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

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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-
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

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

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

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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.

Psycho-Social Factors that Influence Mental Health Treatment Outcomes for Persons of Color: Psychodynamic Consequences and Intervention Possibilities--C. Jama Adams, PhD Scientific Program
2021-05-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.
Contemporary psychodynamic treatment approaches tend to be insensitive to the effects of macro-social factors on the intra-psychic and inter-psychic functioning of persons of color. Racism and its handmaiden capitalism will be explored in relation to institutional practices, conflict and reparative acts. This talk endeavors to identify sociocultural factors that may impinge on responsiveness to psychoanalytic treatment and psychoanalytic training. Through understanding connections between racism, capitalism, and suffering, aspects of institutional organization will be examined for their reproduction of certain limitations and harm. Learners will be able to consider possible alternatives for both clinical and educational practices.
Learning objectives:
• Understand the psychodynamics of racism in relation to capitalism
• Understand the intrapsychic and intrapsychic implications for the work with persons of color
• Understand the implications for organizational atonement and reparation
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C. Jama Adams, Ph.D., is a Child-Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. His research focuses on the experiences of Africana persons from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. He has published on the social and psychological stressors confronting Africana families.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Beyond Woke: Why the Focus on Unconscious Bias Will Not Address Systemic Racism-- Ann Pellegrini, PhD Scientific Presentation
2021-04-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.
This presentation begins with a short history of the concept of unconscious bias. Dr. Pellegrini will track the legal, educational, and therapeutic attempts to remedy unconscious bias and the ferocious political attacks on such efforts. One such paradigmatic example was President Trump’s October 2020 executive order that effectively banned any training intended to eliminate unconscious bias at any workplace in the US that received federal monies (a ban that affected nearly every college and university in the country). Although President Biden rescinded this executive order within his first days in office, the concept of unconscious bias and the practice of unconscious bias training remain controversial – and not only to the political right. For example, in 1987, legal scholar Charles Lawrence III, introduced the notion of unconscious bias into legal theory in a paper that has become foundational to the movement known as Critical Race Theory. Lawrence has more recently expressed his concerns that a focus on unconscious bias has taken attention away from addressing systemic and ongoing racial subordination. Alongside this trenchant legal critique, we could also consider psychoanalytic pressures on the notion of unconscious bias, asking whether bias is something that could be eliminated if located in, and then extracted from, the unconscious. In this presentation, by contrast, Dr. Pellegrini argues that the very language of unconscious bias promises to free us from prejudice by making racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes “conscious.” But this impossible hope ignores the unconscious forces magnetized by racism (Holland, Saketopoulou). Putting psychoanalysis into conversation with Critical Race Theory and queer of color critique, Dr. Pellegrini challenges some of the enticing, yet simplistic solutions promised us by conceptualizations of unconscious bias, offering a different analytics that may more helpfully intervene by foregrounding the problem of whiteness and its investments by racism.

Learning objectives:
1. To become familiar with contemporary debates over “unconscious bias” and “unconscious bias training.”
2. To put these contemporary debates into a longer historical frame.
3. To describe – from an anti-racist perspective — the limits of unconscious bias training.
4. To put psychoanalysis to work alongside Critical Race Theory and Queer of Color Critique to consider the enduring problem of systemic racism.
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Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Her books and articles traverse several disciplines and interdisciplines, but one through-line is an abiding interest in exploring how feelings are lived, experienced, and communicated between and across bodies—and with what risks and possibilities for self and others. Another is the value of the aesthetic for repairing democratic social life. She has written extensively about religion, sexuality, and US public life. Her publications include Performance Anxieties as well as the coauthored books Love the Sin, You Can Tell Just By Looking and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People. She is the co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis. She’s currently completing a new book on queer structures of religious feeling. She is a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America-- Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation
2021-02-27 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 3 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.
The tripartite familial structure of the oedipal complex has been central to Freudian understandings of the psychoanalytic subject. In the early 1950’s, however, Jacques Lacan introduces a revised reading of the structural relation between father, mother and child by presenting death as a fourth term that determines the subject’s mythic relation to the self and others. By working through a rereading of the case of the Rat Man in his lecture “The Neurotic’s Individual Myth,” Lacan shows how obsessional neurosis reveals deeper layers of myth that may shape subjectivity even across generations. This presentation will focus on understanding the mythical psychic structures expressed in American race relations and will investigate how myths about race position racialized individuals within oedipal relations of Eros and aggression that are fundamentally determined by deep psychic relations to the fourth term applied by Lacan to the oedipal dynamic, the factor of death that defines a fundamental relation to subjectivity and alterity. We will work through a reading of the mythic structure of race in America by returning to Freud and Lacan’s interpretation of the Rat Man and then we will advance toward a discussion of race in contemporary acts of police violence as well as will engage racial representations in the fiction of African American author Ralph Ellison.
Learning Objectives:
• To summarize how Lacan rethinks the oedipal complex through neurosis and death
• To describe how death becomes imbricated with myth to shape psychic fears and obsessions
• To analyze how the static four-part oedipal structure acts as a frame into which racial others are actively inserted
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Sheldon George, PhD is a Professor of English, a Lacanian theorist and a scholar of African-American literature. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and a guest editor of two special issues of the journal: “African Americans and Inequality” (2014) and “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions into Culture and Politics” (2018). George’s book Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity was published in 2016 by Baylor University Press. He is coeditor of Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics (forthcoming from Routledge) and is currently completing a collection on Lacan and Race. George’s chapter “Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Psychoanalysis, Race and American Slavery” will appear in the upcoming Psychology and the Other Series collection Race, Rage and Resistance.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis-- Francisco González, MD Scientific Program
2021-01-30 10:30 - 12:30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Sponsored by The Knight Fund
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.
Using the social meme of “first world problems” as an opening, this paper articulates a continuous field of psychoanalysis which extends from the individual to the social, a field demarcated by a sense of place and materiality. It problematizes the closed-door mentality of institutional psychoanalysis, arguing for a different future for psychoanalysis in the 21st century Thinking of psychoanalysis in this way, as an extended field, opens the door to conceiving of ways of practicing that are typically neglected in our theorizing, both within conventional dyadic work in the consulting room and well beyond, to community psychoanalysis. But this broader way of conceptualizing psychoanalytic practice also troubles us with ethical considerations, since we always close the door on something or, more importantly, on someone. These ideas are illustrated by clinical examples.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe two registers or domains of the unconscious and give examples of how they present in clinical work.
2. Critique the conventional notion of the psychoanalytic frame and contrast it to the idea of demarcation of the social field.
Francisco J. González, MD, is Faculty and Personal & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has worked as staff psychiatrist and supervisor at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, a clinic for Latino immigrants in San Francisco, for over 20 years. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
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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.

Galadriel’s Mirror-and Winnicott’s, and Lacan’s by John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2020-03-07 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Lacan and Winnicott both believed that mirroring was very important in early development, but focused on different aspects and outcomes. Lacan theorized that when a young child first views her reflection in a mirror and sees her image as complete, her anxiety about her actually undeveloped and unintegrated state is relieved; henceforth she imagines herself as this perfected version rather than as the unintegrated subject that she really is. This process inaugurates the “Imaginary register”, roughly equivalent to what Anglo-American analysts call the realm of narcissism, but in Lacan’s conceptualization always involving profound alienation from reality. Winnicott thought of mirroring in terms not of the child encountering herself in an inanimate object, but in terms of her encountering herself in the gaze of the mother. Although Winnicott thought that this process could lead to a false self (roughly analogous to the Imaginary) if the mother’s gaze primarily gave back her own demands for the child, he also believed that with a good-enough mother invested in the child’s own needs, mirroring would promote development of a true self comfortably integrated with reality.
The Mirror of Galadriel plays a crucial role in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In the spirit of Freud’s statement that creative artists anticipated all the concepts of psychoanalysis, I will look into Galadriel’s mirror to see in what ways it reflects Lacan, in what ways it reflects Winnicott, and whether it reveals something else entirely.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will assess Lacan’s mirror stage and the Imaginary register.
• Participants will assess Winnicott’s concept of mirroring.
• Participants will apply literary expression of these concepts in Tolkien’s writing.
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Countertransference as a Source of Understanding by Kelly Bolger, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2020-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
This single case presentation will attempt to demonstrate how the shifting internal experience of the therapist’s mind, in reaction to the patient’s developmental needs, serves to signal the therapist that maturation is occurring. Using clinical material, three distinct developmental stages will be described and explored as the patient and therapist move from an infant-like state of organization, through adolescence, to early adulthood. Specific countertransference experiences of being in love, in mourning, and being teased will be used to demonstrate maturation in the patient and in the relationship. Theoretic concepts, linked to each stage, will further aim to expand on the understanding of the developmental process. The clinical material will be understood in the context of the detrimental effects of ongoing childhood sexual abuse and trauma.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will describe how to identify shifts in clinical material and how these shifts are linked to countertransference experience.
• Participants will describe how to differentiate countertransference that accurately reflects the patient’s experience from countertransference that interferes with understanding the patient.
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

New Time --Film Series: Blue Velvet presented by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS
2019-11-16 10:00 - 13:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Presents 2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film 10am – 1pm
In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy for resisting the truth about who authors them. The films in this series explore the psychological costs of denying the Other inside each of us, while considering the subjective and social possibilities that are opened by embracing Otherness, as seen in the ways the language of film pushes against the limits of established discourse—social, political, and psychoanalytical.
Learning Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of certain psychoanalytic conceptualizations of subjectivity;
• Apply their listening and interpretation skills to analyze unconscious content; and
• Discuss how the language of film reflects subjective experience
FREE EVENT
Fee for 3 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Film Series: 12 Years a Slave presented by Dr. Marvin Clifford, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS
2019-10-12 09:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film
In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy for resisting the truth about who authors them. The films in this series explore the psychological costs of denying the Other inside each of us, while considering the subjective and social possibilities that are opened by embracing Otherness, as seen in the ways the language of film pushes against the limits of established discourse—social, political, and psychoanalytical.
Learning Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of certain psychoanalytic conceptualizations of subjectivity;
• Apply their listening and interpretation skills to analyze unconscious content; and
• Discuss how the language of film reflects subjective experience
FREE EVENT
Fee for 3 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Working with Enactments by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2019-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
In a 1986 article (“Countertransference Enactments”) that introduced the term enactment into the psychoanalytic literature, Ted Jacobs observed how his vigilant attention to a patient’s narratives foreclosed an opportunity to relax his own mind and follow his associations. Eventually, Jacobs’ reverie about his adolescent experience of the family dinner table – he was expected to attend to his father’s stories without missing a detail – infused the concept of enactment with felt experience, without which it would have been difficult for Jacobs to help his patient. Accordingly, a case is analyzed through this lens of enactment.
Learning Objectives:
• Describe and elaborate contrasting theoretical approaches to countertransference
• Describe personality factors that develop and reinforce enactment
• Describe how enactment functions as a catalyst to change in therapeutic relatedness
If you wish to review relevant articles prior to the presentation:
Levenson, E.A. (1994). Beyond Countertransference—Aspects of the Analyst’s Desire. Contemp. Psychoanal., 30:691-707
Stern, D.B. (1990). Courting Surprise—Unbidden Perceptions in Clinical Practice. Contemp. Psychoanal., 26:452-478
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Can We Bear to Turn Our Psychoanalytic Attention Toward Those Who Are Other? Scientific Program by Anton Hart, PhD, FABP
2019-04-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
At the present moment, it would behoove psychoanalytic practitioners to remember that psychoanalysis is a strange, minority discipline in relation to the rest of the world. Yet the psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as a group, regularly fail to employ their power to penetrate the surface, their customary stance of curiosity and their capacity for insight vis-a-vis their own relative disengagement regarding issues of racial, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic otherness. This presentation will examine both the resistances to, and the necessity for, psychoanalytic engagement—and prioritization—of issues of otherness, difference and diversity. Some of the core anxieties associated with genuine, curious, exploratory dialogue about diversity are described.
A case is made for the cultivation of a stance of curiosity in relation to difference and for an emphasis on the noticing of and learning from those moments where diversity-related communication involving psychoanalytic practitioners—in the psychoanalytic classroom, supervisory, and clinical setting—seems to break down. Attention to such breakdowns is portrayed as key to facilitating dialogue that can lead to a more diverse—and diversely applied—psychoanalysis.
The talk will include practical recommendations for incorporating inquiry into difference and otherness for both psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic training organizations alike.
Learning Objectives:
• Develop an understanding of the anxieties associated with engaging issues of diversity, difference and otherness.
• Recognize the central role of curiosity as an antidote to cultural ignorance and insensitivity and be able to cultivate such curiosity in themselves and in their patients.
• Recognize pitfalls and breakdowns that can occur in diversity-related explorations and find ways to use these in the service of the restoration of open, constructive dialogue.
Admission is Free. Fee for 2 CME credits: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members
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Anton H. Hart, PhD, FABP, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. A member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), he serves in APsaA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education as the Chair of the Diversities Section. A Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, he supervises at Teachers College, Columbia University and at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Mt. Sinai/St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has published papers on issues of mutuality, disruption and safety. He served as Associate Co-producer for the film, “Black Psychoanalysis Speak,” in which he was also featured. He is a Co-Founder of the White Institute’s Study Group on Race and Psychoanalysis. He is writing a book, to be published by Routledge, entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in New York City.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s);. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFOR-MATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Narcissistic States of Privilege by Stephen Anen, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2019-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Privilege is not just an aspect of identity that bestows impersonal, unmerited benefit and maintains the dominant status quo. Privilege is also a subjective experience that shapes and resonates within one’s experience of self and the world. Drawing upon Bach’s Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process along with more recent work on grandiosity and subjectivity, this presentation attempts to construct a psychoanalytic conceptualization of privilege, wherein alterations and limitations in reflection are utilized to sustain a sense of narcissistic wholeness. Paradoxically, this lived system of being leaves the individual incomplete, unaware of certain dissociated aspects of identity as well as compromised in the ability for mutual recognition.
Learning Objectives:
• Enhanced ability to identify general human anxieties expressed and contained in cultural practices and processes.
• Improved ability to recognize some unconscious determinants of the anxieties and symptoms of some patients, and increased awareness of relevant cultural referents.
• Enhanced ability to discern the ongoing dynamic dialectic between cultural processes and individual psychology.
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™;. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

More Than One Can Live: Reconceiving Harm and Reparation in the Intersubjective World Scientific Program by Jessica Benjamin, PhD
2019-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
In the therapeutic process, we encounter impasses where one must seemingly harm or be harmed by the other, and it feels as though there is only room for one psyche to live. This constellation was already implied by Klein’s writings, but this presentation will juxtapose her views to an intersubjective perspective: contrasting the intrapsychic idea of reparation, based on understanding unconscious anxieties of harming the love object, with the intersubjective ideas of repairing rupture and restoring recognition. The theory of mutual regulation and recognition allows a reformulation of both harm and repair.
The position from which we communicate about or step out of the deep complementary structure underlying impasse is elaborated in the idea of the moral Third – a developmental and clinical concept. The moral Third can be defined as a representation of a world in which repair is possible – a lawful world of self and other in which attachment is preserved by acknowledging the inevitable violations of expected patterns.
However, when there is a history of failed repair, even expressing a need for acknowledgment may be fearfully equated with being destructive to the needed other—the other who cannot tolerate the failure to be good. Thus, both need for responsiveness and need for acknowledgment of failure have the imagined or real potential to so destabilize the other that being injured and harming the other become conflated. How does our clinical work enable us to create/recreate with our patients the sense of a lawful, meaningful world (representation) in which both can live?
Learning Objectives:
• To make clinical use of the idea of intersubjective rupture and repair and its developmental origins
• The meaning and application of the concept of the idea of the Moral Third and how it guides the therapist in clinical impasses that involve “doer-done to” complementarity
• Will be able to evaluate and discern when acknowledgment and disclosure by the analyst are helpful, especially when there are problems of dissociation and shame.
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Jessica Benjamin PhD is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Dr. Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalysis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminism as it relates to psychoanalysis and society.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s);. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFOR-MATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Psychoanalytic Thoughts about “My Dinner with Andre” By John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2018-11-10 10:00 - 12:30 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Participants will view and discuss the movie “My Dinner with Andre.” In this movie, two old friends talk about their life experiences and ideas about art in ways that encapsulate two fundamental approaches to existence: the romantic/Dionysian, and the classical/Apollonian. These different approaches have developmental roots in infancy and express very different self-states. The vicissitudes of these self-states affect individuals’ narcissistic equilibrium throughout the life span.
Note: because the movie is almost two hours long, we have extended the time for this program by thirty minutes to allow time for discussion.

Learning Objectives:
• 1. Recognize the different characteristics of Objective Self-Awareness and Subjective Self-Awareness.
• 2. Deepen understanding of clinical interactions of Objective and Subjective Self-Awareness.
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™;. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Race, Multiracial Identities, and Racial Passing by Jessica Chavez, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2018-10-20 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Participants will be introduced to existing approaches to race in psychoanalysis. In order to address a dearth of psychoanalytic theorizing on multiracial identities and experiences of racial passing, Dr. Chavez will use an interdisciplinary lens to consider these topics while integrating case material and personal reflections and suggest new directions for conceptualizing work with patients from multiracial backgrounds and with those who experience racial passing.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify current psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary scholarship on racial identity, multiracial identity, and racial passing
• Understand how multiracial identity and racial passing relate to cultural competency
• Apply existing scholarship and research on racial identity, multiracial identity, and racial passing to clinical practice and self-reflection
FREE EVENT
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists and Social Workers may also receive continuing education credit for this activity if their accredited associations or boards recognize CME credits.

Tennessee Williams' Emotional Suffering and Insights from "A Streetcar Named Desire" by W. Scott Griffies, M.D. (Psychoanalysis and Culture)
2018-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund for Psychoanalysis and the Arts in collaboration with Xavier University of Louisiana and The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is considered to be one of the greatest literary artists of the 20th century. His genius as a playwright, however did not save him from tragic emotional suffering in his life. Throughout his life, he struggled with deep and painful anxiety, depression, hypochondriasis and self-destructive addiction. His plays contained themes of desperate loneliness, human disconnectedness and victimization between the powerful and the weak. Of his plays, A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most compelling representations of the intense emotional conflicts within him.
He sought psychoanalytic treatment during his life but without success. He said that his psychoanalysis gave him great insight into his problems but no direction as to what to do about his inner struggles.
Williams died from drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 72 alone in his favorite New York hotel Elysee, which he nicknamed “the Easy Lay” because of the ease of his many sexual encounters there.
Dr. Griffies considers Williams as he might present to our current counseling room seeking treatment. After clarifying his presenting symptoms and illness, past psychiatric and social history, Dr. Griffies looks at Streetcar as one might look a patient’s dream, then considers whether a neuropsychodynamic formulation might offer benefits in addressing possible difficulties in engaging Williams in treatment. Williams’ brilliant capacity to symbolically express his intrapsychic conflicts within his art gives us an opportunity to perform a post-mortem psychobiographical analysis. Although there are many possible contemporary psychoanalytic approaches that could be discussed, this paper focuses on how a neuropsychoanalytic perspective might be useful.
Educational Objectives: List three emotional themes commonly displayed in the plays of Tennessee Williams, describe Williams’ core intrapsychic conflicts and defenses, and describe how a neuropsychoanalytic approach might be used to engage and treat patients such as Williams.
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W. Scott Griffies M.D., DFAPA, is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine service at Duke Raleigh Hospital. He is boarded in Otolaryngology-HNS, General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and is certified in psychoanalysis from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. In 2015, he relocated to Duke from New Orleans where he was faculty at LSU Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship and served as the LSU Psychiatry Residency Director. While in New Orleans, he lived in the French Quarter behind Tennessee Williams’ prior home.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and NOBPC. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFOR-MATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS MAY RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ACTIVITY WITH A CME CERTIFICATE.

Eros and Divine Madness: Questions and Reflections Inspired by Plato by Frances Coolidge, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2018-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
Socrates maintains, in Plato’s Phaedrus, that eros is the highest form of divine madness. The central queries of my presentation are: is there a divine kind of madness? What is the meaning of eros construed as divine madness? Following, but diverging from, Plato’s Symposium, I propose that eros, understood as divine madness, is the capacity to reconcile the tension between (what is metaphorically signified by) “fullness” and “lack” in our experience. Answering the question of whether there is a divine kind of madness turns on, first, whether our erotic reconciliation of the polarity between fullness and lack is founded on a relation to what can be construed as divine and, second, in what sense this reconciliation can be understood as a form of madness. Is this “madness” delusional? Or, paradoxically, is it therapeutic?
Learning Objectives:
• Attendees will understand psychological implications of central themes in Plato’s “middle dialogues” (e.g., Plato’s hypothesis of eros and his distinction between being and becoming).
• Attendees will learn about the psychological significance of the tension between “fullness” and “lack” in existence.
• Attendees will learn about potentially therapeutic aspects of certain forms of “madness.”
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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy by Rick Ferm, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2018-04-14 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
This presentation will focus on Time-limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) (Strupp and Binder, 1985, Hannah Levenson, 1995, 2010). The TLDP model integrates relational, interpersonal, object-relations and attachment theory (emphasizing early internal working models of self-other experiences with primary care-takers) perspectives from within the larger psychodynamic framework, and provides a case formulation structure, which supports time sensitive attention to collaborative treatment goals (both intrapersonal and interpersonal). The presentation will include an introduction to the time-limited tradition within the broader history of psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic psychotherapy, TLDP based theory and formulation, and therapy process from a TLDP perspective. Empirical support for the model will be presented. The presentation will include training tapes illustrating the model in practice. There will be an opportunity to start and stop the tapes for questions and discussion as part of exploring and understanding the model. (Note: if time permits, there may be an opportunity for attendees to present clinical case material as a way to practice direct application of the model).
Learning Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the advantages and limitations of TLDP
• Ability to apply the TLDP case formulation model
• Demonstrate an understanding of the empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of the TLDP model
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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Sheldon Bach, PhD "Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal" Registration strongly recommended (see below)
2018-03-24 09:30 - 11:30 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Scientific Presentation
Beginning in infancy, trust is an experience that spans relationships. Opposing trust and belief are
betrayal and cynicism. In the current sociopolitical context that includes mistrust and pessimism, Dr.
Sheldon Bach explores the role of trust in development as well as in the psychoanalytic situation. He
will also historically examine how conflict between Freud and Ferenczi has engendered ongoing
organizational mistrust and betrayal within the field of psychoanalysis.
Learning Objectives:
• Attendees will be better able to describe the normal line of development of trust.
• Participants will better understand the importance of trust in the analytic situation.
• Learners will better comprehend the pivotal position of the disagreement between Freud and
Ferenczi in the history of the development of psychoanalytic organizations.
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Sheldon Bach, PhD is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, a Training and Supervising Analyst at The Contemporary Freudian Society and a Fellow of The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the recipient of the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for “outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.”
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.

Adrienne Harris, PhD "Contemporary Studies of Gender and Sexuality: Beyond the Binary" Registration strongly recommended (see below)
2018-02-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event via Zoom, LA
Scientific Presentation
Psychoanalytic theory of gender and sexual development has been an area of significant expansion and revision since Freud’s theories on masculinity and femininity as well as his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
With generous support from the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) via the Helen Meyers National Women’s Psychoanalytic Scholar Program, Adrienne Harris, PhD will present a seminar titled “Contemporary Studies of Gender and Sexuality: Beyond the Binary.” Building from her seminal work Gender as Soft Assembly, Dr. Harris will examine current models of gender development, exploring gender in interaction with sexuality, class, and culture. This ‘intersectional’ model stresses the complex and emergent interaction between intrapsychic, interpersonal, and social forces as identify and subjectivity unfold.
Learning Objectives:
• Attendees will be able to understand different models of emergent sexuality, the work of Jean LaPlanche on enigmatic messages, as well as the application of nonlinear dynamic system theory to model gendered subjectivity as it unfolds.
• Participants will be able to better distinguish one-person from two-person psychological models of gender and sexuality.
• Attendees will acquire an increased appreciation of the function, role, and limitations of binaries within developmental psychological theory.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 3 CME credits: $45 for NOBPC members; $75 non-members
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NOBPC Member $45.00 USDNon-Member $75.00 USD

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.

Why is it Always the Women? by Dale Firestone, LCSW (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2018-01-27 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
This psychoanalytic discussion will explore unconscious fears of women that may form the basis of various forms of control and subjugation of women. It may be understood that cultural and religious practices, as well as myths, may express universal, unconscious anxieties and a particular culture’s attempts at defense and compromise to contain anxiety through accepted norms, prohibitions and taboos. Such norms are arrived at culturally through a dynamic process that is unconscious for the group in a way that is analogous to the way an individual achieves his or her dynamic compromises in order to manage personal conflict and anxiety. This discussion will review the practices of various cultures that may express universal unconscious fears of women to provide additional material with which to understand the anxieties of specific patients.
Learning Objectives:
• Enhanced ability to identify general human anxieties expressed and contained in cultural practices and processes.
• Improved ability to recognize some unconscious determinants of the anxieties and symptoms of some patients, and increased awareness of relevant cultural referents.
• Enhanced ability to discern the ongoing dynamic dialectic between cultural processes and individual psychology.
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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Analysis via Skype of Trauma Response in a Chinese Woman by Molly Rothenberg, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2017-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
In this clinical paper, I briefly describe the analysis of a Chinese woman who suffered repeated traumas from early childhood into adulthood. ZhoLi, as I will call her, suffered post-traumatic memory disorder in reaction to some of her traumatic experiences. She also developed masochistic symptoms. During our work together, it became clear that her responses to trauma were structured defensively: that is, rather than simply repeating unintegrated experiences, as some theories of trauma suppose, she created a complex set of symptoms that not only kept her tethered to her traumas but also contributed to her resilience. My purpose is to demonstrate the utility of a psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of trauma, with particular attention to psychic defenses in response to traumatic experience, including their role in traumatic repetition, symptom formation, and resilience. Other unusual features of the analysis played a role in the treatment: the analysand lives in China, and the analysis was conducted almost entirely via SKYPE technology; the analysand’s first language is Mandarin but she spoke English, so she frequently associated to Chinese words and phrases; and the analysand had participated in the Cultural Revolution as a young person.
Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn about a psychoanalytic approach to understanding defensive reactions to trauma that can be applied even in severe cases.
Participants will gain an appreciation for the utility as well as the limits of using internet communication technologies for psychotherapy.

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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Difficult Patients Through a Cross-Cultural Lens by Helen Ullrich, MD, PhD (Psychoanalysis & Culture)
2017-10-14 09:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Cultural patterns in childhood socialization have an impact on the negotiation of normal narcissism, self-image, and autonomy. When individuals find their cultural ideals a poor fit, they are likely to fall into the category of difficult patients, i.e., patients who need life-long treatment as well as a supportive social network. This paper will examine adaptive aspects of socialized passivity among women in a South India community and its implications for two American patients with a history of anorexia nervosa. Individuals in both cultures whose childhood socialization gave them inner security successfully utilized mentalization, while those without inner security lacking the resources for mentalization were vulnerable for chronic psychiatric symptomatology.
Cross-cultural observations will examine the protection that socialized passivity may provide women against physical and mental abuse. As the culture changed with education for both women and men, assertiveness rather than submission marked appropriate feminine behavior. By comprehending the underlying psychodynamics necessitating passivity among South Indian women and the inability of some women so socialized to abandon passivity, learners will have increased empathy for difficult patients.
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will develop improved capacity for empathy through attention to sociocultural dynamics and their influence on mentalization.
• Participants will gain knowledge in treating patients with excessive passivity.
• Participants will acquire improved understanding of how cultural norms and roles influence personality development and character functioning.
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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

Psychoanalytic Theory in the Treatment of Transgender and Gender Variant People by Bobby Kizer, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
2017-09-30 10:00 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Psychoanalysis has historically pathologized variance in gender identities and expressions. In recent years, gender variance has become increasingly normative and transgender patients are presenting to therapy (and psychoanalysis) more and more. Recent writings by some psychoanalysts are encouraging new interpretations of psychoanalytic theory that affirm transgender identities. After reviewing some of the historical background and recent theorizing regarding transgender identity development within psychoanalysis, this presentation will focus on case examples of the therapeutic process with transgender and gender variant patients and discuss how the psychoanalytically inclined therapist can use their theoretical models to provide a healthy environment for the transgender patient to explore their identity, decrease their mental health symptoms, and live a more authentic life.
Learning Objectives:
• Recall/Review how original psychoanalytic theoretical models have understood transgender identity and expression.
• Understand how to apply psychoanalytic models to the healthy development of transgender identity.
• Evaluate one’s own understanding of transgender development and explore the possibility of developing a trans-affirming psychoanalytic theory to meet the needs of transgender patients.
• Explore possible courses of treatment with transgender patients.
• Explore possible counter-transference reactions that the therapist might feel when working with transgender patients.
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.
Admission is Free.
Fee for 2 CME credits: $15 for NOBPC members; $25 non-members

CANCELLED: Aggression, Violence, Hatred, Apologies and Forgiveness Video Conference Panel Discussion with The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society
2017-04-08 08:45 - 12:00 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Aggression, Violence, Hatred, Apologies And Forgiveness
SATURDAY APRIL 8, 2017 8:45AM – 12:00PM
NOBPC 3624 Coliseum St.
*This event does not offer CME credits.*
This is a free event.
Presenter: Volney Gay Ph. D. Title: “Atrocities and Atrocity Narratives: Their Intergenerational Effects” The history of warfare is replete with actual atrocities and with atrocity narratives. The first are visited upon actual persons, the second are provocative images and stories about atrocious actions done against innocent victims. State actors use these images to induce outrage, to provoke retaliation against the enemy, and to mobilize for war. Both ancient religious authors and contemporary politicians exploit the power of atrocity narratives for similar purposes. Clinicians deal with the effects of atrocities committed against persons whom we treat as patients. We also deal with the effects of narrations about atrocities on second and third generations. Children who learn of atrocities committed against family members (or co-religionists) often struggle to metabolize fantasies about those actions.
Presenter: Matthew Shatzman, MA. Title: “I Hate, Therefore I am.” Hatred is a part of human development that can serve profoundly destructive ends, as well as constructive ones. We’ll explore the spectrum and nuances of this complex affect state and how its manifestations influence both the individual and the collective.
Presenter: Rev. Linda A. Horrell, M.Div., MSW. Title: “Apologies and Forgiveness: The ones that must not be named.” In the Harry Potter tales, the villain is referred to as He Who Must Not Be Named. Considering the void of psychoanalytic publications which discuss the benefits of apologies and forgiveness, it leaves us to wonder why. Is forgiveness a villain of treatment? Are giving apologies and seeking forgiveness a psychoneurotic response to unsolved problems or solutions to them? The presentation will be a call to psychoanalysts to consider the benefits of co-creating a space of working with suffering, forgiveness and reconciliation. We will look at clinical aspects that facilitate relief and change for the sufferer and the offender. Additionally, there is a greater challenge to consider the expansion of these concepts beyond the individual to achieving psycho-social justice for groups, communities and global human rights to heal from expressions of violence and aggression.

OPEN HOUSE Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
2017-04-06 19:00 - 20:30 | NOBPC, 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Join NOBPC Faculty for an informal discussion and Q&A about our upcoming Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program.
The two year training program is designed for mental health professionals in clinical practice who want to enhance their theoretical understanding of psychoanalytic principles and improve their skill in conducting intensive psychotherapy.
The program includes classes in psychoanalytic psychodynamic theory, as well as clinical case presentations.
Refreshments will be served
RSVP Dale Firestone at nobpcenter@gmail.com

Todd McGowan, PhD presents "The Paranoid Thriller and the Suspect Law" at Tulane University
2017-03-11 10:00 | Tulane University Lavin-Bernick Center, Qatar Ballroom, New Orleans, United States
The Paranoid Thriller and the Suspect Law
Saturday, March 11, 10am-12pm
Tilton Hall 305
Tulane University
Professor Todd McGowan (University of Vermont), a distinguished scholar in psychoanalysis, film studies and cultural analysis, will present a public lecture treating films such The Conversation, The Matrix, and the Jason Bourne thrillers. Using a psychoanalytic framework, Professor McGowan shows how these films expose the dark underside of the public law, engendering a suspicion about the law that obscures its role in grounding our freedom, contributing to the paranoid fantasies in our political sphere.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by Tulane University’s Department of English, the School of Liberal Arts and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center.
