NPSI Scientific Meeting: Amazon Dreaming by Beth Kalish, PhD, FIPA
"Amazon Dreaming: A Comparison of Interpretive Work in Two Cultures - North American Psychoanalysis and an Indiginous Culture in the Amazon Rain Forest"
Community Events (non-Alliance)
NPSI Scientific Meeting: Unconscious Phantasy, Part 1 by Jeffrey L Eaton, MA, FIPA
The topic of Unconscious Phantasy is central to understanding the theoretical models developed by Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Donald Meltzer, and many analysts in the British object relations tradition. In 2017 the International Journal of Psychoanalysis devoted several articles to exploring this theme (Int J Psychoanal 2017 98: 779-859). In the spirit of fostering community conversation devoted to key concepts in psychoanalysis, our December, February, March, and spring meetings will offer detailed explorations of Unconscious Phantasy drawing on the IJP articles and other sources.
Infant Observation for Psychotherapists
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
What is Bion's theory of thinking and how can it enrich our clinical work (Webinar, 6 Classes) - Enika Cocoli Bowen, PhD and Chris Moseman, MA
Bion is a central figure in psychoanalysis whose theory of thinking greatly advanced our understanding of the mind and its processes. We will read some of Bion’s work and include in our discussion the frame within which he thought and wrote and how he advanced psychoanalytic theory.
This is a webinar using Zoom.
Dates: 6 consecutive Thursdays beginning April 11: 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16
Fee: $270
Scholarships available to COR members
Working with Negative Transference (5 Classes) - Sue Carlson, MA and D. Michael Louderback, MA
This course considers what the negative transference is and how we can work with it. In other words, how do we know if we are being a good “bad object” or just a bad therapist? When positive feelings dominate the therapy, the work is enjoyable for client and therapist but many clients need us to feel and know their anger and even hate. At such times they may locate in us critical, hateful, and withholding parental figures and experience us as bad objects. Under such stress we may perceive such clients as bad objects as well, leading to a cycle of righteousness and persecution.
SPSI Scientific Session: Diversity and Difference: Psychoanalytic Challenges and Opportunities in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute
Presented by the SPSI Diversity Committee
The Diversity Committee will present a short video about Mark Solms, psychoanalyst and White South African who endeavored to address racial and economic inequality on the land his family possessed. Solms grapples with the mismatch between his intentions to do good and the recognition that his efforts were experienced in a very different manner.
SPSI Scientific Session: Psychoanalysis, AA and Relapse Prevention
Psychoanalysis, AA, and Relapse Prevention: the Multimodal Treatment of a Fentanyl-Addicted Adolescent”
Presenter: Joel Martell PhD, PS
SPSI Scientific Session: Working Effectively with Highly Traumatized Populations – Perspectives with First Nations
Presenter: Kathryn McCormick MA, LMFT, CMHS, MPH Candidate
This presentation will highlight effective ways of working with highly traumatized populations and will examine the role that forming a coherent narrative plays in treatment. Perspectives in working with First Nations peoples will be considered.
Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care
In-depth, time-intensive, expressive/exploratory psychotherapy is in decline due to the underfunding of mental health services by health insurers, the over-promotion and over-consumption of medications, and a veritable monoculture of ideas and practices in graduate schools and clinical training sites privileging short-term, technique-driven, solution-focused cognitive-behavioral treatments. These themes will be explored in Dr. Gnaulati's presentation, as well as his ideas pertaining to what constitutes quality talk therapy.
Pure Experience: Psychology, Buddhism and Neuroscience in Conversation
This is a third in a series of conversations with Dr. Maxine K. Anderson, Dr. Karl Brunnhölzl and Dr. Christof Koch, and moderated by Dr. Don J. Ross.
Pure experience is the name that the philosopher William James gave “to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.” It is experience as it is actually lived and not an idealization of experience. Pure experience refers to experience before it is conceptualized or retrospectively analyzed.