Distinguished Speakers Series

The Secret Life of Secrets: Deleterious Psychosomatic Effects on Patient and Analyst with Kathryn Zerbe, MD

This program, when participated in its entirety, is available for 2.5 continuing education credits.  Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Speaking About Race: the unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist with Zachary Green, PhD

Co-Sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS & SPSI

Registration will close on January 15th at midnight!

Integrating ideas from Melanie Klein’s conceptualization of primitive splitting, Wilfred Bion’s work with groups, and Frantz Fanon’s analysis of racism, decolonization, and the psychopathology of oppression, Dr. Zachary Green will present his thoughts on Race: Projection, Construction, & Denigration. 

Examining the Intersection of Race, Immigration, and Trauma from a Psychoanalytic Lens with Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD

This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 4 continuing education credits.  Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This presentation also meets the requirements of WAC 246-809-620 (definition of recognized categories of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and social workers). 

Conversion Disorder: The Body as Revolt with Jamieson Webster, PhD

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This presentation also meets the requirements of WAC 246-809-620 (definition of recognized categories of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and social workers).

The Untelling: Enactment, Time and Narrative in Psychoanalysis with Robert Grossmark, PhD

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This presentation also meets the requirements of WAC 246-809-620 (definition of recognized categories of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and social workers). 

Why the hate? Psychoanalytic perspectives on immigrants, race, and caste in contemporary U.S. with Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD

The growing visibility of racial minority immigrants in the United States has triggered a sense of collective anxiety, where dissociative defenses maintain emotional distance and identification with groups perceived to be threatening. Recent policies in the U.S., such as those resulting in heightened policing of Black and Brown people and deportation of undocumented immigrants and separation of children from parents have made explicit the connection between racism and xenophobia.

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis with Roy Barsness, PhD

The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study is the local chapter of Division 39, American Psychological Association. NWAPS is committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and the encouragement of its interests in the professional and general communities. It is a multi-disciplinary, nonprofit educational membership organization open to all mental health professionals. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The Father of the Name: A child’s analysis through the last teachings of Lacan with Annie Rogers, PhD

(We regret to inform everyone that Dr. Annie Rogers has unfortunately fallen ill and cannot travel to Seattle September 14 for our time together. We are of course disappointed but praying for her quick recovery. 

Dr. Rogers has rescheduled her presence at our Relational Perspectives Series for Friday, November 9, 2018. We are hopeful that many of you will be able to join us on this new date to learn from Dr. Rogers.

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