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

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Privilege is not just an aspect of identity that bestows impersonal, unmerited benefit and maintains the dominant status quo. Privilege is also a subjective experience that shapes and resonates within one’s experience of self and the world. Drawing upon Bach’s Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process along with more recent work on grandiosity and subjectivity, ... Read more

Can We Bear to Turn Our Psychoanalytic Attention Toward Those Who Are Other? Scientific Program by Anton Hart, PhD, FABP

Virtual Event via Zoom LA

At the present moment, it would behoove psychoanalytic practitioners to remember that psychoanalysis is a strange, minority discipline in relation to the rest of the world. Yet the psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as a group, regularly fail to employ their power to penetrate the surface, their customary stance of curiosity and their capacity for insight vis-a-vis their ... Read more

Working with Enactments by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

In a 1986 article (“Countertransference Enactments”) that introduced the term enactment into the psychoanalytic literature, Ted Jacobs observed how his vigilant attention to a patient’s narratives foreclosed an opportunity to relax his own mind and follow his associations. Eventually, Jacobs’ reverie about his adolescent experience of the family dinner table - he was expected to ... Read more

Film Series: 12 Years a Slave presented by Dr. Marvin Clifford, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy ... Read more

New Time –Film Series: Blue Velvet presented by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Presents 2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film 10am - 1pm In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships ... Read more

Countertransference as a Source of Understanding by Kelly Bolger, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

This single case presentation will attempt to demonstrate how the shifting internal experience of the therapist’s mind, in reaction to the patient’s developmental needs, serves to signal the therapist that maturation is occurring. Using clinical material, three distinct developmental stages will be described and explored as the patient and therapist move from an infant-like state ... Read more

Galadriel’s Mirror-and Winnicott’s, and Lacan’s by John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Lacan and Winnicott both believed that mirroring was very important in early development, but focused on different aspects and outcomes. Lacan theorized that when a young child first views her reflection in a mirror and sees her image as complete, her anxiety about her actually undeveloped and unintegrated state is relieved; henceforth she imagines herself ... Read more

First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis– Francisco González, MD Scientific Program

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 ... Read more

Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America– Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation

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 ... Read more

Beyond Woke: Why the Focus on Unconscious Bias Will Not Address Systemic Racism– Ann Pellegrini, PhD Scientific Presentation

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 ... Read more