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SUMMARY:Ethics Conference via Zoom - Dreaming Into Being: Community Psychoanalysis and War with Gaea Logan\, LPC-S
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Lawrence’s Social Dreaming Matrix suggests that our dreams are communal\, rather than personal. Arising from the social unconscious and belonging to the community\, dreams can offer guidance\, healing\, and problem solving for a community of dreamers. I had such a dream. It included many symbols\, some incomprehensible to me\, yet the dream revealed a pathway for communal healing. The dream inspired the co-creation of the International Institute for Trauma Studies (IITS)\, an online immersive trauma training and certification program for graduate students and clinicians in war time Ukraine. IITS is a scalable contemporary psychoanalytic group approach to communal trauma for the treatment and prevention of war related depression\, anxiety\, post-traumatic stress disorder\, and transgenerational trauma. This is a story of “Dreaming into Being”: ordinary citizens working together to create the extraordinary\, an international training center and outpatient clinic for Ukrainian families\, children and combatants. The paper also cites scholarly contributors in the current resurgence of community psychoanalysis and thinkers in social and phenomenological psychoanalysis. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDescribe how an understanding of the social unconscious can be useful to the development of community psychoanalysis interventions in regions impacted by war.\nGive an example of “shared trauma”.\nDefine Robert Stolorow’s concept\, ” loss of absolutisms’ and its relevance in trauma treatment.\n\nPRESENTER\nGaea Logan\, LPC-S\, CGP\, is a British-American contemporary psychoanalyst\, clinical consultant\, and writer. She serves as Executive Director of the International Institute for Trauma Studies at the State Pedagogical University in Vinnytsia\, Ukraine\, where she was recently awarded Doctor Honoris Causa and named Professor Emeritus in recognition of her outstanding leadership and academic contributions. A Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association\, Gaea is also an alumna of the Harvard Global Mental Health/Refugee Trauma Program\, the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) in the Stanford University School of Medicine\, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is currently completing the training and supervising analyst track at the same institute. Her work integrates psychoanalytic insight with social justice and trauma- informed care in conflict and post-conflict settings. In recognition of her clinical excellence and global humanitarian outreach\, she received the 2023 Yaakov Naor Award for Peace and Dialogue from the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and the 2015 Social Responsibility Award from the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She currently serves on the IAGP Board of Directors. Her paper\, Dreaming into Being: Community Psychoanalysis and War\, explores the clinical foundations of community healing in wartime. It will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming 2025 IAGP volume\, Cultural Diversity\, Groups and Social Challenges\, edited by Cristina Martinez-Taboada and Marcia Honig. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES\nBenjamin\, J. (2018). Beyond doer and done to: Recognition theory\, intersubjectivity and the third. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. \nBollas\, C. (2023). Essential aloneness: Rome lectures on D. W. Winnicott. Oxford Academic. \nLayton\, L. (2020). Toward a social psychoanalysis: culture\, character and normative unconscious processes. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. \nLevy\, B. S. (2022). From horror to hope: Recognizing and preventing the health impacts of war. Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558645.001.0001 \nMucci\, C. (2017). Psychoanalysis for a new humanism: Embodied testimony\, connectedness\, memory and forgiveness for a “persistence of the human”. International Forum of Psychoanalysis\, 27(3)\, 176-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2017.1362502 \nNelson\, A. (2022). The Public Health Impacts of the War in Ukraine. Retrieved from https://now.tufts.edu/2022/05/12/public-health-impacts-war-ukraine \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 3 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/ethics-conference-online/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conference,Ethics
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SUMMARY:Drinks with Shrinks Social - Draught House
DESCRIPTION:Gather with your fellow clinicians for casual chats about psychoanalysis (or whatever’s on your mind) over food and beverages. We’d love to connect with you!
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/drinks-with-shrinks-social-copy/
LOCATION:Draught House\, 4112 Medical Pkwy\, Austin\, 78756\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260401T210000
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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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SUMMARY:Drinks with Shrinks Social - Draught House
DESCRIPTION:Gather with your fellow clinicians for casual chats about psychoanalysis (or whatever’s on your mind) over food and beverages. We’d love to connect with you!
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/drinks-with-shrinks-social/
LOCATION:Draught House\, 4112 Medical Pkwy\, Austin\, 78756\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260302T210000
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SUMMARY:Speed Networking Event\, co-sponsored by Austin Psychoanalytic\, Austin in Connection and the Austin Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy
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URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/speed-networking-event/
LOCATION:Meanwhile Brewing\, 3901 Promontory Point Dr.\, Austin\, TX\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260228T150000
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SUMMARY:Post Zoom Conference AFTER PARTY
DESCRIPTION:Regardless of conference attendance\, we welcome you to join us afterward at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches beginning at 1:00 PM.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/post-zoom-conference-after-party/
LOCATION:Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches\, 3220 Manor Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78723\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260228T090000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Clinical Conference - Trauma\, Psychosis\, and Psychotic Manifestations of Transference with Michael Garrett\, MD
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION\nLive via Zoom\nThis program will not be recorded \n\nPart 1 (90 minutes) Trauma and Psychosis\nDr. Michael Garrett will challenge the validity of the concept of “schizophrenia” as a genetically determined brain disease and review research suggesting that chronic psychosis is a trauma-related disorder best characterized as a particular phenotypic form of complex PTSD. He will review research showing that childhood trauma increases the risk of psychosis and that fragmented trauma memories are often embedded in the content of psychotic symptoms. Dr. Garrett will trace the developmental origin of psychotic symptoms from implicit behavioral knowing that in infancy provides a template for relationship with caregivers\, through pre-verbal fantasy\, to conscious and unconscious object-related fantasy\, to the emergence of florid psychotic symptoms in adolescence. \nPart 2 (90 minutes) Transference\nDr. Garrett will differentiate non-psychotic\, near-psychotic\, and psychotic manifestations of transference as seen from an object-related point of view\, illustrating each form of transference with a brief clinical vignette and offer clinical suggestions about how to recognize and deal with a psychotic transference. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES\nAfter attending the program in its entirety\, attendees will be able to: \n\nState at least one piece of evidence that argues against the validity of a diagnosis of “schizophrenia” as a genetically-determined brain disease.\nExplain how childhood abuse leads to insecure attachments of child to caregiver\, which results in persecutory internal objects.\nExplain how all transference phenomena involve the projection of internal objects.\nState at least one characteristic that differentiates a non-psychotic transference from a psychotic transference.\nExplain how a therapist who works in a casual self-disclosing style may be able to forestall the development of a psychotic transference.\n\nPRESENTER\nMichael Garrett\, MD is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn\, New York and Voluntary Faculty at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York\, NY. He is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and is a consultant to several first-episode for psychosis teams in the United States and elsewhere. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis\, as detailed in a Chapter in Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 11th Ed titled Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis\, and in his recent book\, Garrett\, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press/New York. \nREGISTER NOW \nREFERENCES\nGarrett\, M. (2025). Psychoanalytic notes on psychosis\, disturbances in perception\, delusional narratives\, and the Bayesian predictive processing model of the brain. Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2025.2501504 \nGarrett M. (2024) Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis. In Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry\, 11th Edition. \nGarrett M. (2023) Who Are You? Capgras Syndrome and Other Delusions of Misidentification. In: Decoding Delusions. A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Delusions and Other Extreme Beliefs\, edited by K. V. Hardy and D. Turkington. American Psychiatric Press \nRidenour\, J. M.\, & Garrett\, M. (2022). Intent to understand the meaning of psychotic symptoms during Patient-Psychiatrist interactions. American Journal of Psychotherapy\, 76(2)\, 57–61. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220034 \nPeach\, N.\, Alvarez‐Jimenez\, M.\, Cropper\, S. J.\, Sun\, P.\, Halpin\, E.\, O’Connell\, J.\, & Bendall\, S. (2020). Trauma and the content of hallucinations and post‐traumatic intrusions in first‐episode psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice\, 94(S2)\, 223–241. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12273 \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 3 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/clinical-conference-in-person/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Clinical,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260119T162938Z
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SUMMARY:Drinks with Shrinks Social - Draught House
DESCRIPTION:Gather with your fellow clinicians for casual chats about psychoanalysis (or whatever’s on your mind) over food and beverages. We’d love to connect with you!
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/drinks-with-shrinks-social-draught-house/
LOCATION:Draught House\, 4112 Medical Pkwy\, Austin\, 78756\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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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:20260503T032610
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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SUMMARY:Member Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/member-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Sour Duck\, 1814 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd\, Austin\, TX\, 78702\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251115T121500
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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SUMMARY:Cultural Competency Conference | Reclaiming What's Mine: A Psychoanalytic Look at Antisocial Behavior in Youth and the Role of Deprivation
DESCRIPTION:Instructional Level: Beginner \nDr. Huey Hawkins will explore Donald Winnicott’s concept of the antisocial tendency\, focusing on the impact of deprivation. Drawing from nearly 12 years of experience with a Black male child in foster care\, he will discuss the importance of providing a nurturing\, maternal environment during critical periods in the child’s life. Hawkins will highlight specific therapeutic strategies used to promote resilience and well-being\, while also examining the challenges posed by the foster care system in a large Midwestern city\, particularly regarding the intersections of race and class. \nREGISTER\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nAfter attending this program\, participants will be able to: \n\nIdentify the role of deprivation in the anti-social acts/behaviors of youth in foster care.\nIdentify ways to facilitate maternal/holding environments in professional/client relationships.\nIdentify the role of management in psychodynamic treatments.\n\nPRESENTER \nDr. Huey Hawkins\, Jr.\, PhD\, LCSW\, is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice and has published articles on Black male development from a psychoanalytic perspective. He is a faculty member at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and a full-time Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma School of Social Work. Dr. Hawkins lectures nationwide on race and racial socialization and is also a teaching member of the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Social Work Practice Certificate Program at the University of Texas and an adjunct professor at Smith College School for Social Work. \n  \n\nREFERENCES\nAbram\, J. (2021). On Winnicott’s concept of trauma. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 102(4)\, 778-793. \nAbram\, J.\, & Hjulmand\, K. (2018). The language of Winnicott: A dictionary of Winnicott’s use of words. Routledge. \nCasement\, P. (2020). Using Winnicott or finding Winnicott? British Journal of Psychotherapy\, 36(1)\, 22–31.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/cultural-competency-conference-online/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conference,Cultural Competency
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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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:20260503T032610
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20250906T202431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250906T202431Z
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SUMMARY:Drinks with Shrinks
DESCRIPTION:After some much-needed summer rest\, we are so excited to warmly welcome you to join us at Draught House (4112 Medical Pkwy) next Thursday 9/11 for drinks\, food\, and free association! This is a great chance to get to know your colleagues better on a personal level\, and to build community around a shared love of psychoanalytic theory and practice.\n\nWhen you get to Draught House\, look for the “AUSTIN PSYCHOANALYTIC” sign at our table.\n\nWe will continue to host these gatherings on the 2nd Thursday of every month\, so if you can’t make it this time\, stay tuned for future announcements!\n\nWe are so grateful for your membership\, and we look forward to bringing you plenty of engaging programming in the coming year.
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/drinks-with-shrinks/
LOCATION:Draught House\, 4112 Medical Pkwy\, Austin\, 78756\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250903T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250903T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20250709T184652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T222045Z
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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:20250601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250601T154500
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20250507T042219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T042227Z
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SUMMARY:Freudian Reading Group facilitated by Garrett Tanner\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:This reading group is offered to explore the foundational texts of our field. Participants will engage in the seminal works of Sigmund Freud that all subsequent psychoanalytic theory – intentionally or unintentionally – responds to. Special attention will be given to texts on metapsychology and Freud’s corresponding case histories demonstrating these same dynamics. A chronological reading will allow one to observe how Freud amended and corrected his theory of the unconscious in real time as consequence to clinical feedback\, or his own “reality testing.” This group will meet in person at the Central Austin Public Library once monthly on the first Sunday afternoon of each month from June – December 2025. \nMORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/freudian-reading-group-facilitated-by-garrett-tanner-phd/
LOCATION:Central Austin Public Library\, 710 W Cesar Chavez St\, Austin\, TX\, 78701\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T234652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T221353Z
UID:22421-1746646200-1746651600@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Toxic Polarization on the Internet: Can Psychoanalysis Help? presented by Sue Kolod\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Toxic Polarization has spread throughout our culture like a cancer. We are trained to be good listeners\, to be able to hold different and sometimes opposing thoughts in our minds at the same time\, to listen to ourselves as we listen to others\, to pay attention to our reactions\, both conscious and unconscious and to forego judgement. Can Psychoanalysis help to alleviate toxic polarization? \nDETAILED INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/toxic-polarization-on-the-internet-can-psychoanalysis-help/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T143000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240804T032208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T002754Z
UID:24364-1745586000-1745591400@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Linking feelings\, anxiety\, and defenses facilitated by Liz Alfson\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an experiential therapy created by Habib Davanloo. In this study group\, we will learn the basics of ISTDP with a dual focus on moment-to-moment interventions to address resistance and to regulate excessive anxiety\, both of which can present significant barriers to therapeutic progress. We will begin with two sessions to learn the basics of the treatment\, and then over the two following meetings\, we will focus on when either high anxiety or high resistance are barriers to therapeutic progress. We will review psychotherapy video in order to see these techniques in practice. The content will be accessible to mental health professionals at all levels of training who are not familiar with ISTDP. \nDETAILED INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/intensive-short-term-dynamic-psychotherapy-linking-feelings-anxiety-and-defenses/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250425T120000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240804T032735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T013115Z
UID:24366-1745575200-1745582400@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Technology-based Delusions: The History and Future of a Concept facilitated by Michael Uebel\, PhD\, LCSW
DESCRIPTION:In early 2024\, longtime Tesla shareholder Ross Gerber called Elon Musk “the most delusional” CEO he’s ever invested with. Indeed\, the adjective most associated with the technological fantasies and business maneuvers of Musk—e. g.\, the prospect of colonizing Mars with one million people by 2050 or creating one billion humanoid robots by 2040 or rebranding Twitter as X as a pillar of democracy or claiming the pyramids were built by aliens or that human beings exist in a video game—is “delusional.” I have no interest in (nor would it be ethical) diagnosing Musk\, but rather in exploring the psychoanalytic relays between technological thematics and delusional content. \nThe early involvement of psychoanalysis in assessing the relationship between technology and the production of delusion traces to discussions of the influence of technology at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Freud’s declaration in Civilization and its Discontents (1930) that\, thanks to technological advancement\, the human being “has almost become a god himself . . . Man has\, as it were\, become a kind of prosthetic God” clearly resonates now when the separation between what is digital (e. g.\, AI-generated) and what is “real life” has collapsed.  \nIn this talk\, I will construct a history of psychoanalytic thought on the question of technology’s role in shaping and unshaping thought processes\, with a focus on delusional content. We will look also at the literature exploring the connection between delusional presentations and sociopolitical change more generally\, from changes in societal religiosity (e. g.\, Stompe et al.\, 2003; Krzystanek et al.\, 2012) to political destabilization (Bohlken & Priebe\, 1991) and nuclear armament (Sher\, 2000). Doubtless\, delusional content evolves in response to contemporary cultural instantiations of technology (and we’ll look at some fascinating cases involving delusions and technologies including satellite dishes\, video games\, the Internet\, and smartphones). I will consider the evidence (and lack thereof) for digital media as a risk factor for psychosis. Finally\, in mapping some sort of future for exploring the interanimation of the technological and the delusional\, I will build upon the recent work of feminist scholars of psychoanalysis\, affect and the social (Clough\, 2019; Johanssen\, 2019) to suggest that delusional concerns related to technology are only likely to increase. Let us remember that it was Lacan (1967) who announced way before the smartphone: “The psychotic has the object\, he never separated himself from it; He carries it on himself\, he carries the object in his pocket” (p. 19). \nDETAILED INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/technology-based-delusions-the-history-and-future-of-a-concept/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T230836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T002248Z
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SUMMARY:Making Contact: Human Challenges in the Age of Technology presented by Carrie Barron\, MD & Katrina Taylor\, LMFT
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic practitioners face a number of challenges in our fast-paced\, technological age. How do we practice our human craft while navigating a complicated therapeutic landscape: virtual sessions\, competing online platforms\, technological addictions\, and others? \nPlease join us for a group discussion on the unique challenges of technology in the modern practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. At the beginning of our programming year\, we will survey the Austin Psychoanalytic membership about the current challenges they face. During the May monthly meeting facilitators will offer a space to discuss these challenges and possible solutions. \nPlease note that this monthly meeting will be a group discussion format. We welcome your questions and ideas on the topic of technology in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis\, as well as thoughts and reactions to 2024-2025 speakers and their presentations. \nDETAILED INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/making-contact-human-challenges-in-the-age-of-technology/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T230521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T222642Z
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SUMMARY:The Rise of Oedipus Tech: Life in the Shadow of the Digital Object\, presented by Dustin Kahoud\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:This article is an inquiry into the role of smartphones in shifting the dynamics of human relationships as we have traditionally known them. I reimagine the Oedipus Complex to account for the company we keep in the digital age – the smartphones that have become ubiquitous inhabitants of our interpersonal world. Specifically\, I focus on triangular relational configurations that now include smart devices as the new “third\,” the ever-present “digital objects” that serve as points at which two human beings meet. After providing two clinical illustrations\, I conclude that we are increasingly headed toward an interpersonal age of digital objects that will serve to artificially connect people more than ever\, and simultaneously distance people in terms of in-person human connection. I am proposing that these relational dynamics will ultimately serve to loosen the primal\, instinctual affective ties that have served to bind human beings together since the beginning of time. \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/tbd/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250301T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250301T123000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T232658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T030529Z
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SUMMARY:A.I. on the Couch: Staying Human in the Age of Advanced Technology\, presented by Danielle Knafo\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will explore the intimate connection that has always existed between sex and technology. Dr. Knafo will describe how sex and technology partner for pleasure\, novelty\, transcendence\, and perversion. The internet and associated technologies (AI) have enabled the creation of an alternative adult world of sex dolls and sex robots\, cybersex\, teledildonics\, sexting\, catfishing\, internet porn\, and more in the widespread deployment of omnipotent fantasy. Knafo will discuss her clinical and professional journey through the massive sea change taking place in what she calls “the new sexual landscape.” She will offer several clinical vignettes\, including one of a man who loved a synthetic doll\, to illustrate the connection. \nSome experts argue that AI presents a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. Others claim it will save civilization\, further advancing human knowledge and technical capability into unimaginable realms. Stunning to consider is the fact that this is the first technology that\, functioning as a mind\, can rapidly improve itself while possibly operating outside of human control. One thing that everyone agrees on is that its impact will be unimaginable and profound. \nThis talk examines our relationship to technology\, and AI in particular\, including the proposition that algorithms are the new unconscious. Key is the questions of how much human ability will be duplicated and transcended by general machine intelligence. More and more people are seeking interaction with artificial beings\, and therapy bots already exist. It is easier to envision AI therapy guided by CBT manuals than psychoanalytic techniques. Yet\, I will demonstrate how AI can already perform dream analysis reaching beyond a dream’s manifest content. Will these considerations demand a new role for psychoanalysis in supporting\, sustaining\, and reframing our humanity as we create technology that transcends our abilities? \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/fifty-shades-of-upgrade-the-existential-escapades-of-sex-tech/
LOCATION:Private: Health Learning Building UT Austin\, 1501 Red River St\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T230415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T015855Z
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SUMMARY:The Body Speaks: Affects and Emotions as Links\, presented by Judy Eekhoff\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The body\, as a psychoanalytic object\, presents in the consulting room as unmediated affect. Unmediated affect is a physical response that has not yet been represented via emotional links with psychic functioning. As a result\, rather than being embodied\, patients who have suffered childhood trauma frequently present with dissociated body mind states and disrupted emotional relations. Bion’s links of love\, hate\, and curiosity will be explored as examples of embodied states using a clinical case. \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/the-body-speaks-affects-and-emotions-as-links/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250110T143000
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UID:22419-1736514000-1736519400@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Understanding Mentalization\, Facilitated by Tina Adkins\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Come learn about the theory and mechanics of mentalizing! In this three part series\, we will dive into what it is\, how it develops\, how it impacts relationships and what it looks like clinically. Specifically\, you will learn how metallization connects to child and adult attachment\, mental health\, and parenting. Additionally\, you will gain some insight into how you can use it clinically. All sessions will be conducted via Zoom. \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/understanding-mentalization/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
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UID:22405-1736364600-1736370000@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Is The Webcam a Grave?: The Voice in the Digital Age presented by Garrett Tanner\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a mass adoption of distance technologies for therapy sessions. My primary argument is that the rapid proliferation of digital spaces urges new questions about the role of the body in therapy and the voice it emits. Through camera-centered technologies\, the prominence of the visual image becomes reasserted – not just in the gaze of the therapist or analyst\, but also the gaze of the analysand looking back at themselves speaking. I present a case history of my analysand Sandra to explore implications and discuss how Lacan’s three registers (symbolic\, imaginary\, real) and Freud and Lacan’s writings on drives may orient one in thinking through these problematics. Please note that this presentation is designed to encourage engagement from an audience at all levels of Lacanian familiarity\, including those completely new to the field.  \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/is-the-webcam-a-grave-the-voice-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241106T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T230154Z
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UID:22404-1730921400-1730926800@austinpsychoanalytic.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241102T140000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T232517Z
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UID:22414-1730541600-1730556000@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Magnetized Internal Objects: Clinging\, Adhesive Identification\, and Early Anxieties
DESCRIPTION:Ehud Wolpe:\nEhud Wolpe’s lecture explores a phenomenon in transference wherein two opposing forces in the patient’s psyche operate simultaneously. On the one hand\, the analysand is attached to the psychoanalyst\, expressing a longing for connection as a derivative of the life drive. On the other hand\, simultaneously\, the analysand maintains a defensive internal position of mental stagnation\, in which internal clinging to and “magnetization” of internal objects and part objects prevail. He argues that this clinging stems from the recognition of separateness between subject and object\, which arouses persecutory anxieties. Therefore\, clinging is intended to protect the psyche from an object that is perceived as threatening. This clinging is expressed in two ways: (1) clinging to an external object\, represented by the psychoanalysis and the psychoanalyst\, which sometimes does not allow space for a separate existence; (2) clinging of internal objects to each other\, thus preventing and violently repelling any of the analyst’s attempts to “enter” the analysand’s mind. \nHe will demonstrate how the concept of projective identification helps in understanding these primitive mental processes\, while arguing that the concept of adhesive identification should be reserved for more pathological states of mind. In addition\, he emphasizes that the desperate clinging to the internal and external object is a defense whose intensity can decrease through a relationship with a patient and benevolent object. He will present clinical material from both children and an adult to open the discussion about the challenging position that is required from the analyst when trying to establish a therapeutic relationship with patients who are characterized by magnetized internal objects. \nTal Sharir Wolpe:\nSupervision of a clinical case accompanied by a theoretical conceptualisation. \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/magnetized-internal-objects-clinging-adhesive-identification-and-early-anxieties/
LOCATION:Freddo TX\, 2336 S Congress Avenue\, Austin\, TX\, 78704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241101T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241101T123000
DTSTAMP:20260503T032610
CREATED:20240507T233519Z
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UID:22418-1730458800-1730464200@austinpsychoanalytic.org
SUMMARY:Cognitive Processing vs Psychotherapy: The role of Relationship in Effective Care
DESCRIPTION:2 Session Study Group | Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) was developed in the 1980s when PTSD was just becoming a recognized diagnosis. First created to treat women who experienced sexual trauma\, as most of the treatments at the time were focused on PTSD secondary to combat\, CPT is now recognized to be highly effective in treating most types of traumas. The “Ten Sessions” This American Life Podcast follows the CPT journey of a writer for the New York Times magazine\, including snippets from her ten CPT sessions around her sexual trauma and her commentary about what the treatment was like for her. In discussing the podcast\, we will review the rationale behind CPT\, details of the skills taught in session\, and treatment outcomes. We will explore the many similarities and differences between CPT and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The second part of the salon will cover non-traditional adjuncts to trauma treatment including trauma-sensitive yoga and a collaboration with the Blanton Museum for in vivo outings in group CPT to enhance social connectivity. We will explore how to help clients imagine a life after trauma without fear and worry and how the relationship between therapist and client can be that bridge to freedom.  \nMORE INFO AND REGISTRATION
URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/event/22418/
LOCATION:Live via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Study Group
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