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SUMMARY:Authenticity: An Ethical Core for Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:The ethical codes for mental health professionals are guided by internationally recognized standards centered around core principles: respect for others\, competence\, integrity\, and responsibility to society. Central to these standards is our integrity as a human being\, a professional\, and a member of society\, based on principles of fairness\, justice\, and respect for difference. These codes also recognize the value of community service; ways in which our training demands a certain level of social responsibility.  We are called upon to know our field well enough to make choices that have integrity\, and to engage in ongoing trainings that support our own development within a changing world. And yet\, countering these standards is the anxious insecurity that threatens to make us lose our minds rather than build them\, and to turn to rules that\, in the absence of our reflective capacity\, can become dangerously mindless. We see this\, for example\, in the turn towards using diagnoses\, not to organize our understanding\, but as reified entities that demand specific treatments that may harm more than they help. In that turn\, we lose touch with the most basic principle guiding our ethics: to do no harm. The price of objectifying persons rather than assisting them in enlarging their own subjective capacities is highlighted in this era of AI.  In such an era\, we need to locate our ethics within a foundation that does not betray us – or those we work with – by masquerading behind a veneer of ‘truth’ that has no authentic\, ethical\, human core. Using clinical illustrations\, I discuss the values of authenticity and respect for difference as crucial grounding points for ethical clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/authenticity-an-ethical-core-for-clinical-practice/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T180000
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SUMMARY:IPA COWAP NA and APSA COSWAG Film Series: Discussions on Gender COWAP North America Presents: Discussion of the film “Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution” (2025) by Marcelo Haber co-produced by Horacio Legras and  Belen de Martino
DESCRIPTION:Discussants: Virginia Ungar\, Marcelo Haber\, Horacio Legras\, and Belen de Martino \nModerator: Margarita Cereijido\, PhD \nFriday\, July 10\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\nNOTE: a link to view the film will be sent out 2 weeks prior to the event. \nNo CME/CE\nDiscussion of the film: Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution (2025) \nA gender-focused discussion of Marcelo Haber’s film on Marie Langer\, with the participation of Virginia Ungar and the filmmaker. \nDrawing on Langer’s autobiography From Vienna to Managua\, the film interweaves fiction and documentary to trace a life shaped by war\, exile\, and political upheaval. From her training in interwar Europe to her foundational role in Argentine psychoanalysis and later work in Mexico\, Langer reimagined psychoanalysis as deeply embedded in social and political life. \nA committed feminist\, she challenged traditional psychoanalytic views of femininity and\, in 1951\, published Motherhood and Sexuality\, a pioneering work on the psychodynamics of femininity. Her break from institutional psychoanalysis foregrounds tensions between neutrality and ethical responsibility\, while her turn toward community mental health reflects her enduring commitment to bringing psychoanalysis beyond the consulting room and into collective life. \nThe film invites reflection on the analyst’s role in times of crisis\, positioning psychoanalysis as both a clinical practice and a transformative presence within communities. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_cowap_ipa_film_7-10-26#!/ \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/7-10-26%20COWAP%20Film%20Series-%20Discussions%20on%20Gender.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ipa-cowap-na-and-apsa-coswag-film-series-discussions-on-gender-cowap-north-america-presents-discussion-of-the-film-marie-langer-desire-and-revolution-2025-by-marcelo-haber-co-pr/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T120000
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SUMMARY:Nomen est Omen: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Names
DESCRIPTION:Mikita Brottman\, PhD\, will present on her paper\, “Nomen Est Omen: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Names.” She will discuss how personal names and naming are shaped by unconscious dynamics\, implicit associations\, cultural influences\, and relationships to parents.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/nomen-est-omen-a-psychoanalytic-exploration-of-names/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Zoom or In-Person New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T143000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Supervision
DESCRIPTION:Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance\, parallel process\, working with countertransference\, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This class is designed for those who supervise graduate students\, interns\, postdocs\, and associates at multiple levels of training in academic\, community\, and private practice settings.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-supervision/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Links Between Childhood Trauma\, Psychosis\, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function\, Transference\, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System - Michael D. Garrett\, MD
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Michael D. Garrett\, MD \nResearch in the last four decades has shown a strong correlation between childhood adversity (e.g.\, sexual abuse\, physical abuse\, emotional neglect) and psychosis\, which recasts chronic psychosis as a trauma-related/stress/related disorder requiring psychotherapy as well as medication. This presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind\, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person’s emotional ailments. The talk will show how transference in psychotherapy can be understood as an inevitable consequence of the Bayesian predictive processing model of brain function and how delusions and other psychological defenses emerge as a natural consequence of the neuroscientific conception of the mind as a self-organizing system.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/links-between-childhood-trauma-psychosis-the-bayesian-predictive-processing-model-of-brain-function-transference-and-the-mind-conceived-as-a-self-organizing-system-michael-d-garrett-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T120000
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SUMMARY:NPI Fall Conference: Understanding Traumatic Narcissism Theory and Its Clinical Utility
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Shaw – Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective\,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book\, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction\, Daniel Shaw has studied the psychology of the individual he terms the “traumatizing narcissist\,” and the specific ways that they seduce and then subjugate others. The Traumatic Narcissism Theory summarizes Shaw’s work of the last thirty years\, providing accessible\, practical information and tools in support of both psychotherapists and their clients working toward healing from the traumatizing narcissist’s relational system of subjugation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/npi-fall-conference-understanding-traumatic-narcissism-theory-and-its-clinical-utility-2/
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SUMMARY:Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory\, MD
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Robert J. Gregory\, MD \nEngaging suicidal clients in treatment and recovery is intense and challenging. Clients may state: “I just want to die”\, “Nothing is going to help”\, or “If you discharge me\, I’m going to kill myself”. Therapists can sometimes feel helpless\, hopeless and trapped in the responsibility of holding their client’s life in their hands. In this presentation\, Dr. Gregory will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory\, research\, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas\, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/resolving-therapeutic-dilemmas-in-suicidal-clients-using-principles-of-dynamic-deconstructive-psychotherapy-robert-j-gregory-md-webinar-live-online/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Series Mommie Dearest: Joan’s Wire Hangers: Reconciling that Recollection is the Best Fake We Have on Hand
DESCRIPTION:Through the lenses of psychoanalysis\, memory\, and cultural reinvention\, Laura McMaster\, LMFT\, will explore Joan Crawford\, the contested narratives surrounding her life\, and the film’s unexpected second life in drag culture. Drawing on Freud’s ideas about memory and recollection\, this discussion examines how stories are retold\, reimagined\, and transformed over time.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-series-mommie-dearest-joans-wire-hangers-reconciling-that-recollection-is-the-best-fake-we-have-on-hand/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Zoom or In-Person New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center)
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