Community Events (non-Alliance)

In light of the Holmes Commission Report, contemporary psychoanalysis faces a divide between traditional clinical neutrality and emerging relational paradigms. In his presentation designed for practicing clinicians, Dr. Daniel José Gaztambide bridges that gap by connecting Freud’s original clinical notes with Frantz Fanon’s vision of therapy as a collective science. Through real-world case studies and practical principles, participants will learn how political and interpersonal dynamics naturally intersect within everyday treatment.

This three-hour seminar will explore how racialized identity is developed and considered within psychoanalysis, with particular attention to the complexity of Latinx identity and the racial, cultural, and institutional forces that can fracture, constrain, and multiply the self. Drawing from three original papers, Dr. Rodríguez will consider the psychic consequences of normative and binary identity categories, internalized racial hierarchies and white-dominant norms, and the role of memory and music in illuminating histories of colonialism and resistance. _

NPSI June Scientific Meeting
“A Peculiar People: Mormonism, Drag Performance, and Erotic Non-Belonging”
Danny Gellersen, LICSW, FIPA

In this presentation Danny Gellersen examines the psychic impact of religious cultural inheritance and queer sexual identity—an intersection rarely addressed directly in the psychoanalytic literature. Drawing from a decade-long analytic treatment, they explore how Mormonism, belief, and religious residue persist as uncanny, affectively charged presences within the transference and countertransference.

NPSI May Scientific Meeting
"How Do We Know What We Didn't Know? Recognizing Secrets in the Body"
Kathryn Zerbe, MD, FIPA

The intractable nature of the gun violence problem in the United States resists meaningful analysis. Even more so, the problem resists effective solutions. Perhaps this resistance itself is meaningful, pointing to suppression and denial of deeper problems in the national psyche. Pushing beyond familiar treatments of gun culture, this presentation will examine the depth psychology of homicide by firearm by considering the collective myths and cultural complexes that make this particular form of violence so prevalent.

IN PERSON or VIRTUAL

Program Description
In this course, the Novicks will share clinical material to illustrate a reconceptualization of adolescent development which offers enhanced technical opportunities for effective treatment of a population long thought resistant to psychodynamic therapies. Drawing from the history of psychoanalytic descriptions of adolescence, they will suggest that traditional models illuminate pathology but misrepresent normal development.

Hamlet & Aesthetic Conflict

with Seth Aichele

To be (born), or not to be? To feel, or not to feel? To think, or not to think? To create, or not to create? These questions take on a special meaning in the context of the British Object Relations tradition, and together constitute a basic problem of personality development across its many thresholds.

Saturday Dialogue: The Slow Rhythm of Connection: Infant Observation and Therapeutic Work with Autism

with Sean Jackson & Pam VanDalfsen

Infant observation is a foundational approach in the British Object Relations tradition to learning about and working with primitive emotional states in ourselves and our patients.

The One and the Many: Bion and the Science of At-One-Ment

with Thomas Helscher