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 UTC | 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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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.

Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America-- Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation
2021-02-27 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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

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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 UTC | 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

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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-
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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 UTC | 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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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-
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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 UTC | 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.
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Embodied Experience and Social Rhythms: The New Frontier for Psychoanalytic Work--Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D. Scientific Program
2022-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 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.
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2022-10-31 - 2023-06-30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
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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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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

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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.

Psychoanalytic Explorations: Ketamine +/- Therapy by Andrew Anson, MD
2024-05-18 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | 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
With training in Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy, Dr Anson presents a firsthand account of primary process material using medicalized ketamine, the conflicting medical, psycholytic and psychedelic models of treatment, and what psychedelics stands to teach psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic communities about the unconscious mind.
Dr. Anson will provide details on the research into the neuroscience behind how we think it helps, and the implications for therapy because of what ketamine research is teaching us about the unconscious mind.
Dr. Anson’s paper and information presented will dispel some suspicions about an FDA approved treatment, and help all practitioners distinguish and think critically about three different approaches to ketamine, the medical approach, the psychological/psycholytic approach and the psychedelic approach. The paper will also educate about the risks and harms of ketamine and the risk of ketamine remaining outside clinical and therapeutic settings.
Learning Objectives:
· Participants will be able to explain the difference between psycholytic psychotherapy and psychedelic psychotherapy.
· Participants will be able explain the proposed therapeutic mechanism of action of ketamine in terms of the default mode network and neurogenesis.
Andrew Anson, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and teaching faculty at Tulane University and New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. Dr Anson will have recently (April 2024) completed 150+ hours of training in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy training through the California Institute of Integral Studies and has studied the body of literature on psychedelics and has written and lectured on Ketamine and other psychedelics.
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

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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)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.

NEW DATE Psychoanalytic Explorations: The Use of Countertransference to Identify Change in a Single Case Analysis by Kelly Bolger, PhD
2024-10-26 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Karachi) | 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
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts often struggle to accurately identify and understand the developmental stages of their patients, particularly those with histories of trauma. This presentation addresses professional competencies around utilizing countertransference therapeutically and assessing changes in countertransference over time as an indicator of therapeutic change. 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 a psychotic-like state of organization, through an “acting out” phase, and finally into a symbolic state of mind. Theoretic concepts, linked to each stage, will further aim to expand on the understanding of the developmental process.
Learning Objectives:

Describe how to identify shifts in clinical material and how these shifts are linked to countertransference experience
Describe how to differentiate countertransference that accurately reflects the patient’s experience from countertransference that interferes with understanding the patient
Apply theoretical frameworks to understand the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship and the patient’s developmental trajectory

Dr. Bolger is a clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience in private practice. She is in Adult Psychoanalytic training at NOBPC and has organized and contributed to our speaker series for many years. Her past presentations added enthusiasm and sparked people’s interest in countertransference ideas.
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 2 CME credits:

NOBPC members $15
Non-members $25

Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.

Optional Readings:

Eshel, O. (2019). The vanished last scream: Winnicott and Bion. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 88: 111-140.
Civatarese, G. (2019). The concept of time in Bion’s “A theory of thinking.” International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 100: 182-205.
Hewitt, M.A. (2014). Freud and the psychoanalysis of telepathy: commentary on Claudie Massicotte’s “Psychical transmissions.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 24: 103-108.

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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.

Psychoanalytic Explorations: Ended but Not Over: Explorations of Difficult Terminations in Psychotherapy by Jeffrey Sibrack, MD
2024-11-16 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Karachi) | 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
Psychoanalytic thinking about termination has shifted away from idealized and homogenous models and towards recognizing limitations, difference, and uncertainty. This presentation will describe common experiences like unexpected, unilateral, or forced terminations and their impact on both therapists and patients. Dr. Sibrack will summarize some ideals of a therapeutic termination phase and review common features in other types of endings that may lead to countertherapeutic activity. Case material, examining specific instances of disillusionment and limitations in therapy, will be complemented by a focused review of literature to highlight ways that therapists can anticipate issues surrounding difficult terminations, avoid defensive action, keep the patient experience in mind, and promote an experience of growth.
Learning Objectives:

Summarize different types of endings that commonly occur in psychotherapy and analysis
Discuss common expressions of transference and countertransference that may appear as treatment comes to an end, specifically when termination is forced or unilateral
Demonstrate how confrontations with limitations and disillusionment in ending a therapy can facilitate growth and/or healing in both analyst and analysand

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 2 CME credits:

NOBPC members $15
Non-members $25

Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.

Optional Readings:

Gabbard, G. O. (2021) The “dragons of primeval days”: Termination and the persistence of the infantile. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102:595-602.
Flabbi, L. (2019) What Healing Has to Do with Termination: Endings and Interruptions. Division Review 19:45-49.
Doorn, K. A. & Wooldridge, T. (2018) The Complexity of Loss during a Forced Termination: A Case Illustration. British Journal of Psychotherapy 34:285-299.
Tucker, S. S. (2018) Myths of termination: What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 99:260-262.

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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.

Beyond Words: Exploring Countertransference Through Art & Sensory Expression by Robert Wolf, DPsa Scientific Conference In-person or Zoom
2024-12-07 09:30 - 12:30 (Asia/Karachi) | Imagine Recovery New Orleans, 738 Nashville Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund
NOBPC in collaboration with Imagine Recovery New Orleans presents
Beyond Words: Exploring Countertransference Through Art & Sensory Expression
An Experiential Workshop for Clinicians on Navigating Unconscious Responses
Robert Wolf, DPsa
Attendees will receive a 3-hour CME certificate. This is a hybrid event. Please choose to join us at Imagine Recovery (details below) or via Zoom. In-person space is limited so please register early. VIRTUAL (ZOOM) REGISTRATION ENDS Friday, December 6 at Noon Central Time.
9:30am – 12:30pm Central Time
Facing the rise of pre-neurotic patients, often presenting early developmental character disorders, dissociation, or internalized trauma, clinicians often experience intense countertransference inductions.
This experiential workshop provides a supportive environment to explore and process countertransference feelings and inductions through nonverbal, expressive modalities, and sensory motor techniques like drawing, role-playing, visualization, and somatic exploration, to help understand how our unconscious constantly collects information without our overt awareness. To prevent being completely inundated by this information, our brain selects information necessary to respond to present situations and filters out the rest, delegating it to our unconscious. We will explore how we can access this data by using a variety of non-verbal sensory and motoric forms of communication. Non-verbal experience precedes verbal development and continues to evolve throughout our life, often without our conscious awareness. Volunteers will be asked to think of a difficult patient in their current practice and present this patient to the group by imitating the posture and gait, drawing this patient, and using other forms of sensory exploration.
Volunteers will be selected from the physical audience to participate in this group and present patients for exploration through these processes. Virtual audiences will be encouraged to follow the instructions with a patient of their own.
By externalizing these inductions, participants can identify and resolve inductions, so they no longer interfere with treatment flow. The group format provides a ‘community of peers”, crucial for addressing practice isolation and encouraging deeper explorations to identify where personal issues of the clinician may intersect the inevitable inductions experienced through projective identification.
Learning Objectives:

Identify countertransference reactions by using expressive modalities
Describe how a group experience helps to process countertransference material
List nonverbal, expressive techniques that can be utilized in processing countertransference inductions

Dr. Wolf received his degree, Doctor of Psychoanalytic Studies, from the Parkmore Institute after completing a course of study at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. As a member of the NPAP Neuro-Psychoanalysis Study Center Steering Committee he continues to integrate his interests in art and psychoanalysis with contemporary neuropsychological concepts. He is a Fellow at the Parkmore Institute and a Training Faculty member at NPAP. He is Professor Emeritus at the College of New Rochelle. He is a licensed psychoanalyst and creative art therapist in NY State and has conducted a private practice in Manhattan, NY since 1980.
In person at Imagine Recovery Imagine Recovery 728 Nashville Ave New Orleans, LA 70115
Registration Information (includes 3 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 November 8, 2024:
NOBPC Members: $40
Non-members: $85
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) $25 (No CME)
AFTER November 8, 2024 and before November 28:
NOBPC Members: $55
Non-members: $100
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) $25 (No CME)
Week of Registration Fees:
NOBPC Members: $70
Non-members: $115
Students (enrolled in a formal academic or training program) $25 (No CME)
Optional Readings:

Ababio, B. (2022) Nafsiyat Therapy Center: Challenges, Insights and Developments. Psychoanalysis and History 24:311-318
Abend, S. (2018) Countertransference and Psychoanalytic Technique, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 87:497-515
Wolf, R. (2024) Synthesis of Photography, Art and Neuropsychological Concepts Within Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: an Illustrated Case Study, British Journal of Psychotherapy 40, 1 (2024) 117–142

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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.

Doubting Doubt: Success, Failure and Ambiguity in Two Psychodynamic Treatments of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Paul Doyen, LMSW
2025-01-18 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | 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.
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
While psychoanalysis has historically revolved around the obsessive character, psychoanalytic research has almost completely neglected the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In fact, since Freud first presented his famous case of obsessive neurosis, The Rat Man, in 1909, psychoanalytic models of OCD have remained largely unchanged.
Paul Doyen, LMSW, will discuss Glen Gabbard’s claim that psychoanalytic therapy cannot cure OCD. He will present two cases in which the use of behavioral interventions brought on benefits as well as unexpected conflicts and transference reactions in clients with OCD. Finally, Paul will review recent research on the need to combine psychoanalytic and behavioral models in order to successfully treat OCD.
Learning Objectives:

Summarize and contrast classical, interpersonal and behavioral accounts of OCD
Describe the relationship between obsessive neurosis (or OCD) and obsessive character (or OCPD)
Discuss the benefits and risks of introducing behavioral interventions into psychoanalytic treatments

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 2 CME credits:

NOBPC members $15
Non-members $25

Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.

Optional Readings:

Chaudhary, S., Singh, A. P., & Varshney, A. (2022). Psychodynamic perspective of sexual obsessions in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Annals of Neurosciences, 29(2–3), 159–165. https://doi.org/10.1177/09727531221115305
Leichsenring, F., & Steinert, C. (2016). Psychodynamic therapy of obsessive‐compulsive disorder: Principles of a manual‐guided approach. World Psychiatry, 15(3), 293–294. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20339
Woon, L. S.-C., Kanapathy, A., Zakaria, H., & Alfonso, C. A. (2017). An integrative approach to treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 45(2), 237–257. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2017.45.2.237

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

Sutures to the Psyche: Weaving Contemporary Treatments and Psychoanalysis into Hospital-Based Trauma Recovery by Nathan Brown, Psy.D and Sandy Hyatt, Psy.D
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | 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.
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
This presentation will provide an overview of trauma and its treatment among patients seeking medical care for traumatic injuries in a Level 1 Trauma Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Presenters will then provide a review of current research on “evidence-based” treatments for PTSD, specifically Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), compared with certain psychoanalytic treatments. Presenters will explore how these contrasting modalities may be integrated effectively within a hospital-based setting. Throughout this culturally informed presentation, presenters will use case examples, live demonstrations, and group discussion with the hope that attendees will be able to utilize concepts presented in their clinical practices.
Nathan H. Brown, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry for LSU Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC). He is also the dedicated Psychologist at the Burn Center at University Medical Center, New Orleans (UMCNO). He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago and completed internship and postdoctoral fellowship at LSUHSC. He was a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellow at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis from 2017-2019. He has been licensed in Louisiana since 2020. Dr. Brown provides clinical services in English and Spanish, and specializes in the psychological assessment and treatment of patients in both outpatient and integrated medical settings. Dr. Brown works in the UMCNO Behavioral Health Clinic, in general mental health and the Intensive Outpatient Program, and the UMCNO Burn Center, providing psychological care to inpatient and outpatient burn survivors. He is also a Phoenix Society SOAR Coordinator and facilitates a long-running Burn Survivor Support Group. His professional interests include health and burn psychology, psychotherapy with Latinx patients, clinical supervision, and multicultural competence in mental health treatment. Dr. Brown has presented locally and regionally on topics related to psychological care for burn patients. He also supervises predoctoral psychology interns as they rotate through the Burn Unit.

Sandy Hyatt, Psy.D. (2020, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology; 2020, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC)): Dr. Hyatt is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at LSUHSC. She currently provides clinical services at University Medical Center (UMC) and serves as the Associate Director for UMC’s Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center. As part of her work at UMC, Dr. Hyatt is engaged in multiple staff wellness initiatives aimed at increasing trauma-informed care practices throughout the hospital and associated academic institutions. Dr. Hyatt is actively involved in the training and education of psychology trainees and psychiatry residents, concurrently assuming the role of Director of Group Supervision of Supervision within LSUHSC‘s Psychology Internship Program. In addition to these pursuits, her professional and clinical interests include health psychology, programmatic development, increasing access to treatment for underserved populations, and culturally responsive treatment and education.
Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to compare and contrast psychoanalytic theories and interventions for trauma with certain ”evidence-based” modalities (i.e., EMDR and PE)
Attendees will be able to identify practical ways in which they could integrate EMDR and/or PE with psychoanalytic treatments for trauma (e.g., using the language of Stricker’s 1994 article on integration in psychotherapy)
Attendees will demonstrate understanding of the ways in which trauma-focused treatments may be applied in a hospital-based clinical setting

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 $15
Non-members $25

Zoom registration ends 24 hours before the event.

Optional Readings:

Charles, M. (2019). The Clinical Psychologist in an Open Inpatient Setting: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. In Clinical Psychology in the Mental Health Inpatient Setting (pp. 31-49). Routledge.
Paintain, E., & Cassidy, S. (2018). First-line therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic approaches. Counselling and psychotherapy research, 18(3), 237–250. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12174
Peri, T., Gofman, M., Tal, S., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2015). Embodied simulation in exposure-based therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder-a possible integration of cognitive behavioral theories, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis. European journal of psychotraumatology, 6, 29301. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v6.29301

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

Film Series - "X" (2022 horror movie) by Franklin Worell, PhD & Paul Doyen, LMSW
2025-04-06 14:00 - 17:30 UTC | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: This film screening explores the pleasure and fascination we experience when consuming horror movies and true crime media. Presenters will draw from analytic philosophy and psychoanalytic theory to explain our attraction to what is frightening and uncertain in our world. By identifying horror genres with attempts to resolve our deepest anxieties, presenters will discuss how horror can help us understand both our clients and ourselves.
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 4pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
Why do we watch horror movies? Why do we listen to true crime podcasts? Why do we voluntarily expose ourselves to situations that frighten and disturb us?
Come watch Ti West’s classic 2022 horror movie “X” and join us for a discussion of what attracts us to the genre of horror.
Franklin Worell, PhD, will discuss the “paradox of horror,” or the problem of why human beings derive pleasure from negative emotions like fear and disgust. He will review theories in analytic philosophy, challenge the idea that there can be a universal theory of horror and discuss the aesthetic and philosophical pleasures of scaring ourselves.
Paul Doyen, LMSW, will review psychoanalytic explanations for why we pursue uncanny experiences, including the need to master outer dangers and resolve inner conflicts. He will also connect the horror genre to obsessive anxieties and suggest that an interest in horror media may be a hallmark of neuroticism.
Learning Objectives:

Summarize the “paradox of horror” as defined within analytic philosophy and psychoanalytic theory
Describe the reasons that people choose to pursue experiences that frighten and disgust them
Analyze the relationship between horror and mental health, including connections to neuroticism and psychosis

Dr. Franklin Worell is a former student and professor of philosophy at Tulane University, where he researched and wrote about horror as a genre. Dr. Worell is highly knowledgeable about what is known as the “paradox of horror” within analytic philosophy. His 2022 dissertation, “Peaking Through Our Fingers: Theorizing Horror and its Appeal through its Genres,” critiqued theories of horror as well as proposed its own Aristotelian theory of horror’s appeal.
Paul Doyen, LMSW, is a psychotherapist in psychoanalytic training at the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He works in private practice at Garden District Mental Health, where sees several clients who have obsessions and interests involving horror and crime. Paul has a longstanding interest in horror films as well as in psychoanalytic theories around horror and the uncanny.
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 3:50pm 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.
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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

Optional Readings:

Hauke, C. (2015). Horror films and the attack on rationality. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 60(5), 736–740. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12181
Simpson, D. (2022). Life on the margins: movement between the ‘Canny’ and the ‘Uncanny’—a requirement for psychic growth. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(1), 232–248. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12803
Worell, F. (2022). Peeking Through Our Fingers: Theorizing Horror and Its Appeal Through Its Genres. Ph. D. Dissertation, Tulane University, 2022. 222 p. (DAI-A 84(1)(E).)

Murder-Suicide in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Perfect Storm of Multidetermined Causes - W. Scott Griffies MD, DFAPA
2025-04-29 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | NOBPC or Zoom, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans, 70115, United States
Psychoanalysis & Culture consists of presentations on topics exploring aspects of culture through a psychoanalytic lens. Topics will span humanities, science, as well sociocultural dynamics. The format will include a presentation by a selected speaker followed by informal group interaction between presenter and those in attendance.
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 7pm Central Time at NOBPC or Zoom
This applied psychoanalytic presentation explores the phenomenon of murder-suicide in post-Katrina New Orleans, focusing on the case of Zack Bowen and Addie Hall. The aftermath of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina often leads to increased mental health issues, including violence and suicide. The author, who lived and practiced psychiatry in the New Orleans French Quarter (FQ), was involved in a documentary about the couple, providing a unique perspective on their tragic story. Zack Bowen, a veteran of Iraq and Kosovo with PTSD symptoms, and Addie Hall, an artist with a history of abuse, were star-crossed lovers in the post-apocalyptic FQ. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, with the higher socioeconomic population evacuated, the city experienced lawlessness, but also a bond between subcultural groups seeking anarchy, freedom, escapism, and avoidance of past troubles. Drawing from excerpts of the documentary and material from a book about the couple entitled Shake the Devil Off, this presentation utilizes an object relational framework to understand the multidetermined causes of the murder-suicide. It highlights how disasters can bring individuals together in desperate situations, destabilize social connections, and exacerbate avoidant defenses through increased substance abuse. Furthermore, it reveals how such traumatic events can reopen past wounds, including PTSD and experiences of abuse, creating a mental health crisis that extends far beyond the initial impact of the storm. It also underscores the significance of interpersonal containment of toxic projections in the aftermath of a disaster, particularly for individuals with intrapsychic vulnerabilities.
Dr. Scott Griffies’ is a psychodynamic psychiatrist certified in psychoanalysis from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. He is from New Orleans where he was the residency director for the LSU Department of Psychiatry for many years through Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina, he developed the New Orleans Center of Mind Body Health, a psychiatric group practice, in the upper French Quarter. In 2015 he relocated to Duke Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as an Associate Professor and the Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Service at Duke Raleigh Hospital and an attending in the Duke Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. In 2020, he became the Medical Director for Mindpath Health, Director of the Mind-Brain-Body Center and Director of Education. He continues to have an active psychodynamic practice with a focus on patients with psychosomatic disorders. His academic and clinical interest has been in understanding how mind, brain and body interactions can result in problematic physical and somatic symptoms. He continues to teach within the psychodynamic course at Duke and has been honored with teaching awards throughout his career.
Learning Objectives:

List the four core stages of post-disaster recovery
Describe how external and internal factors of a disaster affect individuals with intrapsychic vulnerabilities
Explain the regressive defensive use of projective identification in situations of overwhelming stress
Discuss an object relational perspective of murder-suicide in the context of domestic violence

Please join us at NOBPC or via Zoom. Participation is open to all. In-person space is limited so please register early.
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Fee for 1.5 CME credits:

NOBPC members $15
Non-members $25

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

Griffies, W. S. (2024). Murder‐suicide in post‐Katrina New Orleans: A perfect storm of multidetermined causes. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 21(2), e1865.
Cianconi, P., Betrò, S., & Janiri, L. (2020). The impact of climate change on mental health: a systematic descriptive review. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 74.
Kernberg, O. F. (2015, January). Neurobiological correlates of object relations theory: The relationship between neurobiological and psychodynamic development. In International forum of psychoanalysis (Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 38-46). Routledge.

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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
