UPCOMING EVENTS
- Sat, Sep 14ZoomTurning Post-COVID Feelings of Helplessness and Confusion into Meaningful and Productive Therapist-Patient Connections
- Thu, Jun 16Los AngelesEmmanuel Ghent: Trail blazer, Visionary.
- Sun, Apr 10ZoomCommentary on papers by Michael O’Loughlin and Ana Archangelo on racial identity development in Brazil.
- Fri, Feb 18Chicago Center for PsychoanalysisTeach class on race class and culture
- Fri, Jan 28Online event sponsored by the Austen RiggsAn exploration of the meanings embedded in the concept of “white privilege” at this moment in the racial history of the United States.
- Sat, Apr 24See Michigan Psychoanalytic Society websiteWe will explore James Baldwin’s teaching that whiteness entails a delusion of omnipotence. The fantasy of whiteness draws one into a commitment to amass and maintain power in the sense of mastery and dominance. We will outline a plan for liberation from this treadmill through reflective self-study.
- Sat, Mar 20ZoomSponsored by Confer, London England
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES
These are 12-hour intensive seminars designed for mental health professionals who wish to enhance their clinical skills.
The course provides participants with opportunities to increase their knowledge and expertise through weekly readings and discussions. Clinical material will be presented by participants and the instructor.
RACE, CLASS, AND CULTURE THROUGH A PSYCHOANALYTIC LENS.
This course will consider race, social class, and culture as elements in the psychotherapeutic relationship. We will consider the nature of these social categories from a psychoanalytic perspective, and how they play out between patient and therapist in public sector clinics as well as in private practice.
12 sessions 12 CEUs
RELATIONAL CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY
will have both a theoretical and a practical, clinical focus. We will first consider the history and development of child therapy, looking at how concepts of transference /countertransference and play have evolved in the child therapy literature. Clinical examples from participants and the instructor will show the practical relevance and applicability of these concepts in day-to-day work with children. Issues raised by work with parents, teachers and other professionals will be addressed from a psychoanalytic/systemic perspective.
six 2-hour sessions 12CEUs
JOURNAL
CLUB
A forum for reading and discussion of selected articles from the contemporary psychoanalytically oriented literature.
12 sessions, 12CEUs
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CONTEXT
This class will feature readings from a variety of psychoanalytic communities around the world, from India to Iran, Japan, Latin America, Italy, Spain, and beyond. Discussion will focus on what we can learn about psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and ourselves, when we consider how the field shows up in radically different cultural contexts.
12 sessions, 12CEUs
ADOLESCENT THERAPY (CO-INSTRUCTOR: JILLIAN STILE, PH.D.)
Adolescent therapy, like adolescents themselves, require us to “think different” from the way we are accustomed to think about work with adults and children. Adolescence itself has a number of sub-stages, and culturally diverse manifestations, that the clinician needs to keep in mind. We will consider some of the literature that has grappled with the unique and perplexing issues of adolescence and adolescent therapy.
12 sessions, 12CEUs
The seminars take place at Dr. Altman’s office on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, New York City.
The fee for each seminar is $900.
Neil Altman, Ph.D. SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0333.
PAST EVENTS
Hope and Inspiration for Psychotherapists in Times of Cynicism and Despair, Jan. 5, 2019
Audiotape of Paul Dewald Memorial Lecture at St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, November 30, 2017:
“Psychoanalysis in the Community” available at http://www.stlpi.org/11-30-17/
Interview with Don Marsh on St. Louis Public Radio, discussing Psychoanalysis in the Community.