Community Events (non-Alliance)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Some recent developments in neuroscience have dramatic implications for psychoanalytic theories of drive, emotion, consciousness, the unconscious and repression, to mention just the main topics. This course will first describe these exciting scientific developments, in user-friendly terms, and then it will outline the practical implications for the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

This Scientific Meeting is the second of two NPSI is offering for those interested in the conference "Speaking About Race: The unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist", scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021 and co-sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI. Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this Zoom meeting will function as a study group oriented to the conference theme. Thus, we ask that all participants come prepared to engage in a discussion of the reading.

“I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees. If I speak to you in anger, at least I have spoken to you: I have not put a gun to your head and shot you down in the street; I have not looked at your bleeding sister’s body and asked, ‘What did she do to deserve it?’” —Audre Lorde, 1981

This Scientific Meeting is the first of two NPSI is offering this fall for those interested in the conference "Speaking About Race: The unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist", scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021 and co-sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI. Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this meeting will be a film discussion oriented to the conference theme.

One way we defend ourselves against the persecutory superego is by identifying with it and targeting various scapegoats. Heinrich Racker referred to people who have a “mania for reproaching.” Today the totalitarianism of the right is echoed on the left, often aided and abetted by “woke” centrists willing to stifle any qualms in favour of a “moral” consensus.

Talk #1 - Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients

Our political and social moment seems destabilized by an increased emphasis on racial difference.  Freud, upon witnessing the horrors of World War I, first recognized within human subjects a drive toward aggression that he argued must be repressed for the sustainability of civilization.  But, ending only a few decades before Freud’s writings, slavery fully manifested this psychic drive toward aggression belatedly recognized by Freud; and what’s more, slavery emerged as a stabilizing foundation for central aspects of American society.  Through recourse to Lacanian theory, this

This paper introduces the concept of moral injury – a betrayal of what is right.

On November 7th, three models of mother-infant trauma will be presented. Thie first is a treatment case; the 2nd and 3rd are based are based in research studies in community samples.

On November 14th, Dr. Beebe will explore processes of nonverbal communication in adult treatment through a project, "Videotaping the Therapist's Face."