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SUMMARY:APM Scientific Meeting - The Disabling Object
DESCRIPTION:Disability remains among the least theorized subjects in psychoanalysis. This is notable but not surprising: the relational anxiety that disability provokes in the non-disabled is pervasive\, and psychoanalysts are not exempt. This paper introduces the concept of the disabling object — a persecutory internal structure through which social prejudice and structural ableism are psychically internalized and perpetuated. Integrating psychoanalytic ideas on racism\, anxiety\, and object relations with insights from critical disability studies\, the paper explores how disability becomes a site of projected anxiety and disavowed vulnerability\, shaping internal\, interpersonal\, and social experience. Through theoretical elaboration and clinical and personal vignettes\, the disabling object is shown to obstruct symbolization\, foreclose grief\, and reproduce social hierarchies within the mind. Psychoanalysis\, Dr. Crosby argues\, must confront its own ableist investments to help clinicians sustain contact with psychic pain and difference as generative rather than annihilating.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apm-scientific-meeting-the-disabling-object/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice w/ Kirkland Vaughans\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The APM is honored to present the second Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice\nThis Lecture brings to the APM/Columbia community speakers who apply psychoanalytic theory or practice to socially\, racially and culturally diverse community contexts and honors the life and work of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence. \nWhiteness and the Psychoanalytic Frame\nKirkland Vaughans\, PhD\nFebruary 10\, 2026\n8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Eastern Time \nDr. Vaughans has been at the forefront in helping white American psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to acknowledge and struggle to manage our racial bias. In this Lecture\, Dr. Vaughans attempts to examine the findings of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2023) through the lens of the Latin American psychoanalyst Jose Bleger and his notion of the psychoanalytic frame. The mission of the Holmes Commission was to assess systemic racism within psychoanalytic training and its entrenched impact on theory and practice. However\, Bleger discredited the traditional focus on breaches and ruptures of the frame. Instead\, he proposed scrutinizing the frame when everything is going smoothly\, believing that absence of perceptible issues may obscure underlying tensions or that systemic problems may be going on unnoticed. \n  \nKirkland Vaughans\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A training and supervising analyst of IPTAR\, he is also on faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program. Dr. Vaughans is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is a Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant\, Child\, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at numerous conferences and panel discussions on white racism\, generational trauma among African Americans\, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of color\, and is a subject of the documentary\, “Your Mum and Dad.” A founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, Dr. Vaughns was a member of the Holmes Commission of APsA and is the recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of the American Psychological Association\, Div. 39. \nDiscussant:\nDr. Dionne Powell is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at our own Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). She is Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Columbia and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYPH/Weill Cornell. She served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equity in American Psychoanalysis and currently serves on the IPA Board as North American Representative. Dr. Powell has written and presented extensively on a range of issues with her most recent contribution\, (2025) Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She gave the inaugural Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture (March 2022) and is the recipient of many awards for her work\, including the 2026 APsA Sabshin Teaching award. She is in full-time private practice in NYC.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-margaret-morgan-lawrence-lecture-for-social-justice-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:Beating an Undead Horse: Toward a Conceptualization of Nuisance in the Analytic Process
DESCRIPTION:Winnicott brilliantly grasped the child’s nuisance-making as a bid for assurance of the parent’s reliability. Some adult patients continue their patterns of nuisance-making in ways that can be annoying to others\, including the analyst. Dr. Cooper explores the work that the analyst must do on behalf of his patient to transform countertransference annoyance into meaningful interpretive responsiveness. This work requires the analyst to metabolize the affects expressed that are challenging for the patient to contain. Together\, patient and analyst live for periods of time in a nuisance-making climate\, one that is demanding for both patient and analyst. \nSteven H. Cooper\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Columbia Univ. Psychoanalytic Center. He holds Clinical Professorships at Columbia P&S and at New York Univ. Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He has recently been the Visiting Erik Erikson Senior Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr Cooper is the author or editor of eight books in psychoanalysis. His most recent books: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis\, (2023) and Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective\, (2025); and Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing and Dreaming and Beyond\, co-edited with Christopher Lovett (2025). \nMatthew Shaw\, PhD\, is an adult\, child and adolescent psychoanalyst\, teaches at the Yale Univ. School of Medicine and is a training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven\, CT\, where he chairs the child and adolescent training program. He has published broadly\, including a book on Hans Loewald. He gave the plenary at the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and the Beata Rank Lecture at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/beating-an-undead-horse-toward-a-conceptualization-of-nuisance-in-the-analytic-process/
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SUMMARY:Erotic Entanglements in the Search to Be and Belong: Traversing the Forcefield of Dependency and Desire
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic clinicians often encounter the complexities of erotic transference and countertransference\, yet struggle with conceptual frameworks and language that adequately capture these intense\, often ambiguous experiences. Traditional models can obscure the subtle intersubjective and developmental meanings of erotic material\, resulting in impasses or missed therapeutic opportunities. \nThis presentation aims to expand clinicians’ capacity to think about and work with erotic dynamics that emerge within the analytic dyad. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic theory\, particularly relational and developmental perspectives\, Dr. Schoen will examine how erotic experiences in the transference may reflect unconscious longings for recognition\, repair\, and vitality. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotic-entanglements-in-the-search-to-be-and-belong-traversing-the-forcefield-of-dependency-and-desire-2/
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