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SUMMARY:Moving Toward a Theory of Difference with Alice Maher\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalysis transitioned from a one-person Freudian model to a two-person relational model. The toxic polarization in our country and our world is deepening\, and existing analytic models seem ineffective in addressing it. This is the time for a transition to a three-dimensional model\, a model of difference rather than pathology\, a model that includes the dynamic complexity presented by our sociopolitical world. This paper includes a theoretical model and a potential methodology. For example\, a person who sees\, in bold relief\, the evil perpetrated by Hamas and empathizes with the behavior of Israel has a different psychological constellation from a person who focuses on the actions of Israel toward the people of Gaza. Because the mental health field focuses on pathological symptoms and diagnoses\, we tend to weaponize our insights about human nature and throw ineffective interpretations at one another. This only serves to deepen the toxic divide. The same problem exists between people who support Trump and people who do not. It’s impossible for them\, including analysts and academics\, to communicate effectively. \nA new model invites participants to reach across divides of difference with curiosity and empathy rather than critiques and labels. The author has been developing multiple pilot projects designed to test this paradigm and develop theories and techniques. She developed emotional literacy curricula for middle and high school students\, and she is presently working with students at a community college. She brought together a group of analysts who meet regularly to discuss their religious and political differences on Zoom. The meetings are recorded and posted on YouTube\, with the audience representing the third dimension in a model that brings together different but equal individuals. She is also developing an app\, a safe space to meet and struggle with differences\, using AI as support. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nIdentify the one-person Freudian model\, the two-person relational model\, and the transitions between one model and another.\nDescribe external conflicts between people with ideological differences and imagine new approaches.\n\nPRESENTER\nAlice Lombardo Maher\, MD\, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in NYC. She trained at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Institute now known as PANY. In recent years\, she has been working to transfer what she knows about individual dynamics to the world stage\, with the goal of developing a theory and methodology to facilitate dialogue across vast human divides. She has a non-profit organization dedicated to this goal. She co-created two mental health documentaries\, designed and co-taught an emotional literacy curriculum for middle and high school students\, and she is now co-teaching a similar curriculum at a community college. She is developing online dialogue projects\, including one with APsA members\, under the name Waging Dialogue. Her book\, Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War\, was published in 2018. She is also working on the development of an app to facilitate dialogue between and among people with ideological differences. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES \nMaher\, Alice Lombardo. Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War. IPBooks\, 2018. \nSheehi\, Lara\, and Stephen Sheehi. Psychoanalysis under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Routledge\, 2021. \nVolkan\, Vamik D.\, and Kevin Volkan. Human Aggression\, War and Genocide: The Psychological Roots of Violence. Pitchstone Publishing\, 2025. \nDISCLOSURES\n \nDivision 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Austin Psychoanalytic is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider # 5501) to provide continuing education for social workers and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1138). We also meet the requirements to provide continuing education for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. This program\, when attended in its entirety\, is available for 1.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful\, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs\, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions\, concerns and any complaints to info@austinpsychoanalytic.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor\, presenting organization\, presenter\, program content\, research\, grants\, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility)\, as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks\, if any\, associated with the program’s content.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/sent-reminder-6-28/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260401T193000
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SUMMARY:The Creative Life as a Foundation to Psychoanalytic Work with Mia Goldman\, LMFT
DESCRIPTION:The psychoanalytic dyad is a flexible\, constantly evolving entity that is nourished by reality\, dreams\, and a co-created creative space in which both the analysand and the analyst are influenced by their own pasts\, their present and instincts that are informed by the spoken and unspoken. Creativity comes in all forms\, both conscious and unconscious. How does one harness one’s own creativity in the work of unraveling profound or chronic trauma with a stranger? How does one find common ground that can be transformational or healing? How can transference and counter- transference be seen as a foundation for change? These are some of the questions raised in a conversation acknowledging the value of creativity in psychoanalysis. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nIdentify the different forms creativity can take in the psychoanalytic dyad.\nDescribe a psychoanalytic situation where one’s own creativity affected the outcome of treatment.\nExplain how\, as a working analyst\, the results of a theoretical response can have a different result from a creative response when there is a psychological impasse in treatment and how being creative can offer benefits even as it can sometimes mean “not going by the book”.\n\nPRESENTER\nMia Goldman is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles as well as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Mia trained and received her certificate at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles (ICPLA). She has pursued in-depth studies in Lacan\, and has been trained in EFT\, EMDR\, and was chosen to present her comprehensive case report at the 2024 ICPLA Open House. As a member of the APsA Candidates Study Group for the Holmes Commission Report\, she presented with her group at the APsA Conference in San Francisco\, February\, 2025. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES\nFerenczi\, S. (1988). Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child. Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, 24(2)\, 196–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.1988.10746234 \nFreud S (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams. Vienna: Franz Deuticke. (English trans. 1913: The Interpretation of Dreams\, Macmillan: NewYork.) \nKohut\, H. (1976). Creativeness\, charisma\, group psychology: Reflections on the self-analysis of Freud. In P. Ornstein (Ed.)\, The Search for the Self (pp. 793–843). New York\, NY: International Universities Press. \nShapiro S (1995). Talking with patients: A self psychological view of creative intuition and analytic discipline. Northvale\, NJ: Jason Aronson. \nShabad P (2017). The vulnerability of giving: ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanal Inq 37:359–374. \nStern DB (2022). On coming into possession of oneself: witnessing and the formulation of experience. Psychoanal Q 91:639–667. \nDISCLOSURES\nDivision 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Austin Psychoanalytic is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider # 5501) to provide continuing education for social workers and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1138). We also meet the requirements to provide continuing education for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. This program\, when attended in its entirety\, is available for 1.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful\, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs\, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions\, concerns and any complaints to info@austinpsychoanalytic.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor\, presenting organization\, presenter\, program content\, research\, grants\, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility)\, as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks\, if any\, associated with the program’s content.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/the-creative-life-as-a-foundation-to-psychoanalytic-work/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260304T210000
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SUMMARY:Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Narcissism: understanding the grandiose self structure in clinical practice with Tyson Davis\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized object relations treatment developed by Otto Kernberg and his workgroup to treat a broad spectrum of personality pathology. Originally developed to treat Borderline Personality Disorder\, TFP has since been adapted to treat those suffering with various types of narcissistic pathology. In this presentation\, Dr. Davis will provide an overview of the TFP treatment model as a whole and its use in working with those with narcissistic pathology in particular. Central to narcissistic pathology is the operation of the grandiose self. He will provide a theoretical overview of the concept of the grandiose self and how it fits within the context of Kernberg’s object relations theory. Dr. Davis will then offer clinical illustrations of the grandiose self as it appears in treatment and offer a few clinical examples of how to intervene from a TFP perspective when indications of narcissistic grandiosity are present. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDescribe the structure and functioning of the grandiose self as it relates to personality organization.\nRecognize typical transference/countertransference constellations when working with narcissistic patients.\nIdentify strategies for intervention based on some typical narcissistic dynamics.\n\n\nPRESENTER\nTyson Davis\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin\, TX. Tyson works from a contemporary relational psychoanalytic perspective. He completed his doctorate at Biola University\, his Certificate in Adult Psychoanalysis from the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia (IRPP)\, and a Certificate in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy from Columbia University. He offers individual and group psychodynamic training/consultation for clinicians. Tyson maintains active interests in the integration of object relations and relational thinking. He serves on the Board of Austin Psychoanalytic and as teaching faculty for the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Newport Beach\, CA. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES \nDiamond\, D.\, Yeoman\, F. & Keefe\, J.R. (2021) Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (TFP-N). Psychodynamic Psychiatry\, 49:244-272. \nDiamond\, D.\, Yeomans\, F. E.\, Stern\, B. L.\, & Kernberg\, O. F. (2021). Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Guilford Press. \nKernberg\, O. F. (2015). Narcissistic defenses in the distortion of free association and their underlying anxieties. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, 84(3)\, 625–642.\nDISCLOSURES\n \nDivision 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Austin Psychoanalytic is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider # 5501) to provide continuing education for social workers and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1138). We also meet the requirements to provide continuing education for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. This program\, when attended in its entirety\, is available for 1.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful\, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs\, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions\, concerns and any complaints to info@austinpsychoanalytic.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor\, presenting organization\, presenter\, program content\, research\, grants\, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility)\, as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks\, if any\, associated with the program’s content.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/transference-focused-psychotherapy-and-narcissism/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T193000
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Emotion: Social\, Political\, and Environmental Concerns in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Charles Couchman\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:In the face of rising oppression\, authoritarianism\, and climate breakdown\, keeping space for social\, political\, and environmental concerns in psychodynamic therapy may be more important than ever. With this in mind\, we will consider the impact of macro system-level social harms on our clients\, the potential benefits of helping them integrate emotional impulses related to these harms\, and the place of political action in mental health and psychotherapy. We will also consider suggestions\, inspired by critical approaches to psychotherapy\, for how we may better help our clients with these concerns… without introducing an agenda or changing what we value about psychodynamic work. Our exploration will be informed by the concepts of intrapsychic conflict\, as used in experiential dynamic therapies such as Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)\, and emotional hegemony—the ways in which people with power teach us to fear the emotions of political resistance and solidarity (i.e.\, rage and love) while also steering us towards defense mechanisms that serve their interests. The didactic portion of this presentation will be complemented by recorded video of a case example to illustrate points and stir discussion. \n\n\nThis event will include audio/visual recording of actual case material shared by the presenter\, and the presenter has obtained all necessary consent and permission from all clients pictured to ethically present such material. As such\, registration for this program is restricted to licensed professionals and/or those professionals currently working towards licensure under the supervision of licensed professionals. \n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDescribe emotional hegemony from a psychodynamic\, intrapsychic conflict perspective.\nIdentify two potential benefits or challenges related to exploring macrosystemic social harm in psychotherapy. \n\nPRESENTER\nDr. Charles Couchman is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Austin\, Texas. He has been providing psychotherapy for over 25 years and currently practices Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)\, an active and focused form of psychodynamic treatment. He has a long-standing interest in the application of psychology to problems of oppression\, exploitation\, and the climate emergency\, and he presents professionally on topics such as climate anxiety\, the importance of emotion to climate and political action\, and keeping space for the political in psychotherapy. As an activist\, he is an organizer with Extinction Rebellion Austin and provides regenerative services to activist and environmental groups. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES\nEder\, S. L. (2015). Off the couch and into the streets: Psychotherapy and political activism. Smith College Studies in Social Work\, 85(4)\, 373–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2015.1095022 \nGaztambide\, D. J. (2024). Decolonizing psychoanalytic technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s couch. Palgrave Macmillan. \nStanley\, S. K.\, Hogg\, T. L.\, Leviston\, Z.\, & Walker\, I. (2021). From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety\, eco-depression\, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing. The Journal of Climate Change and Health\, 1\, 100003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100003 \nDISCLOSURES\nDivision 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Austin Psychoanalytic is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider # 5501) to provide continuing education for social workers and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1138). We also meet the requirements to provide continuing education for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. This program\, when attended in its entirety\, is available for 1.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful\, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs\, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions\, concerns and any complaints to info@austinpsychoanalytic.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor\, presenting organization\, presenter\, program content\, research\, grants\, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility)\, as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks\, if any\, associated with the program’s content.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/the-politics-of-emotion-social-political-and-environmental-concerns-in-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260524T211947
CREATED:20250709T190948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251203T182237Z
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SUMMARY:Bearing the unbearable\, repairing the irreparable: Clinical work with formerly incarcerated people who have served life sentences with Beth Kita\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation for beginner to advanced learners\, Beth Kita\, PhD\, LCSW\, discusses clinical work with people who\, sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder\, have now returned home to live life after serving life\, and explores their efforts to reckon with what they have done (and\, frequently\, what was done to them) despite being confined in traumatogenic institutions that functioned to thwart such growth. Using case material\, Dr. Kita reflects on the ways in which a psychodynamic approach can help navigate the overwhelm of violent crimes and violent punishments\, and the unresolved trauma that usually precedes both\, and offers ideas about how we can and why we should develop our collective capacities to bear and to repair – in the hopes of transforming the trauma that incarceration reenacts. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDescribe the proliferation of life sentences in the United States and its disproportionate impacts on certain groups of people.\nIdentify some of the reasons\, from a psychoanalytic perspective\, why and how people who commit murder and are sentenced to life in prison are driven to understand and transform the harm they’ve caused.\nExplain why working with people who have endured and perpetrated violence can be challenging for clinicians.\n\nPRESENTER\nElizabeth (Beth) Kita is a clinical social worker who lives and works in San Francisco\, California. She obtained her MSW from UC Berkeley and PhD from Smith College\, and became interested in psychoanalysis when its ideas helped her to better understand her work in a state prison. In her private practice\, Beth works with people contending with complex trauma. Her practice in a public clinic has also focused on treating complex trauma\, but solely with people who are incarcerated and formerly incarcerated\, particularly those who’ve returned home after serving life sentences. She teaches\, writes\, and thinks about the relationship between racial capitalism\, neoliberalism\, trauma\, and incarceration from a psychodynamic perspective. Beth co-chairs the Coalition for Clinical Social Work at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES\nCartwright\, D. (2010). Containing states of mind: Exploring Bion’s container model in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Routledge. \nCullors\, P. (2018). Abolition and reparations: Histories of resistance\, transformative justice\, and accountability. Harvard Law Review\, 132\, 1684 – 1694. \nde Maat\, S.\, De Jonghe\, F.\, Schoevers\, R.\, & Dekker\, J. (2009). The effectiveness of long-term psychoanalytic therapy: A systematic review of empirical studies. Harvard Review of Psychiatry\, 17(1)\, 1-23. \nKita\, E. (2019). “They hate me now but where was everyone when I needed them?”: Mass incarceration\, projective identification\, and social work praxis. Psychoanalytic Social Work\, 26(1)\, 25-49. \nMauer\, M.\, & Nellis\, A. (2018). The meaning of life: The case for abolishing life sentences. The New Press. \nMcIvor\, D. W. (2016). Mourning in America: Race and the politics of loss. New York: Cornell University Press. \nParker\, R. N. (2019). Slavery in the white psyche. Psychoanalytic Social Work\, 26(1)\, 84-103. \nPurnell\, D. (2021). Becoming Abolitionists: Police\, Protest\, and the Pursuit of Freedom. Verso Books. \nSered\, D. (2019). Until we reckon: Violence\, mass incarceration\, and a road to repair. The New Press. \nStevenson\, B. (2019). Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system. The New York Times\, 1619. \nDISCLOSURES\nDivision 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Austin Psychoanalytic is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (Provider # 5501) to provide continuing education for social workers and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1138). We also meet the requirements to provide continuing education for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. This program\, when attended in its entirety\, is available for 1.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful\, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs\, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions\, concerns and any complaints to info@austinpsychoanalytic.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor\, presenting organization\, presenter\, program content\, research\, grants\, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility)\, as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks\, if any\, associated with the program’s content.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/bearing-the-unbearable-repairing-the-irreparable-clinical-work-with-formerly-incarcerated-people-who-have-served-life-sentences/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260524T211947
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T213323Z
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SUMMARY:Ebenezer Scrooge Recovers from Developmental Trauma Disorder with Jim Harris\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:Instructional Level: Intermediate \nDevelopmental trauma profoundly shapes psychic structure\, altering the balance of id\, ego\, and superego\, and leaving lasting imprints of toxic shame and trauma-driven flashbacks. This presentation examines how the biological responses of fight\, flight\, and freeze intersect with personality development and require modifications in traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. Participants will gain tools to recognize the origins of toxic shame\, articulate the tripartite amalgam of feelings present in flashbacks\, and connect trauma’s biological underpinnings to psychological outcomes. We will also confront the historical abandonment of trauma theory at the very founding of psychoanalysis—a decision that has left countless trauma survivors marginalized and underserved. Despite the prevalence of developmental trauma\, formal education on the subject remains strikingly absent from undergraduate curricula\, graduate training\, and even psychoanalytic institutions. This program challenges that omission and calls for a renewed commitment to integrating trauma studies into psychoanalytic theory and practice. \nREGISTER\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nState how the psychic structure of id\, ego\, and superego are typically affected by developmental trauma. \nPRESENTER\nJim Harris\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and Past President of the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has held longstanding clinical faculty appointments at UT Southwestern Medical School\, Southern Methodist University\, and the University of North Texas. Dr. Harris has published and presented on topics ranging from eating disorders and trauma theory to cultural and artistic analysis\, including his work on Frida Kahlo and his recent presentation Ebenezer Scrooge Recovers from Complex PTSD. With a special focus on treating developmental trauma in adults\, he is dedicated to advancing both clinical practice and academic training in this area\, and advocates for the formal inclusion of developmental trauma as a recognized diagnosis in the DSM. \n  \nREFERENCES\nKernberg\, Otto (Dec 2021). Extensions of Psychoanalytic Technique: The Mutual Influences of Standard Psychoanalysis and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Psychodynamic Psychiatry V49 Issue 4\, Guilford Press Periodicals. \nShedler\, Jonathan (2015). Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Therapy? The Journal of Therapies in Primary Care: 4\, 47-59. \nBenjamin J\, Atlas G (2015). The ‘too muchness’ of excitement: Sexuality in light of excess\, attachment and affect regulation. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 96: 39-63.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/ebenezer-scrooge-recovers-from-developmental-trauma-disorder/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251001T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260524T211947
CREATED:20250709T185129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250906T201943Z
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SUMMARY:Hating Homelessness: How to Survive when Clients and Communities Resist Change\, presented by Brian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:In an era of managed care\, how can psychoanalytic principles be woven into a community mental health system? By exploring hateful countertransference reactions – both his own and those of members of the community in which he practiced – Brian Ngo-Smith will examine professional tensions that arose in his work with an unhoused client. What do such reactions tell us about the complexities of working psychoanalytically in public practice settings? Through this lens we can begin to understand what a homeless client may represent to her city\, as well as to her therapist. This lecture and discussion will consider how psychoanalytic thinking can challenge current “best practices” in community mental health by focusing on long-term stability\, while also expanding these ideas into macro practice with larger systems that resist change. \nMORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/hating-homelessness-how-to-survive-when-clients-and-communities-resist-change/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:Treatment Planning: Keeping the Community in Mind\, presented by Lisa Madsen\, MD
DESCRIPTION:What do you do when a patient needs more? What do you recommend when a patient is no longer progressing in weekly psychotherapy? Do you intensify the individual therapy\, or do you reach out to the community to expand the treatment team? What intrapsychic and interpersonal factors inform your treatment recommendation in these cases? This presentation will explore these questions and more as we reflect on the decision-making process involved in treatment planning.\n\n  \nA case will be presented to enliven the discussion and illustrate these considerations in a real and applied way. During this case discussion\, we will explore multiple potential interventions\, including intensifying the individual treatment\, addition of medication support\, or referral for adjunctive group therapy\, coaching\, or somatic work. A multitude of perspectives will be considered as we explore the thought process behind how we make these important treatment decisions. Evidently\, our interventions will depend on the idiosyncratic dynamics and needs of each individual patient.\n\n\n\nMORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/treatment-planning-keeping-the-community-in-mind/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241106T193000
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SUMMARY:Religious Conflicts in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalysis\, according to all schools and approaches\, requires us to be radically open and aware of our inner wishes\, desires\, needs\, and fears. By contrast\, many religious traditions advocate for disavowal of lust\, greed\, pride\, and revenge. Drawing on his clinical work treating devout patients and supervising religious therapists\, as well as his own personal experiences as an Orthodox Jewish psychoanalyst\, Dr. Klafter will explore how these different sensibilities can both conflict and enrich one another in psychoanalytic treatment\, both for religious patients and for religious analysts. \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/religious-conflicts-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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