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NPSI Scientific Meeting: "Autoimmunity as a Response to Analytic Change" with Nancy Winters, MD, FIPA, ABPsa

“The danger of death does not become acute until it is clear to every beholder that a resounding success is at hand.” Bion, 1991

As Bion reminds us, growth and change in a successful psychoanalysis are likely to be experienced unconsciously as a catastrophe. This ‘catastrophic change’ can result in dysregulation and chaos at every level of a person’s existence. In this presentation, a case illustration will be used to explore a catastrophic response in the body, an autoimmune illness. In other words, the immune system’s rebellion against the self.

“Tears of Stone: Terror in the Face of Medusa” with Stan Case, LCSW, PhD

Early in life, if mothering is experienced as othering, frightened and frightening attachment expectations can get set in stone. Winnicott said that the infant’s first mirror is the mother’s face, in which the infant learns to feel seen and known, and to feel for and know the other. Developmental research shows how a caregiver’s “still face” stirs deeply disturbing emotions. Whether maternal mirroring or mirror neurons is our metaphor of choice, the challenge for the psychoanalyst is to be-hold our analysand's darkest terror while strengthening their protective shield.

On the Afterlife of the Racial Trauma of Slavery: Limit Consent, Traumatophilia, and Degrees of Psychic Freedom with Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD

Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. In this presentation, and with the help of Jean Laplanche's metapsychology, I argue that significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible (Lyotard, Scarfone) to returning to the site of the traumatic.

When the Analytic Third Includes a Psychodelic with Karen Peoples, PhD, Harvey Schwartz, Phd & Chris Stauffer, MD

The revival of scientific research into psychedelics over the past decade — often referred to as the “Psychedelic Renaissance” — shows promising therapeutic potential for difficult-to-treat conditions such as PTSD and substance use disorders. This program will track the rocky history of the use of psychedelics in Western society from early promising clinical research, through the 1960’s cultural explosion and the “war on drugs,” to their present use in FDA-approved clinical trials, and, lastly, in recent legislation such as Oregon’s Measure 109, the Psilocybin Services Act.

Exploring the Complexity of Immigrant Context and Experience in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD

This presentation involves two separate, interrelated paper presentations, which include case illustrations demonstating applications of theoretical points made in the presentations.  There will be ample time set aside for discussion following each paper presentation.

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