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SUMMARY:Conference - Vitality as a Theoretical and Technical Parameter in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese\, MD\, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo\, PhD \nTerms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover\, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However\, when psychoanalysis attempts to theorize the non-specific aspects of treatment\, such as those related to the person of the analyst\, it becomes inevitable to refer to them. The thesis of this article is that vitality should be taken out of its vagueness and transformed as much as possible into a precise psychoanalytic concept. This can be done by discussing it in the light of Bion’s concept of negative capability and the post-Bionian theory of the analytic field. Every time the analyst rediscovers to her surprise the dreamlike dimension of the session\, she becomes more vital and reinvests in the patient\, the analysis and the psychoanalytic method. Then\, she realizes that she is always a character in the narratives of the analytic conversation and has the chance to try to guess what is happening by relying on her intensified physical or emotional reaction.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-vitality-as-a-theoretical-and-technical-parameter-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
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SUMMARY:City and Psyche: Understanding Cities and Communities as Psychological Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ricardo Ainslie\, PhD \nCities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion\, Winnicott\, and other psychoanalytic theorists\, but also from the work of architects and researchers from a variety of disciplines. This presentation examines the thesis that we simultaneously create and are shaped by the built environments within which we live and 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.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/city-and-psyche-understanding-cities-and-communities-as-psychological-spaces/
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:20240920T120000
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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:20240914T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T220000
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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:20240905T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T220000
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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
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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:20240502T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
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SUMMARY:Trauma\, Polyvagal Theory and Therapeutic Presence
DESCRIPTION:One of the most damaging sequelae of trauma is the loss of trust and security in interpersonal relationships (Fonagy & Allison\, 2014.) When encountering a patient with traumatic interpersonal experiences\, we cannot assume a capacity to trust or to form a safe\, secure attachment. Nor can we assume the capacity to learn or benefit from the therapy relationship because the edifice of trust (epistemic trust) can be so damaged as to make new ideas impossible (Fonagy & Campbell\, 2017.) This evening lecture will tie together three threads of clinical and research work to help identify epistemic hypervigilance\, how to use paralinguistic modes of communication to reach our patients (Gedo\, 1996\,) use marked-contingent mirroring to reduce epistemic distrust\, and open channels of receptive language blocked by fear and attachment insecurity. The foundation of the fear response has been articulated most clearly in the polyvagal theory (Porges\, 2009) and linked with a basic therapeutic presence (Geller & Porges\, 2014) to aid trust and reducing fear responses in clinical encounters. Brief clinical vignettes will highlight these principles for translating to daily clinical practice.\nFacilitated by J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/trauma-polyvagal-theory-and-therapeutic-presence/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T163000
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CREATED:20240416T210209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T210639Z
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SUMMARY:Grappling With Trauma Treatment: Ambiguities Confronting Psychodynamic Clinicians
DESCRIPTION:Treating people suffering with trauma disorders present the clinician with several challenges and dilemmas. How does one diagnose and treat a trauma survivor from a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic perspective? How does the clinician understand changes in self-states\, moods\, and shifting affective states? Are we treating developmental trauma\, or the kind of trauma that leads to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID\, see Criterion A in DSM-V). Is DID real? Some additional issues include working with multiple transferences and frequent enactments\, working with parts who are unaware of their multiplicity\, working through conflict and discord between parts who have co-consciousness\, and addressing parts that are self-destructive and/or potentially harmful to others.\nPresented by Sheldon Itzkowitz\, PhD \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/grappling-with-trauma-treatment-ambiguities-confronting-psychodynamic-clinicians/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20240130T233913Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
DESCRIPTION:When catastrophic events overtake adult lives\, they can often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe–whether a life-threatening assault\, a serious accident\, an act of terrorism\, or a natural disaster- experiences a near fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically survived catastrophic trauma are uncertain that they have psychologically survived the ordeal. Integrating recent findings in the neurobiology of stress and developmental psychology with relational psychoanalytic concepts\, Ghislaine Boulanger\, PhD\, shall describe the phenomenology of Adult Onset Trauma and suggest ways in which to work with it.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-understanding-and-treating-adult-onset-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20240130T233910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T021701Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Trauma and Shame: Clinical Implications
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Dr. Peter Shabad describe how shame results from traumatic ruptures in human relationships. I will describe the developmental trajectory of shame in self-pity\, resentment\, entitlement\, and regret for missed opportunities. I will illustrate shame with a clinical example\, and talk more generally of my clinical values and principles in working with people with shame.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-trauma-and-shame-clinical-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
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SUMMARY:Potential Space and Organizational Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Presented by M. Gerard Fromm\, PhD \nIn January\, 2002\, an annual Group Relations Conference was held as it had been for many years\, and one of its large-group events began ordinarily enough. But\, four months after 9/11/2001\, members could not stay in the room to do the work of that session. Even though the recent disaster was never mentioned\, the group acted as though the public space had become “Ground Zero”\, and they fled to their small groups. The “potential space”\, the space for play\, for a vitalizing sense that something could happen instantly became an unconscious certainty that disaster would happen. The seven or so people left in what felt like the debris spontaneously decided to study the effects of 9/11 on the conference – clearly taking up a piece of work on behalf of everyone: the work of studying how trauma had collapsed potential space. This presentation will examine this question through three case examples.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/potential-space-and-organizational-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T140000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T194220Z
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SUMMARY:Conference - Boys Betrayed\, Men Restored: Consequences of Male Sexual Victimization
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Richard Gartner\, PhD \nResearch suggests that in the United States one in six boys is directly victimized sexually by age 16. It has also become increasingly apparent in recent years that adult men\, like women\, are subject to sexual abuse\, harassment\, and assault.\nIn order to treat this population\, it is crucial that mental health clinicians be aware of the unique challenges male victims face in processing this trauma. This presentation addresses these special challenges. Particular attention will be paid to the themes of male gender socialization\, sexual orientation concerns\, and myths that interfere with men being open about their histories or even recognizing their sexual betrayal. \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-boys-betrayed-men-restored-consequences-of-male-sexual-victimization/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T200047Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Electra: An Early Case of Childhood Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jean Goodwin\, MD \nElectra\, like Oedipus\, is a character from Greek mythology. The founders of psychoanalysis used their names to denote a psychosocial developmental phase. However\, Electra’s story\, like the biography of Oedipus\, teaches us more about murderous violence than about internal conflict. Electra can also teach us something about recovery; she and her extremely abused siblings repaired some of their losses and were able to spare the next generation from ongoing transgenerational violence. This discussion reviews the stories told about Electra in the theaters of ancient Athens in search of ideas out how our current patients can contain and process childhood danger and damage.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-electra-an-early-case-of-childhood-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T143000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T201710Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author - Working with Patients Who Had a Severely Disabled Sibling
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Johanna Dobrich\, LCSW-R \nWorking with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis\, addressing undertheorized concepts on siblings\, disabilities and psychic survivorship\, and broadening our conceptualization of the enduring effects of lateral relations on human development. What happens to a person’s sense of self both personally and professionally when they grow up alongside a severely disabled sibling? This presentation will explore the themes that emerged in the book through a series of qualitative interviews held between the author and a sample of psychoanalysts– all of whom grew up alongside a disabled sibling.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/meet-the-author-working-with-patients-who-had-a-severely-disabled-sibling/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T213000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T202018Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Attachment-Based and Trauma-Based Listening Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This study group is based on a book authored by Carl Shubs\, PhD\, titled Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective\, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self\, Attachment\, Trauma\, and Reality (Routledge\, 2020). It describes a new conceptualization of trauma\, so we can be better prepared to work with it. The book presents a psychoanalytic and attachment-based perspective on trauma entailing a reconstruction of object relations\, an integration with relational and intersubjective approaches\, and their intersection with a redefinition of trauma\, as well as a recognition of how those experiences manifest in the body. It considers traumatic incidents of all kinds and examines how those experiences have roots in normal development and how they are significant factors in the development and persistence of such things as addictions\, eating disorders\, affairs/infidelities\, relational patterns\, and character structure. It addresses our understanding of anxiety\, depression\, crisis\, trauma\, and the relationships between present and past experiences. It also presents a frame of reference\, a listening stance\, which helps us to understand more deeply the roots of how individuals uniquely process the events that confront them and how we can be more effective in helping them.\nThis study group is conducted over 6 Mondays.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-traumatic-experiences-of-normal-development-an-attachment-based-and-trauma-based-listening-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T210807Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Conference - Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist\, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:This event will focus on ideas from Galit Atlas’ new book “Emotional Inheritance.”  It will address silenced experiences that belong not only to us or to our patients\, but to their parents\, grandparents\, and great-grandparents\, and the ways they impact our lives. The clinical tales will focus on emotional material that is passed down from generation to generation. It will discuss intergenerational trauma\, the regulation of aggression\, the power of attachment and the many faces of our emotional inheritance. \nPresented by Galit Atlas\, PhD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-conference-emotional-inheritance-a-therapist-her-patients-and-the-legacy-of-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230922T184514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T213436Z
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SUMMARY:Shame\, Self-Alienation and the Power of Self-Compassion
DESCRIPTION:The concept of self-alienation is inextricably linked to shame. Working with adult children of traumatizing narcissists\, and with others who experience narcissistic abuse\, Shaw’s way of working with these clients shifted as he began to study and integrate concepts and techniques from some of the contemporary traumatologists. What he has learned has led Shaw to place problems with self-alienation\, a condition largely governed by shame\, at the center of the therapeutic endeavor. Shaw will give clinical examples of his work with clients struggling with self-alienation that demonstrate his way of integrating trauma theories and a relational psychoanalytic perspective. \nDaniel Shaw\, LCSW\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and in Nyack\, New York. Originally trained as an actor at Northwestern University and with the renowned teacher Uta Hagen in New York City\, Shaw later worked as a missionary for an Indian guru. His eventual recognition of cultic aspects of this organization led him to become an outspoken activist in support of individuals and families traumatically abused in cults. Simultaneous with leaving this group\, Shaw began his training in the mental health profession\, becoming a faculty member and supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. In addition to his numerous published journal articles and book chapters\, Shaw’s book\, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation\, was published in 2014 for the Relational Perspectives Series by Routledge. The book was a runner-up for the distinguished Gradiva Award. In 2018\, the International Cultic Studies Association awarded him the Margaret Thaler Singer Award for advancing the understanding of coercive persuasion and undue influence. Shaw’s second book\, Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear\, was published by Routledge in 2021. Dan speaks on psychoanalytic topics to clinical societies around the world\, and also conducts consultation groups for groups of three or four clinicians in person and on Zoom.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/shame-self-alienation-and-the-power-of-self-compassion/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T171500
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SUMMARY:Clinical Conference - Trauma\, Psychedelics\, and Psychoanalysis - Part Two
DESCRIPTION:Ketamine and Trauma On the Couch presented by Megan Rundel\, PhD \nIn this interactive presentation\, we will explore the biological and psychological effects of ketamine on mental health issues\, with a special focus on trauma. We will learn about how to carefully and effectively utilize the power of ketamine for patients with different kinds of trauma. Our focus will be on a psychoanalytic understanding of the ketamine experience\, as well as practical information on working with this medicine in our own practices. \nMDMA and Psychoanalytic Practice: A Fortuitous Alliance presented by Karen Peoples\, PhD \nWithin the broad category of psychedelic drugs\, MDMA is considered an “entactogen” for the openness and psychological contact it facilitates within an individual and their internal world. MDMA also enhances relational contact between the individual and others. MDMA releases neurotransmitters and and other chemicals in the brain\, creating a sense of physiological ease and safety while facilitating connections between memories\, emotions and higher cortical functions. Clinical research trials in carefully contained settings have shown MDMA-Assisted Therapy (MAT) to substantially reduce PTSD symptoms in a significant number of participants. With the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA for use by qualified professionals\, psychoanalytic practitioners will likely see increased interest in MDMA therapy among their patients. Clinicians will benefit from an informed perspective on the protocol and clinical process of MDMA-Assisted Therapy. Similarly\, psychoanalytic perspectives have much to offer the burgeoning field of MDMA-Assisted treatment. In this presentation\, the topics above will be elaborated on\, and the therapeutic value of non-ordinary states will be highlighted from a psychoanalytic perspective. The presentation will include interactive discussion on transference and countertransference in referrals to MAT\, as well as risks and contraindications of MAT.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-conference-trauma-psychedelics-and-psychoanalysis-part-two/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T213000
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Trends and Controversies in Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations and Treatment of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In this three part study group\, participants will explore the trends and controversies that have occurred over time in the psychoanalytic conceptualizations and treatment of trauma. The purpose is not to examine history as static and resolved\, but to consider how the prior issues keep evolving\, influencing the ways in which we view trauma\, its origins\, and treatment. In addition\, we will consider new developments that have occurred over time\, such as findings from neuroscience\, which have had a bearing on our concepts and interventions. We will read pre-circulated journal articles and book chapters for each study session. Some of these consist of historical reviews\, while others are classic or contemporary case studies\, in order to learn about the theories and influences on our treatment of patients who have experienced trauma. \nFacilitated by JoAnn Ponder\, PhD\, George Bombel\, PhD\, & various guests
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-trends-and-controversies-in-psychoanalytic-conceptualizations-and-treatment-of-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T171500
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230826T014004Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Conference: Trauma\, Psychedelics\, and Psychoanalysis - Part One
DESCRIPTION:A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychoanalytic Therapy and an Introduction to Psychedelic Phenomenology presented by Jeffrey Guss\, MD\nThis talk will begin with a brief review of the history of psychedelic psychoanalytic treatment in the United States and Europe. Following this an introduction to psychedelic phenomenology from a psychoanalytic perspective will be offered\, focusing on 1) hyper- associative states and 2) drug-induced ego dissolution (DIED). The relevance of these two phenomena for psychotherapy will be explored. \nWitnessing: A Psychodynamic Perspective on How Psychedelics Facilitate the Treatment of Trauma presented by Lawrence Fischman\, MD \nIn seeking treatment for trauma\, the multiplicity of individual preferences and available treatment modalities enhance the likelihood of fittedness between patient and therapist. While many individuals will benefit from prevalent spiritual and cognitive behavioral models of psychedelic-assisted trauma therapy\, some patients and therapists will feel more comfortable with relational models. Here\, I offer a psychodynamic model of how psychedelics may influence the process of witnessing\, which has been seen as central to the psychoanalytic model of recovery from trauma.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-conference-trauma-psychedelics-and-psychoanalysis-part-one/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
CREATED:20230826T014004Z
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SUMMARY:Evening Presentation - Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding and Containment for Complex Trauma and Dissociation - Contending with the Flood and the Fog
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is about interweaving somatic approaches from outside of psychoanalysis into psychoanalytic treatment\, especially for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Dr. Levit is a psychoanalyst who trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE). Developed originally as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder\, SE is rooted in neurophysiology\, biology and ethology. As its name suggests\, SE focuses on the body\, but it introduces ways of working in the body that are quite different from psychoanalytic modes. Dr. Levit will provide an overview of the SE model\, but the focus of the presentation will be on illustrating how somatically based approaches from SE can enfold into\, and enhance\, psychoanalytic treatment. He will present clinical process illustrating forms of responsiveness based on SE. In discussing each vignette\, he will invoke Ogden’s notion of looking at any clinical process from multiple conceptual vertices. Dr. Levit will consider each vignette from the perspectives of SE\, of holding\, and of containing. In so doing\, he hopes to illustrate the synergy when interweaving SE into psychoanalytic treatment. \nPresented by David Levit\, PhD\, ABPP\, SEP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/evening-presentation-somatic-experiencing-enhancing-psychoanalytic-holding-and-containment-for-complex-trauma-and-dissociation-contending-with-the-flood-and-the-fog/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Exploring the Essence of a Psychoanalytic Approach
DESCRIPTION:Join us in this all-level study group as we utilize Nancy McWilliams’ text\, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy\, as a guide to exploring the defining and distinguishing features of a psychoanalytic approach. Through reading and discussion\, we will discuss some of the values and assumptions associated with a psychoanalytic sensibility\, examine key considerations such as therapeutic frame and boundaries\, and explore the “how” of basic psychoanalytic psychotherapy processes. Case material from the text and from group participants will help us bring these ideas to life. We will also consider the experience of the therapist in this modality\, including the gratifications and challenges that come along with our work. Participants need a copy of the book: McWilliams\, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (Guilford Press).\nFacilitated by Barton Jones\, LCSW & Lindsey Hogan\, PhD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-exploring-the-essence-of-a-psychoanalytic-approach/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T190000
DTSTAMP:20260809T013703
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part II: Group Therapy with Chronic Shame and Abject States
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nIn Part II of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nGroup and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy\, anxiety\, entitlement\, and rage may be caught off guard by patients who developed autistic defenses to manage terror\, shame\, and powerlessness. We will explore the abject self as an enacted manifestation of relentless despair. My group work centers primarily on high functioning\, non-abused individuals with disorganized attachment and mild dissociation. Judith Herman suggests that along with terror\, shame is linked to the development of disorganized attachment. Relentless despair and abject states are complex enactments that contribute to failed individual and group therapy experiences because they are difficult to recognize and manage effectively. We will focus tonight on abject states: a neural network which leads to enactment of worthlessness and despair about connection.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-ii-group-therapy-with-chronic-shame-and-abject-states/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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