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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T120000
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Practicing During the Pandemic: What Can Be Learned? What Now?
DESCRIPTION:Description: Even for those of us with prior tele-analytic experience\, our sudden immersion in practicing tele-analytically during the pandemic caused a seismic shift in our ordinary way of practicing with all the psychic reverberations such a change evokes.\nNow that the dust has settled some\, we have an opportunity to reflect on what we’ve observed about the essential conditions for effective psychoanalytic work\, the role of the external setting and physical presence\, the role of the analyst’s internal setting\, and what’s necessary for establishing and maintaining a useful analytic relationship. \nBio: Dr. Lena Theodorou Ehrlich is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Visiting Faculty at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. Her writing and teaching focus on various aspects of clinical theory and practice\, including obstacles to beginning\, deepening\, and ending an analysis\, sustaining an analytic identity and practice\, assessing analytic ability and supervisory countertransferences\, and technical and conceptual considerations of tele-treatment. Her paper “Tele-Analysis: Slippery Slope or Rich Opportunity?” won the 2019 Prize Award from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association for excellence in psychoanalytic scholarship and distinguished contributions to the journal. In 2020\, Dr. Ehrlich published a book entitled Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice. Recently\, she has been honored with the 2024 Candidates’ Council Master Teacher Award. Lena is a Greek immigrant\, a wife\, mother\, and a grandmother of delightful three-year old twin girls.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/reflections-on-practicing-during-the-pandemic-what-can-be-learned-what-now/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="San Diego Psychoanalytic Center":MAILTO:events@sdpsychoanalytic.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T120000
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SUMMARY:What's Love Got to Do With It?  Somatic Treatment Under a Psychodynamic Umbrella
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Presented by Boris Thomas\, JD\, PhD\, with discussant Huey Hawkins\, Jr.\, PhD\nRegardless of our approach to treatment\, a foundational aspect of the work is the relationship between therapist and client/patient. \nFor those accustomed to working psychoanalytically or psychodynamically\, how do we think about incorporating somatic work with our clients (or somatic work that our colleagues might do with our clients in an adjunctive treatment)? \nDr. Thomas will present and discuss his work using EMDR while holding a psychodynamic frame\, managing transference and countertransference\, and the attachment challenges that clients might bring to the work.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-somatic-treatment-under-a-psychodynamic-umbrella/
LOCATION:UNC School of Social Work Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg Auditorium\, 325 Pittsboro St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T010000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014038Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Free Angela and All The Political Prisoners
DESCRIPTION:Free Angela and All the Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch\, 2013) 1 hr 42 min.\nContemporary psychoanalysis as a field is struggling to make sense of racism and culturally imposed trauma. The final report of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis was published this past June. In discussing this 2013 documentary\, the NCP Film & Mind series picks up one of its recommendations\, urging “Talk with others about the Report’s findings and recommendations\, and the implications for the [psychotherapy] communities of which you are a part.” \nIn their NY Times review\, Nicolas Rapold wrote\, “Shola Lynch’s documentary about Angela Davis\, the activist and beacon of counterculture radicalism\, is a snappily edited\, archivally wallpapered recollection of fearless behavior in the face of an antsy establishment. But it’s equally significant as a pointed act of retelling.” The film tells the complex story of Angela Davis\, presently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, whose social activism led to her name on the FBI’s most-wanted list.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-free-angela-and-all-the-political-prisoners/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T163000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T023514Z
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SUMMARY:When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck with Mary Jo Peebles\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Peebles\, PhD will present on…\nWe have all felt stuck as therapists. This may be difficult to admit (and seldom do we tell our patients). But rest assured\, the experience is universal. Feeling stuck has been discussed in traditional psychoanalytic settings as being stuck; i.e.\, a point of non-movement\, or “impasse\,” whose synonyms include “deadlock\, standoff\, stalemate\, and dead-end\,” words implying resistance\, opposition\, and no-more-life. Systems theory\, strategic psychotherapy\, and strengths-based approaches\, on the other hand\, view stuck places as rich in life and interaction. From their lens\, feeling stuck is not immobility\, it is being vitally engaged at the nub of the very thing that brought our patient to seek us. Through role plays\, clinical examples\, mistake-sharing\, and audience engagement\, this workshop will bring alive the life inside feeling stuck. It will develop a way of thinking\, from a theoretically synthetic point of view\, about elements that make a difference when psychotherapy feels stuck. By the conclusion\, psychotherapists may feel encouraged\, and perhaps wonder\, if feeling stuck is exactly where they want to end up being.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/when-psychotherapy-feels-stuck-with-mary-jo-peebles-phd/
LOCATION:PCC CLIMB Center\, 1626 SE Water Ave\, Portland\, OR\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T171500
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T021635Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Conference - Trauma\, Psychedelics\, and Psychoanalysis - Part Two
DESCRIPTION:Ketamine and Trauma On the Couch presented by Megan Rundel\, PhD \nIn this interactive presentation\, we will explore the biological and psychological effects of ketamine on mental health issues\, with a special focus on trauma. We will learn about how to carefully and effectively utilize the power of ketamine for patients with different kinds of trauma. Our focus will be on a psychoanalytic understanding of the ketamine experience\, as well as practical information on working with this medicine in our own practices. \nMDMA and Psychoanalytic Practice: A Fortuitous Alliance presented by Karen Peoples\, PhD \nWithin the broad category of psychedelic drugs\, MDMA is considered an “entactogen” for the openness and psychological contact it facilitates within an individual and their internal world. MDMA also enhances relational contact between the individual and others. MDMA releases neurotransmitters and and other chemicals in the brain\, creating a sense of physiological ease and safety while facilitating connections between memories\, emotions and higher cortical functions. Clinical research trials in carefully contained settings have shown MDMA-Assisted Therapy (MAT) to substantially reduce PTSD symptoms in a significant number of participants. With the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA for use by qualified professionals\, psychoanalytic practitioners will likely see increased interest in MDMA therapy among their patients. Clinicians will benefit from an informed perspective on the protocol and clinical process of MDMA-Assisted Therapy. Similarly\, psychoanalytic perspectives have much to offer the burgeoning field of MDMA-Assisted treatment. In this presentation\, the topics above will be elaborated on\, and the therapeutic value of non-ordinary states will be highlighted from a psychoanalytic perspective. The presentation will include interactive discussion on transference and countertransference in referrals to MAT\, as well as risks and contraindications of MAT.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-conference-trauma-psychedelics-and-psychoanalysis-part-two/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T123000
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SUMMARY:Race in Clinical Space: A Two-part Workshop with Kathy Pogue White\, PhD and Jill Salberg\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 will be held on September 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT \nThis seminar attempts to raise awareness of unconscious states of mind around race in clinical work using a variation of the Balint method. This Method utilizes group engagement with a case problem brought by a case holder who describes a clinical vignette. The short vignette narrative can be a significant moment in working with a person of color (POC)\, either as the therapist or as a supervisor for the therapist. It can also be when both people in a dyad are white\, and race is in the material\, sometimes expressed\, often not fully engaged. For example\, the case holder feels stuck around a particular racial enactment\, is puzzled by a racialized countertransference\, or is curious about excessive positive or negative feelings towards the POC client/patient. Additionally\, if/when both parties in the dyad identify as white\, a case holder may have become aware of a gap\, an absence of material relating to race.\nIn response to the case vignette\, the group’s work is to make their associative life available to the case holder in such a way as to connect to and open up their own countertransferential experiences. The Balint hypothesis is that the unconscious of all participants will be resonant and provide access to new possibilities as to feelings and ways of seeing things. \nEach session will consist of a) an opening group plenary where a vignette is offered by a senior faculty person describing their work with a POC or white patient or with a training case with a POC supervisee. The focus is on collective deep listening to and clarifying the presenter’s experience of working and thinking in the area of racial differences and encounters. The following two sessions provide opportunities for two volunteer Seminar members to bring case vignettes. b) Working in smaller break-out groups\, the participants will use their associative life to frame a response to the presenters’ posed question. The goal is learning and enlightenment about what race means in the context of clinical work\, as highlighted by these examples. \nParticipants (candidates\, faculty/supervisors\, graduates\, and guest colleagues) commit to attending all two sessions. Readings will be sent out a week in advance. Session 2 will be held on September 30 10:30 am – 12:30 pm.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/race-in-clinical-space-a-two-part-workshop-with-kathy-pogue-white-phd-and-jill-salberg-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T160000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230901T170949Z
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SUMMARY:MPSI Fall Conference: On Becoming and Being a Subject of Sexual Desire
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lynne Harkless of the Florida Psychoanalytic Center will be presenting her paper\, forthcoming publication in JAPA\, which questions and retheorizes the connection between embodiment of erotic desire and embodiment of gender. She proposes that children identify with caregivers’ modes of embodying erotic desire and that these identifications can be thought of as separable from gender identifications. \nAn extended clinical case will be presented to demonstrate how unconscious identifications with caregivers’ modes of embodying desire might become activated in both members of the analyst-patient dyad – relationally\, bodily\, and erotically – in the transference–countertransference. \nDr. Harkless will lecture and present a case in the morning.  The afternoon will consist of case presentation to panel of three analysts. \nAttendees earn 4.5 CEU’s and Lunch will be provided. \nRegistration Deadline: September 15\, 2023
URL:https://apsa.org/event/mpsi-fall-conference-on-becoming-and-being-a-subject-of-sexual-desire/
LOCATION:Union Depot – Red Cap Room\, 214 4th St East\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55101\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T010000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T021407Z
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SUMMARY:Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times
DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Diamond\, PhD\, FIPA \nIn this two-hour presentation\, Dr. Diamond will examine larger social and cultural factors at play during today’s perilous times. He describes destructive populism and group regression as exemplified by malignant cult-like elements. The current political discourse. Using both a psychoanalytic and a cultural lens\, he analyzes the development of paranoid\, conspiratorial thinking and the dangerous fit between malevolent\, proto-fascist leadership and group adherence to dangerous\, unconscious phantasies arising in both extreme right-wing as well as passionate leftist enclaves. He concludes by considering approaches that potentially decrease the potency of the nation’s destructive elements while furthering healthier containment that strengthens the body politics’ nonpathological elements through managing its inherent tensions.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ruptures-in-the-american-psyche-containing-destructive-populism-in-perilous-times/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T233000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230810T152227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T184738Z
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SUMMARY:Connections & Conversation with Martha Stark: “Conflict Statements”- Leveraging the Patient’s Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth
DESCRIPTION:If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment\, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory “forces” (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient’s “adaptive recovery” by creating optimally stressful\, growth-incentivizing “mismatch experiences.” I will be proposing use of something to which I refer as a “conflict statement” – a clinically useful and almost universally applicable therapeutic intervention strategically designed to target the patient’s internal conflictedness between anxiety-provoking (but ultimately growth-promoting) forces pressing “yes” and anxiety-relieving (but growth-impeding) resistant counterforces defending “no.”The stress and strain of the “destabilizing dissonance” thereby created will provide the “therapeutic leverage” needed for the patient gradually\, over time\, to relinquish the tenacity of her rigid attachment to the defense in favor of a more flexible adaptation – a “compromise position” that will “reconcile common truths” (Hegel’s synthesis) and transform conflict into collaboration.The strategic construction of conflict statements requires of the therapist that she be able both to support the patient’s defense by “being with the patient where she is” and to challenge the patient’s defense by “directing the patient’s attention to where the therapist would want her to go.” I will be offering specific clinical examples to demonstrate these powerfully impactful\, optimally stressful psychotherapeutic interventions. No pain\, no gain…
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-converstaion-with-martha-starkconflict-statementsleveraging-the-patients-anxiety-to-incentivize-transformation-and-growth/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (LA)":MAILTO:shanunshir@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230810T152227Z
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SUMMARY:Is This a Cultural Thing? Personality\, Race\, and Culture in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Is a patient’s distress predominantly rooted in their personality or in the cultural milieu\, or both?\nThere has been a tendency to separate the psyche and the social throughout the history of psychoanalysis\, and tensions persist in theorizing about this issue. In this program\, we will explore how personality is shaped by sociocultural context and how racial stereotypes and racism are embedded in conceptualizations of personality. We will further examine how a person’s experiences are rooted in personality\, family dynamics\, and sociocultural trauma. Nuanced understandings of individual experiences of sociocultural context will be emphasized as we consider how personality\, race\, and culture intersect and interact in the therapeutic relationship. \nUsha Tummala-Narra\, PhD; Desta Lissanu\, MD; Lana Elhalabi\, MD & Elisa Cheng\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/is-this-a-cultural-thing-personality-race-and-culture-in-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute":MAILTO:library@bpsi.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T233000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014007Z
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SUMMARY:The Musical Foundation of Being Human: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Duane Dale\, MD\nCourse Description \nIn these nine monthly seminars\, we will be discussing the book\, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis\, written by Adam Blum\, Peter Goldberg\, and Michael Levin. In my reading of this book\, much of the exciting growth in psychoanalytic perspectives is captured and synthesized. The musical experience\, those times that stay with us and continue to have an impact\, is used as a powerful metaphor for furthering the understanding of the clinical experience and with an emphasis on the importance of connecting with aliveness in our work. \nTo give a sense of the book and what we will be discussing\, here are excerpts from the preface:\n“Our project explores ways that this Enlightenment (i.e.\, thinking over being) paradigm has permeated the history of psychoanalytic theory and practice as we endeavor to unearth an older substratum of experience that has remained present but obscured.” The authors then go on to list thinkers in the Romantic movement bringing in different perspectives than from Enlightenment\, that included “psychoanalytic theorists like Donald Winnicott\, Marion Milner\, Jean Laplanche\, Thomas Ogden\, and Adam Phillips. With different emphases\, all of these thinkers and artists have worked out accounts of how it is that culture shapes human perception\, thought\, and comportment on the deepest levels of embodiment. We extend this account by proposing that the interface of psyche and culture is fundamentally musical.”\n“The work of psychoanalysis\, in this view\, is to facilitate fuller and freer vibration…\, cultivating and amplifying the idiomatic freedom of each instrument to sing through the chorus of musica humana\, to resound the psyche-somatic energies of being human\, to surf the waves of the weave.” \nAnd a final quote from the end of the book: “Like the best psychoanalysis\, music reminds us\, as Freud intimated in his late paper “Finite and Infinite Analysis\,” that we have to stop\, so that we can go on. It never ends\, Winnicott added\, because we’re never gonna get it\, as Phillips put it. But\, as Bion believed\, we feel more because we know less at the end than we did at the beginning. We are able to enter different frames that are not fantasies. Because they are actually here.” Hence the title\, Here I’m Alive. \nWe will be reading from the book and participants will be asked to purchase it.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-musical-foundation-of-being-human-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T213000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Trends and Controversies in Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations and Treatment of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In this three part study group\, participants will explore the trends and controversies that have occurred over time in the psychoanalytic conceptualizations and treatment of trauma. The purpose is not to examine history as static and resolved\, but to consider how the prior issues keep evolving\, influencing the ways in which we view trauma\, its origins\, and treatment. In addition\, we will consider new developments that have occurred over time\, such as findings from neuroscience\, which have had a bearing on our concepts and interventions. We will read pre-circulated journal articles and book chapters for each study session. Some of these consist of historical reviews\, while others are classic or contemporary case studies\, in order to learn about the theories and influences on our treatment of patients who have experienced trauma. \nFacilitated by JoAnn Ponder\, PhD\, George Bombel\, PhD\, & various guests
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-trends-and-controversies-in-psychoanalytic-conceptualizations-and-treatment-of-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T160000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230810T152227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T184612Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Workshop: "From Silenced Narratives to Inclusive Dialogues: Addressing Sexuality in Psychoanalysis and Empowering Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop includes reflections on the presenter’s experiences as the first openly lesbian candidate at an institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She will share lessons learned from her leadership role at the national and local level before and after the APsA’s 1991 decision to allow for the training of gay and lesbian psychoanalysts. She will then reflect on the current state of psychoanalysis and trans and non-binary genders. She will provide an introduction to trans and non-binary genders and an in-depth case presentation of her work with a transgender adolescent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lgbtq-workshop-from-silenced-narratives-to-inclusive-dialogues-addressing-sexuality-in-psychoanalysis-and-empowering-transgender-and-non-binary-individuals/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T171500
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T020949Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Conference: Trauma\, Psychedelics\, and Psychoanalysis - Part One
DESCRIPTION:A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychoanalytic Therapy and an Introduction to Psychedelic Phenomenology presented by Jeffrey Guss\, MD\nThis talk will begin with a brief review of the history of psychedelic psychoanalytic treatment in the United States and Europe. Following this an introduction to psychedelic phenomenology from a psychoanalytic perspective will be offered\, focusing on 1) hyper- associative states and 2) drug-induced ego dissolution (DIED). The relevance of these two phenomena for psychotherapy will be explored. \nWitnessing: A Psychodynamic Perspective on How Psychedelics Facilitate the Treatment of Trauma presented by Lawrence Fischman\, MD \nIn seeking treatment for trauma\, the multiplicity of individual preferences and available treatment modalities enhance the likelihood of fittedness between patient and therapist. While many individuals will benefit from prevalent spiritual and cognitive behavioral models of psychedelic-assisted trauma therapy\, some patients and therapists will feel more comfortable with relational models. Here\, I offer a psychodynamic model of how psychedelics may influence the process of witnessing\, which has been seen as central to the psychoanalytic model of recovery from trauma.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-conference-trauma-psychedelics-and-psychoanalysis-part-one/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T140000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
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SUMMARY:Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard\, MD \nDescription: Glen O. Gabbard\, MD will discuss the forces\, both conscious and unconscious\, that lead clinicians to transgress the boundaries of clinical practice. I will illustrate with clinical material from my many years of evaluating and treating practitioners.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/boundaries-and-boundary-violations-in-clinical-practice/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T090000
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SUMMARY:Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program – 2 Year Program begins September 2023
DESCRIPTION:Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute \nThis event addresses: Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy \nThe goal of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) is to provide participants with exposure to concepts that inform psychodynamic therapy with children and adolescents. The program includes an in-depth exposure to concepts from psychoanalytic understandings of development and psychopathology as they apply to children and adolescents. Psychodynamic principles and techniques are applicable in a variety of clinical settings\, including clinics\, agencies\, hospitals\, and private practice. The program provides a solid grounding in psychoanalytic principles while being attentive to the realities of clinical practice in the current mental health environment. The challenges and practicalities of providing in-depth treatment are discussed throughout the curriculum. \nCAPP offers practitioners the opportunity to deepen and broaden skills in \n• Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents\, \n• Clinical assessment\, and \n• Parent work \nThis two year program includes two weekly courses (Friday afternoons)—one didactic course and one clinical conference. In order to obtain the maximal benefit\, it is recommended that participants enroll in all four semesters of the program sequentially\, along with weekly case consultation provided at a discounted rate of $60 per hour. Successful completion of the two-year program leads to a certificate of completion. However\, it is also possible to participate for one or several semesters without committing to the two-year sequence. \nThis course is via ZOOM only – Distance learners are welcome to apply. \nThe tuition is $1\,900 per year. \nFor questions about the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program\, contact: \nBrett Clarke\, MSW\, mailto:brettclarke55@gmail.com\, (513) 961-8830 \nSydney Anderson\, PhD\, mailto:sydneyfanderson@icloud.com\, (812) 331-2800
URL:https://apsa.org/event/child-adolescent-psychotherapy-program-2-year-program-begins-september-2023/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T220000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T020623Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding and Containment for Complex Trauma and Dissociation - Contending with the Flood and the Fog
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is about interweaving somatic approaches from outside of psychoanalysis into psychoanalytic treatment\, especially for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Dr. Levit is a psychoanalyst who trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE). Developed originally as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder\, SE is rooted in neurophysiology\, biology and ethology. As its name suggests\, SE focuses on the body\, but it introduces ways of working in the body that are quite different from psychoanalytic modes. Dr. Levit will provide an overview of the SE model\, but the focus of the presentation will be on illustrating how somatically based approaches from SE can enfold into\, and enhance\, psychoanalytic treatment. He will present clinical process illustrating forms of responsiveness based on SE. In discussing each vignette\, he will invoke Ogden’s notion of looking at any clinical process from multiple conceptual vertices. Dr. Levit will consider each vignette from the perspectives of SE\, of holding\, and of containing. In so doing\, he hopes to illustrate the synergy when interweaving SE into psychoanalytic treatment. \nPresented by David Levit\, PhD\, ABPP\, SEP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-somatic-experiencing-enhancing-psychoanalytic-holding-and-containment-for-complex-trauma-and-dissociation-contending-with-the-flood-and-the-fog/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230826T014004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T020102Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Exploring the Essence of a Psychoanalytic Approach
DESCRIPTION:Join us in this all-level study group as we utilize Nancy McWilliams’ text\, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy\, as a guide to exploring the defining and distinguishing features of a psychoanalytic approach. Through reading and discussion\, we will discuss some of the values and assumptions associated with a psychoanalytic sensibility\, examine key considerations such as therapeutic frame and boundaries\, and explore the “how” of basic psychoanalytic psychotherapy processes. Case material from the text and from group participants will help us bring these ideas to life. We will also consider the experience of the therapist in this modality\, including the gratifications and challenges that come along with our work. Participants need a copy of the book: McWilliams\, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (Guilford Press).\nFacilitated by Barton Jones\, LCSW & Lindsey Hogan\, PhD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-exploring-the-essence-of-a-psychoanalytic-approach/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T233000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230810T152226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T022937Z
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SUMMARY:Connections & Conversation with Francisco Gonzalez: On the Place of the Social Unconscious: Implications for Psychoanalytic Thought and Practice
DESCRIPTION:The current moment in psychoanalytic thinking has made a “turn towards the social\,” but what does this mean in theoretical and practical terms. This presentation aims to provide a conceptual basis for the Social Unconscious as a register grounded in groups\, and operating as a different kind of psychic life than what we are used to when we think of the personal unconscious. If we take the concept of the Social Unconscious seriously\, this implies a fundamental change in our theoretical frameworks. And has implications for opening up the terrain of psychoanalytic practice\, including the recovery and validation of the history of community psychoanalysis and new elaborations of training and practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-conversation-with-francisco-gonzalez-on-the-place-of-the-social-unconsciousimplications-for-psychoanalytic-thought-and-practice/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T183000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230616T161341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230616T161341Z
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SUMMARY:Relational Perspectives on Trauma- Estelle Shane Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event: Connections and Conversation \nPsychoanalytic dialogue
URL:https://apsa.org/event/relational-perspectives-on-trauma-estelle-shane-ph-d-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T040000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230417T170430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T174914Z
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SUMMARY:Certificate Program- Object relations and practice
DESCRIPTION:International Psychotherapy Institute \nThis event addresses: Object Relations Theory and Practice provides a concentrated immersion in the fundamentals of object relations theory and therapy. \nThe International Psychotherapy Institute offers a certificate program in Object Relations is life-changing. We provide a high quality\, deeply immersive\, supportive training through our two-year certificate training program. Our training is different than other organizations because of the affective learning model used at the IPI. Being a part of a small group (GAM) for the entire 2 years\, allows for deep understanding and application of object relations to your clinical practice. The group experience\, led by IPI faculty\, is the major reason our participants keep returning to IPI. The program is chaired by Lorrie Peters\, LCSW. Lorrie is in private practice in Harrisburg\, PA. She is national faculty at IPI and is the current chair of the 2 year Object Relations Theory and Practice Certificate Program at IPI. She is a doctoral student at LCSW.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/certificate-program-object-relations-and-practice/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T193000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230616T161001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230616T161001Z
UID:20000121-1686684600-1686684600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Cured: Film Preview and Q&A with Filmmaker
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ+ rights
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cured-film-preview-and-qa-with-filmmaker/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T120000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230512T224323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T224323Z
UID:20000115-1686391200-1686398400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:“This boy is autistic”: Misinterpretation of Defensive voidance in a Six-Year-Old Boy
DESCRIPTION:Leon Hoffman\, MD\, a Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist\, will discuss the importance of the therapeutic intervention “interpretation of defenses against painful affects.” This technique\, developed by Berta Bornstein\, has been indispensable in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. This paper describes in detail the defensive function of a child’s oppositional behavior\, negativism\, and avoidance. These issues were examined and interpreted in an in-depth treatment (including two years of four-time-a-week psychoanalysis). This was one of the treatments that served as a model for developing the Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach and the development of the first empirical study of a psychodynamic treatment for children with disruptive disorders. The Triangle of Conflict will be highlighted as a heuristic to conceptualize the development of symptoms. The value of empirical research will be discussed. \nEvent is June 10\, 2023 from 10AM-12PM. Registration closes on June 7th. \nPlease follow link to the event page for registration and additional information on fees.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/this-boy-is-autistic-misinterpretation-of-defensive-voidance-in-a-six-year-old-boy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230420T200954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T201150Z
UID:20000092-1686254400-1686513599@apsa.org
SUMMARY:APsA’s 112th Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Details will be posted soon.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsas-112th-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230516T152722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T155804Z
UID:20000116-1686254400-1686254400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Aging and Dying and the Analytic Process
DESCRIPTION:The topic of this meeting is of great importance for both the psychoanalyst and patient. There is a reciprocal interest between analyst and patient concerning these vital issues. Currently\, there are more analysts and patients living to an advanced age with problems and conflicts concerning health\, vitality\, cognition\, and affect regulation. The panelists will explore the critical conflicts and therapeutic issues that are inevitably involved in the aging process.\nPanelists:\nWendy Olesker\, Ph.D.\, Henry Nunberg\, M.D.\, Harold Blum\, M.D.\, Otto Kernberg\, M.D. & Lois Oppenheim\, Ph.D. (moderator)\n______\nPLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this\, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR ANOTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION. Click on auto-generated email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM link to “enter” the meeting. Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/aging-and-dying-and-the-analytic-process/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T110000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230516T152723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T155717Z
UID:20000119-1685876400-1685876400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis\, Creativity\, and the Arts: Meditation\, Creativity and Psychoanalysis:Meeting at the Well
DESCRIPTION:During this presentation we will describe and discuss the processes that take place during meditation experiences\, the differences between mindfulness and meditation\, what happens during meditation in our brain and bodies\, how meditation can be synergic with psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practices and with creative processes\, and how countertransference and idealization are present in meditation experiences as well.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-meditation-creativity-and-psychoanalysismeeting-at-the-well/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T120000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230428T012159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T012159Z
UID:20000097-1685793600-1685793600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Shame and The Cover-Up of Individuality:  Social and Clinical Implications
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, I will explore the social and clinical implications of covering up our exposed vulnerability as unique individuals.  Given that shame is characterized by doubts about our fundamental adequacy\, we attempt to live in the world by covering up our shame as individuals by taking refuge under the umbrella of external authority.  Loyalty to a strong leader or social conformity to group norms derive often from the need to cover oneself.  In this sense\, a primary aim of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is to help patients accept their own uniqueness as individuals.  I will explore the importance of respecting the agency of patients and modeling an ethic of curiosity\, inquiry\, and understanding in interacting with patients.  I will conclude by showing how self-acceptance is also related to the process of mourning the original disillusionments that led to one’s shame. \nBio: Peter Shabad\, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at\nNorthwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching\nand Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\n(CCP) and the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago\nInstitute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training\nAnalyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis He is an\nAssociate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic\nDialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and\nMourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP\, 1989) and is the\nauthor of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in\nPsychotherapy (Aronson\, 2001). Dr. Shabad is currently working\non a new book entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion\, Shame\,\nand Mourning to be published by Routledge.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/shame-and-the-cover-up-of-individuality-social-and-clinical-implications/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230516T152722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T155649Z
UID:20000118-1685721600-1685721600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film "The Maid"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will use the events in the film as the basis for a discussion of the deadening effects of social inequality and emotional deprivation.  The film depicts the relationship of a middle-aged woman who has served one family as a maid for more than half her life.  While she might seem embedded in the life of the family\, and they are portrayed as loving her\, in a way\, it is clear that she is more object than person to them.  The effect of this\, and what seems to be her emotionally depriving relationship with her mother\, results in a person who is isolated\, manipulative\, and both sadistic and masochistic.  Is such a person redeemable?  What can it take to help such a deadened character come back to life?
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-the-cinema-discussion-of-the-film-the-maid/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T220000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230428T012158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T012522Z
UID:20000095-1685052000-1685052000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Connections and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event open to all on the topic of Psychoanalysis as a Means of LiberationWith Debra J. Myers\, MD\, PsyD.\nIndividuals engage in psychoanalysis motivated by dissatisfaction with life as they experience it. In psychoanalytic training\, we spend a great deal of time preparing to understand family of origin\, relationship\, and developmental discontinuities. Too often\, socio-cultural discontinuities do not receive significant emphasis as warranted. I intend to analyze my personal biography using eclectic psychoanalytic theories to demonstrate the potential to use psychoanalysis in the service of personal liberation. Mentalization\, as well as\, Developmental and Attachment psychoanalytic theories may be used in an emancipatory effort by those currently oppressed or marginalized in our society when trained psychoanalysts are accessible. I believe the history of anti-Black racism is relevant to the psychoanalysis of patients regardless of race. The concept of ‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ will be described and applied to the analysis of myself\, a person of African descent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260804T010252
CREATED:20230505T191330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T191728Z
UID:20000099-1685034000-1685034000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Adaptation in Clinical Practice. Robert Langs and Carl Jung | Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
DESCRIPTION: Presented by John R. White\, Ph.D.\, LPC\nThis presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung\, examining their central similarities and differences. \nOur presenter\, John R. White\, PhD\, LPC is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh PA and Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. He has more than forty publications in both philosophy and psychoanalysis. His book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology\, was published by Rowman & Littlefield\, 2023.Though adaptation is a concept internal to all psychoanalytic theory and practice\, perhaps no one in the psychoanalytic tradition emphasized adaptation more than Robert Langs. This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung\, examining their central similarities and differences as well as deriving clinical implications from this comparison. \nadministration@pghpsa.org
URL:https://apsa.org/event/adaptation-in-clinical-practice-robert-langs-and-carl-jung-presented-by-john-r-white-ph-d-lpc-pittsburgh-psychoanalytic-center/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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