Community Events (non-Alliance)

Presented by the SPSI Diversity Committee

The Diversity Committee will present a short video about Mark Solms, psychoanalyst and White South African who endeavored to address racial and economic inequality on the land his family possessed.  Solms grapples with the mismatch between his intentions to do good and the recognition that his efforts were experienced in a very different manner.

Psychoanalysis, AA, and Relapse Prevention: the Multimodal Treatment of a Fentanyl-Addicted Adolescent”

Presenter: Joel Martell PhD, PS

Presenter: Kathryn McCormick MA, LMFT, CMHS, MPH Candidate

 
This presentation will highlight effective ways of working with highly traumatized populations and will examine the role that forming a coherent narrative plays in treatment. Perspectives in working with First Nations peoples will be considered.

In-depth, time-intensive, expressive/exploratory psychotherapy is in decline due to the underfunding of mental health services by health insurers, the over-promotion and over-consumption of medications, and a veritable monoculture of ideas and practices in graduate schools and clinical training sites privileging short-term, technique-driven, solution-focused cognitive-behavioral treatments. These themes will be explored in Dr. Gnaulati's presentation, as well as his ideas pertaining to what constitutes quality talk therapy.

This is a third in a series of conversations with Dr. Maxine K. Anderson, Dr. Karl Brunnhölzl and Dr. Christof Koch, and moderated by Dr. Don J. Ross.

The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest.  In these intimate Saturday morning seminars our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes.

SPSI's Diversity Committee enthusiastically welcomes the Art Salon Committee’s film event, “GET OUT Meets Freud.“ The plans for this event were included in SPSI’s successful bid for APsaA’s 2018 grant for the Development of Psychoanalytic Center Curricula Focused on Diversity. The DC thanks SPSI's Art Salon Committee for their contributions to SPSI’s diversity efforts! 

Over the course of this nine month webinar series, Franco Scabbiolo will try to develop the innovative idea that, in the cases of patients with significant internal object abandonment, the creative countertransference generates a transference process that allows the patient to become alive, first internally, then externally. Scabbiolo will use clinical material, articles, literature, and film to throw light onto the complexity of this phenomenon.