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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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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: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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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-copy/
LOCATION:Draught House\, 4112 Medical Pkwy\, Austin\, 78756\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
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