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SUMMARY:Inside the Homeless Crisis: What Psychoanalysis Reveals
DESCRIPTION:Concrete life circumstances – trauma\, early abuse\, neglect\, and poverty – shape a person’s path and can lead to homelessness. This presentation by Stuart Perlman\, PhD\, Gerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, FIPA\, and Daniel Farrell\, LCSW\, aims to raise awareness of psychoanalytic and psychoanalytically informed work being done with the unhoused population. \nThe total number of Americans experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024 was the highest ever recorded – 771\,480 (as compared to 567\,715 in 2019). In California\, that estimate was 187\,084 and in Los Angeles\, the point-in-time estimated people experiencing homelessness was 72\,308 in the county and 43\,699 in the city. \nDuring the presentation the three psychoanalysts will offer insight into the unique challenges for mental health practitioners in working with the unhoused\, and strategies for addressing those challenges. Using his poignant oil portraits and documentary film Struggle In Paradise\, Perlman will discuss his striking work interviewing and painting portraits of unhoused people in Los Angeles. Sobnosky will discuss his ongoing 5-year analysis of an unhoused man and will examine the concepts of the “unhoused mind”\, and the “Diogenes paradigm” to help understand the patient’s subjective experience and the analytic work. Farrell will discuss his work with the homeless at a clinical and organizational level\, including his current work as Chief Operations Officer at HELP USA\, which provides transitional shelter and permanent supportive housing to thousands of clients and tenants across multiple U. S. states. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, FIPA is a psychoanalyst and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Pedro\, CA. He holds two master’s degrees in psychology and is on the faculty\, Admissions Committee\, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He has presented at local\, national\, and international conferences\, and is a former member of Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and former Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. \nStuart Perlman\, PhD is a psychoanalyst and training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis where he has been a member of the Board of Directors\, and chairs of admissions and curriculum. Dr. Perlman graduated from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and was a faculty member. He was president of the Southern California Chapter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. He has published many articles in psychoanalytic journals and authored the book The Therapist’s Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma. Perlman has painted oil portraits of over 250 homeless individuals\, right where they live\, collecting their life stories\, art and music. \nDaniel Farrell\, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and Chief Operating Officer of HELP USA. Trained in psychoanalysis at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology\, he is an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College’s School of Social Work\, a published author of multiple papers on homelessness\, and a speaker at regional\, national\, and international conferences.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/inside-the-homeless-crisis-what-psychoanalysis-reveals/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Sorry\, Baby
DESCRIPTION:SORRY\, BABY (2025)\, written\, directed\, and starring Eva Victor\, invites us into the intimate-life world of Agnes\, a newly minted Liberal Arts professor. The unsavory underbelly of academic power dynamics and the sexual transgressions therein\, play out against life’s ever-changing seasons and stages. \nThis off-beat tale\, with its penetrating depth\, authentic psychological sophistication\, and quality cast performances have helped Sorry\, Baby attain a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. \nThe NCP Film and Mind Series is delighted to film critic Peter Ranier and Chicago-based analyst David L. Downing to serve up cinematic and psychoanalytic morsels of thought. \nDavid L Downing\, PsyD\, ABPP is a board-certified psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist\, trained in Los Angeles and now in private practice in Chicago. Nonetheless\, he is core NCP faculty and serves as Chair of NCP’s Progression Committee. He is a Past-President and Fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology. He is a retired tenured Full Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology of the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Indianapolis. He has held the presidencies of a variety of national and international psychoanalytical organizations\, and has lectured widely. Dr. Downing has also been active Fellow and Board member in the American Psychological Association. He is the current President of Section I\, Psychoanalyst Practitioners\, of the APA’s Division of Psychoanalysis. He is the former Dean and a supervising and training psychoanalyst of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago. He is also on the core faculty of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Downing is the author of a number of papers on the treatment of psychosis\, psychoanalysis and film\, and psychoanalytical education\, to name a few. He is the co-author and co-editor of four books on psychoanalytical matters\, including the treatment of psychosis. He was named to the APA’s Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance. \nPeter Rainer is the film critic for the Christian Science Monitor and the NPR affiliate radio program “Film Week.” He is the author of Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 1998 and is a three-time winner of the LA Press Club’s criticism award. For fifteen years he served as chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. He previously served as film critic at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner\, Los Angeles Times\, New Times\, and New York Magazine. He has taught and lectured at colleges and film schools around the world. He also wrote and co-produced the A&E documentaries on Sidney Poitier and the Hustons.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-sorry-baby/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Fall
DESCRIPTION:Tarsem Singh’s THE FALL (2006) explores themes of trauma\, healing\, storytelling as therapy\, and the complex relationship between a hospitalized stuntman and a young immigrant girl in 1920s Los Angeles. The movie is an illuminating example of transference and countertransference within a dyad\, and that it illustrates the interesting effect of the immutable presence of the living other in the room which leads to transformation. It also illustrates the phenomenon of “Reverie” within the shared story telling that demonstrates the useful and revealing nature of that less understood concept of reverie in analytic technique. \nThe film appeared on several critics’ top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four and wrote\, “You might want to see [it] for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it.” He later named it among his top 20 films of 2008. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, is a psychoanalyst and licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles\, CA. He is on the Admissions Committee and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP). He teaches in NCP’s Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program and Adult Psychoanalytic Training program\, for which he was named Instructor of the Year. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. He enjoys participating regularly in the Mind and Film series. \nLuis Vallejo\, MD is a psychiatrist whose private practice Great Oak Psychiatry is based out of Beverly Hills. Beyond managing his practice of multiple clinicians in different states\, he is a post seminar psychoanalytic candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis with interests in broadly applying psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory to business and the arts. He has a burgeoning youtube channel called Wild Man Psychiatry and collaborates with multiple colleagues in the media industry to evolve creative dimensions of his career which are largely philanthropic in intent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-fall/
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Nickel Boys
DESCRIPTION:RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys (2024) is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two African-American boys sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. Shot entirely from first-person perspective\, the film explores institutional trauma\, systemic racism\, friendship\, resilience\, and the long-term psychological effects of childhood abuse. The story is inspired by the real Dozier School for Boys\, where extensive abuse occurred for over a century. \nThe film vividly portrays the brutality and dehumanization experienced by Black boys at Nickel Academy\, a fictional institution inspired by real-life abuses in reform schools in the Jim Crow South. This experience reflects a pervasive and ongoing racial trauma that continues to impact individuals and communities. Examining the psychological toll on the main characters can help in understanding how systemic racism inflicts lasting wounds on the psyche\, impacting development\, interpersonal relationships\, and a sense of self and belonging. \nThe narrative also highlights contrasting approaches to surviving and resisting oppression. Analyzing their individual and combined journeys helps recognize the diverse ways individuals navigate trauma and maintain self-worth amidst systemic injustice. \nFinally\, the Nickel Academy operates as a microcosm of larger societal structures\, revealing how power can be wielded to perpetuate racial hierarchies and maintain secrecy around abuse. Examining these power dynamics sheds light on the interplay between individual experiences and the broader societal forces that shape them. \nDiscussants:\nDebra J. Myers\, MD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. She has a private practice in psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in West Los Angeles\, serving adults and adolescents. She was a biology major at Stanford University and did a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Her training in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine was at UCSF. While on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine\, she earned an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Design at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She trained in Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. There she combined medical training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the human mind. During her psychoanalytic training\, she spent five years as a volunteer telephone counselor at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Crisis Line. She spent two years as an intern therapist at the Valley Community Clinic\, a facility serving the underserved. \nChauncey K. Robinson is an award-winning journalist and film critic. Born and raised in Newark\, New Jersey\, she has a strong love for storytelling and history. She believes narrative greatly influences the way we see the world\, which is why she’s all about dissecting and analyzing stories and culture to help inform and empower the people. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-nickel-boys-2/
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SUMMARY:The IPA and NCP present Work Discussion Group for Catastrophic Situations
DESCRIPTION:“Work Discussion Group (WDG) for Catastrophic Situations” – Martha Harris Model\, Tavistock\nOrganized by the IPA PACE Committee & NCP. \nAbout the Work Discussion Group: \nThe Work Discussion Group (WDG) provides a reflective space for professionals working in catastrophic situations across diverse contexts such as hospitals\, schools\, and community centers. Grounded in the Martha Harris model developed at the Tavistock Clinic\, this approach helps workers process the emotional impact of their roles\, fostering deeper understanding and more effective intervention strategies. \nHistory and Key Characteristics of the Work Discussion Seminar\nInspired by Esther Bick’s infant observation method\, Martha Harris developed the Work Discussion model in the 1970s at the Tavistock Clinic. She aimed to extend psychoanalytic thinking beyond the consulting room into educational and caregiving environments. By integrating detailed observation of professional interactions with children\, adolescents\, and families\, this model enables practitioners—whether teachers\, social workers\, or healthcare providers—to recognize unconscious processes influencing their work. \nThe seminar requires participants to observe and narrate their work experiences in the first person\, fostering self-awareness and emotional containment. The discussion format allows professionals to analyze the dynamics of their interactions\, enhancing their understanding of the intrapsychic world and its manifestation in interpersonal relationships. \nBy applying Bick’s observational method in this context\, Harris emphasized the importance of recognizing emotional factors in professional relationships. This reflective process deepens comprehension of the professional’s mental state and the individuals they serve\, ultimately improving intervention strategies in preventive and therapeutic settings. \nPresenters:\nMónica Cardenal (Argentina) Training analyst of Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association. Former Scientific Coordinator. Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Clinic Psychology and Psychiatry\, Postgraduate Training at the Italian Hospital University\, Buenos Aires. General Coordinator of the Infant Observation Seminar\, taught according to Mrs Bick´s method\, Tavistock model\, Italian Hospital University. Member of the Expert Registry of CONEAU\, Comisión Nacional de Evaluación Y Acreditación Universitaria (National Commission of University Evaluation and Accreditation) Argentina since 2014. Chair of IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic Assistance in Crises and Emergencies (PACE). Consultant of IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP). Academic Advisor and supervisor of the work program with street children and young refugees in Puebla\, Mexico\, Fundación JUCONI since 2010. Author of international publications and guest lecturer in several countries. Co-author and Co-editor of the books: “Territorios postkleinianos. Una actualización de la tarea Psicoanalítica”\, Teseo\, Buenos Aires\, 2020 and “The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic task. Psychoanalysis with Children\, Adolescents and their Families” IPA\, COCAP and Routledge\, London and New York 2022. \nDr. Jeanne Magagna (UK) is a Child\, Adolescent\, and Family Psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience in child mental health. She has significantly contributed to understanding and treating children and families\, particularly in high-needs and emotionally complex environments. She led the Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London for 24 years\, specializing in self-harm\, psychosis\, and eating disorders in children. Her extensive clinical experience also includes working with non-verbal\, non-mobile children with feeding difficulties. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London\, where Esther Bick\, the founder of the infant observation method\, taught her. \nThroughout her career\, Dr. Magagna has taught Infant Observation worldwide. She believes observing babies can profoundly transform our understanding of children and their families. This work has led to the creation of a specialized nursery in Rome and the publication of Being Present for Your Nursery-Age Child. She has also published several influential books\, including The Silent Child: Communication without Words\, which focuses on nonverbal communication in children\, and Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Young People with Eating Disorders. Additionally\, Dr. Magagna is the Joint Editor of various books\, including Intimate Transformations: Babies with Their Families\, Psychotherapy with Families\, and Contemporary Child Psychotherapy. She regularly teaches internationally and has been featured in the Mind in Mind interview series with Jane O’Rourke on YouTube. Dr. Magagna’s career reflects her deep commitment to advancing psychoanalytic thinking and its application in clinical practice\, particularly in child development\, emotional understanding\, and early intervention. \nInterview by Mind in Mind: https://mindinmind.org.uk/interviews/jeanne-magagna/?utm_source=chatgpt.com \nPACE Member Participant: \nSylvia de Egea (Paraguay) is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst specializing in adults\, children\, and adolescents. A member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)\, she serves as the Vice President of the Psychoanalytic Association of Asunción (APdeA) and teaches at its institute. She is an active member of the PACE Committee representing Latin America. With a longstanding commitment to humanitarian efforts\, Silvia was a Red Cross volunteer for many years\, during which she became qualified to train Support Psychosocial Trainers. She currently maintains a private practice in Asunción\, Paraguay.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-ipa-and-ncp-present-work-discussion-group-for-catastrophic-situations/
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