Narcissistic States of Privilege by Stephen Anen, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

Privilege is not just an aspect of identity that bestows impersonal, unmerited benefit and maintains the dominant status quo. Privilege is also a subjective experience that shapes and resonates within one’s experience of self and the world. Drawing upon Bach’s Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process along with more recent work on grandiosity and subjectivity, this presentation attempts to construct a psychoanalytic conceptualization of privilege, wherein alterations and limitations in reflection are utilized to sustain a sense of narcissistic wholeness. Paradoxically, this lived system of being leaves the individual incomplete, unaware of certain dissociated aspects of identity as well as compromised in the ability for mutual recognition.

Learning Objectives:
• Enhanced ability to identify general human anxieties expressed and contained in cultural practices and processes.
• Improved ability to recognize some unconscious determinants of the anxieties and symptoms of some patients, and increased awareness of relevant cultural referents.
• Enhanced ability to discern the ongoing dynamic dialectic between cultural processes and individual psychology.

FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

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)™;. 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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.