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  • Ethics Conference via Zoom – Dreaming Into Being: Community Psychoanalysis and War with Gaea Logan, LPC-S

    Live via Zoom

    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.

  • Moving Toward a Theory of Difference with Alice Maher, MD

    Live via Zoom

    A 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.

  • Drinks with Shrinks Social – Draught House

    Draught House 4112 Medical Pkwy, Austin, United States

    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!

  • Psychoanalytic Diagnosis Book Club and Study Group with Katrina Taylor, LMFT

    Live via Zoom

    You’re invited to attend a summer book club and study group of Nancy McWilliams' Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. The book is a classic in our field and an indispensable reference manual. We will meet for eight sessions over the course of the summer to learn about, discuss, and clinically apply McWilliams’ taxonomy of personality types. This offering is ideal for beginning therapists who’d like to know how to distinguish between various types of patients, and as a result, which interventions work best with whom; as well as more seasoned clinicians who’d like to brush up on their knowledge and connect with colleagues for case discussions. We will learn about narcissistic, masochistic, depressive, hysterical, and many other kinds of personality structures. We will focus on understanding the defenses which underlie each structure. Each session will focus on a specific chapter(s) of the book. We will have both a didactic/discussion component and a clinical application component. You’re encouraged to bring applicable cases for discussion.