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SUMMARY:Nursing & Psychoanalysis Group Mentorship Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Dear Nursing Colleagues Interested in Psychoanalysis:\nAPsA’s Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee will be hosting a free\, online group mentorship Q&A on Sunday\, May 18th\, 2025 from 11am-12:30pm EDT/8am-9:30am PDT.\n\nPlease pre-register to attend here and bring your questions and curiosity:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q8tJgOVZSaGeKHTaoUBpUA\n\n\nClick here to access the flyer and share with nursing professionals who are interested.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/nursing-psychoanalysis-group-mentorship-qa-3/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T090000
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SUMMARY:Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program – 2 Year Program begins September 2023
DESCRIPTION:Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute \nThis event addresses: Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy \nThe goal of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) is to provide participants with exposure to concepts that inform psychodynamic therapy with children and adolescents. The program includes an in-depth exposure to concepts from psychoanalytic understandings of development and psychopathology as they apply to children and adolescents. Psychodynamic principles and techniques are applicable in a variety of clinical settings\, including clinics\, agencies\, hospitals\, and private practice. The program provides a solid grounding in psychoanalytic principles while being attentive to the realities of clinical practice in the current mental health environment. The challenges and practicalities of providing in-depth treatment are discussed throughout the curriculum. \nCAPP offers practitioners the opportunity to deepen and broaden skills in \n• Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents\, \n• Clinical assessment\, and \n• Parent work \nThis two year program includes two weekly courses (Friday afternoons)—one didactic course and one clinical conference. In order to obtain the maximal benefit\, it is recommended that participants enroll in all four semesters of the program sequentially\, along with weekly case consultation provided at a discounted rate of $60 per hour. Successful completion of the two-year program leads to a certificate of completion. However\, it is also possible to participate for one or several semesters without committing to the two-year sequence. \nThis course is via ZOOM only – Distance learners are welcome to apply. \nThe tuition is $1\,900 per year. \nFor questions about the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program\, contact: \nBrett Clarke\, MSW\, mailto:brettclarke55@gmail.com\, (513) 961-8830 \nSydney Anderson\, PhD\, mailto:sydneyfanderson@icloud.com\, (812) 331-2800
URL:https://apsa.org/event/child-adolescent-psychotherapy-program-2-year-program-begins-september-2023/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
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SUMMARY:APsA’s 112th Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Details will be posted soon.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsas-112th-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T170000
DTSTAMP:20230505T191728Z
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SUMMARY:Adaptation in Clinical Practice. Robert Langs and Carl Jung | Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
DESCRIPTION: Presented by John R. White\, Ph.D.\, LPC\nThis presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung\, examining their central similarities and differences. \nOur presenter\, John R. White\, PhD\, LPC is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh PA and Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. He has more than forty publications in both philosophy and psychoanalysis. His book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology\, was published by Rowman & Littlefield\, 2023.Though adaptation is a concept internal to all psychoanalytic theory and practice\, perhaps no one in the psychoanalytic tradition emphasized adaptation more than Robert Langs. This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung\, examining their central similarities and differences as well as deriving clinical implications from this comparison. \nadministration@pghpsa.org
URL:https://apsa.org/event/adaptation-in-clinical-practice-robert-langs-and-carl-jung-presented-by-john-r-white-ph-d-lpc-pittsburgh-psychoanalytic-center/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T080000
DTSTAMP:20230417T173910Z
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SUMMARY:The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 3
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory \nKlein’s Analytic Technique \nProfessor Robert Hinshelwood\, MD — Professor Emeritus of University of Essex; Member\, British Psychoanalytical Society; Fellow\, Royal College of Physicians\, London\, UK \nIn the final part of our series\, Robert Hinshelwood takes us back to Klein’s original psychoanalytic technique with children and adults—and establishes how she innovated analytic technique by reversing Freud’s emphasis on reconstructing the infantile/conflictual past of his patients as based on their adult psychopathology. Klein instead emphasized early infantile mechanisms of projection and defense—and how they informed the subsequent pathology of the mature patient. \nIn the third hour of this presentation\, Hinshelwood makes comparison between Klein\, Winnicott and Bion\, attempting to tease out what the substantive differences were between these three analytic pioneers in terms of technique.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-2023-grotstein-memorial-lectures-part-3/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T113000
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SUMMARY:Karen J. Maroda\, PhD\, ABPP: The analyst’s vulnerability: How our early childhood experiences impact our choice of theory and technique.
DESCRIPTION:Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: The Analyst’s Vulnerability \nIt has long been recognized that therapists have a history of being caretakers in their families of origin. Yet we have not pursued how that role impacted our own personal growth\, values\, ideas and limitations. What are the vulnerabilities and strengths that we share as a result of being precociously assigned the responsibility for others’ happiness or even their psychic survival? What role does the resulting guilt\, shame and desire to rescue and be rescued play in the creation of both our theories and preferred interventions? And do we tend to be excessively passive as a result of not having any real power as children when faced with the daunting responsibility of being soother\, peacemaker\, mediator and even entertainer? \nIn the spirit of expanding the conversation about the dynamics in the therapeutic dyad\, this presentation focuses on three topics: the therapist’s early experiences and how they impact both our theory and practice\, the natural human limits of empathy\, and the role of enactment in the therapeutic process. This program is designed for working clinicians\, focusing heavily on clinical examples and opening up conversation about the ways we work and how we might creatively enhance our interventions with clients.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/karen-j-maroda-phd-abpp-the-analysts-vulnerability-how-our-early-childhood-experiences-impact-our-choice-of-theory-and-technique/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T133000
DTSTAMP:20230505T192052Z
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SUMMARY:Dynamics of Maternal Narcissism | Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:“In this latest installment of our case conference series\, targeted at early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy\, PCOP psychotherapy student Nicole Flibbert Laurino\, LPC\, will present from her work with an adult patient treated in a community mental health setting\, who struggles with feeling “”not good enough”” and self critical tendencies\, and a fraught relationship with her critical mother. \nDiscussant Barbara Gray\, Ph.D.\, psychoanalyst\, and PCOP faculty member\, will provide insight into how the dynamics of maternal narcissism contributed to this patient’s conflicts and shaped her development\, and how to understand them in the present via transference feelings in the therapy relationship. The discussion will focus on clinical interventions and case formulation\, including concrete examples of “what to say\, when” from a psychodynamic lens that attendees can apply to their own clinical work. In the question and answer period that follows\, attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the case with Ms. Flibbert Laurino and Dr. Gray.” \njseixas@philanalysis.org \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dynamics-of-maternal-narcissism-psychoanalytic-center-of-philadelphia/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T193000
DTSTAMP:20230417T174608Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: ~ DOUBLE FEATURE ~ Ted K and Good Luck\, Leo Grande
DESCRIPTION:New Center of Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Suppressed Familial Truths \nJoin NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytic discussion of a topical film! \nOn May 12\, Film & Mind explores what makes a transformative movie with a doubleheader of two films of vastly different subject matter—Ted K (“The Unabomber”) and Good Luck to You\, Leo Grande. We will consider how each illustrates the art of universalist filmmaking while exploring specific and psychoanalytically important themes. \nTed K\, (2022\, 2 hours\, directed by Tony Stone) is a remarkably interesting film about the pathological idealism of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski\, the Unabomber of the late 20th Century. Utilizing a spare voiceover (culled from Kaczynski’s voluminous “Manifesto” ) and shot in the remote mountainous area of Montana where the Unabomber was arrested\, the film invites us into the autistic mind of Kaczynski and his 17 year long battle with technology and environmental devastation. With careful handling by director Stone and sensitive portrayal by Shallot Copley\, we are able to identify with the Unabomber’s rationalizations and his building fury and frustration. The subjective perspective spares the audience the bloody horror of the actual bombings\, and brilliantly leaves us pondering the extent to which the madman was a monster. \nGood Luck to You\, Leo Grande (2022\, directed by Sophie Hyde\, 97 minutes). A young sex worker with the skills of a psychotherapist + an older\, widowed school teacher (Emma Thompson) who has never experienced an Orgasm = Mutual Maturation in four sessions.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-double-feature-ted-k-and-good-luck-leo-grande/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T080000
DTSTAMP:20230417T173913Z
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SUMMARY:The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 2
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory \nBion’s Analytic Technique \nJoseph Aguayo\, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst\, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty\, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member\, British Psychoanalytical Society \nFor this presentation\, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a seasoned psychiatrist who had worked intensively with groups. Maintaining that his group work informed the kind of Kleinian analyst he subsequently became\, specific attention will be paid to how he instigated variations on Kleinian technique by emphasizing that all analysis occurs in the ‘here and now\,’ and need not rely on making past-to-present Freudian or Kleinian transference links. Bion’s taking up of the wider notion of countertransference work\, which allowed the analyst to be equally informed by the patient’s subjective reactions—as well as his own—will also be addressed. While Bion fundamentally remained Kleinian in his clinical practices\, he did so in his own distinctive way.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-2023-grotstein-memorial-lectures-part-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTSTAMP:20230417T155417Z
CREATED:20230417T155406Z
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SUMMARY:Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory \nOur Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year\, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz\, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious thinking which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/our-unconscious-relationship-with-psychoanalytic-theory/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T080000
DTSTAMP:20230410T153809Z
CREATED:20230317T230326Z
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific meeting
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory \nOur Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year\, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz\, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious thinking which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T130000
DTSTAMP:20230417T155112Z
CREATED:20230417T145417Z
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SUMMARY:Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Analyst Boredom: Deadness\, Aliveness\, and the Spaces in Between
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas \nThis event addresses: Clinician boredom \nPresented by Steven Kuchuck\, DSW\, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something about the normative clinical encounter that engenders these states more often than we care to admit. The deadened analyst’s resultant shame\, guilt and other complex feelings will be explored via extensive theory and clinical material.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/theoretical-and-clinical-perspectives-on-analyst-boredom-deadness-aliveness-and-the-spaces-in-between-2/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T040000
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DTSTAMP:20230417T154245Z
CREATED:20230417T154226Z
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SUMMARY:Attachment\, Separation-Individuation\, Love\, and Intimacy: Adaptation Over the Life Cycle
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia \nThis event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment\, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. \nPresenters: Wendy Olesker\, PhD\, Miriam Steele\, PhD\, Robert Waldinger\, MD \nDiscussants: Diana Diamond\, PhD\, Otto Kernberg\, MD \nModerator: Lawrence D. Blum\, MD \nThis program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment\, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. The presenters and discussants are leading clinical researchers on attachment\, separation-individuation\, and child and adult development. The program will appeal to mental health professionals of all disciplines\, including psychoanalysts\, psychiatrists\, psychologists\, social workers\, and counselors\, as well as trainees in all of these fields. The central topics of attachment\, individuation\, love\, and intimate relationships are human universals\, important to all clinicians.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/attachment-separation-individuation-love-and-intimacy-adaptation-over-the-life-cycle/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T130000
DTSTAMP:20230417T153756Z
CREATED:20230417T153756Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: C’mon\, C’mon
DESCRIPTION:New Center of Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Racism \nJoin NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytical discussion on a topical Film! \nThis month we analyze C’mon\, C’mon (2021\, 108 minutes) which is an emotionally rich film from writer-director Mike Mills starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman. One of the salient and most interesting aspects of C’Mon\, C’Mon for psychoanalysts is that the film\, which derives most of its power from its portrayal of intimacy developing between the characters\, and particularly a man and a boy\, is that the narrative setup insulates the characters from sex and sexual temptation. Mills carefully and subtly delineates the incest barriers and builds relationships on the repressive force of (sexual) Latency. The 9 year old child at the center of the film uses “Adult” language as an adult might\, but is subjectively unpulled by the adult magnetic power of “sex”. \nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nExplain emotional honesty and discuss your opinion how early should it be offered to children. \nUsing the film as a springboard\, discuss forms of ego strengthening that can be offered to children who seem to be fated (by genetic predisposition) to develop Bipolar I disorder \nAnalyzing this film as its own form of dream-like creation (mise-en-scene)\, describe how this non-narrative\, non-verbal function is used by writer-director Mills to demonstrate the adaptative capacity of human youth in the face of ceaseless media-spread klaxon alarms \nDescribe Latency as described by Freud in The Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and explain what those observations offer to the understanding of C’Mon\, C’Mon.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-cmon-cmon/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000
DTSTAMP:20230417T173326Z
CREATED:20230417T152823Z
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SUMMARY:Connections and Conversation: Power and Vulnerability in Supervision: a exploration for both supervisors and supervisees
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis LA \nThis event addresses: Elaborating psychoanalytic thoughts and creating community \nConnections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting\, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. In April Lynne Jacobs\, Ph.D. will help us explore together the vagaries of power and vulnerability\, in hopes we can become more sensitized to the interplay of power and vulnerability in our supervisory relationships\, and perhaps we can also become more graceful when these themes become disruptive forces in our work. Both participants in the supervision relationship are personally and professionally vulnerable. Thus the power is bidirectional\, just as it is in therapy.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-power-and-vulnerability-in-supervision-a-exploration-for-both-supervisors-and-supervisees/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T120000
DTSTAMP:20230417T173247Z
CREATED:20230417T152453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T173247Z
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SUMMARY:The Virus U.S. Psychoanalysis Needed
DESCRIPTION:Western New England Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: COVID-19 \nSpeaker: Paola Contreras\, PsyD \nThe presenter will describe how Ogden’s description of two forms of thinking ––dream thinking and transformative thinking–– are preceded by the Magical of the session. Drawing on her external and internal experiences amidst the unrest experienced in response to the COVID pandemic\, the author describes the use of what she terms the analyst’s my-person involvement. She explains the my-person concept. She argues that the involvement of the analyst’s my-person permits the Magical of the session to continue to occur\, especially during times of great social unrest. The author uses my-person content\, clinical examples\, and references to magical realism to describe the Magical of analytic work and how the analyst contributes to it. Additionally\, the presenter will discuss how the covid pandemic helped psychoanalysis question and rework the frame revealing its malleability. The external and intrapsychic are intimately connected\, an idea that has challenged psychoanalysis from its very inception\, and that resurfaced in the covid crisis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-virus-u-s-psychoanalysis-needed/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T180000
DTSTAMP:20230417T151810Z
CREATED:20230417T151810Z
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Vital Moment
DESCRIPTION:Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: How the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma. \nIn this workshop\, Dr. Peter Shabad will use a psychoanalytic-existential framework to describe how the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma and its aftermath of shame. He will describe the origins of shame and how shame leads to problems of adult passivity\, such as self-pity\, resentment\, envy\, and ultimately regret for life’s opportunities that were missed. He will then address the clinical issues of mourning and respect for the patient as a human agent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/seizing-the-vital-moment/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T070000
DTSTAMP:20230410T153810Z
CREATED:20230317T222257Z
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SUMMARY:Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward the Other
DESCRIPTION:San Diego Psychoanalytic Center \nThis event addresses: Shame and Guilt \nIn the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received\, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience\, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment and fault. \nSelf-shaming becomes paradoxically intertwined with self-pity\, which then eventually leads to resentment and the entitlement of feeling owed\, which is contrasted with the remorseful guilt that leads to a sense of owing others. Since a patient’s curiosity about the person of the therapist reflects an attempt to emerge from shame and take responsibility for what she comes to discover and know\, it is of crucial importance that the therapist responds respectfully and actively engages that curiosity on a democratic rather than hierarchical basis.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/owing-and-being-owed-shame-and-responsibility-toward-the-other/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T070000
DTSTAMP:20230410T153810Z
CREATED:20230317T215719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T153810Z
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society \nThis event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient \nWriting and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad\, Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context. \nDr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad\, a difficult to reach patient\, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an authentic and intimate part of himself that resonates with his patient Tad.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual\, via Zoom
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