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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T125000
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SUMMARY:Grand Rounds: Transforming Suicide Risk Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Suicide Risk Assessment-Katie C. Lewis\, PhD\n2024-25 Grand Round Series \nClinical suicide risk assessment is often conducted using standardized assessment measures that fail to integrate contemporary theories and empirical findings\, especially those pertaining the importance of analyzing the timing and contextual factors affecting suicide risk. This presentation will support a more nuanced understanding of patient-centered\, ecologically valid methods of assessing risk for suicide in clinical populations\, enabling attendees to develop greater precision and sensitivity in their risk assessment and intervention approaches.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/grand-rounds-transforming-suicide-risk-assessment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T110000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
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SUMMARY:Nourishing the Mind-Body Connection: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for a Medically Traumatized Child with a Feeding Phobia
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Sehon
URL:https://apsa.org/event/nourishing-the-mind-body-connection-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-for-a-medically-traumatized-child-with-a-feeding-phobia/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
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SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-11-14/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241110T183000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240229T171204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T191932Z
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SUMMARY:Connections And Conversation: The Analyst’s Search for Empathy In the Face of Hate – Veronica D. Abney\, Ph.D
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event with Veronica D. Abney\, Ph.D.: This paper presents a description of the analysis of an African-American patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder. It will focus primarily on one year of the analysis when the transference was extremely negative resulting in the analyst moving from a very empathic and loving countertransference position to feeling hatred for the patient. Examples of rupture and repair in the transference will be presented. The paper will also look at issues related to culture that emerged in this analysis\, despite the analyst and analysand having similar cultural backgrounds.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-the-analysts-search-for-empathy-in-the-face-of-hate-veronica-d-abney-ph-d/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T041739Z
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SUMMARY:The Work of Jean Laplanche
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Jonathan House\, M.D: Dr. Jonathan House was appointed by Laplanche to serve on the Conseil Scientifique of the Fondation Laplanche where he has been responsible for translations of Laplanche’s work into English. \nJoin Dr. House as he provides an in-depth introduction to the work of Jean Laplanche.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-work-of-jean-laplanche/
LOCATION:Hybrid: Zoom and The Chicago School\, 2400 E. Katella Ave\, Suite 1200\, Anaheim CA 92806\, Anaheim\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241010T184628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T041324Z
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SUMMARY:Living in the Time of the Great Derangement: Relationships between the Inner and Outer World
DESCRIPTION:During this conference\, four presenters (one biodiversity scientist and three psychoanalysts) will each present their perspective on the complexity of humans’ relations to the natural world and how these multifaceted relations contribute to and might mitigate today’s climate catastrophe.  \nPresenters: Lindsay L. Clarkson\, MD; W. John Kress\, PhD; Donald B. Moss\, MD; Lynne Zeavin\, PsyD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/living-in-the-time-of-the-great-derangement-relationships-between-the-inner-and-outer-world/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T120000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241010T184625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T041039Z
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SUMMARY:Feeling Stuck in Psychotherapy...and What to Do About it
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Peebles: When we feel stuck in psychotherapy\, we feel inadequate\, ashamed\, and hide our confusion. A common reaction is to blame and feel irritated with the patient\, but then we blame ourselves for being irritated. This workshop will address how to break this cycle\, which requires a shift from seeing stuckness as a problem to seeing it as just where one wants to be.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/feeling-stuck-in-psychotherapy-and-what-to-do-about-it/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T003000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240920T210440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T040759Z
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Asteroid City
DESCRIPTION:Asteroid City (2023) has been described by writer-director Wes Anderson as a“poetic meditation on the meaning of life”. Set in the 1950’s\, Asteroid City is a young girl’s coming-of-age story that deviates from one simple narrative line. Asteroid City leaves the comfortable and familiar setting of a summer camp/and opens up to a line of adventure that constitutes a complete interruption of all plans through its confrontation with an outer space alien. Dreamlike switches between different layers of the narrative\, which reflect on one another\, require the audience to question any and all layers of the events\, and penetrate beyond the manifest toward the latent\, meaningful\, content. \nLearning Objectives\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nExplain the importance of differentiating manifest vs. latent content in learning the meaning of a dream\nApply the psychodynamic principle of defensive operations to explain how the dramaturgy of Asteroid City (with its use of atomic testing and space aliens) guides the audience to the writer’s intention of contemplating the meaning of life\nDescribe the mental ecology and function of the intersection in daily life of trauma with fantasy activity and aesthetic function \nPresenter:\nBettina Soestwohner\, PhD\, PsyD holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine and taught literature and language for many years. She is a Research Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she regularly presents in the film series. She taught at the University of California Southern in the Psychology program. A member of the Freudian School of Quebec (EFQ)\, she is in charge of the work of the EFQ in California. She is a founding member of the group SPIIRAL that works on advancing the theory and practice of psychoanalysis today as required by clashes between cultures and civilizations. Currently she is doing research for a project on Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater and questions of aesthetics. She is interested in the intersection of studies in daily life with trauma\, fantasies and aesthetics. \nLuis Vallejo\, MD is a psychiatrist who attended Vanderbilt University on a full tuition Chancellor’s scholarship and completed his M.D. at Baylor in the Houston Medical Center. Beyond Psychiatry board certification\, Dr. Vallejo pursued extensive psychodynamic/analytic training via the Cincinnati Institute\, and is a current post-seminar candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He holds a private practice in Beverly Hills and is a consult-liaison Psychiatrist at Cedars Sinai Beverly Hills Medical Center\, Baptist Health Medical Center\, and Orbit Telehealth.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-asteroid-city/
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:20241108T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T220000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241105T032608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T034955Z
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SUMMARY:Decoupling
DESCRIPTION:Decoupling (2023) is about a journey the filmmaker took to bring back his daughter who was trapped overseas due to US-China tensions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film becomes an examination of his family’s suppressed history of trauma caused by forced separation during the Cultural Revolution.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/decoupling/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T220000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T040518Z
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SUMMARY:Metapsychology: Past\, Present and the Future
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert S. White\, MD\nFrom the point of view of classical psychoanalytic theory\, I will survey what is established as the standard model of Freud\, including drive/defense\, compromise formation\, oedipal conflict and development\, free association\, and interpretation. This is a one-person\, intrapsychic model. Klein’s addition did not fundamentally alter the Freudian model. Klein added a more primary set of anxieties/defenses/developmental structures that allowed understanding of deeper structures/conflicts. She also posed object need as a prime motivation. Current issues include integration with social forces\, an intersubjective model\, and inclusion of poorly or unrepresented mental contents.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/metapsychology-past-present-and-the-future/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T142817Z
UID:20000361-1730977200-1730986200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-11-07/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241105T032608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T033709Z
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SUMMARY:Experiences in Ethical Supervision of Child\, Adolescent and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Special guest Virginia Ungar\, MD\, along with the International Psychotherapy Institute’s Child Combined Program faculty\, Jill Scharff\, MD\, and Janine Wanlass\, PhD\, will guide participants in this special one-day event. \nAre you engaged in child therapy supervision as a supervisee or a supervisor? Have you faced a difficult moment in your supervision?  You are not alone.  Child and adolescent patients are stressful for adult therapists\, and working online brings even more challenges.  That’s where supervision can help us learn about the patient\, and about our ways of doing and being as child and adolescent therapists. \nWe learn from observing our recreation of clinical experience in the supervisory relationship.  When working with children\, the supervisee is faced with the parent’s authority over the child\, which can affect the supervisee’s experience with the supervisor. Working with adolescents\, the supervisee is dealing with turbulence that can resonate uncomfortably in the supervisory relationship. \nHow does the supervisee negotiate the supervisory relationship that offers learning but raises mutual anxiety\, fears of incompetence\, and the shame of not knowing? How does the supervisor support educate\, and respect the supervisee’s cultural affiliations\, essential otherness\, autonomy\, and ownership of their clinical practice? How does the supervisory pair cultivate and sustain a psychic space for truth\, fairness\, and shared learning? \nPlease join us at IPI to share concerns and find psychoanalytic ways of thinking about and dealing sensitively with the dilemmas of the child and adolescent psychotherapist in the competence-building supervisory relationship.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/experiences-in-ethical-supervision-of-child-adolescent-and-family-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T114500
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240814T193306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T040301Z
UID:20000385-1730886300-1730893500@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Micro-processing Love and Hate in the Couple Dyad
DESCRIPTION:Nestor Kapusta
URL:https://apsa.org/event/micro-processing-love-and-hate-in-the-couple-dyad/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241105T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241105T220000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T040035Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Contemporary Models: The Post-Bionion Work  of Betty Joseph\, James Grotstein\, Thomas Ogden\, Antonio Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese
DESCRIPTION:6 Tuesday Evenings – Nov 5 – Dec 17 \nFacilitated by Joseph Aguayo\, PhD\nIn the aftermath of Wilfred Bion’s notable contributions to psychoanalysis\, there have been succeeding generations of psychoanalysts who have addressed underdeveloped themes in his many papers and books. This seminar addresses the succeeding psychoanalysts\, primarily in Europe and the United States who have devoted significant attention to Bionian themes in psychoanalytic theory and practice. We begin with an overview presentation of the various modes subsumed in the approaches of the contemporary London Kleinians\, followed by American approaches to intersubjectivity—and finally\, with the advances made by Italian Field Theory in the new millennium.   \nOne overarching theme in this course is the clinical and historical development of ideas on contemporary technique: we begin with how Betty Joseph took up many of Bion’s ideas\, particularly on disturbed\, ‘difficult-to-reach’ patients—and developed a tracking technique that followed carefully the patient’s subjective experience in analysis. We then turn to the work of James Grotstein and Thomas Ogden\, American analysts working in California\, who creatively amalgamated Klein\, Winnicott and Bion in their theorizing and practice. Finally\, we end with the work of Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese\, with its emphasis on a different conceptualization of the analytic field\, notions of intersubjectivity and increased emphasis on the analyst’s deployment of his ‘waking-dreaming function\,’ reverie and creative use of hallucinosis in the analytic situation. Here\, an attempt is made to pull together psychoanalytic literature that has existed in separate analytic traditions that have cropped up in the UK\, the United States and Italy.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-contemporary-models-the-post-bionion-work-of-betty-joseph-james-grotstein-thomas-ogden-antonio-ferro-and-giuseppe-civitarese/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T044836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T045120Z
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SUMMARY:Nursing + Psychoanalysis Group Mentorship Q&A
DESCRIPTION:The American Psychoanalytic Association(APsA) Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee is hosting an online Q&A session about Nursing + Psychoanalysis. Free to Nursing Professionals and Colleagues interested in Psychoanalysis. \nWith Miriam Lundy\, Brooke Finley\, Sidney Miller and Linda Grey. \nPlease do register (no password required for the meeting):\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdO-vrDIiEtAQcBZXpf9uBhLnZyxaXkt4
URL:https://apsa.org/event/nursing-psychoanalysis-group-mentorship-qa-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241010T184625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T034943Z
UID:20000458-1730552400-1730559600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Preparing for Retirement: Legal and Ethical Considerations (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTION: Embarking on retirement is a significant transition for any professional\, and for mental health providers\, it comes with its own set of ethical challenges and clinical considerations. This presentation will detail the relevant clinical\, ethical\, and legal considerations for the provision of advanced planning for psychologists. Topics covered will include how to identify a professional executor\, managing client transitions\, outlining a framework for ethical decision-making\, and creating a strategic plan for times of uncertainty in the form of a professional will. Dr. Rochelle Perper\, Ph.D. will guide you through the process and provide you with the tools and insights needed to ensure that your departure from active practice is handled in an ethical\, responsible\, and professional manner. \nBIO:\nRochelle Perper\, Ph.D. is the Founder and Principal Psychologist of Therapy Changes\, a multispecialty group psychology practice in San Diego\, California. She is an active member of the San Diego Psychological Association (SDPA) and Chair of the SDPA Ethics Committee. Dr. Perper has been providing professional training courses on topics related to the standards of ethical practice in psychology since 2011. Dr. Perper specializes in complicated grief and is recognized for her compassion and skill in helping clients heal from trauma and working with victims of crime. In addition to her work in private practice\, Dr. Perper provides consultation and expert\ntestimony and review for forensic cases.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/preparing-for-retirement-legal-and-ethical-considerations-hybrid/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: San Diego Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 4455 Morena Blvd\, Ste 202\, San Diego\, CA\, 94117\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="San Diego Psychoanalytic Center":MAILTO:events@sdpsychoanalytic.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T163000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240909T150057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T032944Z
UID:20000418-1730548800-1730565000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Basics of Psychopharmacology
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Mauricio Salvador Garza Villalobos \nPsychiatric medication is surrounded by myths and fears both by patients and even from professionals in the mental health world. Being able to detect when the threshold for a referral to the psychiatrist is an essential skill for everyone who works in psychotherapy. But the work is not only to detect when and how; therapists must have the basic knowledge about how these medications work\, their uses and misuses\, side effects\, and what to look for alongside the patient that reflects the improvement of symptoms so they can guide them to better outcomes in their symptoms and life satisfaction.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-basics-of-psychopharmacology/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T033734Z
UID:20000465-1730548800-1730563200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Erotophobia: Queer Theory & Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotophobia-queer-theory-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 2250 NW Flanders Street\, Suite 312\, Portland\, OR\, 97210\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240920T210439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T034431Z
UID:20000442-1730545200-1730561400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Conference - Imagination\, Interpretation\, and the Analytic Field
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Donnel B. Stern \nIn my first model of unformulated experience (Stern\, 1983\, 1997)\, my intention was to study our capacity to reflect on our own experience; and that meant that the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience needed to be defined by verbal language: My first model held that if you can think or speak about a meaning in the reflective terms of verbal language\, the meaning is formulated; if you cannot reflect on the meaning in verbal language\, the meaning remains unformulated. Now\, though\, I think of the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience differently. Now I think of it in terms of the degree of personal meaningfulness of unformulated experience: Formulation is a matter of becoming someone for whom the experience in question is meaningful. One crosses the threshold into explicitly meaningful experience when one can accept the meaning in question. If one can accept it\, one can use it in the construction of spontaneous\, creative living. The formulation of experience is therefore the imaginative transformation of not-me into feels-like-me. The crucial point is not that particular\, new experiences are given shape\, but that one becomes the new and slightly different person who can shape experience in that new way.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-imagination-interpretation-and-the-analytic-field/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T035317Z
UID:20000464-1730541600-1730548800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Psychodynamics as an Anchor: Navigating Personal\, Social\, and Political Turmoil in Clinical Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Loan Vo\, PhD\, LISW-S
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychodynamics-as-an-anchor-navigating-personal-social-and-political-turmoil-in-clinical-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240920T210439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T032033Z
UID:20000441-1730462400-1730467800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Apology\, Accountability and Repair in Couples Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Ellen Safier\, LCSW | Our intimate partnerships are the places where we are most vulnerable. It is of course these relationships that have the potential to provide the greatest sense of safety and security and comfort that are also the relationships where we can experience the greatest hurt and be most easily wounded.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-apology-accountability-and-repair-in-couples-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240909T145858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T031839Z
UID:20000417-1730404800-1730412000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240813T175633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T142817Z
UID:20000360-1730372400-1730381400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism\, Discrimination & Othering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://apsa.org/event/linking-field-theory-and-systems-psychodynamics-to-enhance-leadership-perspectives-on-racism-discrimination-othering/2024-10-31/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240909T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T030127Z
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SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue\, and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T114500
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240814T193305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T025603Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytical understanding of mourning and melancholia for couples undergoing medical pregnancy termination in hospital
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Leonardo
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytical-understanding-of-mourning-and-melancholia-for-couples-undergoing-medical-pregnancy-termination-in-hospital/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T024942Z
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SUMMARY:“Resistance to AI: Does it Matter?” Presented by Dr. Amy Levy\, Psy.D.
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Levy will read a chapter from her soon to be released book\, On Apprehending the new other: alien intelligence and the innovation drive. This chapter deals with the form change that many of us are undergoing\, owing to AI-driven personal technology\, from humans into ‘digital people’. The metamorphosis will be explored through theories of conscious\, unconscious and cognitive mental life as well as via personal vignettes. Dr. Levy tracks a tendency throughout human history to use entertainment as a “container” for transformation of psychic experience\, and argues that AI-driven digital technology has only enhanced the function of previous ‘entertainment containers’ in joining humanity together through shared states of consciousness. This chapter deals with the question of whether resistance to technology serves any useful function and offers thoughts on how it might.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/resistance-to-ai-does-it-matter-presented-by-dr-amy-levy-psy-d/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240909T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T203755Z
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SUMMARY:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election
DESCRIPTION:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall:\nControversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election  \nPanel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond\, PhD\, David James Fisher\, PhD\, Mark Fisher\, MD\, Debra Myers\, MD\, Peter Wolson\, PhD \nTown Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson\, PhD \nOn the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and American democracy in question\, Dr. Wolson will moderate a Town Hall discussion of the most pressing\, controversial issues\, from a psychoanalytic perspective. This forum provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners to express their opinions about the election as well as a professional space to analyze the unconscious psychodynamics embedded in the issues and affecting the candidates. Dr. Wolson and a distinguished panel of psychoanalysts will speculate about the psychodynamic trends that emerge from the discussion. Participants of every political persuasion are encouraged to attend.  \nThe presenters along with the audience will actively participate in a discussion\, moving from opinions\, feelings and beliefs to a more objective state with greater understanding of psychodynamic implications. The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about “the political issues” and how it impacts us as professionals\, as well as our client population. The program will aid the clinician in identifying and addressing the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying current political issues and parties\, helping us with our clients and our own countertransference issues that may be evoked in the clinical setting.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychoanalytic-town-hall-controversial-issues-in-the-2024-election/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20240920T210439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T210439Z
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SUMMARY:ACP Conference: Donna Roth Smith & Hilda Catz
DESCRIPTION:In this conference\, Donna Roth Smith\, LCSW & Hilda Catz\, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments and then bring participants into the conversation they have been having. Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks a narrowing of techniques. A continuing conversation between experienced clinicians\, working together throughout the year and then sharing their discourse with the conference participants\, allows for a detailed examination of clinical process with children of different ages. These distinguished interlocutors from Buenos Aires in Argentina and New York in the USA bring different training traditions and approaches\, allowing for cross-fertilization at both theoretical and technical levels.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/acp-conference-donna-roth-smith-hilda-catz/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241010T184625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T184625Z
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SUMMARY:Professional Ethics in Clinical Context
DESCRIPTION:featuring Allen R. Dyer\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/professional-ethics-in-clinical-context/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260617T043549
CREATED:20241030T024754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T024754Z
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SUMMARY:Grappling with the Obstructive Object in the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante: A Reflection Based on the Work of Michael Eigen by Marlene Goldsmith\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is divided into five parts. The first part will concentrate on Eigen’s work. The following four parts will explicate each one of the relational areas in dialogue with that work\, focusing upon two protagonists from Ferrante’s Novels: Elena Greco and Rafaela (Lila) Cerullo. It will be shown that the obstructive object is not only an idiosyncratic phenomenon but also one that is interfused within a wider psychosomatic and sociocultural matrix passed down from generation to generation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/grappling-with-the-obstructive-object-in-the-neapolitan-novels-of-elena-ferrante-a-reflection-based-on-the-work-of-michael-eigen-by-marlene-goldsmith-ph-d/
LOCATION:CA
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