Exploring Transgender Identities: Clinical And Ethical Considerations From A Psychoanalytic Framework with Alessadra Lemma, PhD

Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual) 2250 NW Flanders Street, Suite 312, Portland, OR, United States

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 […]

Erotophobia: Queer Theory & Psychoanalysis

Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual) 2250 NW Flanders Street, Suite 312, Portland, OR, United States

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP

Lost Classics (2): Primitive Agony and Symbolization

Hybrid (In-person: Oregon Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual) 2250 NW Flanders Street, Suite 312, Portland, OR, United States

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 […]