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SUMMARY:Exploring Transgender Identities: Clinical And Ethical Considerations From A Psychoanalytic Framework with Alessadra Lemma\, PhD
DESCRIPTION: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 with this group of patients to illustrate some of the challenges and adaptations\nto technique.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/exploring-transgender-identities-clinical-and-ethical-considerations-from-a-psychoanalytic-framework-with-alessadra-lemma-phd/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 2250 NW Flanders Street\, Suite 312\, Portland\, OR\, 97210\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T090000
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SUMMARY:The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment\, Trauma and Time with Robert Grossmark\, PhD
DESCRIPTION: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 regulation of self. In this course we will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the safe and robust space within which the fullness of the patient’s internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned such that the patient can be known in the register of illusion\, fragmentation and non- relatedness that are the signature of the residue of\ntrauma and neglect. The emphasis is on companioning and being-with the patient In their particular idiom and register rather than seeking to bring the patient into the analyst’s reality and understanding. This unique therapeutic relationship offers the space for the instantiation of time such that trauma can be located in memory and the past. This involves the un-telling and un-doing of prior “translations”\, personality structures and relational patterns such that being and time can be\nre-assembled and re-integrated.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-unobtrusive-relational-analyst-enactment-trauma-and-time-with-robert-grossmark-phd/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T191500
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
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SUMMARY:Play Therapy and the Virtual Frame - New Forms\, Old Symbols
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/play-therapy-and-the-virtual-frame-new-forms-old-symbols/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T090000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20241203T221147Z
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SUMMARY:White Dominant Norms in Mixed-Race Couples with Adam Rodriguez\, PsyD and Julie Friend\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION: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\nensconced 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 mixed-race children. An important element of a mixed-race person’s racial self-conceptualization and laentity Is derivea from their Internalization or the Interracial primal scene\, whieh can contrioute to a monoracial identification or split object parts in mixed- race individuals when racial stratification is denied or disavowed by their interracial parents. It is necessary when working with interracial couples to not only explicitly discuss their mixed-race status\, but to do so in a manner that allows the couple to explore their shared unconscious phantasies\, projections\, and unconscious assumption of roles in the relationship\, with an increased awareness of how those dynamics are hierarchically\nracialized to maintain white-dominant cultural ideals.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/white-dominant-norms-in-mixed-race-couples-with-adam-rodriguez-psyd-and-julie-friend-lcsw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
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SUMMARY:Lost Classics: "On Bearing the Unbearable States of Mind" by Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm
DESCRIPTION: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 bear what the patient had previously been unable to do on their own. Her thoughtful and incisive group of essays captures the diversity of ways in which patients communicate intolerably painful states of mind\, laying the groundwork for meaningful analytic work when we are faced with these seemingly insoluble dilemmas. The author’s extensive clinical details and sensitive writing style bring to life some of the more abstract Kleinian concepts and lend shape\, depth\, and dimensionality to this particular\nperspective on the process of analytic work.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lost-classics-on-bearing-the-unbearable-states-of-mind-by-ruth-riesenberg-malcolm/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T090000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20241203T221144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T221144Z
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SUMMARY:Knowing What Psychoanalysts Think and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know: Varieties of Transference Interpretation Today with David Tuckett
DESCRIPTION: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\nhighlight the vulnerabilities in each approach.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/knowing-what-psychoanalysts-think-and-doing-what-psychoanalysts-know-varieties-of-transference-interpretation-today-with-david-tuckett/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T233000
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CREATED:20241203T221144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T194542Z
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SUMMARY:Frame to Frame: Film Through the Lens of Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION: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 this course\, we will use some core concepts from psychoanalytic theory to enrich our understanding of four contemporary films. We will also try to consider the experience of viewing these films using the interpretive framework of psychoanalysis and the model of the mind that it offers. The films we will explore are symbolically rich\, entertaining\, and\, like a good analysis\, successful at getting under the skin\, as one of the titles suggests.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/frame-to-frame-film-through-the-lens-of-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T233000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20241203T221144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T044255Z
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SUMMARY:The Work of Christopher Bollas
DESCRIPTION:The Work of Christopher Bollas
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-work-of-christopher-bollas/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T233000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20241203T221144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T043945Z
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SUMMARY:Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION: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 group to understand clinical material from a psychodynamic perspective.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/fundamentals-of-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20241030T024753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T033734Z
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SUMMARY:Erotophobia: Queer Theory & Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotophobia-queer-theory-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 2250 NW Flanders Street\, Suite 312\, Portland\, OR\, 97210\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20240130T234143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T031024Z
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SUMMARY:Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Adam Blum\, PsyD\, Peter Goldberg\, PhD\, & Michael Levin\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION: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 encounter in our work reflect the sensory and emotional isolation of those who remain dissociated from this musical weave of human being. The presenters will use selections of music\, draw upon clinical theory\, and provide a link to philosophy\, neuroscience\, and cultural history to frame a discussion of the musical dimension of our psyche-soma-social world.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/here-im-alive-the-spirit-of-music-in-psychoanalysis-with-adam-blum-psyd-peter-goldberg-phd-michael-levin-psyd/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T230000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20240416T210213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T215211Z
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SUMMARY:Lost Classics (2): Primitive Agony and Symbolization
DESCRIPTION: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 symbolizing what has not yet or can’t be symbolized? What role does the body play in the revealing\, discovering or even constructing archaic aspects of self? These are only a few of the important questions in this provocative\, insightful contemporary re-examination on how analytic work helps facilitate change in which archaic aspects of self are intertwined within our adult experience of ourselves and the world. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lost-classics-2-primitive-agony-and-symbolization/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 2250 NW Flanders Street\, Suite 312\, Portland\, OR\, 97210\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T233000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20240416T210210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T212956Z
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SUMMARY:Bridging Community and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/bridging-community-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20240130T233913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T023615Z
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Soul Murder with Paul Williams\, PhD
DESCRIPTION: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 proposed that the soul murderer is continually murdering themselves\, and imposes on the infant this identification with a murderous internal part-object. So powerful is the projective identification and the introjection that the child yields their true self to a form of death by brainwashing. Less dramatic but similarly debilitating versions of this can occur in perverse relationships in which sadism is a feature. Rehabilitation of a soul murdered individual requires acceptance and recognition of murder\, the absence of a true self and the growth of a self from ashes. This clinical picture provides analysts with an unusual set of circumstances\, which may or may not include psychosis\, but will reveal trauma at multiple levels of experience. How to think about\, and modify analytic technique\, particularly in the countertransference\, in order to listen to a soul murdered person\, will be emphasized.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-soul-murder-with-paul-williams-phd/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20240130T233911Z
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SUMMARY:A Permanent Earthquake Revisited: Reflections on Psychotherapy with Children on the Autism Spectrum with Jeffrey L. Eaton\, MA\, FIPA
DESCRIPTION: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 Autism Center. The essay gives a detailed feel for the therapeutic process while also exploring many of Frances Tustin’s seminal ideas. \nIn Part 2\, he will offer a short essay on what he has observed and learned since writing his Tustin lecture\, having treated several more children diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. His emphasis will be on the details of the clinical process and interaction\, and some of the special challenges in making contact with difficult-to-reach children.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-permanent-earthquake-revisited-reflections-on-psychotherapy-with-children-on-the-autism-spectrum-with-jeffrey-l-eaton-ma-fipa/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20231012T231501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T141924Z
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SUMMARY:Racial Melancholia\, Guilt\, and Repair with David L. Eng\, PhD & ShinHee Han\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Program – In Person in Portland\, OR or Virtual via Zoom (this program will not be recorded). \nSpeakers: David L. Eng\, PhD & ShinHee Han\, PhD \nIn 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 on identity politics have embraced a range of affective states — including melancholy\, pride\, shame\, and anger — as theoretically and politically productive emotions. In contrast\, guilt is more typically attributed to others than assumed by the self. Indeed\, discerning the guilt of others is often a means of proclaiming the righteousness of one’s self. If guilt is the sine qua non for initiating psychic processes of repair in object relations\, how does the repudiation of guilt foreclose the possibility of reparation? More specifically\, how do Asian Americans hold\, embrace\, and repress guilt such that reparation of both the other and the self become impossible?
URL:https://apsa.org/event/racial-melancholia-guilt-and-repair-with-david-l-eng-phd-shinhee-han-phd/
LOCATION:In-person & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T185904Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Clinical Methods: A Training and Clinical Experience
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Abbot Bronstein\, PhD \nThe 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. The project has collected over 200 clinical cases in North America\, Europe and South America. The groups consist of 15 psychoanalysts listening over 2 days to a colleague present detailed clinical sessions. The group uses a 2 step model to first describe the ways an analyst intervenes and then uses that material to describe the analysts theory of clinical work along a number of variables\, from their theory of ‘what is wrong’ (descriptive diagnosis) to ‘what furthers the process” (their theory of therapeutic action). The project also looks at how analysts have conceptualized such analytic concerns like how they use and define ‘transference’\, the “here and now”\, the ‘analyst as a good or new object”. \nThis workshop will introduce participants to the research\, the concepts and the method of descriptive study using vignettes from established cases.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/comparative-clinical-methods-a-training-and-clinical-experience/
LOCATION:Oregon Psychoanalytic Center\, 2250 NW Flanders St\, Suite 312\, Portland\, OR\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20230826T014006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T023514Z
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SUMMARY:When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck with Mary Jo Peebles\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Peebles\, PhD will present on…\nWe 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 include “deadlock\, standoff\, stalemate\, and dead-end\,” words implying resistance\, opposition\, and no-more-life. Systems theory\, strategic psychotherapy\, and strengths-based approaches\, on the other hand\, view stuck places as rich in life and interaction. From their lens\, feeling stuck is not immobility\, it is being vitally engaged at the nub of the very thing that brought our patient to seek us. Through role plays\, clinical examples\, mistake-sharing\, and audience engagement\, this workshop will bring alive the life inside feeling stuck. It will develop a way of thinking\, from a theoretically synthetic point of view\, about elements that make a difference when psychotherapy feels stuck. By the conclusion\, psychotherapists may feel encouraged\, and perhaps wonder\, if feeling stuck is exactly where they want to end up being.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/when-psychotherapy-feels-stuck-with-mary-jo-peebles-phd/
LOCATION:PCC CLIMB Center\, 1626 SE Water Ave\, Portland\, OR\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T233000
DTSTAMP:20260709T061953
CREATED:20230826T014007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T021246Z
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SUMMARY:The Musical Foundation of Being Human: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Duane Dale\, MD\nCourse Description \nIn 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 experience\, those times that stay with us and continue to have an impact\, is used as a powerful metaphor for furthering the understanding of the clinical experience and with an emphasis on the importance of connecting with aliveness in our work. \nTo give a sense of the book and what we will be discussing\, here are excerpts from the preface:\n“Our project explores ways that this Enlightenment (i.e.\, thinking over being) paradigm has permeated the history of psychoanalytic theory and practice as we endeavor to unearth an older substratum of experience that has remained present but obscured.” The authors then go on to list thinkers in the Romantic movement bringing in different perspectives than from Enlightenment\, that included “psychoanalytic theorists like Donald Winnicott\, Marion Milner\, Jean Laplanche\, Thomas Ogden\, and Adam Phillips. With different emphases\, all of these thinkers and artists have worked out accounts of how it is that culture shapes human perception\, thought\, and comportment on the deepest levels of embodiment. We extend this account by proposing that the interface of psyche and culture is fundamentally musical.”\n“The work of psychoanalysis\, in this view\, is to facilitate fuller and freer vibration…\, cultivating and amplifying the idiomatic freedom of each instrument to sing through the chorus of musica humana\, to resound the psyche-somatic energies of being human\, to surf the waves of the weave.” \nAnd a final quote from the end of the book: “Like the best psychoanalysis\, music reminds us\, as Freud intimated in his late paper “Finite and Infinite Analysis\,” that we have to stop\, so that we can go on. It never ends\, Winnicott added\, because we’re never gonna get it\, as Phillips put it. But\, as Bion believed\, we feel more because we know less at the end than we did at the beginning. We are able to enter different frames that are not fantasies. Because they are actually here.” Hence the title\, Here I’m Alive. \nWe will be reading from the book and participants will be asked to purchase it.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-musical-foundation-of-being-human-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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