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SUMMARY:Alumni Group - Psychoanalysis and Childhood Trauma: An Uneasy Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Jean Goodwin\, MD.\, MPH | Psychoanalysis was both a help and a hindrance to me in the late twentieth century as I was beginning to explore child sexual abuse and its sequelae. It was unhelpful that my medical school mentor(1968) explained that incest occurs one per million population. Also unhelpful when my supervisor in residency (1973) explained that my patient was fantasizing when she disclosed the sexual relationship with her father (1973).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-psychoanalysis-and-childhood-trauma-an-uneasy-relationship/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T213000
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SUMMARY:Book of the Month - Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility by Thomas H. Ogden\, MD
DESCRIPTION:What do you want to be when you grow up? This provocative question is the title of one chapter as well as the theme woven throughout Thomas Ogden’s book\, Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility. While the question seemingly refers to occupational goals\, Ogden clarifies that he really means what kind of person/analyst do you want to be now\, and what kind of person/analyst do you want to become? Ogden differentiates two general kinds of stances in psychoanalytic thinking and practice: (1) epistemological\, which focuses on knowing and understanding\, and (2) ontological\, focused on being and becoming. As introduced and developed by Freud\, Klein\, and Fairbairn\, epistemological psychoanalysis views the mind as an “apparatus for thinking” and privileges the clinical intervention of transference interpretation to promote insight. Over the past 70 years\, there has been a shift in emphasis to ontological psychoanalysis\, which is rooted in concepts pioneered by Winnicott (i.e.\, “going on being” and transitional space/phenomena) and Bion (i.e.\, reverie and “without memory or desire”). Ontological psychoanalysis conceives of the mind as a living process located in the act of experiencing. The analyst is present with the patient in the act of experiencing\, more likely describing what the analyst senses is occurring rather than explaining. The goal is to facilitate the patient’s experience of creatively discovering for themselves\, to foster their becoming more fully alive. \nThough psychoanalytic interventions inevitably involve intertwined epistemological and ontological aspects\, one aspect or the other tends to predominate. Ogden described his own personal journey from an internal object relations orientation\, which is an epistemic approach\, to a more ontological stance. However\, he emphasized that ontological and epistemological psychoanalysis refer to sensibilities and attitudes\, not separate schools of psychoanalytic thought or technique. He provides numerous clinical vignettes throughout the book\, but does not prescribe specific interventions. He instead suggests that each practitioner must develop their own analytic style and essentially “invent psychoanalysis” for each patient. His book is a collection of previously published papers\, which describe and exemplify an ontological stance\, and delve into its foundational roots. After summarizing Ogden’s concept and practice of ontological psychoanalysis with online attendees\, discussant JoAnn Ponder would like to explore with them why\, or why not\, this might constitutes wild analysis. So how do we safeguard against a wild analysis? If there is time\, Ponder also plans to talk with attendees about the applicability of Ogden’s ideas to psychoanalytic supervision.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-of-the-month-coming-to-life-in-the-consulting-room-toward-a-new-analytic-sensibility-by-thomas-h-ogden-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T131500
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SUMMARY:Introduction To Theory And Technique In Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will present basic tenets of theory and practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy\, including a consideration of the differences between the two. The first half of the seminar will include fundamental psychoanalytic and psychodynamic concepts\, as well as psychoanalytic models of the mind\, of development\, and of technique. The second half of the seminar will consist of the presentation of analytic case material illustrating these models and concepts\, and their practical application. \nInstructors:\nMalini Singh\, PhD; Leslie Cummins\, DSW\, LCSW
URL:https://apsa.org/event/introduction-to-theory-and-technique-in-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T120000
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CREATED:20240909T145841Z
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SUMMARY:Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP): A Brief History and Modern Day Application
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tyler Beach\, MSW\, LCSW
URL:https://apsa.org/event/intensive-short-term-dynamic-psychotherapy-istdp-a-brief-history-and-modern-day-application/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T120000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T031455Z
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SUMMARY:The Neuropsychology of Sex and Romance
DESCRIPTION:Janice Hiller
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-neuropsychology-of-sex-and-romance/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T160000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240920T210420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T030907Z
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SUMMARY:Philip C. Wilson Twenty Second Memorial Lecture A Developmental Perspective on Eating Disorders
DESCRIPTION:In this era of increasing recognition that most individuals who enter our consulting rooms are struggling with symptoms that mark developmental impasses\, we encounter bright individuals who appear to have the capacity for reflective thought but there is often insufficient grounding in integrating thoughts and feelings to learn from experience. In that context\, adaptive efforts that fail to resolve the underlying dilemma tend to become addictive. Such difficulties have been traced to inconsistent parenting that leaves the child insufficiently able to mindfully attend to internal and external cues\, impeding the symbolization of experience so essential for interpersonal communications and relationships. \nFrom this perspective\, eating disorders become addictive because the behaviors cannot resolve the underlying deficits. These deficits can be traced to parental failures across the generations that cannot be recognized and worked with\, leaving subsequent generations inhibited in the development of self-regulatory functions and the progressive differentiation of self from other so crucial to maturation. Eating disorders mark early disturbance in relation to what it means to take in and make use of what is offered by another. We will note commonalities and differences in the anorexic versus the bulimic dilemma\, recognizing that each position may be seen as a waystation along the road to self-development in relation to overly intrusive and/or neglectful parents. Explorations into the metacognitive and affective difficulties associated with eating disorders can provide useful anchors for our efforts to create space for development in our consulting rooms. Case examples will explore some of the dynamics underlying such difficulties and the value of interactive modeling of reflective capacities and of creative\, playful engagement in effecting change. \nMarilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center\, Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis; Universidad de Monterrey; Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; and Harvard Medical School. A contributing editor of Psychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society\, she is actively engaged in mentoring and promoting socially relevant research. Research interests include creativity\, psychosis\, resilience\, reflective function\, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Marilyn is also an artist\, a poet\, and a writer. \nBooks include Patterns; Constructing Realities; Learning from Experience; Working with Trauma; and Psychoanalysis and Literature. Edited volumes include Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin); Women and Psychosis and Women and The Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education (with Jill Bellinson). Forthcoming from APA Press: Trauma\, Development\, and Identity: A Clinician’s Guide.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/philip-c-wilson-twenty-second-memorial-lecture-a-developmental-perspective-on-eating-disorders/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T140000
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanolytic Society Scientific Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Art Nielsen\, MD. Asking for Things and Listening to Criticism: Two Fundamental Challenges in Intimate Relationships and Targets for Couples Therapy.\nGrounded in self psychology\, Dr. Nielson uses everyday language to convey complex challenges in working with couples. He begins his talk with an experience-near discussion of why people have trouble asking for what they want\, how they avoid making themselves vulnerable and how to more effectively be self assertive. He follows this with the related challenge of listening to criticism\, common pitfalls and mistakes made. He concludes with practical suggestions to help couples do better. 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanolytic-society-scientific-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T131500
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240920T210420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T024518Z
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SUMMARY:Sadomasochism; Understanding and Working with the Self-Defeating Patient
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: \nSelf-defeating behaviors are present to some degree in every psychodynamic treatment. We will explore ways in which sadomasochism manifests\, particularly in the transference/countertransference arena. The developmental roots and psychodynamic underpinnings will be illuminated through clinical examples. A contemporary understanding via Neuropsychoanalysis will explore self-defeating behavior as a problem with the PLAY instinct\, leading to impairment in the ability to collaborate. The goal will be to fortify practitioners for what are often long and difficult treatments. \nAbout the Presenter: \nRobert Calcaterra\, MD \nPANY Faculty \nPsychoanalytic Research and Development Fund – Board of Directors \nZucker Hillside Psychiatric Residency – Lead Psychotherapy Instructor and Supervisor \nPrivate Practice\, Long Island
URL:https://apsa.org/event/sadomasochism-understanding-and-working-with-the-self-defeating-patient/
LOCATION:Virtual and In-person PANY\, One Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T110000
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CREATED:20240614T183532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T033700Z
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SUMMARY:Differentiating Identification with the Aggressor From Projective Identification
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando\, MDCM. In this presentation Dr. Fernando will differentiate two defenses that are important clinically but that are often confused with each other: projective identification and identification with the aggressor. He will show that differentiating these two defenses at the conceptual level can be helpful clinically. \nDr. Fernando will demonstrate that by differentiating defenses relating to different forms of the unconscious – the id versus the unconscious part of the ego\, the unconscious primary process versus the unconscious secondary process – we can come to a deeper understanding of these two defenses\, as well as of defensive processes more generally. These defenses\, and especially projective identification\, are now usually understood in terms of inner object relations. \nDr. Fernando will present a view of them which does not necessarily contradict an object relations description\, but that supplements it by approaching the two defensive processes discussed from the point of view of Freud’s original distinction between the primary and secondary modes of mental functioning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/differentiating-identification-with-the-aggressor-from-projective-identification/
LOCATION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T090000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
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SUMMARY:Differentiating Identification with the Aggressor From PRojective Identification
DESCRIPTION:Workshop presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando\, MDCM
URL:https://apsa.org/event/differentiating-identification-with-the-aggressor-from-projective-identification-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240909T145838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T014133Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Saltburn
DESCRIPTION:Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn\, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell\, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Keoghan plays Oliver Quick\, a bright\, young\, brooding social outcast who lands at Oxford and is quickly drawn to the handsome and aristocratic Felix Catton. Oliver strategically enters Felix’s inner circle by casting himself as a poor unfortunate soul\, drenched in familial madness and tragedy and thus secures an invitation to spend the summer at Felix’s grand ancestral home in the British countryside. The tropes of Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley are reworked with fascinating freshness. \nMost of the story locates at the massive Saltburn\, a grand estate complete with a labyrinth and colorful characters. Mesmerizing cinematography captures the opulence of the British upper class juxtaposed with grotesque ways in which the repressed returns in ruthless and devouring relational enactments.\nJoin us in exploring these evocative themes\, stirring rich psychoanalytic dialogue about essential early relationships\, environmental conditions\, un-held losses and the impact of these on one’s creative aliveness and establishing cohesive\, autonomous selfhoods. \nMary Starks MA\, LPCC\, is licensed psychoanalytic therapist in private practice in Santa Monica\, CA and holds a post graduate certification in Infant and Family Clinical Practice from the Harris Institute. She specializes in working with adults with childhood trauma and facilitates virtual Circle of Security Parenting Groups. She has a special interest in Psychoanalytic Film Theory and is a rising Mental Health Coordinator in Film/TV. \nJosh Richmond\, MPW\, FIPA\, offers psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults at his office in South Pasadena. He is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis of Los Angeles\, where he is also on faculty\, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Joshua C. Richmond is in the process of getting certified in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an evidence-based modality designed to treat personality disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Joshua C. Richmond was an Adjunct Professor at Cal State Fullerton for four years and is a vested member of the Writers Guild of America West. He served on the Board of Directors for the New Center for Psychoanalysis as a past CAO President and currently serves on the Program Committee.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-saltburn/
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:20240920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
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SUMMARY:Trauma\, Guilt\, And Conspiracy: The Zero Process And The Superego
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando\, MDCM. This presentation explores the links between trauma\, guilt\, and the superego\, and through this exploration attempts to make some additions to our understanding of individual dynamics\, group regression\, and group delusions. Dr. Fernando first describes his concept of the zero process as the form of mental functioning that is a product of the breakdown of the construction of the present moment during trauma. These unconstructed\, bits and pieces memories exist as present experiences or future expectations. \nFrom time to time\, in relation to traumas that are either individual or developmental\, inner objects which have the quality of immediate presences form — we usually call them introjects. The presenter suggests that these are best conceptualized as zero process structures in having many characteristics of the zero process\, and that the obligatory connection between trauma and guilt\, and the manner of transmission of culture and the superego\, and of conspiracy theories and other group delusions\, can be better and more deeply understood once the part that zero process structures play in all these phenomena is brought into focus. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trauma-guilt-and-conspiracy-the-zero-process-and-the-superego/
LOCATION:Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T183000
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SUMMARY:Trauma\, Guilt\, and Conspiracy: The Zero Process and The Superego
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando\, MDCM
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trauma-guilt-and-conspiracy-the-zero-process-and-the-superego-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T120000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240920T210419Z
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SUMMARY:Book of the Month: "Theoretical" vs. "Clinical" Bion: Bion’s Long Road Towards Intuiting the Patient’s Suffering I Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion by Joseph Aguyao\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Ofra Eshel was invited to review and discuss Joseph Aguayo’s book\, Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (Routledge\, 2023). After reading the book\, she decided to focus on what she discerned as the complex relationship and the significant gap between Bion’s theoretical and clinical work\, as documented by Bion’s own writings from the critical years of his move to LA (1967-1968)\, and during his later years\, particularly in the last two years of his life a decade later. Her presentation focuses on two of Bion’s own analytic case descriptions from 1967 in Los Angeles and 1968 in Buenos Aires\, and on the account of the Brazilian analyst Junqueira de Mattos of his analysis with Bion over the final two years of Bion’s life — while comparing them to a close reading of Bion’s radical theoretical-clinical writings during those years. These detailed accounts allow a textual investigation of Bion the theoretician versus Bion the practicing analyst\, particularly highlighting the significant and disturbing gap between them. Eshel attempts to offer a possible explanation and understanding of this gap\, and especially of Bion’s long road towards intuiting the patient’s suffering.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-of-the-month-theoretical-vs-clinical-bion-bions-long-road-towards-intuiting-the-patients-suffering-i-introducing-the-clinical-work-of-wilfred-bion-by-joseph-aguyao-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T090000
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SUMMARY:A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy  \nIn A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma you will learn more about theories and techniques of treating trauma and about the empirical research that supports successful treatments. \nCourse includes 8 total sessions\, 16 CE credits
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-thorn-in-the-flesh-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T190000
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CREATED:20240814T193130Z
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SUMMARY:The Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture: Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Each Other?
DESCRIPTION:The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined\, from an insider’s perspective\, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement\, especially with racial erotics\, even when used for self-affirmation\, is discussed. So too is the need for  ‘Othering’ and the need for those who have been ‘Othered’ to validate themselves\, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics\, ethics for psychoanalysts\, but human ethics\, valuing of the other\, of our relationship with the other\, becomes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Levinas and his psychoanalytic elaborator\, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine\, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others.  Other prominent contemporary thinkers will be cited\, including Frantz Fanon. The author emphasizes our failures\, including his own.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-robert-waelder-memorial-lecture-can-psychoanalysts-listen-to-each-other/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T220000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T193130Z
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SUMMARY:Vitality in Human Development and Vitalization in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Seligman\, DMH\, Anne Alvarez\, PhD\, M.A.C.P. & Christopher Bonovitz\, PsyD \nVitality might be considered the essence of aliveness. Louis Sander and Daniel Stern drew our attention to vitality as a core component of human development and psychotherapeutic treatment. They were the most visionary of the first group of infant observation researchers\, along with Colwyn Trevarthen. Both were inspired by deep experiences beyond the usual psychoanalytic preoccupations: Sander by spiritual faith\, sustained in his passion for the essential principles of living systems; Stern by a lifelong commitment to aesthetics and the arts\, especially dance\, reflected in his extraordinary eye for the choreography of infant-parent interaction and psychotherapy process. Both were also exceptional researchers and creative\, integrative scientists. From these platforms\, Sander and Stern broke through crusts that had restrained both developmental psychology and psychoanalysis\, reaching toward the sources of human vitality throughout the life cycle. Conference presenter Stephen Seligman will discuss Sander and Stern’s foundational findings about the origins\, development\, and manifestations of vitality\, as well as the implications for treatment. \nWhile classical psychoanalysis has taught us much about the passions\, less explored are the passionless\, often mindless and empty states presented by certain passive patients. In some instances\, according to presenter Anne Alvarez\, these states may not be the result not of a defensive or aggressive retreat\, but of having given up in despair or boredom. Such patients do not seem to be hiding\, but lost; not withdrawn\, but undrawn. Their internal objects seem to be unvalued rather than devalued and nothing much matters. This may affect curiosity and desire\, even the desire to follow a train of thought. Alvarez discusses what might be missing or underdeveloped and ways in which analytic technique may try to address these issues via processes of vitalization. \nThere also is a relationship between human vitality and sense of time. Presenter Christopher Bonovitz uses Loewald’s concept of time in examining the temporal dimension of self states and enactments that emerge in the psychoanalytic situation. This includes looking at the relationship between time and vitality\, fragmented and unitary time\, and the role of imagination in developing the dyadic capacity to contain linkages between the past\, present and future.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/vitality-in-human-development-and-vitalization-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
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SUMMARY:COWAP NA: Women the Longest Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a series of conversations  \nTime: Saturday mornings\, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST \n7 sessions \n2024: September 14\, October 26\, December 14 \n2025: January 11\, February 22\, March 8\, April 12 \nVia Zoom \nPresented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association (COWAP) North America\, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido\, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh\, Members: Anne Adelman\, Janice Lieberman\, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 \nClick Here to View the Program Flyer:\nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf \n1.5 CME/CE per session \n10.5 CME/CE total \nFirst Session:  \nSeptember 14\, 2024\nSession 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution\nPanel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido\, and Margarita Valladares \nNotions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves\, how they are perceived by society\, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of\nJuliet Mitchell’s iconic book\, Women: The Longest Revolution\, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst\, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice\, authority\, and working online.\nVirginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years\, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares\, a psychoanalytic candidate\, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has\nchanged.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-na-women-the-longest-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
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SUMMARY:COWAP: Women the Longest Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a series of conversations\nTime: Saturday mornings\, 11:00 to 12:30 EST \n7 sessions \n2024: September 14\, October 26\, December 14\n2025: January 11\, February 22\, March 8\, April 12 \nPresented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)  (COWAP North America) North America\, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido\, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh\, Members: Anne Adelman\, Janice Lieberman\, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson. \nVia Zoom \nCME/CE Offered \nRegistration Link:\nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025#!/ \nTo see the full list of presenters and session descriptions please view the full program flyer: \nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf \nPresenter Bios:  \n\nCOWAP: “Women\, The Longest Revolution” Presenter Biographies \n\nUpcoming Session:\nSeptember 14\, 2024\nSession 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution \nPanel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido\, and Margarita Valladares \n       Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves\, how they are perceived by society\, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of Juliet Mitchell’s iconic book\, Women: The Longest Revolution\, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst\, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice\, authority\, and working online. Virginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years\, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares\, a psychoanalytic candidate\, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T100000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240909T145838Z
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SUMMARY:Photographing What You Know: How a Psychoanalyst Became a Photographer
DESCRIPTION:Jon K. Meyer\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/photographing-what-you-know-how-a-psychoanalyst-became-a-photographer/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T090000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193129Z
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SUMMARY:Psychosomatics and Psycho-dermatology
DESCRIPTION:Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychosomatics-and-psycho-dermatology/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T083000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240909T145837Z
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SUMMARY:Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:\nDetails of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy\nThis live\, online only\, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician Frank Yeomans\, MD. PhD offers a refresher of basic TFP techniques and a sharp focus on the diagnostic phase of treatment with implementation of the TFP Contract\, including the methodology\, reasoning\, and evidence which supports contracting with difficult patients suffering from personality disorders. \nTransference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized\, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). \nTFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience. \nPRESENTER:\nFrank Yeomans\, MD\, PhD\, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College\, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell\, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy\, Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development\, investigation\, teaching\, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/going-deeper-into-transference-focused-psychotherapy/
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T094500
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T193126Z
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SUMMARY:Integrative Couple Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Arthur Nielsen
URL:https://apsa.org/event/integrative-couple-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T110000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240909T145837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T145837Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Is the Object Stupid? Development and Clinical Implications of Narcissistic Disorders in Children and Adolescents
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg\, MD  \nThis presentation aims to review a developmental-mentalizing-attachment formulation of narcissistic disorders\, emphasizing a response to interpersonal helplessness and threats to one’s bids for attachment that is “solved” with a defensive move towards deactivation of attachment and the predominance of the pretend mode.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-is-the-object-stupid-development-and-clinical-implications-of-narcissistic-disorders-in-children-and-adolescents/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T220000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T231146Z
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SUMMARY:Words to Live by: Personal and Cultural Origins of Imagination and Self in Language
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeanine M. Vivona\, PhD \nWe tend to think of language as an abstract system that is imposed upon us from outside. Yet\, as Hans Loewald knew\, language is also an inner system\, one that is learned from particular others in particular lived moments\, one that is idiosyncratic and inherently relational. Indeed\, every person’s language enacts and conveys the ways that person has experienced the potentials of language for imagining and construing self and world. This deeply personal imagining of self and world is what we encounter when we engage in the therapeutic talking that is psychoanalysis. \nIn this lecture\, I explore the early roots of this imaginative capacity of language in the ways that parents speak with their infants\, drawing on empirical infant research to stir our imagination. An exploration of both individual and cultural differences in early language experience enriches our understanding of the meanings that are inherent in psychoanalytic talking\, as well as the versions of self and language we encounter in our therapeutic 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. \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/words-to-live-by-personal-and-cultural-origins-of-imagination-and-self-in-language/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T213000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T202500Z
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SUMMARY:"Let's Dance!":  Origins\, Development\, and Implications of Vitality
DESCRIPTION:Vitality is considered a manifestation of life\, of being alive (Stern\, 2010). While most of us have an embodied\, intuitive sense of aliveness or deadness in our daily interactions and clinical processes\, few of us have systematically studied the concept of vitality. Though the concept remains largely undertheorized in psychoanalysis\, there is some available literature on the topic. Study group members will read and discuss articles about forms of vitality\, its developmental origins in rhythm\, motion\, temporality\, affect attunement\, etc.\, and the implications of vitality\, or lack of vitality\, in our clinical process. The group registration will be limited to 23 people (the number who can be seen on one computer screen along with the facilitators)\, in order to facilitate a lively engagement (vitality!) in our discussions. Group participants are encouraged to share case examples from their own practices. Journal articles will be sent to participants. Participants must obtain their own copies of Daniel Stern’s book\, Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology\, the Arts\, Psychotherapy\, and Development (Oxford\, 2010). \nA Note from the HPS Program Chair: This study group is intended to provide a foundational understanding of the concept of vitality in psychoanalysis. The concept of vitality underlies virtually all of our programs this year\, most directly the following: (1) a conference and panel discussion on 9/14/24 addressing vitality in human development and vitalization in psychoanalytic treatment\, featuring Stephen Seligman\, Anne Alvarez\, and Christopher Bonovitz\, (2) a conference on vitality as a theoretical and technical parameter in psychoanalysis by Giuseppe Civitarese on 10/19/24\, and (3) a book discussion on 02/20/25 of Vitalization in Psychoanalysis\, edited by Amy Schwartz Cooney and Rachel Sopher.***JoAnn Ponder\, PhD \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lets-dance-origins-development-and-implications-of-vitality/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T133000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240229T171149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T192419Z
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SUMMARY:Connections And Conversation: Ferenczi on Gender and Sexuality: Prelude To Laplanche – Adrienne Harris\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris\, Ph.D.: In this talk\, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook\, in which trauma\, regression\, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse\, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32)\, I will draw on his work on sexuality\, his book Thalassa (2018) and on a later paper on the devastation of early neglect and trauma\, “The Unwelcome Child and his Death Instinct” (1929). In addition to these papers\, I link Ferenczi’s work on trauma to his paper on war neuroses (Ferenczi 1928; Harris\, 2018). In this presentation\, I hope to illuminate the originality and modernity of Ferenczi’s views on sexuality and the great difficulty they caused Freud.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-ferenczi-on-gender-and-sexuality-prelude-to-laplanche-adrienne-harris-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T220000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T201321Z
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SUMMARY:Suicidality: Learning from the Personal Experience of Suicidal People
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe Cirio\, MSW\, LCSW: William Styron vividly recounts the experience of his suicidal depression while suffering a breakdown in mid-life\, in his small book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. Styron’s material will be a large part of the narrative basis for the class\, which will be augmented with psychoanalytic theoretical material on the precipitants of suicide. We will examine the subjective experience of suicidality\, and the particular stressors this causes for clinicians treating such persons. \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/suicidality-learning-from-the-personal-experience-of-suicidal-people/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T140000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240814T193125Z
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SUMMARY:What Then Must We Do? Social Work Ethics in a Time of Moral Injury
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe Cirio\, MSW\, LCSW: In a world where there is a high level of strife and anxiety\, and seemingly endless conflict\, including war\, ethnic violence\, sexism and gender attacks\, open displays of hostility within the United States\, and the rapidly changing climate\, the question arises what should we do? How does one in the mental health profession handle their own responses to these traumatizing events\, and how do we assist those who seek our help? In this course we will look at the usefulness of clinical work\, and specifically psychoanalytic thinking as a vehicle for the containment of strife and anxiety for our patients\, and for ourselves. We will consider the question of an ethical stance within the psychotherapeutic setting for facilitating the patient’s reconciliation with the impact of uncertainty in the world on their mental health. \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/what-then-must-we-do-social-work-ethics-in-a-time-of-moral-injury/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T133000
DTSTAMP:20260712T165901
CREATED:20240229T171149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T192550Z
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SUMMARY:Connections And Conversation: Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want From Therapy – Linda Michaels\, PsyD\, MBA
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event with Linda Michaels\, PsyD\, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics\, social justice\, the natural world\, and public health. It is vitally important for our practices and communities to be informed about what people are looking for in mental health treatment\, and how they think and feel about the therapies we offer. Therapies of depth\, insight\, and relationship have been missing from\, if not pushed out of\, the public conversation on mental health treatment. After decades of attack from multiple fronts\, these therapies are misunderstood\, undervalued\, and overlooked by the general public. To assess what people know about therapy and mental health and what they really want from treatment\, the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) conducted extensive original research with the general public. From this innovative and unprecedented effort to “listen” to the public\, we learned about the attitudes and expectations people have towards therapy\, which benefits matter most\, what their misperceptions and biases are\, and what they know and don’t know about mental health and therapy. This presentation will share the findings from PsiAN’s qualitative and quantitative research\, which was conducted both at the cusp of the pandemic and again several years into the pandemic. The presentation will also offer a blueprint for engaging and communicating with the public\, so that the public gains greater awareness\, understanding and appreciation for therapies of depth\, insight\, and relationship.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-going-beneath-the-surface-what-people-want-from-therapy-linda-michaels-psyd-mba/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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