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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:Hoarding the Future: Generational Anxieties and Their Implication for Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Through panel presentations and large and small group discussions\, this program will address the nature of generational anxieties (parricidal\, filicidal\, and siblicidal) as these emerge in the varying aspects of psychoanalytic institutions. \nPresenters Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez will share reflections from their clinical work as well as from supervisory and other collegial relationships\, to address the impact of these anxieties as they lead to resistances to progression\, succession\, and diversification of learning opportunities. \nAttendees will be invited to engage with the presenters and with one another to grapple with the vicissitudes of psychoanalytic training as these also parallel other sites of systemic breakdown when confronted with diverse identities that come to represent a threat to the status quo. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which erotic dimensions of cross-generational dynamics may get obscured by more conflictual and destructive enactments. \nBy interrogating and exploring the complex sociocultural and generational dynamics that are enacted in psychoanalytic training and in psychoanalytic treatment\, these presentations will invite learners to reflect on their own training experiences – both as student and teacher\, supervisee and supervisor – in order to think more critically about how this impacts the clinical care they provide to their patients\, including with respect to therapeutic interventions that may be overlooked due to unconscious allegiances to figures on whom learners depend. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst\, in 2014 becoming only the 5th openly LGBT APsaA TA/SA . He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsaA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he has previously chaired. At the New Center for Psychoanalysis\, he is a member of the Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee\, the Education Committee and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California. He has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-generational-anxieties-and-their-implication-for-psychoanalytic-training-and-treatment/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hoarding the Future:  A Panel with Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez
DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, Brian Ngo-Smith will share a paper entitled Canceling Oedipus\, or A Plea to Share the Future\, reflecting on a period in his work with a young man in analysis in which a hateful and regressive impasse brought both analyst and analysand into contact with the dangers of the pursuit of hope. Drawing on the 2019 film The Lighthouse\, Ngo-Smith will invite attendees to become immersed in this dynamic to highlight its implications for cross-generational treatment dyads\, as well as for our broader professional institutions and communities. \nTeresa Méndez will present Training Terminable and Interminable\, a personal reflection on her experiences and observations of psychoanalytic training. Attending to intergenerational and institutional anxieties\, she will focus on endings – whether of a supervision or of the training process as a whole – asking what makes it so difficult to allow candidates to graduate. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nModerator:\nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst who in 2014 became the 5th openly LGBT APsA TA/SA. He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he previously chaired. At NCP\, he is a member of the Diversities and Socio-cultural Inequities Committee\, the Education Committee\, and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a also member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California and has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families\, and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-a-panel-with-brian-ngo-smith-and-teresa-mendez/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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SUMMARY:Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience
DESCRIPTION:Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience\nThis presentation offers a psychoanalytic exploration of the Asian American experience.? Asian Americans comprise 7% of the total US population; yet\, they remain largely invisible and unknown to Americans and American psychoanalysis\, except for being perceived as a Model Minority. ?The Model Minority myth leads to the illusion that Asian Americans are successfully folded into the American national fabric.? \nWe will examine how this illusion of inclusion obscures the othering of Asian Americans and explore the psychological effects of dissociating from experiences of othering. \nWe will discuss the trauma origins of the Model Minority position\, from anti-Asian racism\, past and present (i.e.\,?the incarceration of 120\,000 Japanese American individuals during WWII)\, to the unresolved historical and cultural traumas (i.e.\, genocides\, wars\, poverty\, authoritarian governments) carried by immigrants from Asia and intergenerationally transmitted to their Asian American children. Some immigrants unconsciously attempt to resolve their historic traumas carried from Asia by a manic pursuit of the American Dream.? \nThe presentation concludes with a discussion of the legacy of cultural dissociation among the psychoanalytic founders on contemporary racial minority patients\, including Asian Americans. \nKris Yi\, PhD\, PsyD is a psychoanalyst and a clinical psychologist in Pasadena\, California\, with over thirty years of clinical\, teaching\, and supervisory experience. She is a faculty member and training/supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of psychoanalysis\, race\, and culture\, with particular attention to Asian American subjectivity and racial trauma. Dr. Yi is a frequently invited speaker at national conferences and a committed advocate for culturally responsive psychoanalysis. She serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA). Under her initiative\, JAPA is publishing a special issue on Asian American experiences\, due out in December of 2025. As a Korean American who immigrated to America in her teens\, she is pleased to be part of an emerging discourse in Asian American experiences within American psychoanalysis. \nDiscussant:\nTina Nguyen\, MD is currently an Advanced Clinical Associate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Graduating from Temple University at the early age of 18\, she continued at Temple University School of Medicine to obtain her medical degree. Dr. Nguyen completed residency in General Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City\, where she was actively involved in research\, receiving state-wide recognition for her work as a resident. She then completed her Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn\, NY\, and had the honor of serving as a chief resident. Dr. Nguyen has had faculty appointments at 2 academic institutions\, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel and USC Keck School of Medicine.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/model-minority-and-its-discontents-understanding-the-asian-american-experience/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T120000
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SUMMARY:The Decentered Self in Psychedelic States
DESCRIPTION:This is a two-day program which is being presented in person and on Zoom.  \nMANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE III:\nThe Decentered Self in Psychedelic States\nWhat actually is the altered reality of psychedelic experience? Is there more… or less… of ones self? \nThe experience of subjective dimensionality is a key scientific conundrum of our age. Sensed but ungraspable\, how do you measure that which is beyond measurement? Can such a mystery be explained in naturalistic terms?  \nThe conundrum is personal. In the physical world there is no “self” center in your brain. Who are you if there is no place of YOU (“self”) in your brain? Is “myself” a distributed function in your brain\, or is “myself” an emergent property from another dimension? Is your existence fantasy? How real is the “you” that remains to experience an intense psychedelic experience after the ego-attachments of self are dissolved? \nAnd what do we make of the next step\, the mystical revelation of everything being connected? Of contact with a transcendent power\, creativity\, ever-ness and beyond-ness?   \nWhat are mind and consciousness that emerge from brain function? What distinguishes a human mind from a fish mind? What is meaning\, that emotional core of relationship…and the stuff of psychotherapy?   \nThese and other questions will be considered in NCP’s MANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE\, May 17-18\, 2025. \nThis conference promises to be both world-class and intimate. It will provide a thoughtful immersion into group process further examining the decentered self in phenomena that arise in the group-as-a-whole to which each individual contributes. Before closing afternoon on Saturday\, Isabella Sledge and Cat Jenson offer a meditative soundbath for integration. Saturday evening we are offering an in-person concert illustrating the “decentered self” theme. The concert will feature PARTCH Ensemble and composer Anne LeBaron\, with excerpts of her opera Huxley’s Last Trip (previously titled LSD: The Opera).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-decentered-self-in-psychedelic-states/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Perils and Promises of a Unified Clinical Model
DESCRIPTION:Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century\, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian\, Jungian\, Kleinian\, Self-Psychological\, Relational\, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper\, “Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis’ Future Lies in Pluralism.” In brief\, Dr. Karbelnig believes that psychoanalytic clinicians practice framing\, presence\, and engagement in their work with patients. They pursue the unconscious mind through focusing on transference and countertransference\, repetitive psycho-behavioral themes\, and dreams (and other signifiers of the unconscious). After explaining the six-point model\, Dr. Karbelnig will invite the audience to question and discuss these admittedly ambitious ideas. \nBy the end of the presentation\, participants will know how to: \nApply three fundamental psychoanalytic interventions\nDistinguish between theories of engagement\nPractice confrontation\, followed by empathy\nComprehend the three foundational paths to accessing unconscious material
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-perils-and-promises-of-a-unified-clinical-model-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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