Scientific Conferences
Multiple topics, perspectives, and organizations.
About
We host conferences each year for WBCP members and interested clinicians, with CME/CE credits available. We also collaborate with other organizations to co-sponsor events.
Events are scheduled throughout the year, focusing on: Cultural Competency, hosted by COWAP to increase a clinician’s competency within various cultural topics; A variety of issues within the LGBTQ communities are presented at the LGBTQ Conference; Ethics Conferences discuss various issues around ethics from a psychoanalytic viewpoint; Restricted to members of WBCP, Colloquium presents original papers by members of the WBCP community; The Raphling Conference presents various topics within psychoanalytic technique; Community Psychoanalysis Colloquium considers topics related to community psychoanalysis.
Continuing Education Units are not issued for partial attendance of one day programs
Contact
For more information about the Scientific Conferences please contact Archana Varma Caballeo, MD at archana@archanavarmamd.com.
Upcoming
October
Sunday, October 20, 2024 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
LGBTQ+ Workshop
Date: October 20, 2024
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
“Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments”
Via Zoom
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_lgbtq_workshop_oct_20_2024
Program Flyer: HERE
Registration Deadline: October 10, 2024
Presentation Description:
As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social, the work of Jean Laplanche is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In this presentation, participants will hear the stories of two queer patients whose treatment was, borrowing from Donna Orange, informed “holding lightly” the theories of Jean Laplanche. Designed particularly for those who may be unfamiliar with Laplanche’s ideas or uncertain about their relevance to those interested in clinical practice, this presentation will both explicate the fundamentals of Laplanchian theory while avoiding the notion of “applying” Laplanche to clinical work. Rather, through conversation and the telling of clinical story, participants will be invited to experience a Laplanchian sensibility in clinical work, particularly as it relates to issues of queerness and LGBTQ+ experience.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
23rd Annual Saltz Grand Rounds
https://childrensnational.zoom.us/j/98423316990
Meeting ID: 984 2331 6990
Passcode: 3932
Program Description:
Dr. Hall, a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and psychologist, will describe how he became aware of the institutional abuse of teenagers in so-called “therapeutic schools” which are basically private prisons with no actual mental health staff. As a result he became a vocal critic and advocate for parents to stop sending their children to these particular programs and clinicians avoid making referrals to such programs. As a result, he ‘accidentally’ became involved in Community Psychology.
Dr. Hall will also present a psychoanalytic view of trauma, how trauma can derail a patient’s treatment and the impact of trauma on the transference within a psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. We recommend that attendees view the three part 2024 Netflix Documentary “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping,” which is available on Netflix worldwide in multiple languages. Dr Hall is one of several experts who were interviewed for this documentary on the “troubled teen” industry and programs like the so called “therapeutic boarding schools” that Dr. Hall became aware of in the course of his practice and was moved to go outside the consulting room to alert the community to this traumatic abuse of teenagers that he will discuss.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 2: Romance
Session 2: What Ever Happened to Romance on the Revolutionary Road?
Participants: Janice Lieberman, Chair, Danielle Knafo, Arlene Heyman, and Isaac Tylim
Date: October 26, 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025
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Registration Deadline: October 23, 2024
Description: It has been observed by many that there seems to be an absence of “romance” in courtship, dating and marriage today, whether the partners are straight or gay. Many feminists have written that romance creates more inequality between men and women. Juliet Mitchell, in her book “Women: The Longest Revolution” writes that:” Romantic love seems to me to seek an ideal; if it attains its idealized object, then it ceases to be romantic love”. It can turn to disillusionment or even hate. Comparisons will be made between notions of romance 50 years ago vs. today: changes in meeting and dating one another, the use of technology to communicate: dating apps, texting, sexting, the social media will be discussed. Cultural norms (monogamy, polyamory) and interpsychic patterns ( more fragile narcissism) as well as the breakdown of the traditional gender binary (chronic fatigue of working parents) are part of the explanation.
December
Saturday, December 14, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 3: In Her Own Voice
Session 3: In Her Own Voice: Challenging Theories of Women’s Development
Participants: Nancy Kulish and Catherine Mallouh
Date: December 14, 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025
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Registration Deadline: December 11, 2024
Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves, how they are perceived by society, and how they are understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. This program will look at the ways in which Nancy Kulish has transformed and enriched psychoanalytic thinking about female development, femininity and gender. With Deanna Holtzman, she broke new ground in reformulating Freud’s notion of the feminine Oedipal and radically incorporating a feminist perspective on women’s sexuality and girl’s and women’s experiences, a perspective which has deepened our understanding of the early relationship to the mother. She has also considered the female body and women’s conflicts around competition and envy. Her ideas have had implications for clinical work with women and the struggles they face both internally and in the society at large. Catherine Mallouh will be in conversation with Nancy about her the development of her ideas and how she views sexuality and gender and women’s development now.
January
Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Annual Colloquium (Members Only Event)
Annual Colloquium
January 11, 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 12: 00 pm
More information coming soon!