and maintain self-worth amidst systemic injustice. \nFinally\, the Nickel Academy operates as a microcosm of larger societal structures\, revealing how power can be wielded to perpetuate racial hierarchies and maintain secrecy around abuse. Examining these power dynamics sheds light on the interplay between individual experiences and the broader societal forces that shape them. \nDiscussants:\nDebra J. Myers\, MD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. She has a private practice in psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in West Los Angeles\, serving adults and adolescents. She was a biology major at Stanford University and did a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Her training in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine was at UCSF. While on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine\, she earned an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Design at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She trained in Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. There she combined medical training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the human mind. During her psychoanalytic training\, she spent five years as a volunteer telephone counselor at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Crisis Line. She spent two years as an intern therapist at the Valley Community Clinic\, a facility serving the underserved. \nChauncey K. Robinson is an award-winning journalist and film critic. Born and raised in Newark\, New Jersey\, she has a strong love for storytelling and history. She believes narrative greatly influences the way we see the world\, which is why she’s all about dissecting and analyzing stories and culture to help inform and empower the people. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-nickel-boys-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T203000
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SUMMARY:The Pseudo-Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP – There is a type of patient who haunts psychoanalysis from the margins\, never settling into existing diagnostic categories but never completely disappearing either. Variously referred to as “normotic” (Bollas\, 1987\, McDougall\, 1978\, 1985)\, “false self” (Winnicott\, 1960)\, and the “as if” personality (Deutsch\, 1942)\, this patient confounds conventional classificatory schemas because while ostensibly high-functioning\, verbal\, cooperative\, with reality-testing intact and not necessarily any major trauma history\, it eventually emerges that something fundamental – the capacity to feel their feelings – is missing\, dysfunctional\, non-existent. It can be nearly impossible to detect the problem\, not least because an “absence” is its defining feature\, but also because the patient rarely complains about the problem (of not feeling their feelings) either. Whereas under ordinary circumstances\, the patient’s emotional dissatisfactions are the engine propelling treatment forward\, however ambivalently and inconsistently (Freud\, 1937)\, in these cases\, the patient suffers from a mechanical problem of precisely this kind – a disconnection from authentic feelings – that makes the awareness of dissatisfaction elusive and unlikely. \nIn what follows\, I focus on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity. I explore the connection between this unique personality organization and today’s neoliberal regime where disconnection\, speed\, and efficiency are hailed as the optimal features of successful personhood. Our field’s continued inability to reckon with the pervasive problems of the “pseudo-self” makes us complicit with a damaged culture that is dehumanizing and disconnected.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-pseudo-self/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T173000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film “The Thing”
DESCRIPTION:Session 1 of 3 \n*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** \nDiscussion of the film “The Thing” \nFriday\, November 14\, 2025\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nVia Zoom \n1982 (109 min)\nDirector: John Carpenter\nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, Psy.D. \nA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. \nPresentation: At surface level fantastical\, appalling\, and occasionally comical\, horror renders that which is unthinkable or unspeakable into inhuman\, slimy\, or spectral forms\, presenting the taboo or the overwhelming at a safe\, controllable distance from the self. In horror\, unthinkable and unspeakable aspects of the “self” can be experienced as the monstrous “other” and exorcised with flamethrowers. The horror movie generates credibility through performance\, photography\, and effects that ground the viewer in a “reality” that can then become credibly unreal. This magical reality evokes archaic experiences of the self as unbounded and vulnerable\, taking on challenging\, unsettling thoughts and feelings while allowing for the suspension of the neatly boundaried “I” of the viewer. \nJohn Carpenter’s The Thing belongs to a rich tradition of paranoia and body horror in the uncanny narrative and horror cinema. The self\, here under the condition of isolation and environmental confusion\, becomes vulnerable to external corruption. The un-integrable impulse is cast off\, producing a disintegrated state. Then\, in the presence of an alien “other”\, the once familiar body is usurped. The mind is subsumed. The “me” becomes a “me” copy that is at once terrifying and terrified\, its sole purpose being to consume additional “others.” The Thing is an allegory for the mental mechanisms of unbounded consciousness: not only the body\, but also the psychological boundaries constituting the self\, are at risk. \nIn working on this allegory\, we will briefly touch on horror cinema’s enduring interest in paranoia and the unbounded consciousness. We will consider Clara Keane’s clairvoyant work on existential permeability and Andre Green’s psychic envelopes as regards their explanatory power for experiences of unbounded consciousness\, paranoia\, and uncanny encounters. We will see how The Thing\, as an apex of creeptastic cinema\, resonates with our own experiences—both archaic and present-day—of the fragility of our distinct\, boundaried sense of a “me”\, and why it matters. \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD\, is the Director of the Psychology Department at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. He completed his MFA at the New School for Social Research\, his PsyD at the George Washington University\, and his internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Alex is the author of the novella HIVE\, and his stories and poems have appeared in various small publications and anthologies\, the most recent being The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg. \nPre-registration is required via the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org. If you do not have an account on the WBCP website\, you will need to create a “guest account” to register and view/print your CME/CE credit certificate after the seminar. For registration assistance\, contact the WBCP at 301-470-3635/ 410-792-8060 / 202-237-1854 or admin@wbcp.org \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_psy_cinema_25-26 \nFull Program Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/11-14-25%20Psychoanalytic%20Takes%20on%20the%20Cinema%20-%20The%20Thing.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-session-1-of-3-discussion-of-the-film-the-thing/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
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SUMMARY:Borderline Personality Disorder: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
DESCRIPTION:In this book discussion\, we will discuss Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press\, 2024)\, authored by Alexander Kriss\, PhD. The presentation will consist of a conversation between the author and J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory\, patient narratives\, and shifts in psychiatric authority from antiquity to present day\, the book explores how BPD emerged as a diagnostic concept and what its persistence reveals about the changing boundaries of identity\, suffering\, and care. The discussion will reflect on the tensions between diagnosis and personhood\, the role of psychoanalysis in shaping and responding to BPD\, and the ethical stakes of treating a condition so often marginalized—even within mental health systems.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/borderline-personality-disorder-the-biography-of-a-personality-disorder/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T140000
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SUMMARY:APsA Candidates' Council Seminar: The Power of Music in "Peter and the Wolf"
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Julie Jaffee Nagel\, Ph.D.\, psychologist\, psychoanalyst & musician \nThe Power of Music as Heard in Peter’s Psychological Development in “Peter and the Wolf” (Sergei Prokofiev\, Composer) \nThis presentation will emphasize through both words and music the power of music in our lives by discussing both words and music about how Prokofiev told a story about a young boy developing into a late confident adolescent. It includes a performance of Prokofiev’s beloved composition “Peter and the Wolf” as a musical illustration. \nWe will explore how music and psychoanalytic concepts inform and enrich each other and “speak” to all of us about growing up. \nClick to view the Flyer  |  Click to Register \nRegistration is required. Sessions will not be recorded. \nSaturday\, November 8\, 2025\, 12 – 2 PM ET \nThe Candidates Online Seminar Series events are a benefit of APsA Membership for its In-Training Members.\nNot an APsA In-Training Member? To learn more & join\, visit apsa.org/in-training \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsa-candidates-council-seminar-the-power-of-music-in-peter-and-the-wolf/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T143000
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group Roundtable Discussion - Child Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Child Analysis
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-roundtable-discussion-child-analysis/
LOCATION:Virtual
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