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More Than One Can Live: Reconceiving Harm and Reparation in the Intersubjective World Scientific Program by Jessica Benjamin, PhD
2019-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
In the therapeutic process, we encounter impasses where one must seemingly harm or be harmed by the other, and it feels as though there is only room for one psyche to live. This constellation was already implied by Klein’s writings, but this presentation will juxtapose her views to an intersubjective perspective: contrasting the intrapsychic idea of reparation, based on understanding unconscious anxieties of harming the love object, with the intersubjective ideas of repairing rupture and restoring recognition. The theory of mutual regulation and recognition allows a reformulation of both harm and repair.
The position from which we communicate about or step out of the deep complementary structure underlying impasse is elaborated in the idea of the moral Third – a developmental and clinical concept. The moral Third can be defined as a representation of a world in which repair is possible – a lawful world of self and other in which attachment is preserved by acknowledging the inevitable violations of expected patterns.
However, when there is a history of failed repair, even expressing a need for acknowledgment may be fearfully equated with being destructive to the needed other—the other who cannot tolerate the failure to be good. Thus, both need for responsiveness and need for acknowledgment of failure have the imagined or real potential to so destabilize the other that being injured and harming the other become conflated. How does our clinical work enable us to create/recreate with our patients the sense of a lawful, meaningful world (representation) in which both can live?
Learning Objectives:
• To make clinical use of the idea of intersubjective rupture and repair and its developmental origins
• The meaning and application of the concept of the idea of the Moral Third and how it guides the therapist in clinical impasses that involve “doer-done to” complementarity
• Will be able to evaluate and discern when acknowledgment and disclosure by the analyst are helpful, especially when there are problems of dissociation and shame.
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Jessica Benjamin PhD is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Dr. Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalysis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminism as it relates to psychoanalysis and society.
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 INFOR-MATION 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 RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Narcissistic States of Privilege by Stephen Anen, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2019-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
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.
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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.

Can We Bear to Turn Our Psychoanalytic Attention Toward Those Who Are Other? Scientific Program by Anton Hart, PhD, FABP
2019-04-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
At the present moment, it would behoove psychoanalytic practitioners to remember that psychoanalysis is a strange, minority discipline in relation to the rest of the world. Yet the psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as a group, regularly fail to employ their power to penetrate the surface, their customary stance of curiosity and their capacity for insight vis-a-vis their own relative disengagement regarding issues of racial, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic otherness. This presentation will examine both the resistances to, and the necessity for, psychoanalytic engagement—and prioritization—of issues of otherness, difference and diversity. Some of the core anxieties associated with genuine, curious, exploratory dialogue about diversity are described.
A case is made for the cultivation of a stance of curiosity in relation to difference and for an emphasis on the noticing of and learning from those moments where diversity-related communication involving psychoanalytic practitioners—in the psychoanalytic classroom, supervisory, and clinical setting—seems to break down. Attention to such breakdowns is portrayed as key to facilitating dialogue that can lead to a more diverse—and diversely applied—psychoanalysis.
The talk will include practical recommendations for incorporating inquiry into difference and otherness for both psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic training organizations alike.
Learning Objectives:
• Develop an understanding of the anxieties associated with engaging issues of diversity, difference and otherness.
• Recognize the central role of curiosity as an antidote to cultural ignorance and insensitivity and be able to cultivate such curiosity in themselves and in their patients.
• Recognize pitfalls and breakdowns that can occur in diversity-related explorations and find ways to use these in the service of the restoration of open, constructive dialogue.
Admission is Free. Fee for 2 CME credits: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members
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Anton H. Hart, PhD, FABP, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. A member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), he serves in APsaA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education as the Chair of the Diversities Section. A Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, he supervises at Teachers College, Columbia University and at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Mt. Sinai/St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has published papers on issues of mutuality, disruption and safety. He served as Associate Co-producer for the film, “Black Psychoanalysis Speak,” in which he was also featured. He is a Co-Founder of the White Institute’s Study Group on Race and Psychoanalysis. He is writing a book, to be published by Routledge, entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in New York City.
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 INFOR-MATION 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 RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Working with Enactments by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2019-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
In a 1986 article (“Countertransference Enactments”) that introduced the term enactment into the psychoanalytic literature, Ted Jacobs observed how his vigilant attention to a patient’s narratives foreclosed an opportunity to relax his own mind and follow his associations. Eventually, Jacobs’ reverie about his adolescent experience of the family dinner table – he was expected to attend to his father’s stories without missing a detail – infused the concept of enactment with felt experience, without which it would have been difficult for Jacobs to help his patient. Accordingly, a case is analyzed through this lens of enactment.
Learning Objectives:
• Describe and elaborate contrasting theoretical approaches to countertransference
• Describe personality factors that develop and reinforce enactment
• Describe how enactment functions as a catalyst to change in therapeutic relatedness
If you wish to review relevant articles prior to the presentation:
Levenson, E.A. (1994). Beyond Countertransference—Aspects of the Analyst’s Desire. Contemp. Psychoanal., 30:691-707
Stern, D.B. (1990). Courting Surprise—Unbidden Perceptions in Clinical Practice. Contemp. Psychoanal., 26:452-478
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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.

Film Series: 12 Years a Slave presented by Dr. Marvin Clifford, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS
2019-10-12 09:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film
In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy for resisting the truth about who authors them. The films in this series explore the psychological costs of denying the Other inside each of us, while considering the subjective and social possibilities that are opened by embracing Otherness, as seen in the ways the language of film pushes against the limits of established discourse—social, political, and psychoanalytical.
Learning Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of certain psychoanalytic conceptualizations of subjectivity;
• Apply their listening and interpretation skills to analyze unconscious content; and
• Discuss how the language of film reflects subjective experience
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Fee for 3 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 3 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.

New Time --Film Series: Blue Velvet presented by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS
2019-11-16 10:00 - 13:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Presents 2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film 10am – 1pm
In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy for resisting the truth about who authors them. The films in this series explore the psychological costs of denying the Other inside each of us, while considering the subjective and social possibilities that are opened by embracing Otherness, as seen in the ways the language of film pushes against the limits of established discourse—social, political, and psychoanalytical.
Learning Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of certain psychoanalytic conceptualizations of subjectivity;
• Apply their listening and interpretation skills to analyze unconscious content; and
• Discuss how the language of film reflects subjective experience
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Fee for 3 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 3 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.

Countertransference as a Source of Understanding by Kelly Bolger, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2020-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
This single case presentation will attempt to demonstrate how the shifting internal experience of the therapist’s mind, in reaction to the patient’s developmental needs, serves to signal the therapist that maturation is occurring. Using clinical material, three distinct developmental stages will be described and explored as the patient and therapist move from an infant-like state of organization, through adolescence, to early adulthood. Specific countertransference experiences of being in love, in mourning, and being teased will be used to demonstrate maturation in the patient and in the relationship. Theoretic concepts, linked to each stage, will further aim to expand on the understanding of the developmental process. The clinical material will be understood in the context of the detrimental effects of ongoing childhood sexual abuse and trauma.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will describe how to identify shifts in clinical material and how these shifts are linked to countertransference experience.
• Participants will describe how to differentiate countertransference that accurately reflects the patient’s experience from countertransference that interferes with understanding the patient.
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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.

Galadriel’s Mirror-and Winnicott’s, and Lacan’s by John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2020-03-07 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Lacan and Winnicott both believed that mirroring was very important in early development, but focused on different aspects and outcomes. Lacan theorized that when a young child first views her reflection in a mirror and sees her image as complete, her anxiety about her actually undeveloped and unintegrated state is relieved; henceforth she imagines herself as this perfected version rather than as the unintegrated subject that she really is. This process inaugurates the “Imaginary register”, roughly equivalent to what Anglo-American analysts call the realm of narcissism, but in Lacan’s conceptualization always involving profound alienation from reality. Winnicott thought of mirroring in terms not of the child encountering herself in an inanimate object, but in terms of her encountering herself in the gaze of the mother. Although Winnicott thought that this process could lead to a false self (roughly analogous to the Imaginary) if the mother’s gaze primarily gave back her own demands for the child, he also believed that with a good-enough mother invested in the child’s own needs, mirroring would promote development of a true self comfortably integrated with reality.
The Mirror of Galadriel plays a crucial role in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In the spirit of Freud’s statement that creative artists anticipated all the concepts of psychoanalysis, I will look into Galadriel’s mirror to see in what ways it reflects Lacan, in what ways it reflects Winnicott, and whether it reveals something else entirely.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will assess Lacan’s mirror stage and the Imaginary register.
• Participants will assess Winnicott’s concept of mirroring.
• Participants will apply literary expression of these concepts in Tolkien’s writing.
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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 2.5 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.

First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis-- Francisco González, MD Scientific Program
2021-01-30 10:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Sponsored by The Knight Fund
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.
Using the social meme of “first world problems” as an opening, this paper articulates a continuous field of psychoanalysis which extends from the individual to the social, a field demarcated by a sense of place and materiality. It problematizes the closed-door mentality of institutional psychoanalysis, arguing for a different future for psychoanalysis in the 21st century Thinking of psychoanalysis in this way, as an extended field, opens the door to conceiving of ways of practicing that are typically neglected in our theorizing, both within conventional dyadic work in the consulting room and well beyond, to community psychoanalysis. But this broader way of conceptualizing psychoanalytic practice also troubles us with ethical considerations, since we always close the door on something or, more importantly, on someone. These ideas are illustrated by clinical examples.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe two registers or domains of the unconscious and give examples of how they present in clinical work.
2. Critique the conventional notion of the psychoanalytic frame and contrast it to the idea of demarcation of the social field.
Francisco J. González, MD, is Faculty and Personal & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has worked as staff psychiatrist and supervisor at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, a clinic for Latino immigrants in San Francisco, for over 20 years. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
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Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America-- Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation
2021-02-27 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 3 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.
The tripartite familial structure of the oedipal complex has been central to Freudian understandings of the psychoanalytic subject. In the early 1950’s, however, Jacques Lacan introduces a revised reading of the structural relation between father, mother and child by presenting death as a fourth term that determines the subject’s mythic relation to the self and others. By working through a rereading of the case of the Rat Man in his lecture “The Neurotic’s Individual Myth,” Lacan shows how obsessional neurosis reveals deeper layers of myth that may shape subjectivity even across generations. This presentation will focus on understanding the mythical psychic structures expressed in American race relations and will investigate how myths about race position racialized individuals within oedipal relations of Eros and aggression that are fundamentally determined by deep psychic relations to the fourth term applied by Lacan to the oedipal dynamic, the factor of death that defines a fundamental relation to subjectivity and alterity. We will work through a reading of the mythic structure of race in America by returning to Freud and Lacan’s interpretation of the Rat Man and then we will advance toward a discussion of race in contemporary acts of police violence as well as will engage racial representations in the fiction of African American author Ralph Ellison.
Learning Objectives:
• To summarize how Lacan rethinks the oedipal complex through neurosis and death
• To describe how death becomes imbricated with myth to shape psychic fears and obsessions
• To analyze how the static four-part oedipal structure acts as a frame into which racial others are actively inserted
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Sheldon George, PhD is a Professor of English, a Lacanian theorist and a scholar of African-American literature. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and a guest editor of two special issues of the journal: “African Americans and Inequality” (2014) and “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions into Culture and Politics” (2018). George’s book Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity was published in 2016 by Baylor University Press. He is coeditor of Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics (forthcoming from Routledge) and is currently completing a collection on Lacan and Race. George’s chapter “Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Psychoanalysis, Race and American Slavery” will appear in the upcoming Psychology and the Other Series collection Race, Rage and Resistance.
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 3 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 RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Beyond Woke: Why the Focus on Unconscious Bias Will Not Address Systemic Racism-- Ann Pellegrini, PhD Scientific Presentation
2021-04-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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.
This presentation begins with a short history of the concept of unconscious bias. Dr. Pellegrini will track the legal, educational, and therapeutic attempts to remedy unconscious bias and the ferocious political attacks on such efforts. One such paradigmatic example was President Trump’s October 2020 executive order that effectively banned any training intended to eliminate unconscious bias at any workplace in the US that received federal monies (a ban that affected nearly every college and university in the country). Although President Biden rescinded this executive order within his first days in office, the concept of unconscious bias and the practice of unconscious bias training remain controversial – and not only to the political right. For example, in 1987, legal scholar Charles Lawrence III, introduced the notion of unconscious bias into legal theory in a paper that has become foundational to the movement known as Critical Race Theory. Lawrence has more recently expressed his concerns that a focus on unconscious bias has taken attention away from addressing systemic and ongoing racial subordination. Alongside this trenchant legal critique, we could also consider psychoanalytic pressures on the notion of unconscious bias, asking whether bias is something that could be eliminated if located in, and then extracted from, the unconscious. In this presentation, by contrast, Dr. Pellegrini argues that the very language of unconscious bias promises to free us from prejudice by making racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes “conscious.” But this impossible hope ignores the unconscious forces magnetized by racism (Holland, Saketopoulou). Putting psychoanalysis into conversation with Critical Race Theory and queer of color critique, Dr. Pellegrini challenges some of the enticing, yet simplistic solutions promised us by conceptualizations of unconscious bias, offering a different analytics that may more helpfully intervene by foregrounding the problem of whiteness and its investments by racism.

Learning objectives:
1. To become familiar with contemporary debates over “unconscious bias” and “unconscious bias training.”
2. To put these contemporary debates into a longer historical frame.
3. To describe – from an anti-racist perspective — the limits of unconscious bias training.
4. To put psychoanalysis to work alongside Critical Race Theory and Queer of Color Critique to consider the enduring problem of systemic racism.
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Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Her books and articles traverse several disciplines and interdisciplines, but one through-line is an abiding interest in exploring how feelings are lived, experienced, and communicated between and across bodies—and with what risks and possibilities for self and others. Another is the value of the aesthetic for repairing democratic social life. She has written extensively about religion, sexuality, and US public life. Her publications include Performance Anxieties as well as the coauthored books Love the Sin, You Can Tell Just By Looking and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People. She is the co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis. She’s currently completing a new book on queer structures of religious feeling. She is a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City.
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 RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Psycho-Social Factors that Influence Mental Health Treatment Outcomes for Persons of Color: Psychodynamic Consequences and Intervention Possibilities--C. Jama Adams, PhD Scientific Program
2021-05-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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.
Contemporary psychodynamic treatment approaches tend to be insensitive to the effects of macro-social factors on the intra-psychic and inter-psychic functioning of persons of color. Racism and its handmaiden capitalism will be explored in relation to institutional practices, conflict and reparative acts. This talk endeavors to identify sociocultural factors that may impinge on responsiveness to psychoanalytic treatment and psychoanalytic training. Through understanding connections between racism, capitalism, and suffering, aspects of institutional organization will be examined for their reproduction of certain limitations and harm. Learners will be able to consider possible alternatives for both clinical and educational practices.
Learning objectives:
• Understand the psychodynamics of racism in relation to capitalism
• Understand the intrapsychic and intrapsychic implications for the work with persons of color
• Understand the implications for organizational atonement and reparation
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C. Jama Adams, Ph.D., is a Child-Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. His research focuses on the experiences of Africana persons from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. He has published on the social and psychological stressors confronting Africana families.
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 RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Magritte’s Mysterious Memory by Alvin Burstein, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2021-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
This virtual event is free to attend and pre-registration is required by emailing your name and degree to nobpcenter@gmail.com.
The Life and Influence of the surrealist painter, Rene Magritte will be reviewed, with special emphasis on the influence of his mother’s suicide on his work. Familial suicide can have profound impact on development and creative potential that is difficult to articulate consciously and that therefore often is dealt with incompletely in treatment.
By focusing on familial (maternal) suicide, participants will increase awareness of its unconscious effects and how to deal with them.
Participants will become more competent in treating patients with familial suicide in their background
This activity will address competency in assessing and intervening with impacts of familial suicide on development and creativity, and evaluating the effectiveness of the approach
Learning Objectives:

• Describe and elaborate the influence of trauma on artistic work.
• Describe the multiple functions of memory for life events.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Registration Fee

NOBPC Member $15.00 USDNon-Member $25.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

If you prefer to pay via check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
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.

Case Consultation Workshop by Travis Tanner, PhD
2021-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
This virtual event is free to attend and pre-registration is required by emailing your name and degree to nobpcenter@gmail.com.
The Case Consultation Workshop is for clinicians interested in practicing psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy. Travis Tanner PhD will present an analytic case from his current practice.
The presentation will explore the dilemma of working with a false-self presentation. More specifically, the client in this case enacts a relational pattern in which he habitually accommodates to another’s expectations, feels coerced and resentful, but has trouble identifying his own desires and motivations. He feels most familiar to himself when he is passively opposed to someone else. He could benefit from learning other routes to feeling like himself and being with others. Attention will be devoted to how this specific relational pattern is enacted in the transference and countertransference.
Presentation of case material will alternate with group discussion.
Learning Objectives:
• Describe the self-perpetuating nature of an accommodating relational pattern.
• Become more adept at identifying relational patterns in the therapeutic process.
Travis Tanner teaches writing at Tulane University and is a 4th year Clinical Associate in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. In addition, he is a member at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center where he coordinates the annual film series. Some of his clinical and research interests include: theories of thinking, metaphors of the mind, creativity, and new approaches that expand the theory of psychoanalysis and broaden the populations that we engage.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Registration Fee

NOBPC Member $15.00 USDNon-Member $25.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

If you prefer to pay via check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
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 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.

Therapeutic Work with Children and Their Parents to Address Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma--Laurel Silber, Psy.D Scientific Program
2021-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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.
Intergenerational transmission of trauma, metaphorically referred to as haunting ghosts, has been an elusive subject to unpack in the context of clinical work with children. How do children communicate what is on their mind about this through their play and behavior? How do we help parents with the retrieval of painful memories? Deescalating fear and re-representing past trauma create an opportunity in the new generation to build security for the child and the parent-child relationship. The clinical mind plays with paradox across different developmental levels to mentalize transmitted trauma. Attachment research and contemporary theory provide significant insights to put to use clinically. This presentation will open up this complex clinical area by formulating it with the help of relevant research findings, poetry and clinical illustrations.
Learning objectives:
• Describe the relevance of children’s play as reflective space for marking the presence of transmitted trauma in the attachment context.
• Identify the importance of the pivot to work with parental subjectivity to maintain the focus on making experience coherent and meaningful, supporting a child’s agency.
In advance of this talk, Dr. Silber has shared the following articles for consideration:
Fraiberg, S., Adelson, E., and Shapiro, V. (1975) “Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships.” Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 14(3): 387-421.
Moldawsky Silber, L. (2012) Ghostbusting Transgenerational Processes. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 22:106-122
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Member $30.00 USDNon-Member $50.00 USDStudent $15.00 USD

Name and Degree

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If you prefer to pay via check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Laurel Silber, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist with a practice in Bryn Mawr, PA working with children and their families for over 30 years. She is faculty and Director of the Child Relational Psychotherapy Program at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and immediate Past President of the Section on children and adolescents of the Division of Psychoanalysis of APA. She has presented and published original articles and chapters on the subjects of intergenerational transmission of trauma, the importance of play to child development and child psychotherapy, gender and childism. Her most recent writing (in press) is entitled: Parental Implication and the Expansion of the Child Relational Therapist’s Clinical Imagination.
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 1 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 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.

Lost in the Mirror: Parent-Child Psychotherapy in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Unresolved Mourning--Norka T. Malberg, PsyD--Scientific Program
2022-04-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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.
The emotional pain of infertility often brings about a reactivation of old losses and narcissistic vulnerabilities, along with a sense of great helplessness, inadequacy, and frustration. In this context, a supportive and facilitating environment is vital. In this presentation, we explore the role of additional stressors like the process leading to choosing ART and the unexpected loss of the father which represent additional relational risk factors and challenge the mother’s parental reflective function. We look together at the therapist’s experience working with a mother and her young son trying to find each other amidst the fog of projections, ghosts and unresolved mourning. The presentation seeks to reflect on both the inter-subjective and intra-psychic ramifications of the multiple experiences of loss and grief experienced by this dyad while using a developmental psychoanalytic lens to guide my understanding.
Learning objectives:
• To understand the concept of parental reflective function in the context of trauma
• To explore, understand and learn about the technical ramifications of contemporary developmental psychoanalysis
• To learn about the importance of mentalizing clients from a culture and trauma lens when constructing clinical formulations
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Norka T. Malberg, PsyD. is a certified child psychoanalyst. She trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London and obtained her clinical doctorate from University College London under the supervision of Dr. Peter Fonagy for her work on clinical applications of attachment theory to working clinically with chronically ill adolescents. She is currently in private practice in Barcelona Spain (since Spring, 2020) and Connecticut (online) where she is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center where she conducts an early childhood seminar for child psychiatric residents amongst her main duties. She is a member of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society’s and the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City.
Dr. Malberg is co-editor a book of the Lines of Development Book Series for which she co-edited the first book: The Anna Freudian Tradition. She is in the editorial board for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and the Journal of Infant, Child And Adolescent Psychotherapy. Dr. Malberg is the co-editor of the Child and Adolescent Sections of the PDM-2 (Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual). She is one of five authors of the book: Time limited MBT-C published by the American Psychological Association Press in 2017 and recently featured as guest master clinician in the APA Video Series illustrating MBT techniques and most recently in a series of videos on Working with emotions in psychotherapy alongside Les Greenberg (EFT) and Michael Tompkins (CBT).
Dr. Malberg is originally from Puerto Rico. She teaches and lectures regularly in Latin America and Europe in the areas of attachment, play, developmental psychoanalysis, children and trauma and their management and understanding in the context of school, hospitals and legal contexts.
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.

Embodied Experience and Social Rhythms: The New Frontier for Psychoanalytic Work--Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D. Scientific Program
2022-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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.

Upcoming APsaA CME Events via Zoom
2022-10-31 - 2023-06-30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Please use the link to access CME events sponsored by APsaA Institutes/Centers thoughout the US.
Upcoming National CME Events

Advance Ethical Planning for the Therapist’s Unexpected Departure: The Professional Will - Deborah Henson, LCSW, JD, LL.M Scientific Program In-person or Zoom
2023-03-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Loyola University, Monroe Hall Room 152, 6363 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Fee to attend: $45 for NOBPC members; $75 non-members; and $25 student rate. All attendees will receive a 3 hour CME certificate. This is a hybrid event. Please choose to join us at Loyola University (details below) or via Zoom. Pre-registration is required and will end Friday, March 3 at 7pm Central time.
Do you have a plan in place if you were to get injured or die? Who would contact your clients? How would you manage the records and billing? How do you make a plan that maintains good ethical practice? Have you been avoiding making these plans or haven’t even considered the possibility of a disrupted practice? Come to this Professional Will Workshop, earn Ethics CME, and walk away with a solid plan for your professional will to be put in place.
In the event of death or disability or other unexpected circumstances that would prevent a clinician from continuing to provide services, many tasks typically need to be completed, which should be set forth in the clinician’s Professional Will. Deb Henson, attorney and LCSW, will address the ethical obligations of therapists to engage in advance planning for such an unexpected event. Deb will lecture on specific ethical, clinical, & legal challenges, including a thorough analysis of methods to protect client confidentiality. Unconscious resistance to this task is understandable and we will discuss various facets of this issue. Participants will be invited to share their ideas, experience, and thoughts about this evolving ethical aspect of practice so often overlooked. The workshop will cover the entire process of planning and creating the Professional Will, implementing advance team preparation, and incorporating notice to clients by amending Intake paperwork. Participants will have time to create their own first draft. Although questions will be welcomed throughout the seminar, some time will also be left at the end for final questions or discussion.
Learning objectives:
• Discuss the ethical obligations requiring the clinician to create a Professional Will
• Describe the ethical responsibilities relevant to writing a Professional Will
• Identify the elements to be included in a Professional Will
• Analyze the specific ethical, clinical, and legal challenges regarding a clinician’s unexpected exit from practice
• Demonstrate the need to notify existing and new clients of the Professional Will and the need to tread carefully regarding notifying former clients due to privacy concerns

VIRTUAL (ZOOM) REGISTRATION ENDS Friday, March 3 at 7pm Central time. We can accept walk-in registrations at Loyola. Please bring a check for the registration fee.
Deborah (Deb) Henson is a LCSW (Tulane School of Social Work, MSW) and lawyer in Louisiana and Colorado, specializing in mental health licensing defense and risk prevention consultation. Deb’s hybrid background (clinician and lawyer) gives her a unique perspective from which she offers practical, ethical solutions to high-risk clinical and legal situations that therapists encounter frequently. Deb offers webinars on self-protective, ethical clinical practice several times a year through her training business – Beyond Ethics, LLC. Deb also writes a Mental Health Newsletter addressing current concerns of clinicians from her consultation and defense practice, reviewing board meetings (SW, LPC), and alerting therapists to pertinent changes in the law or upcoming trainings. p>
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 3AMA 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 IF THEIR ACCREDITED ASSOCIATIONS OR BOARDS RECOGNIZE CME CREDITS.

Film Series: Fight Club presented by Andrew Anson, MD--ZOOM ONLY due to COVID
2023-09-21 - 2023-09-22 | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
2023-2024 Film Series: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Horror, Pathology and Reframing Perversion https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83771757811?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 837 7175 7811 Passcode: [REDACTED]
Our screening series will introduce mental health professionals to psychoanalytic concepts and research around sexuality, trauma, and uncanny experiences. Participants will watch psychosexually themed films and participate in professional-led discussions analyzing the material in terms of psychopathology and treatment. Our discussion of the Fight Club screening will introduce viewers to a model of the masochistic personality (Jack, played by Edward Norton) and ask them to reflect on the clinical and cultural meanings of perversion. Participants will be introduced to contemporary conceptions of perversion as a developmental stage rather than a pathological condition. Participants will be asked to reflect on the healthy expression of aggression and masochism within human relationships, and how destigmatizing perversion can help clinicians better understand and empower their patients. Learning Objectives: • Describe and diagnose Jack’s (Edward Norton) masochism and put it in a developmental context • Recite non-stigmatizing definitions of masochism and perversion • Provide examples of the healthy expression of aggression and masochism within human relationships • Use Lacanian concepts to reframe and destigmatize clients’ identities and experiences Dr. Andrew Ansen is a psychiatrist and certified psychoanalyst with interests in relational psychoanalysis and Lacan’s theory of perversion.
Attendance is free but pre-register by emailing nobpcenter@gmail.com. You may join in person via Zoom. Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.
1 CME credit is $10 for NOBPC members and $15 for non-members **Please watch the film prior to the 9/21 discussion** Fight Club can be rented ($3.99) from many platforms such as YouTube Apple TV, Prime Video, or Google Play. We will screen the film at NOBPC on Sunday, September 17 at 5:30pm if you want to watch with us.
CME PAYMENT

CME Fee

NOBPC Member $10.00 USDNon-Member $15.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

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 1 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 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Film Series: Under the Skin presented by Travis Tanner, PhD, LMSW, ASW
2023-10-22 13:00 - 16:00 | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
2023-2024 Film Series: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Horror, Pathology and Reframing Perversion
Our screening series will introduce mental health professionals to psychoanalytic concepts and research around sexuality, trauma, and uncanny experiences. Participants will watch psychosexually themed films and participate in professional-led discussions analyzing the material in terms of psychopathology and treatment.
Screening begins at 1pm Central Time at NOBPC
Discussion begins at 3pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
”Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?” – Julia Kristeva
It seems everywhere we look today, the enemy is coming for us. It is any person marked as a foreigner–an “other”–to an established (and safe) way of life. Think of the black teen, the immigrant worker, or the trans student who is deemed a threat to this order and targeted for punishment. But as the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva reminds us, the foreigner doesn’t come from without but arises from within, for we are all strangers to ourselves.
Our discussion of the Under the Skin screening will introduce viewers to the psychoanalytic notion of alienation from humanist (classical Freudian and relational theory) and posthumanist (contemporary French psychoanalytic) perspectives. Under the Skin follows an alien (played by Scarlett Johansson) and the people and places she encounters on earth. The ﬁlm explores the boundaries of self-other against the backdrop of sexuality and violence, and queries how to represent the unrepresentable dimensions of the life and death drives. Participants will be asked to reflect on and discuss how these ideas relate to our clinical and research practices.
Learning Objectives:
• To differentiate between repression, dissociation, and unformulated experiences
• To understand Freud’s concepts of life/death drive, and instincts and their vicissitudes
• To understand the relationship between pleasure/unpleasure
Travis Tanner, PhD, LMSW, ASW works with adolescents and young adults in a psychoanalytically-informed treatment center in Los Angeles. He is an Advanced Candidate in the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
**If you wish to join only for the discussion, please watch the film prior to joining**

If joining for the discussion only, please arrive at NOBPC by 2:55pm or join the Zoom link.
The film is available on most streaming services.
Attendance is free but pre-register by emailing nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event and is only available for the discussion portion.
1 CME credit is $10 for NOBPC members and $15 for non-members.

CME Fee

NOBPC Member $10.00 USDNon-Member $15.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

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 1 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 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

CHANGE OF VENUE Meditative Psychoanalysis: The Marriage of Mindfulness, Meaning, and Intimacy - Jeffrey Rubin, PhD - Scientific Program In-person or Zoom
2023-11-04 09:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
DUE TO XAVIER’S HOMECOMING EVENTS AND LIMITED ACCESS TO THE CONVOCATION ANNEX, THIS CME EVENT WILL BE HELD AT NOBPC, 3624 COLISEUM ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115
All attendees will receive a 3-hour CME certificate. This is a hybrid event. Please choose to join us at Xavier University (details below) or via Zoom.
Sponsored by the NOBPC Knight Lectureship Fund in collaboration with Xavier University of Louisiana Counselor Education Department

In person at Xavier University, Convocation Center Annex, Room 111
3775 Fern Street New Orleans, LA 70125
Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. This presentation, a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the audience, will explore “meditative psychoanalysis”, blending Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions into a more encompassing synthesis.
In meditative analysis, we first use meditation and yogic breathing to quiet and focus the mind, and we then explore and translate the meaning of what we have discovered using psychoanalytic understandings of symbolic and unconscious communication. Psychoanalytic attention to unconscious communication and meaning— the second facet of meditative psychoanalysis—expands the focus and equanimity that meditation fosters. The third and final aspect of meditative psychoanalysis is a special relationship (and environment) designed to illuminate and transform one’s history.
Psychoanalysis not only elucidates the interpersonal roots of adult afflictions, it offers a relationship and experience that is a vehicle for transformation in the present. The Psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship, in tandem with meditation, seen in a freer and more empathic light as the vehicle for both validating a person’s experience and providing opportunities for new forms of relatedness and self-transformation—becomes a crucible in which old patterns of restrictively seeing and organizing one’s life can be witnessed and ultimately transformed, so that new and liberating kinds of human connections can occur.
Learning Objectives:

• Delineate how meditation can enrich psychoanalytic listening.
• Articulate how psychoanalytic understandings of unconscious meaning and communication can enrich the meditative process.
• Explain how meditation and psychoanalysis can enrich each other and be integrated.
Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and teaches meditation. Considered one of the leading integrators of the Western psychoanalytic and Eastern meditative traditions, he is the author of six books and has presented on psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and Buddhism, and meditation throughout the United States and abroad.
Fee to attend: $55 for NOBPC members; $90 non-members; and $25 student rate.
VIRTUAL (ZOOM) REGISTRATION ENDS Friday, November 3 at 12pm Central time. We can accept walk-in registrations at Xavier. Please bring a check for the registration fee.
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 3AMA 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Film Series: The Piano Teacher presented by Helene Greece, LCSW & Paul Doyen, LMSW
2023-11-19 14:00 - 18:00 | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
2023-2024 Film Series: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Horror, Pathology and Reframing Perversion
Our screening series will introduce mental health professionals to psychoanalytic concepts and research around sexuality, trauma, and uncanny experiences. Participants will watch psychosexually themed films and participate in professional-led discussions analyzing the material in terms of psychopathology and treatment.
Screening begins at 2pm Central Time at NOBPC
Discussion begins at 4:20pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
“The Piano Teacher” presents us with a film that is a looking glass/perverse version of a classic Hollywood fairytale romance: the protagonist, Erika, is a repressed middle-aged woman trapped in a suffocating relationship with her mother. The young hero arrives on the scene, rescues Erika from her mother and brings her to erotic life so that love can triumph. Except that is not at all what happens.
Our discussion of the “The Piano Teacher” centers on Erika’s erotic perversion and the intra-psychic conflicts from which it springs. We will explore Erika’s perversion as both a compromise formation managing the conflict between id and superego demands and a result of the inescapable chains of maternal dominance and jouissance described by Lacan.
Participants will learn about Freud’s account of perversions as “abnormal” sexual impulses that escape repression and sublimation, transformations of Freud’s concept of perversion into an erotically gratifying defense, and Lacan’s developmental theory of perversion as an incomplete separation from the “mOther” aided by the absence of “father as Law.” Together we will consider the roles of fantasy, compromise formation, jouissance, desire and lack in the film and the actions of its central characters: Erika, the mother and Walter.
Learning Objectives:
• Summarize Freud’s theory of perversion as “the negative of neurosis”
• Describe revisions of Freud’s theory and the recasting of perversion as an erotically gratifying defense following sexual prohibition
• Describe Lacan’s concepts of jouissance, desire and lack and how they are represented within the film
• Assess Erika’s intrapsychic conflicts and perversion by applying both classical and Lacanian theories of the perverse
Helene Greece, LCSW, SEP is in private practice in New Orleans. She has completed the Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at NOBPC and is credentialed as a Somatic Experience Practitioner. She is excited to have begun learning about Lacan.
Paul Doyen, LMSW, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in New Orleans. He has pursued psychoanalytic supervision and coursework at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis.

**If you wish to join only for the discussion, please watch the film prior to joining**

If joining for the discussion only, please arrive at NOBPC by 4:15pm or join the Zoom link.
The film is available on most streaming services.
Attendance is free but pre-register by emailing nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event and is only available for the discussion portion.
1.5 CME credits is $10 for NOBPC members and $15 for non-members.

CME Fee

NOBPC Member $10.00 USDNon-Member $15.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

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 1.5 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 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Film Series: Lady in a Cage presented by Jon Dimond, PhD--new date January 14
2024-01-14 14:00 - 17:15 | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
2023-2024 Film Series: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Horror, Pathology and Reframing Perversion
Our screening series will introduce mental health professionals to psychoanalytic concepts and research around sexuality, trauma, and uncanny experiences. Participants will watch psychosexually themed films and participate in professional-led discussions analyzing the material in terms of psychopathology and treatment.
Screening begins at 2pm Central Time at NOBPC
Discussion begins at 3:45pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
In what many consider to be the first film in the home invasion horror genre, “Lady In A Cage” (1964) is an audacious and prescient exploration of whether one can ever feel truly at home in a society unraveling at the seams. We are introduced to the privileged world of Cornelia Hilyard, “safely” ensconced in tranquil surroundings following an unusual farewell to her son. This domestic scene is soon interrupted by a rogue’s gallery of archetypal villains, but the audience is invited to consider what can happen when one learns a monster may already be inside.
While Oedipal themes are manifest, our discussion will read this film utilizing two specific conceptual perspectives. We will consider the symbolism of the home itself utilizing Freud’s conceptualization of the uncanny, which stands in opposition to the German word “heimlich” (“familiar,” “belonging to the home”). We will apply elements of the uncanny to this film, how the characters go about their business, and consider how these dynamics affect work with our patients when they feel their reality or very selves being invaded.
We will also consider the proposition of feminist psychologist Dorothy Dinnerstein who argues in her seminal work The Mermaid and the Minotaur (1976) that historical divisions of gender roles, and the compartmentalization that is required to sustain these arrangements, create a relentless “suicidal” dehumanization process.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand Freud’s concept of the uncanny and how that affects patient experiences and sense of self
• Understand Dinnerstein’s argument about historical divisions of gender roles and how these arrangements relate to conscious and unconscious dehumanization processes
• Assess Cornelia’s intrapsychic conflicts and shift in self-states utilizing Freud’s Oedipus Complex
Jon Dimond, Ph.D. received his doctorate in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to moving to New Orleans, he held an Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland from 2017-2020 where he taught courses in abnormal psychology and human behavior. Dr. Dimond is a licensed clinical psychologist in the District of Columbia and the states of New York, Virginia, and Louisiana. Although his practice is broadly oriented toward general adult psychotherapy, he has specialized training in treatments for severe personality disorders and trauma. Dr. Dimond additionally has an extensive research and clinical background working with individuals who identify as transgender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender non-binary.
**If you wish to join only for the discussion, please watch the film prior to joining**

If joining for the discussion only, please arrive at NOBPC by 3:40pm or join the Zoom link.
The film is available to rent on several streaming services.
Attendance is free but pre-register by emailing nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event and is only available for the discussion portion.
1.5 CME credits is $10 for NOBPC members and $15 for non-members.

CME Fee

NOBPC Member $10.00 USDNon-Member $15.00 USD

Attendee’s Name and Degree

Email Address

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 1.5 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 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.

Psychoanalytic Explorations: The Digital Third: Expansions of Oedipal Triads in the Interpersonal Age of Digital Objects presented by Rachel Hammer, MD
2024-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
Psychoanalytic Explorations is a series in which faculty members and students of the NOBPC, as well as interested members of the community, present and discuss issues of current concern to them. The focus will be on clinical practice, theoretical challenges, and non-clinical applications of psychoanalytic theory; all presentations are intended to deepen attendees’ ability to think psychoanalytically. Each session will begin with a presentation followed by questions and answers and open discussion, with the intention of facilitating relaxed, informal peer exchange.
Discussion begins at 11am Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
This single case presentation will explore how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) chat technology should be considered as a self-object and regarded as a potential player in object relations for patients who rely heavily on the use of AI. Using clinical material, the presenter will demonstrate how a transferential oedipal dynamic can emerge in treatment, with AI functioning as the digital third. Specific countertransference experiences including feeling competitive with the AI third will be discussed.
The presenter will summarize literature reviewing the “interpersonal age of digital objects” as discussed by Kahoud (2023). Additional clinical material examining narcissistic transference will be discussed alongside queer psychoanalytic themes discussing liquidness of self. Bion’s work in “Container and Contained” will be discussed as we consider for this patient the symbolic function of holes and tunnels, which in all bodies contain and discharge many elements: mother’s milk, blood, ejaculate.
Together we will consider the case’s context of rigid sociocultural “hard” boundaries as source of childhood shame related to sexual orientation, continuing as internalized adult shame while harboring a stigmatized diagnosis as secret, and appreciate how the patient seeks compromise formations which favor liquidity. Finally, we will discuss the therapist’s work as the process of seeking to be a flexible Bionian container, a good-enough circle.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify the clinical utility of screening for the presence of nontraditional “digital” object relations in clinical material and consider the relevance of these “relationships” to formulations which involve difficulties with oedipalization and digital rivals.
• Describe how narcissistic transference involving fantasies of infection serve multiple defensive functions.
• Link imagery as poets might to consider what Bionic beta-elements, or unthought thoughts, are alive in presented clinical material.
Rachel Hammer, MD completed a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction during medical school at Mayo Clinic, and completed combined training in 2020. She has joined the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Affairs division of Primary Care, and serves as Psychiatry Clerkship Director for the Tulane School of Medicine. Her professional interests include narrative medicine, psychosomatic symptoms and illness, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and integrative primary care. Her current scholarly work focuses on Post-ICU Care Syndrome, Death Cafes for ICU worker burnout, and COVID-related family and caregiver psychological stress. Dr. Hammer is completing Adult Psychoanalytic Training, currently in her third year, at NOBPC.
Attendance is free. Pre-register by emailing nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.
1.5 CME credits is $15 for NOBPC members and $25 for non-members.

CME Fee

NOBPC Member $15.00 USD

Non-Member $25.00 USD

Attendee's Name and Degree

Email Address

TThis 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 1.5 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

NOBPC Virtual Open House Via Zoom
2024-03-07 17:30 - 18:00, 2024-03-15 12:30 - 13:00, 2024-03-21 16:00 - 16:30, 2024-03-25 18:30 - 19:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
On behalf of the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center (NOBPC), we’d like to invite you to a 30-minute informal informational session, led by faculty and members to learn more about becoming a member of our organization. In addition to being a vibrant community of clinicians specializing in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, we offer opportunities for continuing education and networking.
Come hear about all the benefits of becoming a member of the most vibrant psychoanalytic community in the South.
If you are interested in learning more, please register below. Can’t make it to an open house? You can contact our Membership Chair, Janell Kalifey (jkalifey@gmail.com), for more information. We look forward to connecting with you!
REGISTER HERE
All NOBPC events are Central Time Zone.

Nancy McWilliams, PhD and Michael Garrett, MD Spring 2024 Scientific Conference In-person or Zoom
2024-03-09 08:30 - 16:00 | Tulane University School of Medicine, Murphy Building, 131 S. Robertson St., 14th floor, Room 1439, New Orleans, LA, 70112, United States
NOBPC in collaboration with EPIC NOLA
Attendees will receive a 5-hour CME certificate for attending both sessions. This is a hybrid event. Please choose to join us at Tulane Medical School Murphy Building (details below) or via Zoom. In-person space is limited so please register early.
Vital Signs of Clinical Progress and Psychological Wellness by Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Morning Session – 9am – 12pm Central Time 3 CME credits
Mental health professionals try to alleviate specific symptoms, but at the same time we try to help our patients solve general problems in living, pursue overall life goals, and mature in the areas of love, work, and play. In the absence of a DSM definition of mental health, both therapists and patients need to evaluate progress not only in terms of symptom reduction but also in terms of a general construct of psychological wellness by which they can assess how treatment is going. Patients often cannot conceptualize these areas themselves until they make progress in them and can see the difference in their lives. This presentation will explore an evidence-based conceptualization of overall psychological wellness. It will cover ten areas identified in the clinical literature as critical aspects of overall mental health, explore the empirical literature about each of these areas, and emphasize the practical clinical utility of keeping an eye on these vital signs. The presenter will give examples of how therapists and patients can pursue these goals together. Connections between concepts and clinical techniques will be made explicit.
Learning Objectives:

Describe ten areas of overall mental health relevant to psychotherapy and clinical supervision
Define the term “mentalization” and apply it to clinical work
Identify eight qualities in psychotherapists that correlate with patient satisfaction about clinical outcome

Disguised Memories of Traumatic Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence that Appear in Psychotic Symptoms by Michael Garrett, MD
Afternoon Session – 2pm – 4pm Central Time 2 CME credits
Research has shown that childhood trauma increases the risk for psychosis in adolescence and adulthood. Disguised memories of trauma appear in psychotic symptoms. Despite mounting evidence that childhood adversity increases the risk of psychosis, the prevailing treatment of psychotic patients consists of neuroleptic medication. The high incidence of child abuse in patients with a psychosis diagnosis suggests that ambitious trauma-informed psychotherapy is an essential treatment modality in the treatment of psychosis, however, there is a widespread failure to implement such an approach. Most psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health disciplines are taught that “schizophrenia” is a genetically-determined brain disease, rather than a bio-psycho-social stress disorder requiring both medication and psychotherapy. This presentation will provide clinicians with tools to change the way they listen to psychotic symptoms. Learners will attempt to discern the meaning that underlies psychotic symptoms. Instead of regarding them as the meaningless byproducts of a diseased brain, learners will instead regard them as meaningful communications about the patient’s life history and current state of mind. This change will improve the capacity of clinicians to deliver trauma-informed care to psychotic patients.
Learning Objectives:

Explain why traumatic experiences cannot be entirely forgotten, but can only be remembered in de-contextualized fragmented recollections.
Give one example of a delusion the content of which appears as a trauma memory in disguise.

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021). She has taught in thirty countries, and her writings have been translated into twenty languages. She has been featured by the American Psychological Association as a master clinician. Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision; the relationship between diagnosis and treatment; alternatives to DSM and ICD diagnostic conventions; integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge; the application of psychoanalytic understanding to the problems of diverse clinical populations; altruism; narcissism; and trauma and dissociative disorders.
Michael Garrett, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and author of Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatment (Guilford, 2019). Most of his professional career has been spent in public psychiatry. His time is divided among patient care, supervision of psychotherapy, teaching, and clinical research. He has an abiding concern for the problems clinicians confront when trying to develop relationships with psychotic individuals who have a fundamentally different view of reality than that of the therapist. Trained in both psychoanalysis and CBT for psychosis, he combines these approaches in treating psychotic patients.
In person at Tulane University School of Medicine, Murphy Building, 14th floor, Room 1439, 131 S. Robertson St., New Orleans, LA 70112 Campus Map Parking lots near Murphy Building
Registration Information (includes up to 5 CME credits)
Advance registration is required. Please click here to register online. If you prefer to pay by check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Early Registration Discount by March 1, 2024:
NOBPC Members: $85 Non-members: $135 Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) No CME $25
AFTER March 1, 2024 and at the door (if space allows):
NOBPC Members: $100 Non-members: $150 Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) No CME $25
VIRTUAL (ZOOM) REGISTRATION ENDS Friday, March 8 at Noon Central Time.

Registration Fee (includes CME) through 03/01

Member $100.00 USD

Non-Member $150.00 USD

Student $25.00 USD

Attendance

Zoom

In person at Tulane School of Medicine, Murphy Building

Name and Degree

Email Address

Scientific Conference Schedule
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 5 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, Social Workers, and Licensed Professional Counselors may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.
