NOBPC | New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center

Film Series: The Lost Daughter by Liora Diamond, LPC
2026-08-29 14:00 - 18:00 UTC | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
The Lost Daughter :
If Autonomy Is Reactive, What Do We Do?
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: uses the immersive power of cinema to explore the complex interplay between internal psychic life and external social structures. Although patients routinely grapple with authoritarian social demands, theory alone can mistakenly reduce them to passive objects of social control. Cinema bridges this gap by bringing the intricate, messy realities of human agency to life. Through this cinematic lens, mental health professionals can better analyze the psychological underpinnings of aggression and control, helping us understand where true freedom and psychological traps reside within the unique particularities of a patient’s life.
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.
Screening begins at 2pm Central Time at NOBPC
Discussion begins at 4:20pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
One of the main aims of psychoanalytic therapy is to help our clients achieve autonomy and self-determination. As clinicians we tend to be sensitive to the oppressive, even authoritarian, demands that constrain our patients’ lives. And yet, theories of social control can make our clients seem more passive and less complex than they are. Psychoanalytic theory reminds us that people can be oppressed by rigid social demands in one area, like mothering a child or navigating a career, while seeing threats to their autonomy where they are less likely to exist.
The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2021 directorial debut, depicts a few days in a woman’s vacation threaded with flashbacks to her earlier life as a mother of two young daughters. As we follow this character through a hazy, sometimes disturbing, sometimes amusing sequence of events, the director explores themes of aggression, maternal ambivalence, and transgressive acts.
The main character, Leda, defies categorization and seems to be morally ambiguous. Refusing to paint her as a victim or an aggressor, Gyllenhaal guides us toward the open-ended questions we might ask a new patient: In what context do her actions make sense? What is she evoking? What is she repeating? Where is her freedom? What are her traps?
Learning Objectives:

Discuss the psychological underpinnings of aggression, rebellion, control and nurturance from a psychodynamic perspective.
Apply sociopolitical context and theories about power, patriarchy, social roles and the rule of law.
Examine ideas related to subjugation, autonomy, reaction formation situated within the particularities of an individual’s unique life and choices .

Liora Diamond, M.S., LPC, works as a therapist for individuals and couples in New Orleans. Her professional interests include systems, the unconscious, and culture as related to the individual experience. She has loved high and low-brow films and TV for as long as she can remember.
Liora Diamond, M.S., LPC – No disclosures
Attendance is free but pre-register HERE
Please click HERE for registration with CME credits. If you prefer to pay by check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Fee for 1.5 CME credits:

NOBPC members $10
Non-members $15

In-person space is limited so please register early.
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 4:10pm or join the Zoom link.
The film is available to rent on several streaming services.
Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event and is only available for the discussion portion.
Optional Readings:

Fritsch, E. (2021) Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. 2nd ed. By Daphne de Marneffe. New York: Scribner, 2019, xiv + 291 pp., $18.00 paperback.. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 69:1223-1228
Galioto, E. D. (2019) Maternal ambivalence in the novel and film We Need to Talk About Kevin. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society 24:132-150
Zuckerman, J. R. (2019) Nasty Women: Toward a New Narrative on Female Aggression. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 55:214-251

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credits Available:

Physicians: 1.5 Credits
Psychologists: 1.5 Credits
Social Workers: 1.5 Credits
PAs: 1.5 Credits
Nurses & NPs: 1.5 Nursing Contact Hours
Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 1.5 Credits
Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
Interprofessional Continuing Education: 1.5 Credits

Other Profession Types
Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute hold the final say on which accredited activities they accept.
Disclosure Statement
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. There is no commercial support for this activity. APsA verifies that all materials generated by AI are accurate, including cited publications and posttests.
*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 December 2022

The I in You Part II Beyond Pathology: Clinical Practice and the Narcissism-Self Paradigm by Jeffry Luria, Phd
2026-09-19 11:00 - 12:30
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.
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.
Discussion begins at 11am Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
We’ve discussed the Narcissistic-Self paradigm in our lives previously. Part II is designed to complement the gap between the previous talk’s emphasis on theory with an emphasis on clinical practice. The DSM-5 offers a constricted, pathology-based view of narcissism, while psychoanalytic practice reveals a far more nuanced reality.
We will cover the following questions: How do we use this new understanding to improve our work with patients? How does the Narcissistic-Self process create conflict-ridden quandaries in our patient’s lives and in the psychoanalytic treatment? Can we use this understanding in the framework of transference and countertransference?
These questions require us to move into the interior of the psychoanalytic experience, paying special attention to current language, specifically current semantics in psychoanalytic discourse. Through clinical examples, Dr Luria expands on the etiology of Narcissistic-Self drives and fantasies, exploring the delicate yin and yang of Self-Hatred and Self-Love. Recognizing these narcissistic ideals as operating in both the clinician and the patient, we hope to view these meanings differently, enabling us to reflect, inform, and offer openings to a deepening psychoanalytic process. Seeing conflict and interpersonal suffering through this lens can help us choose specific language and interventions to ameliorate them.
The goal is to attenuate Narcissism-Self; to shrink it. So “shrink”—used in the hitherto as an historical and defensive invective to describe psychoanalysis turns out to be both ironic and accurate.
Is the psychoanalytic relationship an intermittent but therapeutically necessary narcissistic-self fever dream transiently interrupted by awakenings of both patient and analyst? If so, is a successful analysis defined by more enduring awakenings?
Dr. Jeffry Luria, a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, began practicing in 1975. He trained as a psychoanalyst at the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health in New York City and later served as a supervising psychoanalyst at two training institutes there. He is a member of the faculty of the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center He is working on a book entitled The I in You, a slightly ego-centric stroll through Self and Narcissism in culture and clinical practice.
Jeffry Luria, PhD – No disclosures
Learning Objectives:

Examine Narcissism and Self processes and how it restricts human functioning and exacerbates conflicts in the psychoanalytic process .
Analyze, expand and refine the specific connotative and denotative language clinicians use interventions designed to interpret and clarify Self and Narcissistic processes emerging in psychoanalytic treatment.
Apply the framework of Narcissism and Self to broaden the clinician’s approach enabling a more open and deepening between them and their patients. Specifically, using the Narcissism-Self paradigm the transferential and counter-transferential process will be further explicated enabling a more deep and positive resolution of same.

Please join us at NOBPC or via Zoom. Participation is open to all. In-person space is limited so please register early.
Please click HERE for online registration. If you prefer to pay by check, please email nobpcenter@gmail.com.
Fee for 1.5 CME credits:

NOBPC members $25
Non-members $35

Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.
Optional Readings:

Development of narcissism across the life span: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies. Orth, Ulrich , Krauss , Samantha , & Back, Mitja D. Psychological Bulletin, Vol 150(6), Jun 2024, 643-66.
Kesman, E., Masoumi, S., De Amicis, M., Mucci, C., & Scalabrini, A. (2026) . The vulnerability to shame for the narcissistic self. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Advance online publication. Journal Article #3.
The mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism between grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Reis, Lais Costa dos Santos Pereira , Rocha , Rafael Moreton Alves da , & Lim a-Costa, Ariela Raissa Personality and Individual Differences, Vol 248, Jan 2026, 1-7 Article 113487.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credits Available:

Physicians: 1.5 Credits
Psychologists: 1.5 Credits
Social Workers: 1.5 Credits
PAs: 1.5 Credits
Nurses & NPs: 1.5 Nursing Contact Hours
Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 1.5 Credits
Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
Interprofessional Continuing Education: 1.5 Credits

Other Profession Types
Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute hold the final say on which accredited activities they accept.
Disclosure Statement
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. There is no commercial support for this activity. APsA verifies that all materials generated by AI are accurate, including cited publications and posttests.
*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 December 2022

Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism and the Arts - Symposium with Tulane University
2026-10-17 09:30 - 13:00
Tentative discussion topic. More details coming soon.

SAVE THE DATE: Scientific Presentation -Tentative Topic Sexuality and Erotic Transference by J. Unterberg, PhD
2027-02-28 14:00 - 16:00
More details to follow.
