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 Psychotherapists do not always consider the importance of names in their work. Yet a name can carry secret wishes, internal ... Read more
Joan’s Wire Hangers: Reconciling that Recollection is the Best Fake We Have on Hand Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Many psychotherapists struggle to reconstruct patients' early life stories and parse external reality from unconscious phantasies. This challenge is further complicated by pervasive images, prejudices, and power dynamics that imbue even the most private traumas with cultural meanings. ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund 3 CME/CE Credits available What is authoritarianism? Do we live in an authoritarian society? What is the difference between the authoritarian impulse and the artistic impulse? Can art help us resist the allure of authoritarianism? Join us on Saturday, October 17, from 9:30 to 1:00 pm at the ... Read more
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