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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T084500
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SUMMARY:Observational Studies Program Conference: Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions - Jeanne Magagna\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Observational Studies Program Conference\nExploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions \n\nWe are excited to announce our upcoming conference with Jeanne Magagna\, PhD\,  Tavistock Centre-trained Child\, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist\nLondon\, UK \n \n\nSaturday\, November 1\, 2025\nGeorge Washington University Hospital Auditorium\n8:45 am – 4:45 pm ET\n6 CME/CE\nDr. Magagna’s work emphasizes the transformative power of observing babies\, a skill she has taught worldwide based on the Tavistock Clinic model. This approach has profound implications for enhancing our understanding of children and their families\, illustrating how early observation can deepen parents’ comprehension of their children. Her commitment to this method led to the development of a specialized nursery in Rome. She teaches and publishes internationally. Jeanne is the Joint Editor of various books including Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families\, Psychotherapy with Families\, Being Present for  Your Nursery Age Child and The Silent Child: Communication without Words\, Creativity and Psychotic States and Contemporary Child Psychotherapy. She is also the author of The Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Adolescents with Eating Difficulties.   \nHer most impactful work\, “The Silent Child: Communication Without Words\,” explores the challenges of treating 19 comatose non-verbal children in talking therapies. Magagna’s approach to psychotherapy is grounded in her early life experiences and the inspiration she drew from Esther Bick\, the originator of infant observation. Her journey from learning the craft under Bick’s tutelage to becoming a globally recognized educator and clinician underscores her passion and dedication to child mental health. \nClick here for a personal invitation from Dr. Magagna and learn more about the upcoming conference. \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE\nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/observational-studies-program-conference-exploring-the-links-moving-from-observation-to-transformative-interventions-jeanne-magagna-phd/
LOCATION:George Washington University Hospital Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Observational Studies,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film "The Thing"
DESCRIPTION:*** Film must be viewed prior to event.*** \nDiscussion of the film “The Thing”\n \nFriday\, November 14\, 2025\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nVia Zoom \n1982 (109 min)\nDirector: John Carpenter\nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, Psy.D. \nA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. \n  \nPresentation At surface level fantastical\, appalling\, and occasionally comical\, horror renders that which is unthinkable or unspeakable into inhuman\, slimy\, or spectral forms\, presenting the taboo or the overwhelming at a safe\, controllable distance from the self. In horror\, unthinkable and unspeakable aspects of the “self” can be experienced as the monstrous “other” and exorcised with flamethrowers. The horror movie generates credibility through performance\, photography\, and effects that ground the viewer in a “reality” that can then become credibly unreal. This magical reality evokes archaic experiences of the self as unbounded and vulnerable\, taking on challenging\, unsettling thoughts and feelings while allowing for the suspension of the neatly boundaried “I” of the viewer. \nJohn Carpenter’s The Thing belongs to a rich tradition of paranoia and body horror in the uncanny narrative and horror cinema. The self\, here under the condition of isolation and environmental confusion\, becomes vulnerable to external corruption. The un-integrable impulse is cast off\, producing a disintegrated state. Then\, in the presence of an alien “other”\, the once familiar body is usurped. The mind is subsumed. The “me” becomes a “me” copy that is at once terrifying and terrified\, its sole purpose being to consume additional “others.” The Thing is an allegory for the mental mechanisms of unbounded consciousness: not only the body\, but also the psychological boundaries constituting the self\, are at risk. \nIn working on this allegory\, we will briefly touch on horror cinema’s enduring interest in paranoia and the unbounded consciousness. We will consider Clara Keane’s clairvoyant work on existential permeability and Andre Green’s psychic envelopes as regards their explanatory power for experiences of unbounded consciousness\, paranoia\, and uncanny encounters. We will see how The Thing\, as an apex of creeptastic cinema\, resonates with our own experiences—both archaic and present-day—of the fragility of our distinct\, boundaried sense of a “me”\, and why it matters. \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD\, completed his postdoctoral fellowship and additional trainings in psychoanalytic theory\, psychotherapy\, and supervision at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is an Associate Professor at George Washington University. He has led classes in psychological assessment\, psychotherapy\, ethics\, and the writing of the horror story. Alex has a private practice in Washington\, DC.\n \nPre-registration is required via the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org. If you do not have an account on the WBCP website\, you will need to create a “guest account” to register and view/print your CME/CE credit certificate after the seminar. For registration assistance\, contact the WBCP at 301-470-3635/ 410-792-8060 / 202-237-1854 or admin@wbcp.org \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE \nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE \nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025\, at 4:30 pm \n 
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-session-1-of-3-discussion-of-the-film-the-thing/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T120000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 of 3 \n“Creativity and Resiliency”\n \nPresented by\nRosa Aurora Chavez\, MD\, PhD\, FABP \n\nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\,\n12:00 – 2:00pm (2 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \n\n\nPresentation:\nIn this seminar (in English) we will discuss the evolutionary relevance of creativity for resiliency form psychodynamic and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives.\n \n\n\nFlyer: HERE\nRegistration Link: HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-session-2-creativity-and-resiliency/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art & Creativity,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T130000
DTSTAMP:20250922T165500Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Competence Conference: Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives \nPresented by\nSpecial Guest: Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves\,\nMargarita Cereijido\, PhD\, Paula Ellman\, PhD\, David Joseph\, MD\, Janice Lieberman\, PhD \n\nSaturday\, November 22\, 2025\n10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \n\n\nPresentation: \nNotions of the feminine and misogyny have changed significantly since the 1960s. These changes are reflected in how women perceive themselves and how they are understood and positioned in society.  \nIn this conference\, we discuss and compare the unconscious gender ideals and prejudices of the 1960s with those of today. We explore the evolution of the ethical treatment of women as well as developments in psychotherapy and psychoanalytic technique. \nOur discussion is framed by the classic documentary Approaches to Psychotherapy (1964) which has recently been reimagined in a new film\, The Gloria of My Imagination (2025)\, by the talented award-winning film-director Jennifer Reeves.  In her film\, Reeves explores the social context of Gloria’s life.  \nThe original film captured the work of three renowned figures—Carl Rogers\, Fritz Perls\, and Albert Ellis—in their sessions with Gloria\, a newly divorced patient. For decades\, it served as a cornerstone in the training of psychology students worldwide. \nAlong with Reeves’ reflections on her film through screening selected clips\, Margarita Cereijido\, Paula Ellman\, Janice Lieberman and David Joseph present and discuss changing perspectives on femininity\, misogyny\, and psychoanalytic theory and technique followed by engagement with the audience.  \nAttendees will have access to the complete film 2 weeks prior to the conference.  \nFLYER: HERE\nREGISTRATION LINK: HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/cultural-competence-conference/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Professional Development,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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