FRIDAY, November 3, 2023
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

$80 with 2 CMEs/CEs 
$30 without CMEs/CEs

 

This event will focus on ideas from Atlas’ new book, Emotional Inheritance. It will address silenced experiences that belong not only to us or to our patients, but to their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, and the ways they impact our lives. The clinical tales will focus on emotional material that is passed down from generation to generation. It will discuss intergenerational trauma, the regulation of aggression, the power of attachment and the many faces of our emotional inheritance.

Learning Objectives: 

Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

1)  Define inherited trauma.
2)  Explain the term Erotic Reparation.
3)  Explain the relation between reparation and repetition.
4) Identify the analyst’s dissociation as a defense against family trauma. 

About our Presenter:  

Galit Atlas, Ph.D. is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron), and the editor and a contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her most recent book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, translated into 25 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City, and she teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

References

1) Atlas, G. (2022.) Emotional inheritance: A therapist, her patients and the legacy of trauma. New York: Little, Brown.
2) Katz, G. (2015). Repressed ghosts and dissociated vampires in the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic treatment. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84: 389-414.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)
 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
 
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
 
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The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
 
CONTINUING EDUCATION- SOCIAL WORKERS, LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, LPCS
 
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA)  to sponsor continuing education programs. The APA is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and LPCs.

 

PLEASE NOTE:  Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire presentation, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

 

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

$40 for 2 CMEs/CEs 
$20 without CMEs/CEs
 

The ancient discipline of rhetoric has had substantial influence on various theories of psychoanalysis and vice versa, especially as the study of speech and its relationship to desire, trauma, and affect is central to both. The unconscious, as a web of interconnected symbols, has been described as either a “grammar” or a “rhetoric,” but the distinction between these concepts and the affordances of each can be unclear. This talk explores how some rhetorical concepts have already been taken up by psychoanalysts and suggests new opportunities for contemporary rhetorical theory to make contributions to our understanding of metaphor, metonymy, propriety, and other tropes and figures in speech.


Learning Objectives: 

 

Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

 

1) Define the field of rhetoric and identify at least one area of overlap between rhetoric and psychoanalysis as fields of inquiry.

2) Name several rhetorical tropes and figures and describe their use in speech.
 

About our Presenter:  

Calum Matheson, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh where his work centers on rhetoric, media, and psychoanalysis as means to study topics like conspiracy theories, disinformation, Internet subcultures, and the cultural impact of nuclear weapons. He is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center and a member of the faculty.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)
 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and (name of nonaccredited provider). The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
 
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
 
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The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA)  to sponsor continuing education programs. The APA is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and LPCs.
the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
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Harvey (2020) illuminates the experience of the uncanny gaze in the non-disabled person who encounters a child with a physical difference. "The onlooker is left feeling uncertain as to what category this person falls into, eliciting feelings of both the familiar and unfamiliar, the frightening and the attractive." As the mother of a child with Moebius Syndrome, a congenital form of facial paralysis, whose face looked visibly different from birth, Harvey's observation that "the mother's sense of self, and her own feelings of unfamiliarity within herself, never quite settle because her subjectivity is constantly disrupted by others' responses to her child. . . amplifying her own ambivalence," makes psychological sense of Dr. Hershberg's own unique maternal experience.
 
Dr. Hershberg will describe her maternal self-experience in greater depth with reference to maternal gazes including the loving empathic mother and "the uncanny" ambivalent (m)other, contextualized by Winnicott's (1971) template of the mother’s face as a mirror for the baby's image of herself. In addition, Dr. Hershberg will include the impact of other salient gazes: the paternal gaze, the grandmother’s gaze, the medical gaze and the analyst's gaze. Her daughter's writings and vignettes will provide a window into how a creatively astute, yet vulnerable, child expresses her experiences of alienation, rebellion and reparation, involving her attract ion to superheroes, creation myths and Beauty and the Beast, as well as how her loving and assertive gaze helped her mother.
 
Finally, Dr. Hershberg will examine the way these subjective maternal experiences have contributed to her analytic sensibility and view of difference in her clinical work.
 
Learning Objectives: 

Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

      1. Identify the emotional impact of the uncanny gaze expressed by a non-

          disabled mother of a child with a visible difference.     

      2. Describe the concept of 'the mother's face as a mirror' described
          by Winnicott.  

      3. Describe the concept of 'abjection' identified by Kristeva. 

      4. Describe how fairytales like Beauty and the Beast embody the uncanny.

 

References:

Harvey, C. (2020). The uncanny effect of disability: Uncomfortable maternal love for a Disabled child. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(1):1-28.

Winnicott, DW(I97l). Mirror-role of mother and family in child development, In
Playing and Reality. New York, NY: Routledge

 

About our Presenter:  
Dr. Sandra Hershberg is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she received an award for excellence in teaching in 2019. Dr.Hershberg is a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She is on the Clinical Faculty at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Hershberg serves on the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.oman on the study of physical and psychological disability.

 

Dr. Hershberg has published and presented numerous papers on a wide variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. Her most recent paper is A Female Gaze in/on the Female Body in Art and Psychoanalysis: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Dr. Hershberg is the Co-Editor and a contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg published by Routledge in 2016.

Two volumes of Psychoanalytic Inquiry currently in press that she is editing or co-editing include Writing a New Playbook: Confronting Theoretical and Clinical Challenges of the Twin Pandemics of Covid-19 and Systemic Racism and the other entitled Home.

The paper she is presenting today is part of her collaboration with a creative young woman on the study of physical and psychological disability.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Participants must pay tuition fee, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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Learning Objectives Friday, October 25:

1. Participants will be able to name and describe two historic roots of anti-Semitism in the West.

2.  Participants will be able to explain two differences and two similarities between religious and racial anti-Semitism.

 

Learning Objectives Saturday, October 26:

1. Participants will be able to define several differences and several similarities between right-wing and left-wing anti-Semitism.

2.  Participants will be able to analyze the cultural and historical symbiosis between low-brow/high intensity anti-Semitism and high-brow/low intensity anti-Semitism. 

 

3.  Participants will be able to name and explain some factors accounting for the current resurgence of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on the Right and Left. 

 

4.  Participants will be able to develop an answer to the following question:  Is Zionism to Judaism as Islamism is to Islam?

 

About Our Presenter:

Daniel Burston, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology.  His forthcoming book is entitled Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University, and will appear with Palgrave MacMillen in 2020.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (5)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 5.0 continuing education credits.

 

Participants must pay tuition fee, if applicable, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.                                                                                                                     

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

                                                    7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
    401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
      Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $75 with CE/CMEs
     $40 without CE/CMEs  

 

Is it realistic to pursue personality change as a treatment goal? I propose that the foundation of our personality emerges from a pre-drive/object relations phase of development, a core psyche, which leaves an indelible mark on all future development. While this mark falls somewhere between a positive-negative orientation depending upon the neonatal-caregiver fit and its impact can be somewhat mitigated by subsequent psychic development, our core psyche remains essentially immutable. Identifying and addressing aspects of the core psyche pose unique challenges for the clinician and our patients. In this presentation, I will offer a conceptual framework for the genesis of a core psyche, the unique clinical issues that emerge from it as well as some clinical material reflecting my approach to working with patients in this area.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe the origins and characteristics of the core psyche and its relationship to subsequent psychic development.

2.  Participants will be able to describe potential strategies to assess and intervene with psychopathology associated with the core psyche.

 

About Our Presenter:

Eric Rankin, PhD is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  Dr. Rankin is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and most of his academic career has focused on clinical gerontology. More recently, he has published a series of psychoanalytic articles related to grieving/forgiveness and the origins of psychic life.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

 

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  Friday, May 17, 2019

                                                     2:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.  
    
                                         Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 

     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $75 with CE/CMEs
                  $40 without CE/CMEs  
 

Utilizing nine vignettes from the 2012 Denzel Washington movie, Flight, the underlying dynamics of states of elation will be elucidated in this presentation.  Exhilaration, jubilance, exultation, euphoria, and ecstasy are states well captured in dreams of flight.  Underlying elation is the oral triad:  the wish to devour, the wish to be devoured, and the wish to go to sleep.  These concepts are pleasant to devour but difficult to digest.  The presentation will also explore the relationship between "good" sleep, "bad" sleep, and death. Primary sadism and masochism are situated in the nursing situation, active eating to sate hunger, then the ensuing yielding and sleep.  Finally, the relationship of elated states to pharmacothymia, the use of chemicals to achieve elation, i.e., the substance use disorders, will  be discussed. 
 

Learning Objectives:
 

 1. Participants will be able to articulate the similarities and differences between the three phases of the oral triad underlying elated states. 

 2. Participants will be able to distinguish between the defense mechanisms of denial, reaction formations, projections, and introjections, especially as these defense mechanisms relate to hypomania, obsessions, phobia, paranoia, and depression. 

About Our Presenter:

Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, licensed psychologist in private practice, and a Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center faculty member.  Dr. Fischetti has a specialty in the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders.

Continuing Medical Education Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (1.5)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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         Wednesday, May 1, 2019

                                                        7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $40 with CEs/CMEs
                  $20 General Admission

 

What unconscious processes may be active within the analytic field of patient and analyst when clinical moments enter the awareness of one or both participants initially feeling random or arbitrary? As these seemingly random and arbitrary moments emerge unbidden, what shape may these emerging experiences take as they effervesce at the fringe of our awareness? How might we capture these emerging experiences in their embryonic form and hold them long enough to grow them into meaningful moments of relational contact? In this presentation I aim to illustrate how clinical moments that initially feel arbitrary or random may capture unconscious bidirectional communications within the analytic field that hold the potential for significant meanings if we can linger in these seemingly random moments long enough to let our imaginations act.

Learning Objectives:

 1. Participants will be able to provide a clinical example where moments that initially feel random or arbitrary may capture unconscious bidirectional communications that hold potential for significant  meanings.

2. Participants will be able to identify how the use of an imaginative object—a shared scene—can form a bridge between initial seemingly random moments and moments of meaningful relational contact and understanding.

3. Participants will be able to discuss how Interpersonal/Relational Field theory may inform technical ways to think about and work with these seemingly random or arbitrary moments.

 

About Our Presenter:

Loren Sobel M.D. earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh where he served as Chief Resident for Psychotherapy Training.

He is a recent clinical graduate of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center and currently teaches part of the advanced curriculum for the James T. McLaughlin Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is a volunteer Clinical Faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches the introductory course and an advanced elective in psychodynamic psychotherapy to psychiatry residents. Dr. Sobel serves on the board of the Clinic Without Walls, a low-fee clinic that provides psychodynamic psychotherapy to the community for those who are uninsured or underinsured.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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 Friday, March 15, 2019

                                     7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.                                     

    

     Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 

     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $50 with CE/CMEs
    $25 without CE/CMEs
 

Psychoanalysis has long recognized the role of human aggression and destructiveness as factors in the genesis of anxiety and depression.  But is the increased incidence of anxiety disorders and depression only the result of factors in individuals and their immediate environment?  Or is there a growing sense of unprecedented threats to human civilizations as well, leading to greater degrees of helplessness, hopelessness and meaninglessness.  Is there an unconscious collective self-destructiveness being registered in these states of greater emotional dis-ease?

 

Concerns regarding the end of the world formerly sprang from religious orientations.  In psychoanalysis, end of the world fantasies were attributed to the experience of a sense of annihilation of the self, as in profound psychosis.  But is anxiety about the fate of humanity more plausible and realistic today than in former times?  Are we on the brink of extinction? Is civilization destined toward self-annihilation?

 

Let us examine just a few cold sober facts: We are facing a planetary ecological crisis due to global warming, deforestation, widespread collapse of ecosystems.  World over-population is nearing a record tipping-point, where food and water scarcity will bring about more famine and drought.  Human violence and aggression are on the rise worldwide.  Unbridled capitalistic exploitation of consumer masses leads to obscene disparities in wealth and poverty.  And we see an increase in hegemonic national politics with anti-immigrant campaigns, corrupt government policies, nuclear threats, terrorism, internet espionage, bioterror and other threats to public health.  Regardless of the degree of threat we assign to each of these and other calculated risks, we cannot ignore that an ominous dread is hovering over civilization and its fate.  Is this humanity’s death drive?  Are we and the next few generations living in the end times?

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will list 5 vast planetary and existential risks to the fate of humanity, the significance of which may be currently underestimated.

 2. Participants will name and define the psychological processes inherent in social collectivities that potentially contribute to a global crisis.

 3. Participants will evaluate the validity of a collective unconscious destructive principle for understanding increased psychological distress in both individuals and in society at large.

About our Presenter:
Jon Mills, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist.  He is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto, is a board certified psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a licensed psychologist with the College of Psychologists in Ontario.  Dr. Mills received his Psy.D. in Clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and was a Fulbright scholar in the departments of philosophy at the University of Toronto and York University.  He is author and/or editor of over 100 publications including 20 books.  In 2006, 2011 and 2013 he was recognized with a Gravida Award for his scholarship from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York City, was given a Significant Contribution to Canadian Psychology Award in 2008, a Goethe Award for best book in 2013, and the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 2015 by the Canadian Psychological Association.  He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario.
 

Suggested Readings:
Freud, S. (1930). Civilization and its Discontents.  Standard Ed., Vol 23. London:     Hogarth Press.
Jung, C.G. (1947). On the Nature of the Psyche. Collected Works, Vol. 8, pp. 159-234.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. (2014). The Sixth Extinction.  New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Lovelock, James. (2006). The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books.
Merkur, D. & Mills, J. (2017). Jung’s Ethics.  London: Routledge.
Rees, Martin. (2003). Our Final Hour. New York: Basic Books.
Zizek, S. (2010). Living in the End Times. New York: Verso.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

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In the opening chapter of his book, James T. McLaughlin wrote:

In my earliest papers, my intent was to shed light on what was going on in my patients. I was trained to see impediments as lodged in the patient’s psyche. Instead, as my own experience evolved, I grappled with how it often was also the analyst who impeded progress.
 

In his now classic 1981 paper, “Transference, psychic reality, and countertransference,” written in his early 60’s, Jim declared, “If the past 50 years of analyst watching have clarified anything about the nature of the analyst’s experience, it is that transference is a matter of equal rights, both on and behind the couch.”  The next 25 years witnessed a series of papers challenging psychoanalytic orthodoxies.  Often controversial within his home community of the American Psychoanalytic Association, these papers became foundational in the emerging theories underlying relational psychoanalysis.       

 

Learning Objectives:

1)  Participants will be able to describe aspects of the history of the therapeutic application of   countertransference within the American psychoanalytic traditions.
2)  Participants will be able to identify theoretical antecedents to the relational turn.
3)  Participants will be able to describe the functions of self-analysis.

About Our Presenter:

William F. Cornell, M.A., TSTA-P, studied behavioral psychology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and phenomenological psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He followed his graduate studies with training in transactional analysis and body-centered psychotherapy and has studied with several mentors and consultants within diverse psychoanalytic perspectives. Bill has maintained an independent practice of psychotherapy, consultation and training for more than 40 years. He introduced and edited The Healer’s
Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter, the collected papers of James T. McLaughlin and Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, the collected papers of Warren Poland. A co-editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal, Bill is the author of Explorations in
Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers, Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living (Routledge), Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and subjectivity in clinical practice
(Routledge), At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis,and Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and clinical perspectives (Routledge)), Une Vie Pour Etre Soi (Payot), and a co-author and editor of Into TA: A comprehensive textbook (Karnac), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is the Editor of the Routledge book series, “Innovations in Transactional Analysis.” Bill is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for
Transactional Analysis Gold Medal, in recognition of his writing.
 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

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Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
Kenmawr Building 
401 Shady Ave., Suite B-101
Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost for both sessions:  $85 - 4 CEs/CMEs awarded
$50 - without CEs/CMEs

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TWO SESSIONS:  Wednesday, May 16, 2018 and Wednesday, May 23, 2018
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library
THE KENMAWR
401 Shady Ave., Suite B101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

COST:   $80 - 4 CE/CME Credits (Includes Both Sessions)

        $40 - Without Credits (Includes Both Sessions)

 

PRESENTED BY: Howard K. Foster, M.D.

 

SUGGESTED READING:  Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div. (Edited By) (2017).  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. New York:  St. Martin’s Press.
 
OTHER SUGGESTED READINGS:  Donald Trump, with Tony Schwartz. (1987). The Art of the Deal. New York:  Random House.

Green, Joshua (2017). Devil’s Bargain. New York:  Penguin Press.
 
Volken, Vamik (2004).  Blind Trust:  Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror.  Charlottesville, Virginia:  Pitchstone Publishing.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR SESSION ONE:
 1.    Participants will be able to explain the pros and cons of diagnosing a patient that a psychiatrist has not evaluated in person.
 2.    Participants will be able to formulate opinions about unconventional leaders' psychiatric and psychoanalytic issues such as:  self-esteem, bullying and regression.

 

 1.    Participants will be able to discuss and evaluate unconventional political leaders from a psychoanalytic perspective. 
 2.    Participants will be able to discuss and evaluate possible effects on the country as a whole when faced with unconventional political leaders.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:
Howard Foster is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center (PPC). He trained at PPC during the 1980's and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988.  He is a past president of PPC.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

Relational freedom is Dr. Stern's own interpersonal and relational conception of the field in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  He considers the emergent qualities of the interpersonal field, which never include the patient or analyst alone, but always both participants.  Building on the foundation of unformulated experience, dissociation and enactment, Dr. Stern considers how the interpersonal field can both facilitate and inhibit experiencing.  Greater freedom in the interpersonal field makes the freedom to experience possible, and therefore underpins therapeutic action.  Changes in the kinds of relatedness that are facilitated and inhibited involve a mode of therapeutic action that is always co-present with the more traditional approaches emphasizing understanding and interpretation of transference-countertransference.   Case material will be presented to illustrate these ideas in practice.
 
About Dr. Stern:
 
Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.  He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York and an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He is the author of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1997), Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation and Enactment (2010), with I. Hirsch, Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference (2017), with I. Hirsch, Further Developments in Contemporary Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analysts Subjectivity (2017) and The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (2018). The current presentation is drawn from his text Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (2015).  He is also the founder and editor of Psychoanalysis in a New Key, a book series published by Routledge.
 
Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Define and explain Dr. Sterns conceptions of the interpersonal field, emergent experience as unbidden, enactment as the interpersonalization of dissociation and the freeing of clinical relatedness as an ever-present mode of therapeutic action.
 
2. Analyze a clinical case example, explaining how relaxation of constrictions in the interpersonal field might be mutative and how this might be facilitated.

Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on a wide variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, and the mother/daughter relationship.  Currently she is working on two projects:  the  female gaze on the female body in art and psychoanalysis,  focusing on the work of German modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, and second on the study of physical and psychological disability in a creative young woman.         

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CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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