Oregon Psychoanalytic Center

Instructor: Duane Dale, MD Course Description In these nine monthly seminars, we will be discussing the book, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis, written by Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin. In my reading of this book, much of the exciting growth in psychoanalytic perspectives is captured and synthesized. The musical […]

Mary Jo Peebles, PhD will present on... We have all felt stuck as therapists. This may be difficult to admit (and seldom do we tell our patients). But rest assured, the experience is universal. Feeling stuck has been discussed in traditional psychoanalytic settings as being stuck; i.e., a point of non-movement, or “impasse,” whose synonyms […]

Presenter: Abbot Bronstein, PhD The Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party Group started by David Tuckett and a group of European Psychoanalysts and brought to APsA and NapSac IPA institutes by Abbot Bronstein about 17 years ago, is a way to explore and study the implicit and explicit clinical methods psychoanalysts use in doing clinical psychoanalysis. […]

Hybrid Program - In Person in Portland, OR or Virtual via Zoom (this program will not be recorded). Speakers: David L. Eng, PhD & ShinHee Han, PhD In this workshop, we will consider how social and psychic processes of loss for Asian Americans are mediated, mitigated, and exacerbated by the problem of guilt. Scholars working […]

This event will be presented in two parts. In Part 1, Jeff L. Eaton, MA, FIPA will read his 2006 Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture titled "A Permanent Earthquake: Notes on the Treatment of a Young Boy". This paper describes in detail the psychoanalytic treatment of a boy diagnosed with Autism by the University of Washington […]

Soul Murder is a crime, not a diagnosis, Leonard Shengold argues. It comprises a particularly toxic combination of chronic abuse (sexual, physical or emotional), and extreme neglect of a child's healthy developmental needs. In this presentation, the history of soul murder will be considered together with clinical accounts and examples from literature. It will be […]

This course will offer an introduction to Community Psychoanalysis, with a focus on the experiences of clinicians working in community settings in the midst of sociocultural changes. The course aims to foster mutual dialogue and learning between community-based clinicians and leaders and members of the psychoanalytic community. CE.

In the seventh installment of "Lost Classics," we will be taking a close look at Rene Roussillon's "Primitive Agony and Symbolization. " How are archaic experiences present in the adolescent and adult mind? What role does "interpretation" play in making contact with these primitive parts of ourselves? Does symbolization help? How might we think about […]

This panel will explore how music comprises the forms of collective living in which the body finds its place in psychical life. The presentations will describe the ways that the vitality of the psychoanalytic clinical process depends at all times on this background quality of shared music, and how many of the contemporary maladies we […]

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP

This series of ten bimonthly meetings is designed to meet the needs of clinicians interested in incorporating psychodynamic concepts and techniques into their clinical practice. This course will have a clinical focus and will provide an opportunity for participants to hear and discuss case material e will apply the technique of free association as a […]

The Work of Christopher Bollas

From the start, the craft of filmmaking has been intertwined with psychoanalysis. Both were developed around the turn of the 20th century, and both involve, in practice, a fair amount of art as well as science. Perhaps most importantly, film and psychoanalysis share preoccupations with creativity, viewing and listening, primal desires, and primal fears. In […]

Professor David Tuckett will present on using a new theoretical framework for comparative analysis in psychoanalytic work, David will explore the different ways transference is understood, detected, and interpreted by different psychoanalysts practicing today and attempt to highlight the vulnerabilities in each approach.

What makes a thought or feeling unbearable and how might psychoanalytic psychotherapy help us understand how our patients are able to bear (or avoid bearing) unbearable states of mind? In this group of clinically-driven essays, the Chilean psychoanalyst, Riesenberg-Malcolm examines how we think about what is unbearable and what it means for the therapist to […]

In this workshop, we will consider how discussions of race are avoided in interracial couples. The interracial couple's dissociation from racial stratification leaves the couple ensconced in the paranoid-schizoid position, where Internal and external pressures contribute to the couble enacting a monoracial identification aligned with white dominant norms. These racialized dynamics have an impact on […]

This series of four meetings is designed to meet the needs of clinicians interested exploring on- line aspects of child play psychotherapy and incorporating these psychodynamic concepts and techniques into their clinical practice with children. This course will have a clinical focus and will provide an opportunity for participants to hear and discuss case material.

Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This course will address the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. These patients often suffer disturbances in the area of self- other definition, continuity and […]

In this seminar Dr. Lemma will critically review how psychoanalysis has approached the question of transgender identities and the challenges that have been proposed to the classical psychoanalytic understanding. She will introduce some key ethical points that are important for therapists working in this area. Finally, she will share some of her own clinical work […]