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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Todd Essig\, Phd and Oscar Hills\, MD. Generative AI\, especially chatbots\, presents psychoanalysis with tremendous promise and significant peril. While some benefit tremendously from their AI relationships\, others sink into delusion\, and for most they threaten to flatten inner life\, externalizing what has always been internal. Plus\, so called “therapy-bots” are on the near horizon with both promise and peril. Overall\, if you’re not at least a little anxious about AI’s transformations to self-experience\, intimate relationships and professional life\, you’re not paying enough attention. But anxiety need not lead to denial\, retreat\, panic or paralysis. This presentation offers a path toward active\, informed\, and hopeful engagement on the side of human needs\, psychoanalytic values\, and affirming life. It argues that hope\, not fear\, should drive our response. Active participation combined with critical\, contemplative\, and deeply psychoanalytic engagement can secure not just survival but a thriving psychoanalysis for the AI age. Three dimensions of this AI-age psychoanalytic activism will be explored. First\, why hope provides the essential foundation for AI-age psychoanalytic activism in our moment of accelerating technological transformation. Second\, how to develop the procedural knowledge necessary for authentic psychoanalytic engagement with these technologies so one can move beyond abstract fantasies to embodied understanding. Finally\, a new framework of “techno-subjunctivity” for understanding the unique qualities of chatbot intimacies will illustrate what it looks like to practice hopeful\, AI-age psychoanalytic activism.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-and-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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SUMMARY:On Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In their presentation\, “On Trauma\,” Drs. Betsy Brett and Sid Phillips will explore how Freud tried to understand where emotional and psychological problems come from. From early on\, he asked whether people’s symptoms grow mainly out of painful life experiences (trauma) or out of inner conflicts and instinctual wishes (drives)\, and he described these questions using ideas about how mental energy is organized in conscious and unconscious life. Over the years he repeatedly revised how he thought these inner processes work and how they relate to the causes of suffering. This presentation will focus on why those debates still matter in the consulting room today—especially whether problems rooted in trauma differ in important ways from those rooted in inner conflict\, and whether each may call for a different therapeutic approach. Rich\, detailed clinical examples will illustrate these ideas and show how they play out in therapeutic encounters
URL:https://apsa.org/event/on-trauma/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person: 255 Bradley St\, New Haven\, CT & Virtual\, New Haven\, CT\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org
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SUMMARY:Tender Mercies: Introducing Memoir in Prison Settings
DESCRIPTION:This 5 week course\, taught by Gretchen Hermes\, MD\, PhD\, offers an exploration of memoir writing as a therapeutic tool within prison settings. Through writing exercises\, guided reflection\, and psychoanalytic insights\, participants will examine themes of transformation\, conscience\, trauma\, creativity\, and social change. Readings will include excerpts from “The House of the Dead” by Dostoevsky; “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness” by Simon Wiesenthal; “The Man Died” by Wole Soyinka\, “Orange is the New Black” by Piper Kerman; and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” The course is structured to help participants gain a deeper understanding of the psychological and emotional impact of incarceration\, as well as to create practical\, therapeutic resources for use in jails and prisons. Instructors and healthcare professionals will work collaboratively to develop a workbook that integrates prompts addressing themes such as internal conflict and enactment\, the development of conscience and moral reckoning\, drives and desires\, insight and self-awareness\, projective identification\, and forgiveness and repair.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/tender-mercies-introducing-memoir-in-prison-settings/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T160000
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SUMMARY:Childhood Bereavement: An Analysis of a Six-Year-Old Girl Who Experienced Loss
DESCRIPTION:Felecia Powell-Williams\, Ed.D.\, LPC-S\, RPT/S presents a case presentation with a focus on clinical material of a four-year analysis that has continued therapeutically from childhood into adulthood\, and her early attachment disruptions in relationship with her mother and father.  The presentation will illustrate the internal conflicts concerning a difficulty with aggression surrounding traumatic loss of the maternal object and explore the relationship throughout the analytic process.  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/childhood-bereavement-an-analysis-of-a-six-year-old-girl-who-experienced-loss/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org
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