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SUMMARY:New Directions: Swimming In Space: Strange Conversations In The Therapeutic Dyad
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nWhat happens in the therapeutic dyad when regular reciprocal conversations are not possible\, when our patients communicate with us in strange and at times incomprehensible ways? How we find footing while swimming in space and the extraordinary efforts we make to connect with these initially mystifying people is what this weekend will address. \nCoordinators:  Jessica Arenella\, Ph.D. and Ona Lindquist\, LCSW  \nGUEST FACULTY: \nOna Lindquist\, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and senior supervisor in private practice in New York City\, specializing in work with creative and performing artists. She has taught and supervised at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health\, The Karen Horney Institute\, and The New School for Social Research. Her articles include\, What a Blackbird Told Me is Real and Alive; A Barter To Be: A Psychoanalysis in Art and Verse; and One Glorious Noise: How the Voice of Bruce Springsteen Entered my Consulting Room. Before becoming an analyst\, she was a conceptual artist. Her project in the 1980’s\, Objet Vend’art byVendona won her wide attention as an artist making and dispensing art for the masses. View her visual memoir of the project at: objetsvendart.com. \nOther guest faculty will be added.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-swimming-in-space-strange-conversations-in-the-therapeutic-dyad/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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SUMMARY:New Directions: The Poetics of Mourning: Eulogy\, Elegy\, Epic\, Epitaph
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nWe are living in a time of great dying. Climate change is drying up our water and destroying vulnerable species; a pandemic is claiming the lives of over a million people worldwide and changing much about our ways of life. How do we register the magnitude of these losses? \nWhen we lose individuals\, we eulogize them to help keep them in memory.  When we lose great people\, we elegize them to contextualize their importance to society.  When we lose not just individuals and heroes but an entire way of life\, we craft epics to register the sweep of history and mourn change on a grand scale. When we lay people to rest\, we locate them in psychic as well as physical space through inscribed epitaphs\, processions\, and music. This weekend will help us grasp mourning on a scale beyond those we are accustomed to managing. The uses of imagination\, myth\, memorial\, ritual\, music\, and literature will be considered\, as will the interplay between the mourners’ personal experience and that of the mourned. \nCoordinator: Billie Pivnick\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nSpyros D. Orfanos\, PhD\, ABPP\, is Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)\, he is past president of the Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) of the APA\, and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the Advisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Museum of Vienna. In 2016\, he was co-editor with Eliot Jurist of the special supplement of Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA) on “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities.” In 2017\, he founded the NYU Human Rights Work Group. In 2023\, year he received the SPPS Award for International Activism for Social Justice. He practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and runs creativity study groups.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-the-poetics-of-mourning-eulogy-elegy-epic-epitaph/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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SUMMARY:New Directions: Maternity And Its Upheavals
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nMaternity — from pregnancy\, to childbirth\, to parenting a newborn introduces  psychic dislocation and strain in the mother and upheaval in the couple.  Idealizations of pregnancy and early motherhood can constrain our recognition of the potential for depression\, loss\, trauma\, and breakdown that disrupt this topsy-turvy time of life.  This weekend will explore the psychic topography of this central developmental period.  We will consider the potential for emotional disturbance as well as for transformation in new parents. \nCoordinator: Elizabeth Fritsch\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nJennifer Babcock\, Psy.D. is a child and adult psychologist and adult psychoanalyst with a clinical and assessment practice in Old Town Alexandria\, Virginia. Dr. Babcock is an analyst with the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Babcock is a member of the Steering Committee for the SPRING Project. She has a long-standing interest in working with women and their partners during the perinatal period and a specialty in maternal mental health. She has presented to psychoanalytic groups on the permeability of mental health during the perinatal period as well as the impact of IVF and intergenerational trauma on a new mother. \nYael Goldstein-Love is the author of the novels The Passion of Tasha Darsky\, described as “showing signs of brooding genius” by The New York Times\, and The Possibilities\, a speculative thriller about the psychological transition to motherhood. A PEOPLE pick of the week (“a powerful page-turner with deep wisdom”) and Good Morning America recommendation for summer reading (“taps into those primal feelings every nurturer feels — and fears”)\, The Possibilities grew out of Goldstein-Love’s own rocky transition to motherhood as well as her clinical passion for working with people during this fraught and potentially generative period. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Boston Globe\, and Slate\, among other places. A graduate of Harvard University and The Wright Institute\, she lives with her son in Berkeley\, CA. \nRachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch\, her debut novel selected as an Indie Next Pick and best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture\, and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak\, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Recent essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, and Guernica.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-maternity-and-its-upheavals/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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SUMMARY:New Directions: Can We Talk?
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nThis weekend will explore the obstacles that stand in our way when we try to talk together about difficult topics. When strong pent-up emotions rise to the surface\, whether anger\, fear\, grief\, anxiety or rage\, we easily get overheated\, defensive or shut down. We turn away\, defeated\, shamed or vengeful. At this moment in history\, it can often seem like we are losing ourselves and our ability to reach one another in meaningful ways\, caught in the current of unprocessed individual and global grief. Whether racism\, classism\, gender\, political leanings or moral positions\, we can often get mired in miscommunications and retreat to our own stances\, unheard and unhearing. This weekend we will focus our attention on opening up the difficult conversations. \nCoordinators:  Anne Adelman\, Ph.D. and Melanie Hatter \nAnne J. Adelman\, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist and Supervising and Training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she is the Dean of Students\, and a recipient of that institute’s award for excellence in teaching in 2019. She is also a Teaching Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. As Co-Editor of JAPA Review of Books\, she launched a feature column called “Why I Write\,” inviting analysts to reflect on the experience of writing. Dr. Adelman is also a co-chair of the New Directions in Writing Program and is co-author and editor of four books\, along with several published papers and chapters. Dr. Adelman maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase\, Maryland. \nMelanie S. Hatter is the author of Malawi’s Sisters\, which was selected by Edwidge Danticat as the winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and was published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her debut novel\, The Color of My Soul\, won the 2011 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize\, and Let No One Weep for Me\, Stories of Love and Loss was released in 2015. Melanie began her career as a journalist and has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and nonprofit communications and marketing. She works with N Street Village\, the largest provider of services for women experiencing homelessness in Washington\, D.C. In addition\, she serves on the boards of the Washington Review of Books\, the Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, and Gamma Xi Phi professional arts fraternity. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nDavid Cooper\, Ph.D. is a past co-chair of New Directions. He is also a past-president of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and co-founder and past co-chair of the Center’s Diversities Committee. He is on the faculty of the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute\, and he has a private practice in Chevy Chase\, Maryland. \nTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing\, the Whiting Award for Fiction\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other awards. His reviews\, essays and cultural criticism have been featured in The Atlantic\, The Baffler\, BBC\, The Drift\, High Country News\, Lithub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New York Times Book Review\, Vulture\, The Washington Post and elsewhere.Tope serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater in Washington DC\, the Vice President of the Board of the Pen/Faulkner Foundation\, and as a member of the President’s Council of Pathfinder. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford\, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. His debut novel\, A Particular Kind of Black Man\, was published by Simon & Schuster. \nAnton Hart\, PhD\, FABP\, FIPA is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality\, issues of racial\, sexual and other diversities\, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. He is a member of the group\, Black Psychoanalysts Speak and\, also\, Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at The New School for Social Research\, The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis\, Mt. Sinai Hospital\, New York Presbyterian Hospital\, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program\, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia\, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis\, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He is completing a book for Routledge entitled\, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis\, individual and couple psychotherapy\, psychotherapy supervision and consultation\, and organizational consultation\, in New York. \nCheryl Head She/Her. Introvert\, solver of puzzles\, righter of fictional wrongs. Author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series: Anthony Award Nominee; Lambda Literary Award Finalist; IPPY Silver Medal; Goldie Award; Next Generation Indie Award Finalist. Inductee-Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame. Recipient-the Alice B Reader’s Appreciation Medal.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-can-we-talk/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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SUMMARY:New Directions: Untangling Racialized Fantasies for Clinical Practice and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \n\nNovember 1 @ 8:00 am – November 3 @ 5:00 pm\n\n\n\nThe history of psychoanalysis demonstrates a profound mixture of struggles with race and racism. Founded in the hotbed of late Victorian racism and antisemitism\, Freud made the then-radical argument that blood and genetics do not determine intellectual\, moral\, or emotional character. At the same time\, in work such as Civilization and Its Discontents (1930/2010)\, he embraced anthropological and sociological beliefs of the time which cast inhabitants of much of the non-Northern world as primitives and less developed\, enshrining non-Europeans in fantasized roles of alien other and romanticized bearers of unsuppressed id. \n“Psychoanalysis and related disciplines\,” notes Dorothy Evans Holmes in her 2021 article\, I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism\, “have gone along with the general societal trend to disown the destructiveness of racism in its manifold forms\, affecting all our lives” (p. 240). Simultaneously\, as Holmes and many others note\, psychoanalysis has the tools to offer profound insights into the workings of racism in individual psyches and in society more broadly. \nThis weekend\, we make use of writing and of psychoanalytic insights and tools to explore the persistence of racialized othering and violence and the role that fantasies and experiences of race play in society and in own lives and work. We will interrogate common but often unanalyzed racial fantasies and their entanglements with self\, other\, culture\, history\, desire\, and power. We will work to understand how racialized fantasies participate in clinical practice and identify how psychoanalysis as both a set of concepts and a practice may be helpful for better understanding and transforming self and society in relation to enactments of racial fantasies. Finally\, we will consider how writing can help us to reflect upon and contribute to the transformation of our sense of racial selfness and otherness\, supporting both personal and cultural insight and transformation toward a more loving\, sustaining\, and equitable society and world. \nCoordinator: Gail Boldt and Pauli Badenhorst \nGUEST FACULTY: \nPAULI BADENHORST is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research draws from psychoanalytic and Black antiracist scholarship to focus on questions such as “How are raced identity and racism related to pleasure? What is the role of emotion in the constitution and enactment of race? How are racialized Others compensatively used to generate and sustain identities and ideologies in localized sociopolitical contexts? What are the effects of climate change on materially-constituted racialized subjectivity?” Ultimately\, in Pauli’s work there resides great longing for deep and urgent relational antiracism work across schools and society. He is the author of Predatory White Antiracism\, published in 2021 in Psychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society. \nJOHN HOLMAN is the author of Squabble and Other Stories\, Luminous Mysteries\, and Triangle Ray\, all books of fiction. His work has appeared in numerous journals such as The New Yorker\, Image\, Oxford American\, and The Sun\, as well as in several anthologies. He has been a visiting writer and guest speaker or reader of his fiction at universities throughout the country. Holman is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, and he teaches fiction writing and literature at Georgia State University at Atlanta. \nANNIE LEE JONES\, PHD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is a Fellow\, supervisor\, member of the Board at IPTAR\, teaching faculty at Adelphi University and the NYU postdoctoral program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\, the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies\, and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, Inc. Dr. Jones has published several articles relevant to the everyday lived experiences of Black women as well as on the impact of antiblack policies on Black Americans. She is currently writing a series of short stories about the life of her paternal grandmother who was born into and freed from slavery in rural Georgia. \nDIONNE POWELL\, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice.  She is the author of\, among other articles\, the JAPA prize winning article\, Race\, African Americans\, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation.  Dr. Powell has received numerous awards for her teaching including the American Psychoanalytic Association Candidate’s Council 2020-2021 Master Teacher Award. She is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\, and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College\, founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and is co-chair of the Holmes Commission for Racial Equity in Psychoanalysis (APsaA sponsored).
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-untangling-racialized-fantasies-for-clinical-practice-and-writing/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "Psychoanalysis: We have a Story to Tell"
DESCRIPTION:May 3\, 2024 \nFreud understood the power of stories\, captivating the world with his case histories of Dora\, Little Hans\, the Rat Man and the Wolf Man. Stories fire the imagination. Yet over the years\, psychoanalytic writing grew obscure\, bogged down in complicated jargon and theory. \nWriters utilize psychoanalytic ideas not only to fully develop their characters and create settings resonant with feeling\, but also to understand their own imaginative processes: tolerating the anxiety of allowing material to gestate and unfold\, recognizing resistances to exploring certain subject matter\, understanding the motivations behind work\, discovering unconscious themes. \nThis weekend we hope to inspire you to find new and creative ways of telling your stories– whether in the form of fiction\, poetry\, op-eds or essays–allowing readers to marvel at the complexity and beauty of what it means to be human. Each genre\, offering a pathway to a deep psychological truth\, allowing a reader to put themselves in the mind of another\, capturing a deeper wisdom about human nature\, resonating long after they are heard. \nCoordinator: Kerry Malawista\, Ph.D.\n \nGUEST FACULTY: \nKate Daniels\, a 2008 graduate of New Directions\, is the author of six books of poetry\, as well as Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis (2022)\, an inter-genre prose work that explores connections between psychoanalysis and poetry\, focusing on the psychodynamic aspects of the writing process.  A former Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry\, and Bunting Fellow (now Radcliffe Institute) at Harvard\, she is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers\, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and three Best American Poetry awards.  Her poetry is collected in more than seventy-five anthologies.  Formerly\, poet in residence at Duke University Medical Center and at Vanderbilt University Medical Center\, she has given talks and workshops at selected psychoanalytic training centers and institutes in the U.S. on the topic of creative writing and psychoanalysis.  She is the Edwin Mims Professor of English Emerita at Vanderbilt University. \nLisa Gornick\, PhD is a graduate of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Yale and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia\, where she is on the voluntary faculty. Her academic writing includes papers about women treating men\, Freud’s engagement with creative writers and the topic of creative writing\, and the parallels between the processes of imaginative writing and psychotherapy. No longer in practice\, she is now primarily focused on writing. Her work includes four novels: The Peacock Feast\, Tinderbox\, and Louisa Meets Bear – all jointly published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and Picador—and A Private Sorcery\, published by Algonquin.  Her stories and essays have appeared widely\, including in The New York Times\, Prairie Schooner\, Salon\, Slate\, Real Simple\, and The Wall Street Journal\, and have received many honors including Distinguished Story by the Best American Short Stories. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and sons. More information can be found at lisagornickauthor.com. \nEmma Lieber is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and part time faculty in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College\, The New School. She is the author of The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury 2020) and coeditor\, with Anna Fishzon\, of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave 2022). Her writing has appeared in LitHub\, The Point Magazine\, The New England Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and various academic and psychoanalytic publications.\nShe is currently working on Impossible Professions\, a book manuscript on psychoanalysis and education\, as well as articles on psychoanalysis and autotheory and psychoanalysis and Jewishness. \nRebekah Rutkoff is the author of The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions (semiotexte\, 2015) and the forthcoming Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (MIT Press) and the editor of Robert Beavers (Austrian Film Museum\, 2017). Her writing — which spans research-based scholarship\, creative nonfiction and fiction — engages with psychoanalysis as both form and content; she writes on ancient theories of dreaming\, the psychic dimensions of avant-garde cinema\, and the intersubjective space of first-person prose. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at NJIT.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-psychoanalysis-we-have-a-story-to-tell/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "Trauma of Discovery - DNA Surprises. The Redefinition of the Narrative Arc of Self"
DESCRIPTION:February 2-4\, 2024 \nMany\, curious about their ancestry\, turn to 23 and Me searching for answers to the complicated question\, “Who am I?” Yet\, what happens when a mere globule of saliva\, the extraction of DNA strands from cells\, brings into question a person’s basic identity? How do we\, as therapists and writers\, begin to consider the psychological meaning and impact of finding out that a mother or father is not one’s biological parent? How do we absorb the shock that there is another parent somewhere out in the world? And the surprising discovery of half-siblings\, sometimes numbering in the tens\, even hundreds. \nScience has outpaced our psychological understanding and appreciation for the impact of this surprising\, often fracturing\, information. Families\, turned upside down\, at long hidden secrets revealed. \nWe construct our identity out of biological givens: who we look like\, where we get certain traits from—the shape of our face\, our eye color\, even the way one of our eyebrows might rise up when we are curious. We think of these features of the self as objective facts\, all creating a picture of who we are over time. Yet our identity also encompasses subjective experiences not found in our genes\, such as the memories we hold\, our relationships\, and values that create a narrative of who we consistently are over time. Learning that the parent we thought was our biological parent is not\, is more than the trauma of discovery\, a grief at what has been lost\, but brings with it a much more complicated meaning of identity and the question —Who am I? \nThis weekend we will explore what happens when the narrative of one’s life\, our subjective reality is altered\, even shattered? How do we revise our narrative of who we are\, in the face of new evidence\, information we had considered an objective fact? How do we maintain a connection to our old self\, allowing for the inclusion of this new information? \nCoordinator: Kerry Malawista\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nLIBBY COPELAND is an award-winning journalist and author who writes about culture and science for outlets including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Atlantic. Her book The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are was praised by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and was named to The Guardian’s list of The Best Books of 2020. The Washington Post said it “reads like an Agatha Christie mystery” and “wrestles with some of the biggest questions in life: Who are we? What is family? Are we defined by nature\, nurture or both?” Copeland’s immersive reporting and intimate writing explore the forces that shape our identities. \nJULIE ELION is the clinical director of the Center for Athletic Performance and Enhancement and has an MA in counseling. Through her psychotherapy practice she has helped athletes and CEOs achieve their dreams. Julie focuses on identifying beliefs that block our optimal performance which has helped her gain recognition in multiple articles in the New York Times\, Golf Digest\, and other periodicals as “that lady who helped me to win.” In the fall of 2019 Julie Elion discovered through genetic testing who her biological father was–a psychiatrist–leading her into a complicated world of genetic testing\, insemination\, and anonymous sperm donations. Through this journey she has discovered 68 siblings\, 40 of which she has met and keeps in moderately close touch with\, sharing many physical and psychological traits. \nJAYNE RIEW is a writer and artist based in NYC.  In the Scientific American blog “Beautiful Minds\,” Scott Barry Kaufman calls her “a psychological artist who explores the unseen.”  Her 2019 portrait essay “Twisting Ladders” explores how 17 people confronted the upheaval in their sense of identity after DNA testing revealed an unknown child or parent.  Jayne’s work has been commended by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as “counterintuitive and creative” and praised by Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway as “listening journalism.”  Whether ghostwriting memoirs or reading Chekhov for Librivox\, at the heart of all Jayne’s pursuits is a fascination with portraiture—a close reading of ourselves and the conditions that affect that understanding. \nDANI SHAPIRO is the author of the instant New York Times best selling memoir\, Inheritance\, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion\, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her latest novel\, Signal Fires\, will be published in the fall of 2022 by Knopf. Along with teaching writing workshops around the world\, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University\, and is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. In February of 2019\, Dani launched an original podcast\, Family Secrets\, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. An iTunes Top 10 podcast\, the series features stories from guests who—like Dani— have uncovered life-altering and long-hidden secrets from their families’ past. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-trauma-of-discovery-dna-surprises-the-redefinition-of-the-narrative-arc-of-self/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "Life After Death: How the Pandemic Has Transformed Psychic Life"
DESCRIPTION:November 3 – 5\, 2023 \nThere used to be no house\, hardly a room\, in which someone had not once died. \n(Rose\, 2021\, p. 4) \nThe majority of Covid deaths have occurred in the isolation of the hospital room\, not in a home.  We– none of us — are allowed to touch the dying for fear of our own dying. \nMassive death\, even when unseen and blocks/cities away\, infects our state of mind in myriad ways. In this weekend we will explore our upended experience of time: “Grief brings time shuddering to a halt” (Rose\, 2021. p. 8). \nWe ask what is the mental impact of living in time and space brought to a halt: losing one’s bodily and mental space\, no longer able to move freely in the inside or outside world; simultaneously losing the free flow of time\, creating a version of mental claustrophobia.  In the days and weeks after George Floyd’s death\, his unheard plea “I can’t breathe” echoed in so many of us\, a haunting echo of the violence inherent in structured racist policies.  Saidiya Hartman (2002) asks: “How might we understand mourning\, when the event has yet to end? When the injuries not only perdure\, but are inflicted anew? Can one mourn what has yet ceased happening?” \nWe are required to “wait.” It is in the time of waiting that all is held in balance. We wait to find normal again only to slowly apprehend it is not coming back\, rather something we call “the new normal” will take its place. As the old is replaced by the new we wait in uncertainty. This is a most painful state of mind\, an extraordinary demand the pandemic has placed on us. \nAnd yet in waiting there is work to be done. It makes all the difference in the world if we hold onto hope\, or what we as psychoanalysts call the “good object.” In this weekend’s presentations and discussion we will focus on the conflict between hope and despair\, love and hate\, life and death. Can we as individuals and in the larger societal sense\, face the hurt\, the loss and hatred and resultant painful frustration to instill and maintain a sense of “mattering” in our relations. (Baraitser\, 2020).  How we come to develop a sense of mattering—or not\, and whose lives matter- whose lives are “grievable” (Butler) ? \n* Title from Jacquelyn Rose\, London Review of Books\, 12/7/21 \nCoordinator: Lynne Zeavin\, Ph.D. Shelley Rockwell\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: TBA
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-life-after-death-how-the-pandemic-has-transformed-psychic-life/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "Sisterhood"
DESCRIPTION:May 5-7\, 2023\n\nBefore women had access to capital in the public sphere\, powerful sibling bonds and deep female friendships were captured in the literary imagination. Now\, on the streets and in blog communities\, feminist collectives of all genders inspire resistance projects that are reshaping the meaning of sisterhood. This conference will consider the representation of sisterhood across psychoanalytic and literary canons. Shifting the focus away from the historical role of women as muse\, damsel\, or mistress – or as the inferior sex plagued by penis envy – this weekend will cast light on artistic literary collaborations among female-identified people. \nWe’ll also explore female envy and competition in a male-dominated literary world\, in which women who write defy a long-standing reputation as “scribblers\,” as Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to a publisher in 1855. We’ll consider the persistent expectation that a woman “write like a man\,” in order to be taken seriously. Alternatively\, we’ll explore whether this posturing of masculinity is the flip side of “womanliness as masquerade\,” described by psychoanalyst Joan Rivere in 1929 as a creative solution for dealing with conflicts – within oneself and in the culture – about female power\, ambition\, and aggression. \nIf women’s writing is still received differently in contemporary publishing\, how does this marginalization show up in women’s writing lives? If women have earned their entitlement to money and a room to write\, what more do we need? And how do broad social movements\, like the #metoo campaign\, influence women’s self- expression and ability to put pen to paper? How does the queering of the categories of “male” and “female” reshape how the gendered social order is represented\, and how writers bring to life the complexity of gender and subjectivity? These questions and more will stimulate lively conversation during our weekend together about the vast meanings – including the awesome potential and perils – of sisterhood. \nCoordinator: Catherine Baker-Pitts\, Ph.D.\, LCSW \nGUEST FACULTY: \nANNIE LEE JONES Ph.D is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Queens\, New York. She is Co-chair of the Ethnicity\, Race\, Culture\, Class\, and Language Committee at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, where she is also teaching faculty; a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak; and an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)\, where she taught a course on black psychoanalytic writers. Dr. Jones is a 2018 Scholar of the NY Psychoanalytic Society. Her current projects include papers on Frantz Fanon; biases and privileges related to skin color perception from a relational perspective; and the interrogation of psychoanalysis from the perspective of a Black American Woman. \nCHRISTINA BAKER KLINE is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller A Piece of the World (2017)\, about the relationship between the artist Andrew Wyeth and the subject of his best-known painting\, “Christina’s World.” Kline has written six other novels —Orphan Train\, Orphan Train Girl\, The Way Life Should Be\, Bird in Hand\, Desire Lines\, and Sweet Water — and written or edited five works of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, LitHub\, and Psychology Today\, among other places. She lives in New York City and on the coast of Maine. \nANN D’ERCOLE\, PhD\, ABPP\, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where she is both teaching faculty and Supervisor. She is also Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and\, recipient of the APA\, Division 39\, Sexualities and Gender Identities Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Sexualities and Gender Identities in Psychoanalysis. Her book\, Clara Thompson: The Life and Work of an American Psychoanalyst\, in Donnel Stern’s series\, Psychoanalysis in a New Key\, at Routledge Press is forthcoming. Dr. D’Ercole is in private practice in New York City. \nBONNIE FRIEDMAN\, MFA\, is the author of the best selling Writing Past Dark: Envy\, Fear\, Distraction\, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life\, which has been anthologized in six different writing textbooks. She is also the author of the memoir The Thief of Happiness\, and\, most recently\, Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays\, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award in the Art of the Essay. A three-time Notable Essayist in The Best American Essays\, her work has been selected for inclusion The Best American Movie Writing\, The Best Writing on Writing\, The Best of O.\, the Oprah Magazine\, and The Best Buddhist Writing. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, Image\, The Michigan Quarterly Review.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-sisterhood/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "Poetry and Psychoanalysis"
DESCRIPTION:This weekend conference will be held online using the Zoom platform.\n\nFebruary 2-5\, 2023 \n“…that strange being\, the Creative Writer.”\n-S. Freud in Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908) \nThe enormous creativity of the unconscious mind is the raw material of both poetry and psychoanalysis.  Ever since Freud began to publish his startling new ideas about the existence and the powerful influence of the unconscious mind\, psychoanalysis has been closely connected with poetry\, and poetry has been fascinated by psychoanalysis. Literary modernism and psychoanalysis grew up alongside each other\, and the history of early twentieth century poetry is intertwined with Freud’s developing theories. H.D.\, Bertolt Brecht\, D.H. Lawrence\, Muriel Rukeyser\, and many other writers undertook the talking cure. Freud\, himself\, loved poetry and admired poets.  His work is full of poetic allusions\, and he often credited poets with the original discovery of the unconscious\, the lynchpin of psychoanalysis.  “The poets were there before I was\,” he said. \nIn a wonderful little book of our time\, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry\, poet Edward Hirsch’s description of how poems communicate could also serve as an explanation of how a good therapy operates: \nPoems communicate before they are understood\, and the structure operates on or inside the reader even as the words infiltrate the consciousness.  The form is like the shape of the poems’ understanding\, its way of being in the world\, and it is the form that structures our experience.    (p.27) \nThe form of a psychoanalysis is a repeating\, closed-frame form within which two people meet regularly to do nothing more than talk (sometimes) and listen (incessantly).  Within that frame\, over time\, the inchoate mass of a particular person’s psyche can undergo a process of change (revision) that we can regard as a kind of text.  If poetry writing can result in a text-based aesthetic product we call a poem\, likewise a psychoanalysis carries the possibility of producing language-based realizations about the self that we call insight.  It is also true that both the writing of poetry and psychoanalysis (as analyst or analysand) depend upon an individual’s ability to undertake the self-willed destruction of internalized beliefs\, habits\, and ways of thinking\, speaking\, writing\, and imagining that have become counterproductive in life or in art.  Both endeavors require psychological fortitude\, access to one’s imagination\, and the willingness to take risks.  The processes of poetry and psychoanalysis\, then\, are remarkably similar\, and both are deeply creative acts. \nDuring this weekend conference\, we will explore the convergences and commonalities of poetry and psychoanalysis. Our starting point will be language\, their common denominator: language that is spoken aloud or written down; language that is not spoken aloud\, but that is thought; and language that manifests mysteriously as both sound and silence on the page and in the consulting room.  We will also look at some of the ways in which the habits and practices of poets and analysts both resemble and differ from each other. \nCoordinators: Kate Daniels\, M.A.\, M.F.A. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nMajor Jackson is a poet\, editor\, and critic.  He is the author of six volumes of poetry\, the poetry editor of the Harvard Review\, and the recipient of numerous awards for his work\, including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard\, the Whiting Award\, NAACP Image Award\, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, Cave Canem Prize\, the Pew Fellowship\, among others. He is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University where he directs the creative writing program.  His most recent collection\, The Absurd Man\, is a reworking of Albert Camus’ iconic work\, The Myth of Sisyphus.    It is a psychologically bracing re-envisioning of the poet as an “absurd hero” for our times. The existentialist questions the collection engages with poetically and psychologically are situated at the center of our contemporary moment: why are we here\, and what gives meaning to life in these times? \nDidi Jackson is a poet and assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.  Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker\, Kenyon Review\, Iowa Review\, Ploughshares\, et al. Her first collection of poetry\, Moon Jar\, explores the catastrophic trauma of losing a spouse to suicide.  She is particularly interested in poetry’s capacity for processing trauma and for creating empathy in readers\, as well as in poetry’s therapeutic applications. Her background in the visual arts manifests in poetry as an interest in the healing convergences of image\, metaphor\, and myth in poetry and psychotherapy. \nDavid Shaddock M.F.T.\, PhD has over forty years of experience as a psychotherapist. He is an internationally known expert on relationships who has taught and lectured in Israel\, Italy\, Mexico\, and Chile. He is the author of clinical and creative works\, including:  Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Opening the Field (2022)\, part of the Art\, Creativity\, and Psychoanalysis Book Series published by Routledge Press; Contests and Connections: An Intersubjective Approach to Couples Therapy (Basic Books\, 2000); From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships (Aronson\, 1998); and four collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Book of Splendor: New and Selected Poems on Spiritual Themes (Kelsay Books\, 2019).  He maintains a private practice as a marriage and family therapist  in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-poetry-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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SUMMARY:New Directions - "What's in Mind?"
DESCRIPTION:This weekend conference will be held online using the Zoom platform.\n\nHOW DID IT GET THERE? WHAT’S TO BE DONE? \nNovember 3-6\, 2022 \nThis weekend will explore the notion of mentalization\, the developmentally-achieved capacity to recognize that what is in our minds is a product of our experience and to know that others have minds of their own\, with contents that are related to their experiences. This capacity emerges within the caregiving relationships\, during the first four years of life. Deficits in mentalization appear frequently in patients with severe personality disorders and occasionally in all patients (and therapists/analysts). Improvements in this capacity are an important marker of successful treatment. \nHow does an appreciation for the developmental trajectory of mentalization affect one’s ways of listening to patients? How does an appreciation of this capacity lead to different ways of intervening? What difference does it make if we take a patient’s insistence that her internal world defines reality as a defensive distortion\, as opposed to a failure to mentalize? These questions can stimulate active discussion/exploration in the course of the weekend. Opening ourselves to data framed in this way can change how we think and ultimately how we help patients to think. \nCoordinator: David Cooper\, Ph.D. and Anne Adelman\, Ph.D.\n \nGUEST FACULTY: \nSTEPHEN SELIGMAN\, DMH is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California\, San Francisco\, and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California\, and a Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. His recent book\, Relationships in Development: Infancy\, Intersubjectivity\, Attachment updates developmental psychoanalysis\, tracing analytic theories of infancy and childhood since Freud and offering a contemporary synthesis of analysis and infancy research. \nAdditional faculty will be announced at a later date.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-whats-in-mind/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:New Directions
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