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SUMMARY:Conference - Imagination\, Interpretation\, and the Analytic Field
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Donnel B. Stern \nIn my first model of unformulated experience (Stern\, 1983\, 1997)\, my intention was to study our capacity to reflect on our own experience; and that meant that the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience needed to be defined by verbal language: My first model held that if you can think or speak about a meaning in the reflective terms of verbal language\, the meaning is formulated; if you cannot reflect on the meaning in verbal language\, the meaning remains unformulated. Now\, though\, I think of the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience differently. Now I think of it in terms of the degree of personal meaningfulness of unformulated experience: Formulation is a matter of becoming someone for whom the experience in question is meaningful. One crosses the threshold into explicitly meaningful experience when one can accept the meaning in question. If one can accept it\, one can use it in the construction of spontaneous\, creative living. The formulation of experience is therefore the imaginative transformation of not-me into feels-like-me. The crucial point is not that particular\, new experiences are given shape\, but that one becomes the new and slightly different person who can shape experience in that new way.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-imagination-interpretation-and-the-analytic-field/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T120000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
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SUMMARY:Psychodynamics as an Anchor: Navigating Personal\, Social\, and Political Turmoil in Clinical Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Loan Vo\, PhD\, LISW-S
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychodynamics-as-an-anchor-navigating-personal-social-and-political-turmoil-in-clinical-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group: Apology\, Accountability and Repair in Couples Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Ellen Safier\, LCSW | Our intimate partnerships are the places where we are most vulnerable. It is of course these relationships that have the potential to provide the greatest sense of safety and security and comfort that are also the relationships where we can experience the greatest hurt and be most easily wounded.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-apology-accountability-and-repair-in-couples-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240909T145858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T031839Z
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SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T114500
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240814T193305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T025603Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytical understanding of mourning and melancholia for couples undergoing medical pregnancy termination in hospital
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Leonardo
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytical-understanding-of-mourning-and-melancholia-for-couples-undergoing-medical-pregnancy-termination-in-hospital/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T110000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210439Z
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SUMMARY:ACP Conference: Donna Roth Smith & Hilda Catz
DESCRIPTION:In this conference\, Donna Roth Smith\, LCSW & Hilda Catz\, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments and then bring participants into the conversation they have been having. Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks a narrowing of techniques. A continuing conversation between experienced clinicians\, working together throughout the year and then sharing their discourse with the conference participants\, allows for a detailed examination of clinical process with children of different ages. These distinguished interlocutors from Buenos Aires in Argentina and New York in the USA bring different training traditions and approaches\, allowing for cross-fertilization at both theoretical and technical levels.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/acp-conference-donna-roth-smith-hilda-catz/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240814T193305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T183416Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Workshop: "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments"
DESCRIPTION:Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm \nPresenter: Sam Guzzardi\, LCSW \n“Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments” \nVia Zoom \nPresentation: \nAs psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social\, the work of Jean Laplanche is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In this presentation\, participants will hear the stories of two queer patients whose treatment was\, borrowing from Donna Orange\, informed “holding lightly” the theories of Jean Laplanche. Designed particularly for those who may be unfamiliar with Laplanche’s ideas or uncertain about their relevance to those interested in clinical practice\, this presentation will both explicate the fundamentals of Laplanchian theory while avoiding the notion of “applying” Laplanche to clinical work. Rather\, through conversation and the telling of clinical story\, participants will be invited to experience a Laplanchian sensibility in clinical work\, particularly as it relates to issues of queerness and LGBTQ+ experience.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lgbtq-workshop-holding-laplanche-lightly-the-story-of-two-queer-treatments/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240909T145856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T182259Z
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting w/ Greg Rizzolo\, PhD.
DESCRIPTION:Compulsions and Obsessions: A Lifespan Perspective. \nGreg Rizzolo\, PhD. \nFreud’s concept of the obsessional neuroses has evolved into today’s obsessive-compulsive disorder with ideas from many fields helping to understand this condition. Dr. Rizzolo contributes to this effort by framing the variety of obsessive presentations as “a disorder of volition\, an exaggerated sense of willpower not tied to any one developmental phase or bodily zone.” Over three developmental phases\, he looks in depth at how the obsessive person internalizes relationships through introjection\, identification and repudiation of an anxious/critical parent or unpredictable environment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanalytic-society-scientific-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240229T171203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T192037Z
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SUMMARY:Connections And Conversation: Can You Cure Your Patient? – Koichi Tagashi\, PhD\, LP
DESCRIPTION:Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi\, Ph.D.\, L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation\, I like to pose this question\, without defining what a “cure” might look like\, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy can cure the human mind\, or what cases it can cure\, or how patients can be cured. I am examining how we are tempted to use psychoanalytic theory to explain and justify ourselves when we are asked these clinical questions. Imagine being asked by a patient\, “Can you cure me?” We may likely respond\, “Psychoanalysis is effective for cases of x\,” or “Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is less about treatment and more about making sense of the experience\,” or “Here is the process by which the mind is cured.” But none of these are an answer to the question the patient is asking us.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connections-and-conversation-can-you-cure-your-patient-koichi-tagashi-phd-lp/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T141500
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T182716Z
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SUMMARY:Conference - Vitality as a Theoretical and Technical Parameter in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese\, MD\, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo\, PhD \nTerms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover\, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However\, when psychoanalysis attempts to theorize the non-specific aspects of treatment\, such as those related to the person of the analyst\, it becomes inevitable to refer to them. The thesis of this article is that vitality should be taken out of its vagueness and transformed as much as possible into a precise psychoanalytic concept. This can be done by discussing it in the light of Bion’s concept of negative capability and the post-Bionian theory of the analytic field. Every time the analyst rediscovers to her surprise the dreamlike dimension of the session\, she becomes more vital and reinvests in the patient\, the analysis and the psychoanalytic method. Then\, she realizes that she is always a character in the narratives of the analytic conversation and has the chance to try to guess what is happening by relying on her intensified physical or emotional reaction.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-vitality-as-a-theoretical-and-technical-parameter-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T110000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240814T193200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T180008Z
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SUMMARY:Empty Heart Disease in China and the West
DESCRIPTION:Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff \n  \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/empty-heart-disease-in-china-and-the-west/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T175319Z
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SUMMARY:City and Psyche: Understanding Cities and Communities as Psychological Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ricardo Ainslie\, PhD \nCities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion\, Winnicott\, and other psychoanalytic theorists\, but also from the work of architects and researchers from a variety of disciplines. This presentation examines the thesis that we simultaneously create and are shaped by the built environments within which we live and work. \nThis program is intended to help fulfill licensure renewal requirements for continuing education in diversity and cultural competence. However\, registrants should check with their licensing board if uncertain.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/city-and-psyche-understanding-cities-and-communities-as-psychological-spaces/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T175459Z
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SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: When the Teacher's Feelings Hurt
DESCRIPTION:Edmund Sprunger\, MSW\, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers’ best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions\, roll their eyes\, sigh\, or mention that elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. Teachers can also feel disregarded by parents\, who may attempt to discredit a teacher\, fail to support their children’s learning\, or fault a teacher for not being motivating enough. This lecture presents ways to understand these behaviors\, and useful ways to react to them—including using them as a springboard for development.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-when-the-teachers-feelings-hurt/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T094500
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240814T193200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T193200Z
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SUMMARY:Couple Therapy in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Brett Kahr
URL:https://apsa.org/event/couple-therapy-in-the-uk/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240909T145842Z
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Headless Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. After hitting something with her car\, a bourgeois woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation\, as she fears she may have killed someone. Not well-known to American movie-goers\, Martel is “arguably the most critically acclaimed auteur in Spanish-language art cinema.[Paul Julian Smith]” and “one of the greatest directors in the world right now [Vogue]”.  \nIn a 2009 interview\, Lucrecia Martel explained the usual layered narration of her films\, “I work with a number of elements that are tied together\, and each one of them is present in each scene in different positions\, different perspectives\, foreground or background”. In The Headless Woman Martel ties together the personal (the protagonist personal reaction to her car accident); the sociocultural and economic world she belongs and operates into; the recent Argentine history (the genocide during the 1976-1983 military rule)\, and the Latin American history based upon colonial power\, oppression\, and racism. She creates a character of complexity and ambivalence in disarray for the audience to share and ultimately identify with.  \nPresenter:\nJorgelina Corbatta was born in Bahia Blanca\, Argentina where she studies and graduated as Licenciada and Professor in Philosophy and Letters (Universidad Nacional del Sur). She also has a Master and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures (University of Pittsburgh) and is an Academic Analyst (Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute). Emerita Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and ex-Director of Women Studies at Wayne State University\, and Academic Associate Faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute\, she has taught courses on Contemporary Narrative and Film\, Latin America Literature\, Women’s and Cultural Studies\, Literature and Psychoanalysis at universities in Argentina\, Colombia\, Chile\, US\, Sweden\, France\, Belgium\, Austria\, and Spain. In 2004 she received a Research/Teaching Fulbright Award (Universidad de los Andes\, Bogotá\, Colombia). She has seven books on literary/film criticism – on sociology of literature\, on the narratives of the Dirty War\, on Feminism and Women Writers in Latin America\, on Juan José Saer\, on Jorge Luis Borges\, on Manuel Puig\, published in Spain and Argentina. Her latest book and first in English\, is Psychoanalysis and Narrative. Literature\, Film and Autobiography by Routledge (2024). She has also published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed Journals and is currently looking for a publisher for her Spanish manuscript on “Auto-fiction/ Psychoanalysis and Intertextuality”.  In 2017 she received the IPA/IPSO International Psychoanalytic Award for her paper “The Quest for\, and the Denial of\, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s Dark Desires and the Others. Diaries of New York (IPA/Buenos Aires\, July 2017). In addition\, she has received several awards for teaching\, directing graduate students and conducting research at Wayne State University. She is currently writing her autobiography and continue writing essays on literature and film through a psychoanalytic lens.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-headless-woman/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T110000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group - Psychoanalysis and Childhood Trauma: An Uneasy Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Jean Goodwin\, MD.\, MPH | Psychoanalysis was both a help and a hindrance to me in the late twentieth century as I was beginning to explore child sexual abuse and its sequelae. It was unhelpful that my medical school mentor(1968) explained that incest occurs one per million population. Also unhelpful when my supervisor in residency (1973) explained that my patient was fantasizing when she disclosed the sexual relationship with her father (1973).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-psychoanalysis-and-childhood-trauma-an-uneasy-relationship/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T213000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T033019Z
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SUMMARY:Book of the Month - Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility by Thomas H. Ogden\, MD
DESCRIPTION:What do you want to be when you grow up? This provocative question is the title of one chapter as well as the theme woven throughout Thomas Ogden’s book\, Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility. While the question seemingly refers to occupational goals\, Ogden clarifies that he really means what kind of person/analyst do you want to be now\, and what kind of person/analyst do you want to become? Ogden differentiates two general kinds of stances in psychoanalytic thinking and practice: (1) epistemological\, which focuses on knowing and understanding\, and (2) ontological\, focused on being and becoming. As introduced and developed by Freud\, Klein\, and Fairbairn\, epistemological psychoanalysis views the mind as an “apparatus for thinking” and privileges the clinical intervention of transference interpretation to promote insight. Over the past 70 years\, there has been a shift in emphasis to ontological psychoanalysis\, which is rooted in concepts pioneered by Winnicott (i.e.\, “going on being” and transitional space/phenomena) and Bion (i.e.\, reverie and “without memory or desire”). Ontological psychoanalysis conceives of the mind as a living process located in the act of experiencing. The analyst is present with the patient in the act of experiencing\, more likely describing what the analyst senses is occurring rather than explaining. The goal is to facilitate the patient’s experience of creatively discovering for themselves\, to foster their becoming more fully alive. \nThough psychoanalytic interventions inevitably involve intertwined epistemological and ontological aspects\, one aspect or the other tends to predominate. Ogden described his own personal journey from an internal object relations orientation\, which is an epistemic approach\, to a more ontological stance. However\, he emphasized that ontological and epistemological psychoanalysis refer to sensibilities and attitudes\, not separate schools of psychoanalytic thought or technique. He provides numerous clinical vignettes throughout the book\, but does not prescribe specific interventions. He instead suggests that each practitioner must develop their own analytic style and essentially “invent psychoanalysis” for each patient. His book is a collection of previously published papers\, which describe and exemplify an ontological stance\, and delve into its foundational roots. After summarizing Ogden’s concept and practice of ontological psychoanalysis with online attendees\, discussant JoAnn Ponder would like to explore with them why\, or why not\, this might constitutes wild analysis. So how do we safeguard against a wild analysis? If there is time\, Ponder also plans to talk with attendees about the applicability of Ogden’s ideas to psychoanalytic supervision.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-of-the-month-coming-to-life-in-the-consulting-room-toward-a-new-analytic-sensibility-by-thomas-h-ogden-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T131500
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T032547Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction To Theory And Technique In Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will present basic tenets of theory and practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy\, including a consideration of the differences between the two. The first half of the seminar will include fundamental psychoanalytic and psychodynamic concepts\, as well as psychoanalytic models of the mind\, of development\, and of technique. The second half of the seminar will consist of the presentation of analytic case material illustrating these models and concepts\, and their practical application. \nInstructors:\nMalini Singh\, PhD; Leslie Cummins\, DSW\, LCSW
URL:https://apsa.org/event/introduction-to-theory-and-technique-in-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240909T145841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T031920Z
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SUMMARY:Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP): A Brief History and Modern Day Application
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tyler Beach\, MSW\, LCSW
URL:https://apsa.org/event/intensive-short-term-dynamic-psychotherapy-istdp-a-brief-history-and-modern-day-application/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T120000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240814T193145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T031455Z
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SUMMARY:The Neuropsychology of Sex and Romance
DESCRIPTION:Janice Hiller
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-neuropsychology-of-sex-and-romance/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T160000
DTSTAMP:20260814T232124
CREATED:20240920T210420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T030907Z
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SUMMARY:Philip C. Wilson Twenty Second Memorial Lecture A Developmental Perspective on Eating Disorders
DESCRIPTION:In this era of increasing recognition that most individuals who enter our consulting rooms are struggling with symptoms that mark developmental impasses\, we encounter bright individuals who appear to have the capacity for reflective thought but there is often insufficient grounding in integrating thoughts and feelings to learn from experience. In that context\, adaptive efforts that fail to resolve the underlying dilemma tend to become addictive. Such difficulties have been traced to inconsistent parenting that leaves the child insufficiently able to mindfully attend to internal and external cues\, impeding the symbolization of experience so essential for interpersonal communications and relationships. \nFrom this perspective\, eating disorders become addictive because the behaviors cannot resolve the underlying deficits. These deficits can be traced to parental failures across the generations that cannot be recognized and worked with\, leaving subsequent generations inhibited in the development of self-regulatory functions and the progressive differentiation of self from other so crucial to maturation. Eating disorders mark early disturbance in relation to what it means to take in and make use of what is offered by another. We will note commonalities and differences in the anorexic versus the bulimic dilemma\, recognizing that each position may be seen as a waystation along the road to self-development in relation to overly intrusive and/or neglectful parents. Explorations into the metacognitive and affective difficulties associated with eating disorders can provide useful anchors for our efforts to create space for development in our consulting rooms. Case examples will explore some of the dynamics underlying such difficulties and the value of interactive modeling of reflective capacities and of creative\, playful engagement in effecting change. \nMarilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center\, Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis; Universidad de Monterrey; Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; and Harvard Medical School. A contributing editor of Psychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society\, she is actively engaged in mentoring and promoting socially relevant research. Research interests include creativity\, psychosis\, resilience\, reflective function\, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Marilyn is also an artist\, a poet\, and a writer. \nBooks include Patterns; Constructing Realities; Learning from Experience; Working with Trauma; and Psychoanalysis and Literature. Edited volumes include Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin); Women and Psychosis and Women and The Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education (with Jill Bellinson). Forthcoming from APA Press: Trauma\, Development\, and Identity: A Clinician’s Guide.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/philip-c-wilson-twenty-second-memorial-lecture-a-developmental-perspective-on-eating-disorders/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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SUMMARY:Wisconsin Psychoanolytic Society Scientific Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Art Nielsen\, MD. Asking for Things and Listening to Criticism: Two Fundamental Challenges in Intimate Relationships and Targets for Couples Therapy.\nGrounded in self psychology\, Dr. Nielson uses everyday language to convey complex challenges in working with couples. He begins his talk with an experience-near discussion of why people have trouble asking for what they want\, how they avoid making themselves vulnerable and how to more effectively be self assertive. He follows this with the related challenge of listening to criticism\, common pitfalls and mistakes made. He concludes with practical suggestions to help couples do better. 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/wisconsin-psychoanolytic-society-scientific-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000
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SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Saltburn
DESCRIPTION:Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn\, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell\, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Keoghan plays Oliver Quick\, a bright\, young\, brooding social outcast who lands at Oxford and is quickly drawn to the handsome and aristocratic Felix Catton. Oliver strategically enters Felix’s inner circle by casting himself as a poor unfortunate soul\, drenched in familial madness and tragedy and thus secures an invitation to spend the summer at Felix’s grand ancestral home in the British countryside. The tropes of Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley are reworked with fascinating freshness. \nMost of the story locates at the massive Saltburn\, a grand estate complete with a labyrinth and colorful characters. Mesmerizing cinematography captures the opulence of the British upper class juxtaposed with grotesque ways in which the repressed returns in ruthless and devouring relational enactments.\nJoin us in exploring these evocative themes\, stirring rich psychoanalytic dialogue about essential early relationships\, environmental conditions\, un-held losses and the impact of these on one’s creative aliveness and establishing cohesive\, autonomous selfhoods. \nMary Starks MA\, LPCC\, is licensed psychoanalytic therapist in private practice in Santa Monica\, CA and holds a post graduate certification in Infant and Family Clinical Practice from the Harris Institute. She specializes in working with adults with childhood trauma and facilitates virtual Circle of Security Parenting Groups. She has a special interest in Psychoanalytic Film Theory and is a rising Mental Health Coordinator in Film/TV. \nJosh Richmond\, MPW\, FIPA\, offers psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults at his office in South Pasadena. He is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis of Los Angeles\, where he is also on faculty\, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Joshua C. Richmond is in the process of getting certified in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an evidence-based modality designed to treat personality disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Joshua C. Richmond was an Adjunct Professor at Cal State Fullerton for four years and is a vested member of the Writers Guild of America West. He served on the Board of Directors for the New Center for Psychoanalysis as a past CAO President and currently serves on the Program Committee.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-saltburn/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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SUMMARY:Book of the Month: "Theoretical" vs. "Clinical" Bion: Bion’s Long Road Towards Intuiting the Patient’s Suffering I Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion by Joseph Aguyao\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Ofra Eshel was invited to review and discuss Joseph Aguayo’s book\, Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (Routledge\, 2023). After reading the book\, she decided to focus on what she discerned as the complex relationship and the significant gap between Bion’s theoretical and clinical work\, as documented by Bion’s own writings from the critical years of his move to LA (1967-1968)\, and during his later years\, particularly in the last two years of his life a decade later. Her presentation focuses on two of Bion’s own analytic case descriptions from 1967 in Los Angeles and 1968 in Buenos Aires\, and on the account of the Brazilian analyst Junqueira de Mattos of his analysis with Bion over the final two years of Bion’s life — while comparing them to a close reading of Bion’s radical theoretical-clinical writings during those years. These detailed accounts allow a textual investigation of Bion the theoretician versus Bion the practicing analyst\, particularly highlighting the significant and disturbing gap between them. Eshel attempts to offer a possible explanation and understanding of this gap\, and especially of Bion’s long road towards intuiting the patient’s suffering.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-of-the-month-theoretical-vs-clinical-bion-bions-long-road-towards-intuiting-the-patients-suffering-i-introducing-the-clinical-work-of-wilfred-bion-by-joseph-aguyao-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T090000
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SUMMARY:A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy  \nIn A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma you will learn more about theories and techniques of treating trauma and about the empirical research that supports successful treatments. \nCourse includes 8 total sessions\, 16 CE credits
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-thorn-in-the-flesh-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T220000
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SUMMARY:Vitality in Human Development and Vitalization in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Seligman\, DMH\, Anne Alvarez\, PhD\, M.A.C.P. & Christopher Bonovitz\, PsyD \nVitality might be considered the essence of aliveness. Louis Sander and Daniel Stern drew our attention to vitality as a core component of human development and psychotherapeutic treatment. They were the most visionary of the first group of infant observation researchers\, along with Colwyn Trevarthen. Both were inspired by deep experiences beyond the usual psychoanalytic preoccupations: Sander by spiritual faith\, sustained in his passion for the essential principles of living systems; Stern by a lifelong commitment to aesthetics and the arts\, especially dance\, reflected in his extraordinary eye for the choreography of infant-parent interaction and psychotherapy process. Both were also exceptional researchers and creative\, integrative scientists. From these platforms\, Sander and Stern broke through crusts that had restrained both developmental psychology and psychoanalysis\, reaching toward the sources of human vitality throughout the life cycle. Conference presenter Stephen Seligman will discuss Sander and Stern’s foundational findings about the origins\, development\, and manifestations of vitality\, as well as the implications for treatment. \nWhile classical psychoanalysis has taught us much about the passions\, less explored are the passionless\, often mindless and empty states presented by certain passive patients. In some instances\, according to presenter Anne Alvarez\, these states may not be the result not of a defensive or aggressive retreat\, but of having given up in despair or boredom. Such patients do not seem to be hiding\, but lost; not withdrawn\, but undrawn. Their internal objects seem to be unvalued rather than devalued and nothing much matters. This may affect curiosity and desire\, even the desire to follow a train of thought. Alvarez discusses what might be missing or underdeveloped and ways in which analytic technique may try to address these issues via processes of vitalization. \nThere also is a relationship between human vitality and sense of time. Presenter Christopher Bonovitz uses Loewald’s concept of time in examining the temporal dimension of self states and enactments that emerge in the psychoanalytic situation. This includes looking at the relationship between time and vitality\, fragmented and unitary time\, and the role of imagination in developing the dyadic capacity to contain linkages between the past\, present and future.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/vitality-in-human-development-and-vitalization-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
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SUMMARY:COWAP NA: Women the Longest Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a series of conversations  \nTime: Saturday mornings\, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST \n7 sessions \n2024: September 14\, October 26\, December 14 \n2025: January 11\, February 22\, March 8\, April 12 \nVia Zoom \nPresented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association (COWAP) North America\, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido\, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh\, Members: Anne Adelman\, Janice Lieberman\, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 \nClick Here to View the Program Flyer:\nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf \n1.5 CME/CE per session \n10.5 CME/CE total \nFirst Session:  \nSeptember 14\, 2024\nSession 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution\nPanel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido\, and Margarita Valladares \nNotions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves\, how they are perceived by society\, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of\nJuliet Mitchell’s iconic book\, Women: The Longest Revolution\, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst\, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice\, authority\, and working online.\nVirginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years\, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares\, a psychoanalytic candidate\, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has\nchanged.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-na-women-the-longest-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
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SUMMARY:COWAP: Women the Longest Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a series of conversations\nTime: Saturday mornings\, 11:00 to 12:30 EST \n7 sessions \n2024: September 14\, October 26\, December 14\n2025: January 11\, February 22\, March 8\, April 12 \nPresented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)  (COWAP North America) North America\, and sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Organizing Committee: Chair: Margarita Cereijido\, Co-chair: Catherine Mallouh\, Members: Anne Adelman\, Janice Lieberman\, Jill Gentile and Jeri Isaacson. \nVia Zoom \nCME/CE Offered \nRegistration Link:\nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025#!/ \nTo see the full list of presenters and session descriptions please view the full program flyer: \nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/24-25/V3%20of%20COWAP%20Women%20The%20Longest%20Revolution%20%28Final_No%20Bios%29.pdf \nPresenter Bios:  \n\nCOWAP: “Women\, The Longest Revolution” Presenter Biographies \n\nUpcoming Session:\nSeptember 14\, 2024\nSession 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution \nPanel: Virginia Ungar in conversation with Margarita Cereijido\, and Margarita Valladares \n       Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves\, how they are perceived by society\, and how this is understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of Juliet Mitchell’s iconic book\, Women: The Longest Revolution\, we will explore the ongoing changes experienced by the female psychoanalyst\, including analytic training and later professional life. It will discuss issues about prejudice\, authority\, and working online. Virginia Ungar will talk about her challenges as the first IPA woman president in 102 years\, and will have a conversation with Margarita Valladares\, a psychoanalytic candidate\, and Margarita Cereijido. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T100000
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SUMMARY:Photographing What You Know: How a Psychoanalyst Became a Photographer
DESCRIPTION:Jon K. Meyer\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/photographing-what-you-know-how-a-psychoanalyst-became-a-photographer/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T090000
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SUMMARY:Psychosomatics and Psycho-dermatology
DESCRIPTION:Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychosomatics-and-psycho-dermatology/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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