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    • 12 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom
    • 415
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    Fridays @CCP

    Sheldon George, PhD

    (Boston, MA)

    Friday, April 12, 2024

    Trauma and the Making of Black Identity in Contemporary America


    7-9pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion

    RECORDING WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE


    About the presentation: In a historical moment when the news media has repeatedly displayed the wanton killing of black men, the connection between African American identity and trauma seems especially salient. Sheldon George’s talk will work through Lacanian psychoanalytic notions of subjectivity to ground an understanding of African American identity as mediated by social trauma. It will address, in particular, the 2012 Florida shooting of 17-year old Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn, a white male whose excessive response to the loud rap music played by Davis and his friends demonstrates a Lacanian understanding of jouissance, or the other’s mode of enjoyment, as a root source of notions of racial alterity. The talk will discuss how this jouissance, bound to fantasies of race, often structures both racism and African American identity around acts of violence and trauma, inducing African Americans to embrace willfully the very racial identities against which this violence is directed.

    Sheldon George is Chair of the department of Literature & Writing at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts.  His scholarship centers on application of cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African American literature and culture.  George is chair of the Executive Committee of the MLA forum Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature.  He is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and has coedited two special issues of that journal: one titled “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions into Culture and Politics” and the other titled “African Americans and Inequality.”  His book Trauma and Race, published in 2016, is the first to offer an extended Lacanian analysis of African American identity.  George is coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers; and his recent publications include the pioneering collection of essays, coedited with Derek Hook, Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory.

    Learning objectives

    Participants will be able to understand the role of otherness in Lacanian theory

    Participants will be able to apply key Lacanian concepts like Aggressivity, Extimacy and Jouissance to a psychoanalytic understanding of race and racism


    The presentation  will be introductory and will require only basis orientation with psychoanalytic theory.

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 11, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    1. George, Sheldon.  Trauma and Race:  A Lacanian Analysis of African-American Identity.  Texas: Baylor UP, 2016.

    2. Laurent, Eric. “Racism 2.0.” Lacan Quotidien 371: 1–6 (2014).

    3. Hook, Derek. Racism and jouissance: Evaluating the ‘racism as (the theft of) enjoyment’ hypothesis.”  Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3. 

    4.Stephens, Michelle.  “Skin, stain and lamella: Fanon, Lacan, and inter-racializing the gaze.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3. 

    Reference

    5. Swales, Stephanie.  “Transphobia in the bathroom: Sexual difference, alterity and jouissance.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  Special Issue on “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics.”  Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3. 

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.


    • 14 Apr 2024
    • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM (CDT)
    • Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago
    • 52
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    Join CCP for an Afternoon at the Movies!  


    All That Breathes Screening and Discussion


    SUNDAY, April 14, 2024

    11am - 1:30pm 

    Music Box Theater

    3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago


    Tickets $20 

    Spaces are limited

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    All That Breathes (2022) is an evocative and ruminative documentary by Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen.  He spotlights two New Delhi siblings who have dedicated nearly 20 years to rehabilitating injured birds of prey.  The film reveals both the vulnerability and vitality that emerge as the brothers navigate environmental decline, economic precarity and ethnic violence. 

    This CCP event invites viewers to reflect on our varied experiences of a deeply conflicted and ecologically shifting world while also immersing ourselves in Sen’s haunting vision of New Delhi’s streets and skies.  

    With a discussion moderated by Ruchira Hantman, MA, MS, LCSW and Libby Bachhuber, AM, LCSW


    OPEN FLYER

    Ruchira Hantman and Libby Bachhuber are psychoanalytic psychotherapists who share interests in ecological, cultural and other systemic concerns. Libby has over 20 years’ experience doing change work in communities, organizations, and clinical settings. She facilitates reflective groups on ecological concerns in conjunction with the Climate Psychology Alliance. Ruchira has a decade-long background in infant mental health and family work from the Erikson Institute and currently works with adults in private practice. She grew up in New Delhi and has been engaged in clinical work in the United States for the last 20 years.

    • 28 Apr 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CDT)
    • 20 W. Kinzie, Chicago, IL (Kinzie Hotel) or via Zoom
    • 484
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    Sundays @ CCP


    Zak Mucha, LCSW

    (Chicago, Il)

    Sunday, April 28 , 2024

    Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work

    Kinzie Hotel

    20 W. Kinzie. Chicago, Il

    &

    ZOOM

    12-2pm (CST)

    About the presentation: Working with a transient and traumatized population suffering severe psychotic symptoms, homelessness, and addictions, the patient/clinician relationship must be about more than medication monitoring and case management. The relationship itself can hold hope for patients who have been failed repeatedly by community mental health systems, especially in non-traditional clinical frames where the limiting medicalization standards place a barrier reinforcing the idea of “us and them,” and refusing the clinician’s responsibility to be a vulnerable human with an irreducible responsibility to the other.

    This presentation will examine the psychoanalytic possibilities of joining the patients’ worlds, both internal and external, to understand how psychotic symptoms can hold a narrative of past trauma and possess the hope for an emerging self. Using clinical material from the book, Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work, we will discuss ways of engaging, understanding, and thinking of individuals presenting with severe psychotic symptoms. Through a psychoanalytic lens not available back then, we find some interventions which may not have had any psychodynamic intentions did have such impact while other interventions meant to be therapeutic might not have been at all.

    Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and an executive board member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. Mucha has also worked as a counselor and consultant for U.S. combat veterans undergoing training for digital forensic investigations in child pornography. Before going into the clinical field, he worked as a freelance journalist, truck driver, furniture mover, construction worker, union organizer, staff member at a juvenile DCFS locked unit, and taught briefly at a women’s prison. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense and Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work.

    Learning objectives:

    1.Participants will be able to examine the possibilities for psychodynamic work with patients suffering from severe psychosis and all the socioeconomic factors that stem from a life on the margins of society.

    2.Participants will be able to discuss how psychotic symptoms can be considered a trauma response both embedded with a narrative and an effort to protect the self.

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $40

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 27, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.


    • 3 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    Anton Hart, PhD., FABP, FIPA

    (New York, NY)

    Friday, May 3, 2024

    Reflections on the analyst’s co-participation: radical openess and the self-protective aspects of the concept of transference

    7-9pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion


    RECORDING WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE


    About the presentation: In order for the analyst to listen closely and be moved by the analysand, the analyst must be open. barticulartv to what is most foreian in the analvsand's discourse. in his previous visit to OPC, Anton Hart presented the concept of "radical openness", a dispositional stance that involves the analyst's "taking to heart" the things that the analysand experiences and formulates in relation to the analyst, both familiar and strange, as if there is likely to be truth within them no matter what. The radically open analyst aspires to take things that do not seem to personally apply and to live with them as potential truths that are beyond the analyst's tolerable awareness

    Freud invented the idea of transference in order to enable the analyst to bear the strain of listening closely while feeling unrecognized. In this sense the quite central concept of transference can be seen as having served as a set-protective edifice for analysts as they try to keep listening, even as they may regularly feel not listened to. But the downside ot analysts adherence to the transference concept is that it may prevent them from being as open to the truths contained in analysands experience as analysts need to be in order to be moved, that is, to emotionally understand and to personally grow and evolve in response to the analysand's discourse.

    Dr. Hart is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He lectures and consults nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy.  He is a member of the group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and, also, Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at  Mt. Sinai Hospital, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality. He is in the process of completing a book for Routledge entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.

    Learning Objectives

    Participants in this presentation will be able to:

    1) Develop an understanding the concept of "radical openness"

    2) Recognize the ways in which the concept o† transference may represent a form of resistance to listening as fully and openly as possible to what the analysand conveys

    This is an Intermediate /Advanced Level Presentation

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by May 2, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Powell, D.R., Hart, A. (In press). African Americans and Psychotherapeutic Treatment: Challenges and Opportunities, in Gabbard's Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments, 2nd Edition, Edited by Crisp, H, Gabbard, G., American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Washington, DC.

    Matheny, B., Teng, B., & Hart, A. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part I). Room, 2:21, 14-17.

    Matheny, B., Hart, A., & Teng, B. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part II). Room, 6:21, 38-43.

    Hart, A. H. (2020). Principles for teaching diversity and otherness from a psychoanalytic perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(2-3), 404-417.

    Hart, A. H. (2019). The discriminatory gesture: A psychoanalytic consideration of posttraumatic reactions to incidents of racial discrimination, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 24 April, 2-20.

    Hart, A. (2017). From multicultural competence to radical openness: A psychoanalytic engagement of otherness. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 12-27.

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

    • 11 May 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CDT)
    • via Zoom (link provided upon registration)
    Register

    Spring Open House

    CCP invites you to our virtual Open House

    featuring a case presentation by

    Cara Raymond, Ph.D with respondent Scott Pytluk, Ph.D, ABPP


    If you are interested in our Psychoanalytic Training Program, here is an opportunity to ask questions of and learn more from graduates, candidates, faculty and students.

    During the Open House, you will have the opportunity to discover how psychoanalytic training can deepen your work. Please see below for more details and click "RSVP Here" to sign up and tell us about your interests.

    Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2024  

    Time: 12 noon  – 2 PM (CST)

    Place: (zoom link provided upon RSVP)


    We look forward to meeting you and if you have any questions, please reach out to us at zak@zakmucha.com


    Presenter bios:

    Cara Raymond, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist in independent practice in the Milwaukee area. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in 2006. Subsequently, due to her interest in psychoanalysis, she completed the Fellowship Program in Psychoanalysis at The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis in 2013. 

    Scott Pytluk, Ph.D., ABPP is a psychoanalyst and board-certified clinical psychologist in independent practice in downtown Chicago. He completed his training in psychoanalysis at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Pytluk was Professor of Clinical Psychology for twenty years at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology where he coordinated the school’s Psychoanalytic Concentration. He was also Professor of Clinical Psychology at Adler University. Dr. Pytluk is currently Core Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and an Adjunct Faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He was member-at-large for six years on the Board of Directors of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and co-chaired the Division’s Sexualities & Gender Identities Committee.


    • 17 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    Chanda Griffin, LCSW

    (New York, NY)

    Friday, May 17, 2024

    The Desire for the in-Between: Humans, Animals and our natural environment in an anti-black world

    7-9pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion


    About the presentation: In Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues I ask two questions: “Are psychoanalytic theories expansive enough to apply to the BIPOC psyche with respect to the climate crisis when both the BIPOC body and the earth serve as HOSTs for a parasitic white supremacist culture and capitalism? I also ask, “In [the] dialectical opposition of protecting the environment or the immediacy of protecting the body and mind, who or what is given primacy?

    Using both myth and art as well as black feminists and other discussions of the human-animal binary, this presentation explores the impact of the western philosophical notion of “the human” as it pertains to our relationship to animals and the environment within anti-black socio-political world.

    Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, is a teaching, training, and supervising analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and co-chair of the Committee on Race and Ethnicity at MIP. Additionally, she is a faculty member of the National Institute For the Psychotherapies. (NIP),The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP)and an Adjunct Professor at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work at Hunter College.  Chanda is the co-author of The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiratial Cohort (with Rossanna Eceygoyén and Julie Hyman) and author of Who’s on my couch: BIPOC subjectivity and the climate crisis, the MIP blog essay: Red Pill Psychoanalysis and the Matrix of Racial Roles, and the  Psychoanalytic Activist,: Centered. Chanda is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and is in private practice in New York City.

    Learning Objectives

    1. Participants will develop an understanding of the human animal binary inherent in foundational philosophies of the “humanities.” 

    2. Participants will identify anti-blackness in within the human-animal binary

    3. Participants will learn a more nuanced way of listening to BIPOC relationships to the animal and natural environment.


    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 4, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Griffin, C.D., (2022) Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:4, 340-341, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2022.2090807


    Jackson, Z.I. (2020). Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in a An Antiblack World. New York University Press.


    Karkulehto,S. Kristine, A., Varis, E. (2019) Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture.


    Moss, /d. (2021). On having whiteness. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (69(2), 355-371. PMID: 34039063 https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651211008507


    Sheets-Johnston, M. (1996). Human Versus Nonhuman: Binary Opposition as An Ordering Principle of Western Human Thought.


    Wilderson, F. B. (2020). Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing Corporation.


    Karkulehto,S. Kristine, A., Varis, E. (2019) Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture.


    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.



    • 31 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom
    • 465
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    Fridays @CCP

    Amy Schwartz- Cooney, PhD

    (New York, NY)

    Friday, May 31, 2024

    Socio-Personal Conversations and Relational Transformations 

    7-9pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion


    About the presentation: I am a white identified, cis-gendered Jewish analyst from New York.  In this presentation I describe my growing understanding of the role of context and culture in psychic life and my consequent efforts to incorporate socio-personal explorations into relationally informed therapy. I draw on treatments in which the patient’s social/racial identities differed from and/or were similar to my own, providing opportunities to consider otherness, sameness, difference and intersectionality from multiple vectors.  Each treatment involved identifying and overcoming resistances and dissociations, locating the hated and hateful, feared and fearful other within,  and finding ways to speak to the personal and social, acknowledging their singular and entwining influences. Each treatment facilitated mutual growth and transformation, enabling both partners to recognize disclaimed and undervalued aspects of self, tapping into vulnerabilities around acceptance, inclusion, and belonging.  The therapeutic processes described were challenging and vitalizing,  potentiating a deepened and more complex sense of self and other as multiply constituted subjects. This presentation queries the purview of the psychoanalytic and invites attendees to interrogate their own “credos” in light of the social turn. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in the discussion of the presented material, bring in thoughts and questions, and share germane personal and clinical experiences. 

    Dr. Amy Schwartz Cooney is on faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Relational Track. She is Faculty/Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is Joint Editor in Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is Co-Editor/Contributor to the 2021 book, Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming, published by Routledge. She is particularly interested in the application and integration of object relational perspectives in the contemporary psychoanalytic conversation.

    Learning Objectives

    After attending this seminar participants will be able to: 

    1. Work from a relational framework with the socio-personal, with particular emphasis on the analyst exploring dissociated areas of her own experience to be of use to the patient in knowing and integrating her own disclaimed identifications. 

    2. Recognize and explore sameness and difference in their clinical work in a way that is vitalizing and contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the entwining of individual and cultural factors in constituting self and other. 

    This is an Intermediate Level Presentation

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by May 30, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Davies, J.M. (2004). Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Psychoanal. Dial., 14 (6):711-732.

    Botticelli, S. (2023). Can We “Treat” Racism in Psychoanalysis. Div. Rev., 29, 19-22.  

    Burch, B. (2021) Engaging the Whitewashed Countertransference: Race Unexpectedly Appears for Therapy. Psychoanal Dial. 31:28-37

    Levine, L. (2022). Interrogating Race, Shame and Mutual Vulnerability:Overlapping and Interlapping Waves of Relation, Psychoanal. Dial. 32, 99-113.

    Pogue White, K. (2002). Surviving Hating and Being Hated: Some Personal Thoughts About Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective . Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38(3):401-422 

    Schwartz Cooney, A. (2018). Vitalizing Enactment: A Relational Exploration. Psychoanal Dial. 28, 340-354. 

    Shaw, D. (2021). When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting the "Blood of Recognition" in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities. Psychoanal. Dial. 32, 584-597.  


    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.





    • 21 Jun 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    Paul Williams, PhD

    (Greenbrae,  CA)

    Friday, June 21, 2024

    Soul Murder Revisited

    7-9pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion


    About the presentation: The term ‘Soul Murder’ has a long history in literature and in mental health literature. In psychoanalysis, Freud  addressed the matter in his analysis of Schreber's memoirs and later Leonard Shengold developed the subject in the 1990's. In this  lecture Soul Murder is revisited, including from the point of view of theory of technique. Identifying and treating Soul Murder presents unique clinical obstacles for the psychoanalyst , some of which will be discussed

    Dr Paul Williams trained as a Psychoanalyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society where he was a Training and Supervising Analyst. He won the Rosenfeld Essay Prize for the treatment of severe disturbance. He was Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis with Glen Gabbard between 2001 and 2007 and became a Consultant Psychotherapist in the British National Health Service in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he worked in an out-patient clinic and a Forensic Unit to provide treatment for traumatized patients. He lives and works in private psychoanalytic practice in Northern California. He has published many papers and books on the subject of severe disturbance and psychosis. He recently produced a highly acclaimed experimental trilogy on the literary depiction of severe disturbance from the inside: The Fifth Principle (Routledge, 2010). Scum (Routledge, 2013), The Authority of Tenderness (Routledge 2021). 

    Learning Objectives

    Participants will be able to:

    1. Distinguish key characteristics of Soul Murder.

    2. Gain a sense of clinical parameters usable in the treatment of Soul Murder, including in its psychotic manifestations.


    This is an Intermediate /Advanced Level Presentation

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Fellows: free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by June 20, 2023 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    FREUD S (1911B) ‘PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL NOTES ON AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF A CASE OF PARANOIA (DEMENTIA PARANOIDES’).’ SE12: 9-79

    SHENGOLD, L. (2011) TRAUMA, SOUL MURDER, AND CHANGE. PSYCHOANALYTIC QUARTERLY 80:121-138

    SHENGOLD, L. (1978) KASPAR HAUSER AND SOUL MURDER: A STUDY OF DEPRIVATION. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 5:457-476

    VESTIN, U. (1997) ANTIGONE—A SOUL MURDER. PSYCHOANALYTIC QUARTERLY 66:082-092

    WILLIAMS P (2019) ISOLATION. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES, 29:1–12,


    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.



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