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SUMMARY:Psychodynamics as an Anchor: Navigating Personal\, Social\, and Political Turmoil in Clinical Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Loan Vo\, PhD\, LISW-S
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychodynamics-as-an-anchor-navigating-personal-social-and-political-turmoil-in-clinical-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Apology\, Accountability and Repair in Couples Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Ellen Safier\, LCSW | Our intimate partnerships are the places where we are most vulnerable. It is of course these relationships that have the potential to provide the greatest sense of safety and security and comfort that are also the relationships where we can experience the greatest hurt and be most easily wounded.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-apology-accountability-and-repair-in-couples-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
CREATED:20240909T145858Z
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SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T142817Z
UID:20000360-1730372400-1730381400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-10-31/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
CREATED:20240909T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T030127Z
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SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue\, and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T114500
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
CREATED:20240814T193305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T025603Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytical understanding of mourning and melancholia for couples undergoing medical pregnancy termination in hospital
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Leonardo
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytical-understanding-of-mourning-and-melancholia-for-couples-undergoing-medical-pregnancy-termination-in-hospital/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021411
CREATED:20241030T024753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T024942Z
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SUMMARY:“Resistance to AI: Does it Matter?” Presented by Dr. Amy Levy\, Psy.D.
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Levy will read a chapter from her soon to be released book\, On Apprehending the new other: alien intelligence and the innovation drive. This chapter deals with the form change that many of us are undergoing\, owing to AI-driven personal technology\, from humans into ‘digital people’. The metamorphosis will be explored through theories of conscious\, unconscious and cognitive mental life as well as via personal vignettes. Dr. Levy tracks a tendency throughout human history to use entertainment as a “container” for transformation of psychic experience\, and argues that AI-driven digital technology has only enhanced the function of previous ‘entertainment containers’ in joining humanity together through shared states of consciousness. This chapter deals with the question of whether resistance to technology serves any useful function and offers thoughts on how it might.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/resistance-to-ai-does-it-matter-presented-by-dr-amy-levy-psy-d/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240909T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T203755Z
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SUMMARY:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election
DESCRIPTION:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall:\nControversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election  \nPanel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond\, PhD\, David James Fisher\, PhD\, Mark Fisher\, MD\, Debra Myers\, MD\, Peter Wolson\, PhD \nTown Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson\, PhD \nOn the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and American democracy in question\, Dr. Wolson will moderate a Town Hall discussion of the most pressing\, controversial issues\, from a psychoanalytic perspective. This forum provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners to express their opinions about the election as well as a professional space to analyze the unconscious psychodynamics embedded in the issues and affecting the candidates. Dr. Wolson and a distinguished panel of psychoanalysts will speculate about the psychodynamic trends that emerge from the discussion. Participants of every political persuasion are encouraged to attend.  \nThe presenters along with the audience will actively participate in a discussion\, moving from opinions\, feelings and beliefs to a more objective state with greater understanding of psychodynamic implications. The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about “the political issues” and how it impacts us as professionals\, as well as our client population. The program will aid the clinician in identifying and addressing the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying current political issues and parties\, helping us with our clients and our own countertransference issues that may be evoked in the clinical setting.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychoanalytic-town-hall-controversial-issues-in-the-2024-election/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240920T210439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T210439Z
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SUMMARY:ACP Conference: Donna Roth Smith & Hilda Catz
DESCRIPTION:In this conference\, Donna Roth Smith\, LCSW & Hilda Catz\, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments and then bring participants into the conversation they have been having. Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks a narrowing of techniques. A continuing conversation between experienced clinicians\, working together throughout the year and then sharing their discourse with the conference participants\, allows for a detailed examination of clinical process with children of different ages. These distinguished interlocutors from Buenos Aires in Argentina and New York in the USA bring different training traditions and approaches\, allowing for cross-fertilization at both theoretical and technical levels.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/acp-conference-donna-roth-smith-hilda-catz/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20241010T184625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T184625Z
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SUMMARY:Professional Ethics in Clinical Context
DESCRIPTION:featuring Allen R. Dyer\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/professional-ethics-in-clinical-context/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20241030T024754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T024754Z
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SUMMARY:Grappling with the Obstructive Object in the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante: A Reflection Based on the Work of Michael Eigen by Marlene Goldsmith\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is divided into five parts. The first part will concentrate on Eigen’s work. The following four parts will explicate each one of the relational areas in dialogue with that work\, focusing upon two protagonists from Ferrante’s Novels: Elena Greco and Rafaela (Lila) Cerullo. It will be shown that the obstructive object is not only an idiosyncratic phenomenon but also one that is interfused within a wider psychosomatic and sociocultural matrix passed down from generation to generation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/grappling-with-the-obstructive-object-in-the-neapolitan-novels-of-elena-ferrante-a-reflection-based-on-the-work-of-michael-eigen-by-marlene-goldsmith-ph-d/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T142817Z
UID:20000359-1729767600-1729776600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-10-24/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250101
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20241031T161003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T161126Z
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SUMMARY:Video Launch by ROOM: Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine
DESCRIPTION:ROOM\, A Sketchbook for Analytic Action has released a video entitled “Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine.”  \nThis video provides an urgent focus on Israel-Palestine\, Eyal Rozmarin (Israeli) and Karim Dajani (Palestinian) engage in a powerful and tender conversation showing how unconscious process underlies political-cultural realities and individual misunderstandings. \nIt is available to view at analytic-room.com/speakingofhome.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/room_video_launch_oct2024/
CATEGORIES:Member Events
LOCATION:https://analytic-room.com/speakingofhome
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240814T193305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T183416Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Workshop: "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments"
DESCRIPTION:Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm \nPresenter: Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW \n“Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments” \nVia Zoom \nPresentation: \nAs psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social\, the work of Jean Laplanche is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In this presentation\, participants will hear the stories of two queer patients whose treatment was\, borrowing from Donna Orange\, informed “holding lightly” the theories of Jean Laplanche. Designed particularly for those who may be unfamiliar with Laplanche’s ideas or uncertain about their relevance to those interested in clinical practice\, this presentation will both explicate the fundamentals of Laplanchian theory while avoiding the notion of “applying” Laplanche to clinical work. Rather\, through conversation and the telling of clinical story\, participants will be invited to experience a Laplanchian sensibility in clinical work\, particularly as it relates to issues of queerness and LGBTQ+ experience.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lgbtq-workshop-holding-laplanche-lightly-the-story-of-two-queer-treatments/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T153000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240814T193201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T181859Z
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SUMMARY:A Competency-Based Approach to Psychodynamic Supervision
DESCRIPTION:Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This salon introduces an approach integrating psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles and processes to enhance clinical competence. Participants will learn practical strategies to facilitate effective clinical supervision through presentations\, video examples\, and discussions.\nTopics include best practices for developing the supervisory alliance\, facilitating reflective practice\, addressing countertransference\, and using a competency-based learning cycle. The program intends to support those who supervise graduate students\, interns\, postdocs\, and associates at multiple levels of training in academic\, community\, and private practice settings. \nLed by Edward Shafranske\, Ph.D.\, ABPP\, FIPA and\nShirley Liao\, Ph.D.\, FIPA
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-competency-based-approach-to-psychodynamic-supervision/
LOCATION:In-person: Huntington Beach\, CA – Full address provided upon registration\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240909T145856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T182259Z
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting w/ Greg Rizzolo\, PhD.
DESCRIPTION:Compulsions and Obsessions: A Lifespan Perspective. \nGreg Rizzolo\, PhD. \nFreud’s concept of the obsessional neuroses has evolved into today’s obsessive-compulsive disorder with ideas from many fields helping to understand this condition. Dr. Rizzolo contributes to this effort by framing the variety of obsessive presentations as “a disorder of volition\, an exaggerated sense of willpower not tied to any one developmental phase or bodily zone.” Over three developmental phases\, he looks in depth at how the obsessive person internalizes relationships through introjection\, identification and repudiation of an anxious/critical parent or unpredictable environment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240229T171203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T192037Z
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SUMMARY:Connections And Conversation: Can You Cure Your Patient? – Koichi Tagashi\, PhD\, LP
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi\, Ph.D.\, L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation\, I like to pose this question\, without defining what a “cure” might look like\, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy can cure the human mind\, or what cases it can cure\, or how patients can be cured. I am examining how we are tempted to use psychoanalytic theory to explain and justify ourselves when we are asked these clinical questions. Imagine being asked by a patient\, “Can you cure me?” We may likely respond\, “Psychoanalysis is effective for cases of x\,” or “Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is less about treatment and more about making sense of the experience\,” or “Here is the process by which the mind is cured.” But none of these are an answer to the question the patient is asking us.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-can-you-cure-your-patient-koichi-tagashi-phd-lp/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T141500
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T182716Z
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SUMMARY:Conference - Vitality as a Theoretical and Technical Parameter in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese\, MD\, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo\, PhD \nTerms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover\, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However\, when psychoanalysis attempts to theorize the non-specific aspects of treatment\, such as those related to the person of the analyst\, it becomes inevitable to refer to them. The thesis of this article is that vitality should be taken out of its vagueness and transformed as much as possible into a precise psychoanalytic concept. This can be done by discussing it in the light of Bion’s concept of negative capability and the post-Bionian theory of the analytic field. Every time the analyst rediscovers to her surprise the dreamlike dimension of the session\, she becomes more vital and reinvests in the patient\, the analysis and the psychoanalytic method. Then\, she realizes that she is always a character in the narratives of the analytic conversation and has the chance to try to guess what is happening by relying on her intensified physical or emotional reaction.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-vitality-as-a-theoretical-and-technical-parameter-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240920T210425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T183122Z
UID:20000439-1729332000-1729339200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Importance of Group Experience During Adolescence and Beyond: Pathways from Trauma to Growth
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with the question of the individual’s fitness with their family of origin\, the authors describe the variables that determine the adolescent’s capacity to join peer groups. Optimally\, the adolescent – when cognitive advancement is combined with a specific kind of group psychological mindedness – can consolidate their group identifications. When traumatized\, an adolescent’s exclusion from groups is characterized by bullying dynamics. Clinical vignettes demonstrate the authors’ way of addressing hurtful and beneficial group experiences within their patients’ individual therapies. They include an example from their work together with a specific family. Finally\, they offer technical suggestions for this work\, including how to recognize when an additional referral for group therapy is indicated.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-importance-of-group-experience-during-adolescence-and-beyond-pathways-from-trauma-to-growth/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Rockland – East Fairmount Park 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr. Philadelphia\, PA & via Zoom)\, 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T110000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240614T183536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T185518Z
UID:20000353-1729328400-1729335600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Working With Dreams: New Stops on the Royal Road
DESCRIPTION:Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz\, Ph.D. Freud believed that dream work is the “royal road” to the unconscious\, and he called The Interpretation of Dreams his “best and most important book.” While the “Relational turn” of the 1980s enhanced the field in several ways– reviving an interest in trauma\, redefining counter-transference\, and exploring the categories of race and gender\, some have asked if dream work was eclipsed in the process. Will this skill be lost to future generations? \nWe will begin by reviewing the classical method of dream interpretation\, which continues to structure the presenter’s work. However\, Freud had very little to say about color\, and nothing about race. With the use of clinical examples\, we will see how reflecting on color and race in the unconscious can help patients grapple with questions of identity\, self\, and other.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/working-with-dreams-new-stops-on-the-royal-road/
LOCATION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240814T193201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T181200Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Work With Homeless and Formerly Homeless Adults: Unsettling Theory
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz\, Ph.D.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-work-with-homeless-and-formerly-homeless-adults-unsettling-theory-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240614T183536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T185337Z
UID:20000352-1729276200-1729281600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Work With Homeless and Formerly Homeless Adults: Unsettling Theory
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz\, Ph.D. A common misconception about treatments derived from psychoanalysis is that they are appropriate only for highly educated people of means. This presentation challenges that assumption by referring both to Freud’s free clinics and to Winnicott’s work with homeless children. We will proceed to a discussion of IFA (Insight For All)– a group in Philadelphia that connects analytically trained clinicians with individuals who are\, or have been\, street homeless. \nA relational framework leaning on Winnicott’s concepts will be used while making room for relevant insights from the French tradition. There will be one case history of the 10-year treatment of a man who had nearly ruined his health on the street\, and who made good use of the talking cure. Caring for marginalized people can have the positive effect of unsettling psychoanalytic theories and expanding them for our time.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-work-with-homeless-and-formerly-homeless-adults-unsettling-theory/
LOCATION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T010000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240909T145842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T180840Z
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SUMMARY:The Perils and Promises of a Unified Clinical Model
DESCRIPTION:Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century\, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian\, Jungian\, Kleinian\, Self-Psychological\, Relational\, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper\, “Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis’ Future Lies in Pluralism.” In brief\, Dr. Karbelnig believes that psychoanalytic clinicians practice framing\, presence\, and engagement in their work with patients. They pursue the unconscious mind through focusing on transference and countertransference\, repetitive psycho-behavioral themes\, and dreams (and other signifiers of the unconscious). After explaining the six-point model\, Dr. Karbelnig will invite the audience to question and discuss these admittedly ambitious ideas. \nBy the end of the presentation\, participants will know how to: \nApply three fundamental psychoanalytic interventions\nDistinguish between theories of engagement\nPractice confrontation\, followed by empathy\nComprehend the three foundational paths to accessing unconscious material
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-perils-and-promises-of-a-unified-clinical-model-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
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SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
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URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-10-17/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T110000
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SUMMARY:Empty Heart Disease in China and the West
DESCRIPTION:Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff \n  \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/empty-heart-disease-in-china-and-the-west/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
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SUMMARY:City and Psyche: Understanding Cities and Communities as Psychological Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ricardo Ainslie\, PhD \nCities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion\, Winnicott\, and other psychoanalytic theorists\, but also from the work of architects and researchers from a variety of disciplines. This presentation examines the thesis that we simultaneously create and are shaped by the built environments within which we live and work. \nThis program is intended to help fulfill licensure renewal requirements for continuing education in diversity and cultural competence. However\, registrants should check with their licensing board if uncertain.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/city-and-psyche-understanding-cities-and-communities-as-psychological-spaces/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
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SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: When the Teacher's Feelings Hurt
DESCRIPTION:Edmund Sprunger\, MSW\, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers’ best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions\, roll their eyes\, sigh\, or mention that elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. Teachers can also feel disregarded by parents\, who may attempt to discredit a teacher\, fail to support their children’s learning\, or fault a teacher for not being motivating enough. This lecture presents ways to understand these behaviors\, and useful ways to react to them—including using them as a springboard for development.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-when-the-teachers-feelings-hurt/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T142817Z
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SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-10-10/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T021412
CREATED:20240909T145842Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Solms’ “Source of Consciousness” Prep Course
DESCRIPTION:Mark Solms\, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst\, has substantially altered contemporary understanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear and personable writer\, but his understanding draws on science largely unfamiliar to psychotherapists.   \nIn preparation for his appearance at next Spring’s NCP Manifest Mind conference\, we are offering an introductory course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer\, who will also be presenting at the May 2025 Manifest Mind Conference. \nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.   \nAffect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\nFeeling by an organism of fluctuations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\nConsciousness is seated in the midbrain\, not the Cortex;\nThe cerebral cortex provides context\, “memory of the future”\, to consciousness;\nConsciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tractable;\nPerception is applied uncertainty;\nAction is an ongoing process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\nAffect is an extended form of homeostasis\, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight against ENTROPY;\nAffect hedonically valences biological needs… Each category of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective quality of its own;\nNeeds cannot all be felt at once.  They are prioritized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions that are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary\, which means they are subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithms;\nAll mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\nThe default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKING—proactive engagement with uncertainty\, with the aim of resolving uncertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized\, it is felt as curiosity and interest in the world.\n*Course has a limited space for participants and will be held over Zoom only.*\nCourse Sessions & Learning Objectives:\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): These objectives aim to connect Solms’ work in “The Hidden Spring” to practical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice\, focusing on its relevance to psychiatry\, neurology\, and psychoanalysis. They encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making. \nSESSION 1 – Oct. 9\, 2024\nTopic:   Feelings \nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148) \nLearning Objectives:  \nExplain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness\, emotions\, and the core of self- experience;\nList the seven Panksepp motivational systems that define mammalian behavior;\nSESSION 2 – Nov. 13\, 2024\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy \nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189) \nLearning Objectives:  \nDefine the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “predictive priors”;\nExplain the importance of the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic analysis of brain function;\nSESSION 3 – Jan. 8\, 2025\nTopic:   Consciousness \nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237) \nLearning Objectives:  \nDescribe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms\, and their implications promoting adaptive\, creative\, and pathological behavioral consequences;\nAnalyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in “The Hidden Spring” to understand the demands on the mind for action;\nSummarize Solms’ critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\nSESSION 4 – Feb. 12\, 2025\nTopic:   Mind \nReading:  Chapters 11+post (pages 238-305) \nLearning Objectives:  \nExplain how Solms’ integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be applied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\nDiscuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\nSESSION 5 – Mar. 12\, 2025\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in relation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind  \nReading:  Sawyer\, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, 64(4)\, 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399 \nLearning Objectives:  \nDiscuss the ethical implications of Solms’ views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychotherapeutic process and change\, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\nPrepare a case presentation that integrates Solms’ neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by Panksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment\, demonstrating its potential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems.\nCourse Readings:\nSolms\, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books. \nSawyer\, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, 64(4)\, 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399 \nFaculty:\nBarton J. Blinder MD\, PhD\, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and Chair of the NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a Distinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor and past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and additionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA\, in addition to leadership\, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines\, Commission and Caucus on Psychotherapy in Psychiatry\, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiographical memory\, Neuropsychoanalysis\, Spontaneous Thought\, and Free Association in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions\, and Treatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma\, Response to psychoanalytic/psychodynamic treatment\, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic roots of somatization\, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Beach.  \nThomas M. Brod MD\, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series\, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP\, the co-coordinator of the Film and Mind Series\, and is psychoanalyst in private practice. \nRecording:\nEven though all sessions will be held on Zoom\, this presentation will not be recorded.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/mark-solms-source-of-consciousness-prep-course/
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T094500
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SUMMARY:Couple Therapy in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Brett Kahr
URL:https://apsa.org/event/couple-therapy-in-the-uk/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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