Embodied Experience and Social Rhythms: The New Frontier for Psychoanalytic Work–Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D. Scientific Program

Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.

Much is currently being written about the value of attention to embodied experience as a central dimension of the psychoanalytic interaction. Additionally, attention has been given, increasingly, to the social dimension, the lived experience of the patient and also the analyst, as inextricably woven into and out of unconscious experience. Dr. Steven Knoblauch will present his current ideas concerning the relationship between embodied experience and unconscious experience. He will lead us through an exploration of the relationships between these two registrations of experience tracing historical contributions and current applications of this relationship to an expanding approach to psychoanalytic technique. The vision and technical implications presented have significant applications for the growing body of work in community based spaces where the emotional health of, often underserved populations, is beginning to be addressed with psychoanalytic strategies shaped by considerations of race, culture, class, language, gender, educational and vocational training opportunities and norms for social regulation. Dr. Knoblauch sees events such as this one as opportunities to engage in learning about and further developing such understandings and strategies.

Learning objectives:

•Differentiate and connect the concepts of embodied experience and unconscious experience.

•Describe the relevance of the concept of embodied experience to work with diverse clients in community based settings.

Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D., is Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University. He has also taught and supervised at other institutes around the world. He is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000), co-author with Beebe, Rustin, and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005), and author of Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Clinical Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity (2021). He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context. His recent teaching and training has been focused on the interaction between unconscious processes, embodied rhythms, and social experience. Dr. Knoblauch continues to use his experiences as a saxophone player and his studies of Brazilian percussion to inform his work as a clinician and an educator.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM;. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. -Updated July 2021-

PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.