Now offered entirely online. Three-part conference begins with a virtual panel on Friday evening, followed by two full days of panels and discussion, which may be attended online or in person. Keynotes are Adam Phillips & Claudia Rankine.
Location address: Constantino Hall, Fordham University, 150 West 62nd Street, New York City
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Registration rates:
Attend the entire conference (includes Friday evening online AND Saturday & Sunday – in person OR online):
$375/professional or $175/student or candidate
OR
Purchase and attend ONLY the Friday evening virtual event:
$50/professional or $20/student or candidate
Liminality is as much a state of the human mind as it is a particular place. Artists in general, and photographers in particular, enter a liminal state when they create. From this creative state of mind, the photographer looks in from the outside and out from within, in the creation of their images. Psychoanalysts work similarly in a state in tune with their own thoughts and feelings while listening to their patients. During this session our photographers will share images of their work while discussing their perspective on liminality with our psychoanalysts.
Introduction: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.
9:00- 9:10am
Keynote: Adam Phillips
9:15 – 10:30am
Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45am
PANEL I
10:45-12:15pm
Transitionality, Illusion, and Play: Invitations and Foreclosures
Moderator: Jill Gentile, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sarah Schoen, Ph.D., Stephen Seligman, DMH, Don Troise, LCSW
Play is increasingly understood as an essential aspect of human development and psychotherapeutic action. Cultures can be more or less supportive of this transitional area, with its potentials for imaginative connection with ourselves, in relationships with others, as well as in the broader social surround. With that as a point of departure, these papers will take up how people do or do not find their way into this realm—in psychoanalysis, in the world outside the consulting room, and in the ways these locations intersect.
LUNCH 12:15-1:00pm
PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
Embodied Liminality: Betwixt and Between as we cross Thresholds
Moderator: Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA
Velleda Ceccoli, Ph.D.; Susie Orbach, Ph.D.; Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., FABP, CEDS-S
If we think of liminality as an ambiguous, transitional space that constitutes a form of generative embodiment, where power and powerlessness, separateness and communion ebb and flow with possibility, then perhaps we can begin to question what happens when such forms of embodiment are challenged? Is it possible to re-inscribe how we engage with one another on a “bodily level?” Are we then in a better place to challenge the body as the site of difference and embodiment acts as one of the constitutive forces that shapes subjectivities? As psychoanalysts, we can play in the liminal, co-creating opportunities to rehearse, shape, and deconstruct what is embodied and experienced. However, what happens when this space is crushed by political realities that threaten to govern and define our bodies and re-construct us through a cultural and social lens that confines possibilities and choice?
BREAK: 2:30-2:45pm
PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Queering the Gaze: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality
Moderator: Cynthia Chalker, LCSW
Panelists: Kirsten Lenz,Ph.D.; Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.; Mx. Mar Kidvai Padilla, MSEd, LMSW
What are the challenges to the perception and understanding within psychoanalysis of what may appear to be a complex swirl of sexualities and gender identities? Queer moves beyond the binary to create a fresh perspective. This panel will seek to “queer” the psychoanalytic lens by deconstructing and de-centering cis-heteropatriachial constructs of identity, gender, and sexuality.
BREAK 4:15-4:30pm
PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Is This Really Happening?
Struggling to Stay Alive While Facing Illness, Disappearance, and Death
Moderator: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D.
Panelists: Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D., Ph.D.; Ruth Livingston, Ph.D.; Anna DeForest, MD
Discussant: Susan Kolod, Ph.D.
This panel will focus on the emotional and psychological conflicts faced by individuals dealing with terminal or life-altering illness. These include living somewhere between aliveness and deadness, between old and new forms of being, between facing and denying heart-wrenching realities. Panelists will speak to the perspectives of the various players involved–patients, caregivers, and doctors. How can we foster resilience in such situations? What does it take to stay alive and present to the moment? To cherish rather than squander the remaining moments? These and other questions will be taken up.
Welcome: Dr. Jean Petrucelli
Keynote: Claudia Rankine
9:00-10:15am
The Power In Powerlessness: Or, How Do We Live, Knowing the Limits That Exist in Our Ability to Negotiate Change?
Coffee Break 10:15-10:30am
PANEL I
10:30-12:00pm
Between Promise and Devastation: Poetic Forms in Psychoanalysis and Human Experience
Moderator: Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D.
Panelists: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.; Forrest Hamer, Ph.D.; Anna Vitale, LP; Cleonie White, Ph.D.
Poetry uses language, as well as rhythm and prosody in order to create new and heightened experience. Poetic forms can initiate a loss of the illusion of consensual reality. There is the possibility of upending conventional cultural norms and messages. This creates space for new individual meaning as well as opportunities to share experience in a novel form. This panel explores how psychoanalysis attunes to poetic forms, including metaphor, within the dyad, and explores how such forms invite the analysand into liminal spaces where the self can be discovered and transformed.
LUNCH: 12:00-1:00pm
PANEL II
1:00-2:30pm
The Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Moderator: Max Belkin, Ph.D.
Panelists: Rhona Kaplan, LCSW-R, Hannah Pocock, LCSW, Michelle Stephens, Ph.D., Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.
Black feminist theory examines the intersection between different forms of oppression. This panel will discuss the ways in which the intersectional approach to understanding the interplay between race and gender that is rooted in Black feminism can enrich the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, somatically informed psychotherapy with trauma survivors, and group psychotherapy.
BREAK 2:30-2:45pm
PANEL III
2:45-4:15pm
Living in the Liminal Space, an AAPI Experience
Moderator: Sophia Cai
Panelists: Karen Chuck, JD, LCSW-R; Milan Patel, MD; Arun Venugopal
Asians in America exist in a middle state; “privileged” due to proximity to whiteness and the label of “model minority,” while simultaneously construed as “foreign” and not fully American. Growing up as an AAPI person in America requires existing in the paradox of privilege and negation, which has deep clinical implications. Clinical work with AAIP clients must be contextualized by the complex social and historical forces that shape their lived experience.
BREAK 4:15-4:30
PANEL IV
4:30-6:00pm
Transcendental and the Uncanny: The Liminality of Death Itself
Co-Moderators: Rande Brown, LCSW and Naomi Snider, LLM, LP
Panelists: Alexis Tomarken, Ph.D, Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, Leanne Domash, Ph.D.
Freud’s materialistic understanding of death as the end of human consciousness (1915) continues to be treated as axiomatic within psychoanalytic theory and practice. From this perspective, belief in an afterlife is reduced to magical thinking. In what ways does this orthodoxy foreclose deeper exploration with patients of the nature of being and non-being and the spaces in between? Contemporary psychoanalysis has become more open to the “extraordinary” and uncanny ways in which minds meet in defiance of traditional boundaries of space and time. Yet, remarkably little has been said about how such experiences might shape our relationship to death and the deceased. Against this backdrop of silence and silencing, panelists will explore expanded understandings of consciousness and their impact on psychoanalytic encounters with death, loss, and the vagaries of living.
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About CE/CME Credits for this conference
2 CE or CME Credits are available for attending Friday evening, alone. To receive your credits, follow the instructions you receive in the entry link letter which will be sent to the email address you register with, prior to this event.
19 CE or CME Credits are available to you for attending the entire conference. To receive those, follow the instructions you receive in the letter you receive with your entry link or the instruction sheet distributed on location.
For Learning Objectives and References for this Conference, click here
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