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SUMMARY:How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series  \nSpeaker: Rhoda Olkin\, PhD \nClients come to therapy with entrenched ideas about illness\, health\, and disability. How they conceptualize disability impacts all aspects of therapy\, including goals\, acceptable interventions\, and the therapeutic relationship. These conceptualizations\, called Models of Disability in the literature\, are one aspect of Disability Affirmative Therapy. The models are Moral\, Medical\, Social and Biopsychosocial models. Most clients have some combination of each model and its positive and negative connotations. This presentation covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model\, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions. The relationship of models to mental health will be discussed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-we-conceptualize-disability-and-why-it-matters-clinically/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
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SUMMARY:Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory\, MD
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Robert J. Gregory\, MD \nEngaging suicidal clients in treatment and recovery is intense and challenging. Clients may state: “I just want to die”\, “Nothing is going to help”\, or “If you discharge me\, I’m going to kill myself”. Therapists can sometimes feel helpless\, hopeless and trapped in the responsibility of holding their client’s life in their hands. In this presentation\, Dr. Gregory will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory\, research\, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas\, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/resolving-therapeutic-dilemmas-in-suicidal-clients-using-principles-of-dynamic-deconstructive-psychotherapy-robert-j-gregory-md-webinar-live-online/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
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SUMMARY:Links Between Childhood Trauma\, Psychosis\, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function\, Transference\, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System - Michael D. Garrett\, MD
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Michael D. Garrett\, MD \nResearch in the last four decades has shown a strong correlation between childhood adversity (e.g.\, sexual abuse\, physical abuse\, emotional neglect) and psychosis\, which recasts chronic psychosis as a trauma-related/stress/related disorder requiring psychotherapy as well as medication. This presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind\, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person’s emotional ailments. The talk will show how transference in psychotherapy can be understood as an inevitable consequence of the Bayesian predictive processing model of brain function and how delusions and other psychological defenses emerge as a natural consequence of the neuroscientific conception of the mind as a self-organizing system.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/links-between-childhood-trauma-psychosis-the-bayesian-predictive-processing-model-of-brain-function-transference-and-the-mind-conceived-as-a-self-organizing-system-michael-d-garrett-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260514T210435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T191948Z
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SUMMARY:Authenticity: An Ethical Core for Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:The ethical codes for mental health professionals are guided by internationally recognized standards centered around core principles: respect for others\, competence\, integrity\, and responsibility to society. Central to these standards is our integrity as a human being\, a professional\, and a member of society\, based on principles of fairness\, justice\, and respect for difference. These codes also recognize the value of community service; ways in which our training demands a certain level of social responsibility.  We are called upon to know our field well enough to make choices that have integrity\, and to engage in ongoing trainings that support our own development within a changing world. And yet\, countering these standards is the anxious insecurity that threatens to make us lose our minds rather than build them\, and to turn to rules that\, in the absence of our reflective capacity\, can become dangerously mindless. We see this\, for example\, in the turn towards using diagnoses\, not to organize our understanding\, but as reified entities that demand specific treatments that may harm more than they help. In that turn\, we lose touch with the most basic principle guiding our ethics: to do no harm. The price of objectifying persons rather than assisting them in enlarging their own subjective capacities is highlighted in this era of AI.  In such an era\, we need to locate our ethics within a foundation that does not betray us – or those we work with – by masquerading behind a veneer of ‘truth’ that has no authentic\, ethical\, human core. Using clinical illustrations\, I discuss the values of authenticity and respect for difference as crucial grounding points for ethical clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/authenticity-an-ethical-core-for-clinical-practice/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T213000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260402T183020Z
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SUMMARY:Xenophobia\, War\, and the Problem of Social Disorder - George Makari\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group\nhosted by the Erikson Institute for Education\, Research\, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center \nSpeaker: George Makari\, MD \nIn Of Fear and Strangers\, George Makari\, MD\, considered how different psychological models – behaviorist\, cognitive\, phenomenological – accounted for xenophobia\, and in the end\, considered psychoanalytic theories of projection to most clearly define the most intractable form of this problem. With ethnonationalism and militarism on the rise around the world\, Dr. Makari wanted to explore the social conditions that fostered such projected hatred. For that\, he turned to Einstein and Freud’s 1932 exchange\, “Why War?”. In Freud’s brief letter\, he proposed a model for collectives\, in which the problem of self-defense and the risk of social disintegration were central. How\, we might ask\, does this model apply to our present?
URL:https://apsa.org/event/xenophobia-war-and-the-problem-of-social-disorder-george-makari-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T135000
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SUMMARY:Matrix\, Environment\, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hannah Zeavin\, PhD \nFrom the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this talk attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The talk thus elaborates a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.”
URL:https://apsa.org/event/matrix-environment-atmosphere-how-mother-became-a-medium-hannah-zeavin-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T135000
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SUMMARY:Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach - Hadas Pade\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hadas Pade\, PsyD \nThis session highlights the need to address the current inequitable access to psychological assessment services by acknowledging and embracing different levels of assessment versus a more traditional comprehensive assessment approach\, and the potential role of various health care providers other than psychologists. While comprehensive assessments are highly valued\, they are costly\, often not adequately covered by insurance\, and not readily available for many individuals\, especially those from minoritized groups. In addition\, one must be highly qualified to complete such an assessment; thus\, supply is short. The current alternatives of a lengthy waitlist or simply bypassing an assessment are unacceptable and in direct opposition to social justice values. Instead\, applying a population health model including a multidisciplinary approach that systematically and thoughtfully offers universal screenings and targeted assessments rather than primarily comprehensive ones along with overall promotion of health and emotional well-being is the way forward. This multi-tiered approach utilizes preventative tools and early detection and intervention applied to more or even all people that can be completed by a range of mental health and health trained individuals. Although not new\, a population health approach has yet to be widely applied to psychological assessment. The different levels will be described including purpose\, scope\, type of providers considered\, and resources necessary as well as advantages and limitations.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychological-assessment-and-access-a-multidisciplinary-population-health-approach-hadas-pade-psyd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T120000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260402T183020Z
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SUMMARY:Dislocated Presences: Technology\, the Psyche\, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
DESCRIPTION:In-person (at the Austen Riggs Center) and virtual attendance options. \nFeaturing:\nBen Kafka\, PhD\nLeora Trub\, PhD\nChristian Thorne\, PhD\nHannah Schmitt\, PsyD (Moderator) \nThe final roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence. What becomes of presence\, intimacy\, and therapeutic containment in virtual space? Panelists will consider how teletherapy\, online rituals\, and screen-mediated relationships challenge and extend traditional psychoanalytic concepts\, including transitional space\, the container-contained\, and the skin ego. \nThis session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment\, connection\, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age. \nThis roundtable is also part of “Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place. An International Roundtable Series”\, a collaboration between the Sigmund Freud Museum\, the Freud Foundation US and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dislocated-presences-technology-the-psyche-and-the-meaning-of-virtual-space/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Austen Riggs Center\, Stockbridge\, MA and Virtual)\, Stockbridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260126T035852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155115Z
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SUMMARY:Race\, Fear\, and the American Way
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lisa L. Moore\, PhD\, LICSW – The deployment of racialized fear as a political strategy has a profound impact on the individuals and communities who are targeted as objects of fear. In our current climate the use of fear as a tool of racialization is an important site for practitioners to consider in their work not solely with clients who are targets\, but also when considering the work of clinical practice. \nThis presentation will consider the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present. While Blackness is an origin site of this discussion of fear\, understanding the application of these concepts may be of significant utility in our current climate to individuals\, practices\, and spaces who may be targeted as objects of fear. This presentation will center the significance of understanding what fear can do to people\, while identifying the necessity of holding autonomous sites of possibility for both the client\, practitioner\, and communities in which people reside.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/race-fear-and-the-american-way/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251009T155528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T160010Z
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SUMMARY:Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dionne R. Powell\, MD \nYasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture \nRacism\, and otherness\, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality\, racism is held in silence and resistance\, inhibiting exploration of this aspect of mind. By closely examining how and where the analyst/psychotherapist locates themselves racially and working through our resistance and countertransference to this type of exploration\, this paper invites us to include these aspects of mind for our analytic use. This paper expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma\, and its intra-psychic\, structuralizing components. Using examples from the creative arts and clinical vignettes to demonstrate how being raced\, as a universal phenomenon\, is embodied and symbolized in mind\, opens a therapeutic aperture for clinicians who may benefit from a psychoanalytic\, intrapsychic perspective on this aspect of our shared humanity.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/becoming-raced-psychic-consequences-of-transgenerational-racial-trauma-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260304T172025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T174231Z
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SUMMARY:Mentalizing Across Contexts
DESCRIPTION:A virtual conference presented by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center\, Yale Child Study Center\, and the Anna Freud Centre \nMentalization—the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ behavior in terms of underlying thoughts\, feelings\, and intentions—is fundamental to emotional well-being\, learning\, and effective interpersonal functioning. Yet\, how mentalization develops and operates can vary widely across age\, culture\, and context. \nThis day-long virtual conference brings together clinicians and researchers\, from three internationally recognized institutions—the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center\, Yale Child Study Center\, and the Anna Freud Centre—for a rich exploration of Mentalizing Across Contexts. \nThrough six presentations\, participants will explore how mentalization can be fostered and supported from childhood to adulthood. The program integrates theoretical insights with practical applications\, offering depth and relevance for both clinical and educational professionals. \nDesigned for mental health professionals and educators\, this collaborative conference offers an opportunity to deepen understanding of the mentalizing process and its implications for treatment\, research\, and wider applications.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/mentalizing-across-contexts/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251009T155527Z
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SUMMARY:Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou\, PsyD \nThis presentation begins with a summary of the theory of overwhelm\, a way of conceptualizing working with intensity and excitation that is not about guarding the self (not about emotional regulation\, not about protecting the ego from the drives) but which explores what becomes possible when one reaches the limit of what is bearable in oneself\, when one follows the exigency of the unconscious. For the clinician\, working with overwhelm is both a challenge and an art form: it requires us\, as therapists\, to make ourselves permeable to our patients in ways that make us exquisitely vulnerable and to take true risks the results of which cannot be guaranteed ahead of time. \nTo illustrate the difficulty\, but also the extraordinary possibilities of such work\, work that rends the self to allow something new to emerge\, Dr. Saketopoulou will discuss the analysis of a Jewish patient whose encounter with the Palestinian genocide raised considerable anxieties and revived questions of identity\, trauma\, and intergenerational transmission. The clinical work–and the presentation–raise questions of ethics\, of rethinking questions of intergenerational transmission and the debts it incurs\, and the relation of the political to the psychic.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/working-clinically-with-overwhelm-the-cost-and-growth-inducing-possibilities-of-undoing-the-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T052635Z
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SUMMARY:Ethical and Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Mental Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catherine L. Grus\, PhD – New tools using artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies with applications for health care and specifically mental health care are increasingly being developed. While clinicians and treatment settings vary with respect to their adoption\, the rapid and pervasive development of these technologies suggests a need for all mental health care providers to have a basic understanding to navigate potential ethical pitfalls. This presentation will describe some of the more common types of technology-based tools available to mental health providers and how they are developed with a focus on how to ethically incorporate their use in clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethical-and-responsible-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-emerging-technologies-in-mental-health-care/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T045821Z
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SUMMARY:Where the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Katie C. Lewis\, PhD – Psychic pain – often described as unbearable\, overwhelming emotional suffering – has been increasingly recognized as a core contributor to suicide risk\, yet its clinical contours and empirical significance have only recently begun to be clarified. This talk will review the concept of psychic pain within the broader landscape of suicidology\, psychoanalysis\, and clinical science and highlight emerging findings that illuminate its structure\, correlates\, and role in the unfolding of suicidal crises. Across both clinical and nonclinical populations\, recent work has demonstrated that psychic pain is not a diffuse or monolithic experience but reflects distinct dimensions of affective overwhelm and perceived loss of emotional control. These facets of psychic pain show robust links with well-established suicide-related vulnerabilities\, including trauma exposure\, greater severity of psychopathology\, diminished psychological resilience\, and pathological personality traits. Together\, these associations underscore psychic pain as a meaningful marker of heightened vulnerability rather than a nonspecific emotional state. In this presentation\, the presenter will review findings from recent studies which show that psychic pain is not only associated with chronic risk but also exerts a powerful moment-to-moment influence on both affective and interpersonal experiences. Taken together\, these converging findings position psychic pain as a dynamic\, clinically actionable construct that may help identify both who is at risk and when risk is likely to emerge. Implications for assessment and intervention will be discussed\, with attention to how recognizing and targeting psychic pain may support more precise and timely suicide prevention efforts.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/where-the-mind-suffers-understanding-psychic-pain-and-suicidal-crisis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260126T035822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T041110Z
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SUMMARY:A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Daniel José Gaztambide\, PsyD – This presentation will use a decolonial lens to review current thinking in psychoanalytic case formulation that addresses a) intrapsychic functioning (Davanloo’s feeling-anxiety-defense model)\, b) interpersonal dynamics (Luborsky’s wish-response of other-response of self)\, c) personality structure (Kernberg’s level of personality organization)\, and d) structural forces (Raque and Meisels’ structurally informed case formulation). Drawing on an integration of Freudian\, relational\, and decolonial perspectives\, the presentation will explore evidence-informed and theory grounded principles for attending to the intrapsychic\, interpersonal\, and sociocultural dimensions of clinical experience. Specifically\, a decolonial approach to case formulation informs how the clinician draws upon specific tools and interventions to attend to a) intrapsychic functioning (defense work)\, b) the patient’s contribution to relationships (transference work)\, c) the therapist’s contribution to the therapeutic relationship (rupture-repair work)\, and d) how each of these are grounded in wider relational and sociocultural realities (“social” work). Put differently\, such an approach to case formulation not only clarifies to what extent clinical phenomena is “due to personal/interpersonal” factors versus “sociocultural” factors (to the extent these can be separated)\, but also helps clinicians distinguish between experiences of trauma and sociocultural marginalization that require accompaniment\, and the defensive\, avoidant uses of such experiences which require confrontation. In sum\, such an approach supports clinicians in being socioculturally responsive to patients’ needs without losing sight of intrapsychic and interpersonal contributions to their struggles.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-decolonial-approach-to-case-formulation-pragmatic-applications-for-therapeutic-and-political-action/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T125000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20260126T035819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T035819Z
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SUMMARY:“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Derek Hook\, PhD – Obsessional neurotic analysands are notoriously good at neutralizing a psychoanalytic treatment. They annul the role of the analyst\, avoid the dimension of the Other’s desire (or lack)\, deny the relevance of parapraxes\, and use free association as a means of defense. Given then that the obsessional\, for Lacan\, is never where they say they are\, that their intellectual engagement with a treatment often occurs at the expense of their participation at the level of being\, then what is it that makes change possible? This paper responds to this question with a vignette drawn from a lengthy piece of clinical work with an analysand who suffered from a series of urinary symptoms. A turning-point in the work came when the analysand\, started speaking\, free associatively\, about a fictional scene in a novel (a scene of an illicit sexual encounter). This (mis-remembered) scene suddenly jarred a repressed sexual memory\, which in turn posed for them a question of desire they did not know they had. Three Freudian and Lacan conceptualizations help illuminate the vignette: Freud’s account of beating fantasies; ‘aphanisis’ (or\, the fading of the subject); and the idea of urinary flow as object a.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-fantasy-i-didnt-know-i-had-sexual-fantasy-as-turning-point-in-a-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251009T155527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T155747Z
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SUMMARY:The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dagmar Herzog\, PhD \nThese days\, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper\, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the seductive appeal of fascisms both past and present. The Question of Unworthy Life resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable that was erotically charged already since the 1890s and inseparable from the promise of libidinal pleasures that facilitated the Nazi ascent to political power. On the basis of a wealth of rare archival evidence\, Dr. Dagmar Herzog revisits this grim history\, exploring also the ambivalent enmeshment of those professionals in medicine\, religious charity\, and pedagogy principally responsible for provision of supports. But she recovers as well singularly courageous counter-voices at every step and\, taking the story into the 2020s\, chronicles the uneven\, protracted battles to establish a revolutionary new image of the human and novel practices of education and care.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-question-of-unworthy-life-eugenics-and-germanys-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251008T220601Z
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Stephen E. Finn\, PhD \nPsychological assessment is typically viewed as something one does to diagnose psychological disorders or to plan for or evaluate an intervention. In this Grand Rounds\, Dr. Finn will discuss Therapeutic Assessment\, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent\, accurate\, useful\, and compassionate. Dr. Finn will summarize more than 30 years of research on Therapeutic Assessment and its implication for other forms of psychological interventions. He will also discuss the core values underlying Therapeutic Assessment. He will also present a case with a video of an actual client.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/therapeutic-assessment-using-psychological-testing-as-brief-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
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SUMMARY:Sun\, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Brin Grenyer\, PhD \nThe Sheila Hafter Gray Memorial Lecture is underwritten by ACPEinc and honors Dr. Gray’s role in advancing the importance of psychoanalytic education. \nThe mechanisms of patient change have been described in detail by prominent psychoanalytic thinkers over the last 130 years. These descriptions form the basis for analytic training and are often grounded in the wisdom learnt from single case studies. Along with these papers on technique is a growing set of empirical research studies demonstrating psychoanalytic psychotherapy across multiple groups of patients is an effective treatment for mental health disorders. In parallel to these traditional therapy descriptions and outcome studies\, has been another form of research: psychotherapy process research. Process-outcome studies aim to discover if patient changes observed in treatment can be understood in more detail using validated research measures applied to empirical data – usually transcripts of audio or video from therapy sessions. This talk overviews 30 years of studies from the author’s and other research groups that includes studies of transference\, attachment\, mastery of self-understanding and self-control\, and emotional and cognitive change. Recent work will be highlighted describing changes in Erikson’s psychosocial maturity conflicts – particularly the resolution of Mistrust and Constraint and growth of Industry and Affiliation studied over 5 years of treatment for patients meeting criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder. A final reflection will be learnings from a subsample of patients who do not improve over time.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/sun-soil-and-rain-research-on-patient-growth-in-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
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SUMMARY:Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Golzar Naghshineh\, MS\, LP\, CGP\, and Nancy Kaufman\, LCSW\, LP – While addressing behavioral needs and surface level fears and anxieties is crucial in helping patients who struggle with infertility\, it is also crucial that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment\, failure\, loss\, inadequacy\, and successful pregnancy. This presentation will address (i) the important role the unconscious plays in infertility patients’ mental health (and how the therapy needs to be a safe place for the patient to say everything without restraint); (ii) new theories that explore how infertility\, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population; (iii) the role transference and countertransference play in helping our patients explore all of their feelings around ART and how the therapist can be helped to tolerate those feelings. Case presentation will be used to illustrate seven psychoanalytic concepts in practice with ART patients.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/working-with-infertility-patients-through-a-psychoanalytic-lens/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251008T220546Z
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SUMMARY:The Pseudo-Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP – There is a type of patient who haunts psychoanalysis from the margins\, never settling into existing diagnostic categories but never completely disappearing either. Variously referred to as “normotic” (Bollas\, 1987\, McDougall\, 1978\, 1985)\, “false self” (Winnicott\, 1960)\, and the “as if” personality (Deutsch\, 1942)\, this patient confounds conventional classificatory schemas because while ostensibly high-functioning\, verbal\, cooperative\, with reality-testing intact and not necessarily any major trauma history\, it eventually emerges that something fundamental – the capacity to feel their feelings – is missing\, dysfunctional\, non-existent. It can be nearly impossible to detect the problem\, not least because an “absence” is its defining feature\, but also because the patient rarely complains about the problem (of not feeling their feelings) either. Whereas under ordinary circumstances\, the patient’s emotional dissatisfactions are the engine propelling treatment forward\, however ambivalently and inconsistently (Freud\, 1937)\, in these cases\, the patient suffers from a mechanical problem of precisely this kind – a disconnection from authentic feelings – that makes the awareness of dissatisfaction elusive and unlikely. \nIn what follows\, I focus on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity. I explore the connection between this unique personality organization and today’s neoliberal regime where disconnection\, speed\, and efficiency are hailed as the optimal features of successful personhood. Our field’s continued inability to reckon with the pervasive problems of the “pseudo-self” makes us complicit with a damaged culture that is dehumanizing and disconnected.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-pseudo-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20251008T220546Z
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SUMMARY:The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence\, Augmentation\, and Psychoanalytic Futures
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Todd Essig\, PhD – The AI revolution is here—and by “here\,” I mean right here in our consulting rooms. Interactive self-help tools are now marketed as AI psychotherapy\, and for many\, they’ve become a viable treatment option. Augmentation technologies for clinicians are readily available\, reshaping aspects of clinical practice in real time. Meanwhile\, patients are forming relationships with AI entities that range from instrumentally useful\, to emotionally resonant and companionable\, to psychologically destabilizing—even destructive. This Grand Rounds will explore the clinical state of play amid these rapidly accelerating developments\, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think\, feel\, and act in response.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-ai-pharmakon-in-psychoanalytic-care-ambivalence-augmentation-and-psychoanalytic-futures/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20250606T002533Z
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SUMMARY:The Paternal Function in Anorexia Nervosa
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tom Wooldridge\, PsyD\, ABPP\, FIPA\, CEDS-C – The role of the father\, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic\, is explored in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa. In these families the mother’s narcissistic investment in her child makes separation-individuation difficult. A factor potentially influencing whether the child goes on to develop anorexia nervosa is the strength of the paternal function\, which optimally helps the child learn how to appropriately deploy his aggression in the service of separation-individuation and as a means of developing “the experience of agency”: the phenomenological experience of oneself as having an intentional impact. The role of the paternal function in developing the experience of agency is illuminated by the metaphor of rough-and-tumble play\, which encapsulates the kind of experience with early objects that facilitates or forecloses the child’s capacity for experiencing agency. In the families of these patients\, the father is frequently described as passive or absent and the paternal function as compromised\, which arguably leads the anorexic-to-be to relegate his experience of agency to his body\, which he subjugates through omnipotent control.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-paternal-function-in-anorexia-nervosa/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20250729T194222Z
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SUMMARY:Trauma\, Identity\, and Development
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Marilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP – The most destructive force waylaying development in children comes from failures in mourning that leave parents unreliably available to attend to the needs of the child\, the type of small-t trauma that impedes growth. Parental failures invite overwhelming experiences of helplessness that become precursors for later feelings of shame\, humiliation and alienation. As Symington (1993) notes: “Narcissism is nearly always the product of trauma” (p. 73). \nIn his early work\, Freud was not thinking about trauma but rather theorizing about how we move from a preliminary self-focus towards appreciating our inherent need for others that underlies both resilience and the capacity to care. That capacity\, as Winnicott highlights\, requires our ability to stand as a separate self in relation to others who can also keep their own grounding. \nRecent psychoanalytic explorations shift from ideas of primary narcissism to focus on Freud’s later ideas regarding life and death drives\, distinguishing between libidinal and destructive aspects. Whereas the libidinal focus is on humiliation at dependence\, the destructive focus is on envy. Destructive envy can be highly organized and difficult to discern\, presenting particular clinical challenges because any change is seen as weakness\, and resisted. Maintaining the self-idealization requires vigilance and deception. \nNarcissism has become a catch-all phrase\, referring to an almost sociopathic lack of care. The psychoanalytic literature\, however\, helps us distinguish between individuals who lead with their grandiosity and those who lead with their vulnerability. Whether the presentation is libidinal or aggressive\, narcissistically-organized individuals pose particular problems in the treatment because of their difficulty in tolerating or even imagining an actual relationship with the analyst as a separate person because of the threat to their own subjectivity. Clinical illustrations will highlight some of the complexities of working with individuals whose development has been waylaid by the trauma of insufficient parental attunement.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trauma-identity-and-development/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20250606T002533Z
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SUMMARY:Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: David Mintz\, MD – This presentation will review the evidence base for harmful meaning effects in psychiatry and some of the common dynamics by which the meanings of medication cause harm. We will explore some of the ethical dilemmas posed by mechanisms of harm and efforts to avoid harm. We will also consider the role of an empowering\, patient-centered alliance and of basic psychotherapeutic skills in ameliorating harm that is mediated by meanings assigned to medications.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/meaning-based-harm-from-medications-clinical-and-ethical-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20250501T214230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T192635Z
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SUMMARY:Treating Psychosis Today: A Lacanian Perspective with Stijn Vanheule\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:This presentation first explores key concepts from Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of psychosis\, highlighting its role as one of several ways humans navigate existential dilemmas such as sexuality and love. According to Lacan’s 1950s theory\, psychosis arises when conventional frameworks for making sense of reality collapse due to the absence of the so-called Name-of-the-Father\, the central organizing element of symbolically structured mental life. When life events bring existential dilemmas to the forefront\, psychotic episodes may be triggered. \nBuilding on this foundation\, the talk examines how Lacan’s later works from the 1960s and 1970s—particularly his ideas on the fundamental non-rapport structuring mental life—further refine our understanding of psychotic experiences. Particular attention will be given to the role of creativity and invention in overcoming psychotic crises. \nFinally\, the implications of the Lacanian model of psychosis for clinical practice will be discussed\, with a focus on ethical positioning\, addressing the unconscious\, handling transference\, and navigating crisis and stability in psychosis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/treating-psychosis-today-a-lacanian-perspective-with-stijn-vanheule-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20250501T214230Z
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SUMMARY:Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Fred Busch\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Fred Busch\, MD\, speaks about Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy\, a modified psychoanalytic treatment approach that addresses patient’s specific problems\, including  symptoms\, personality issues\, relationship struggles\, and behavioral difficulties. The primary facets of this treatment approach will be described\, including identification of problems and their associated triggers and feelings\, and developing a psychodynamic formulation to aid therapists in addressing specific areas of difficulty. Modifications of psychodynamic techniques to target problems\, including use of the transference\, will be described. Values of this approach in managing termination and helping the patient to develop psychodynamic skills will also be discussed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/problem-focused-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-with-fred-busch-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241220T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241220T135000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20241105T032603Z
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SUMMARY:Considering Child Development in Adult Clinical Work
DESCRIPTION:2024-25 Grand Rounds Series \nDr. Theodore Fallon will present ongoing work illuminating a developmental perspective on working with adult patients in talk therapy. This perspective focuses on three different stages in child development: \nDeveloping a core sense of self which in “normative” chronology takes place during the first 18 months of life;\nThe psychic equivalent mode of thinking predominates and the child lives in dyadic relationships in the present moment which has been identified “normatively” between the ages of 3 and 7 years of life\, and;\nAfter a watershed developmental moment\, reflective thinking\, object constancy\, theory of mind\, empathy\, triadic and community relationships predominate in the child’s mind. The child “normatively” has the capacity to reach these psychological capacities by seven years of age.\nAt each of these three stages of development\, growth promoting interactions\, that is\, good parenting\, occur in one of three frames depending on the development of the child. In each of these three frames\, the parent and the child predominantly follow one of three general sets of rules of engagement that fit the stage of development. \nIn ongoing clinical work\, as well as extensive observations of residents’ interactions with patients\, and recent public events over the last ten years\, Dr. Fallon has observed that each adult thinks\, behaves and interacts with others using predominantly one of these three sets of rules of engagement. In the context of a talk therapy\, growth promoting interactions seem to occur when the therapist follows the rules of engagement that match the patient’s. Teaching residents to identify and engage in the rules of engagement that are growth promoting for each particular adult patient has enhanced the residents’ capacity for effective talk therapy.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/considering-child-development-in-adult-clinical-work/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T123000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20241105T032603Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable #6: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Second Half of Life
DESCRIPTION:Part of the 2024 Virtual Roundtable Series\,\nMinding the Gaps: Addressing Mental Health Through the Life Cycle \nErik Erikson outlined specific tasks associated with developmental stages across the life cycle. In Erikson’s model generativity\, stagnation\, ego integrity\, and despair are all potential aspects of development in the second half of life. Aging brings a crisis and an opportunity to revisit and psychically rework all of Erikson’s eight stages. In this panel\, three experts will examine the mental health challenges in the second half of life including: loneliness and the importance of relationships\, loss of physical and cognitive capacities and adaptations to these changes\, and spiritual concerns related to meaning\, purpose\, and approaching the end of life. A crisis may emerge when physical and cognitive health declines\, when stigma increases isolation\, and when persistent economic and healthcare disparities threaten the social safety net. Our three panelists will discuss these issues and ways to address mental health in later life. \nRobert Waldinger\, MD is the Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development\, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst\, author\, and Zen priest. He will speak about what he has learned through the Harvard Study and the importance of social connections and relationships throughout the life cycle\, but particularly in the second half of life. Willard Ashley\, MDiv\, DMin\, DH\, Rev\, SCP\, NCPsyA\, CGP is both a psychoanalyst and Protestant minister. He will speak about developmental challenges in the second half of life and the importance of community and generativity in sustaining mental health. Nancy McWilliams\, PhD will speak about the challenges of physical health\, loss\, transition\, wisdom\, and generativity in the second half of life. Through this roundtable\, participants will learn about the developmental and mental health challenges in the second half of life and what research\, clinical practice\, and cumulative wisdom can teach us. \nPanelists: \nWillard Ashley\, MDiv\, DMIN\, DH\, REv\, SCP\, NCPsyA\, CGP – Psychoanalyst\, Consultant\, and Motivational Speaker in New Jersey\nNancy McWilliams\, PhD – Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology with a private practice in Lambertville\, NJ\nRobert Waldinger\, MD – Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School\, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital\, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development
URL:https://apsa.org/event/roundtable-6-addressing-the-mental-health-crisis-in-the-second-half-of-life/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260818T044314
CREATED:20241105T032602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T040326Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Guest Lecture: Relating Racially: Shifting Between We\, They\, and I Senses of Self
DESCRIPTION:Relating Racially: Shifting Between We\, They\, and I Senses of Self – Michelle Stephens\, LP\, PhD (Live)\n2024-25 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series \nPsychoanalysts and psychotherapists are currently showing considerable interest in\, and concern over\, the relevance of different forms of racism to psychological suffering and to the development of the field of psychoanalysis itself. This presentation aims to address gaps in current practice and clinical knowledge by reviewing recent approaches to the question of psychoanalysis and race. Stephens will foreground her own approach\, using a combination of psychoanalytic theories of large group identity formation (Volkan)\, epidermalization (Fanon)\, and multiple self-states (Bromberg) to offer insights and knowledge for improving both psychoanalytic theory and practice. The presentation ends with a discussion of how a meaningful engagement with black feminist theory\, the field that first theorized the intersectionality (Crenshaw) of our personal and social identities\, would be useful for the development of psychoanalyst’s and psychotherapist’s ability to navigate complex issues around racial\, cultural and ethnic identities in clinical settings.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/friday-night-guest-lecture-relating-racially-shifting-between-we-they-and-i-senses-of-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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