Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies

03/15/2023

RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGIES
An Official Division 39 Chapter of the American Psychological Association
The RIAPP board is accepting nominations for next season. To find out more or to nominate yourself email riapporg@gmail.com
SPRING CONFERENCE:

Decolonizing conceptualizations of development and personality in psychoanalysis

by Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.

This event will be held IN PERSON in Providence!

Rhode Island School of Design Washington Place Auditorium
20 Washington Place, Providence, RI, 02903
(click here for a map)

REGISTER BY Thursday 3/30/22
Click here to register now!
Abstract:

In many parts of the world, conceptualizations of human development, such as those regarding the concept of dependency, have been shaped within the context of white, Euro-American colonization. Within psychoanalysis, there has been a tendency to separate the psyche and the social, contributing to a neglect of sociocultural context in theory and practice. This presentation examines the complicity of psychoanalysis in colonized narratives of development and personality, and the impact of this complicity on racial minorities. I also explore post-colonial perspectives that challenge theoretical assumptions of non-white people as dependent and inferior. Drawing on theory, research, and practice, I will present a culturally informed, decolonizing psychoanalytic approach, emphasizing the influence of the therapist’s and the patient’s sociocultural context on the therapeutic relationship.



Learning Objectives:

1. Identify how colonization and sociocultural trauma shape conceptualizations of human development and personality.

2. Identify how attention to sociocultural context is critical for moving toward decolonized approaches to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

3. Develop an understanding of a culturally informed and decolonizing psychoanalytic approach to conceptualization and technique.


References:

Bhatia, S. (2019). Searching for justice in an unequal world: Reframing Indigenous psychology as a cultural and political project. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 39(2), 107-114.

Dajani, K.G. (2020). Cultural determinants in Winnicott’s developmental theories. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 17, 6-21.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2020). The fear of immigrants. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37(1), 50-61.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2016). Psychoanalytic theory and cultural competence in psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Rogers-Sirin, L., & Gupta, T. (2012). Cultural identity and mental health: Differing trajectories among Asian and Latino youth. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 59(4), 555-566.

April 2023
01

Decolonizing conceptualizations of development and personality in psychoanalysis

by Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.


Location:

Rhode Island School of Design - Washington Place Auditorium
20 Washington Place
Providence, RI, 02903
(map)

Check in and Breakfast
8:30am

Conference:
9:00AM-12:30PM
3.0 CE Credits
RIAPP has implemented a "Pay What You Can" model

for more information see the registration page for this event


Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute and Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and culturally-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her publications include over 90 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books. She is also in Independent Practice, and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016) and the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), both published by the American Psychological Association Books.

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Racial Trauma: Assessment & Coping, with Kineret Kandelker, Psy.D.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (12:00 - 1:30pm EST)
This training explores the concept of racial trauma, and the impact that it has on BIPOC (black, indigenous and people of color) individuals. Participants will be offered techniques to openly discuss race and assess racial trauma with their clients. The training will discuss coping strategies and treatment. Registration fees: $15 for members and $35 for non-members. Click here to register
NASW Rhode Island Chapter

Registration for the 42nd Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 American Association Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, is open.
Our Beautiful Struggle: Destruction, Creation, and Psychoanalysis
in person--April 26-29th 2023 at the New York Hilton Midtown.

Decentering Whiteness and Celebrating Intersectionality with Keynote Speaker: Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Plenary Speaker: Loretta Ross
Smith College School for Social Work 2023 Deepening Clinical Practice Conference
June 23, 2023, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (In-Person)
Smith College Campus Center, 100 Elm Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Registration will open in March.
More information here: https://ssw.smith.edu/academics/professional-education/deepening-clinical-practice-conference

Other Noteworthy Items and Events:
The Elusive Construct of “Therapeutic Action”
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST Zoom Program & Discussion
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

From Civilizational Degeneration to Regeneration: Environmental, Social, and Personal
Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023 7:00-9:45pm, zoom
The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

Reading Lacan’s Clinical Cases
Saturday, April 15, 2023; 11am-4pm with one hour break (1pm-2pm), Zoom
Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Social workers participating in this conference will receive up to 5.5 CEs. Content Level: Intermediate for all sessions

01/29/2023

RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGIES
An Official Division 39 Chapter of the American Psychological Association
Anti-Racism Events and other Events and announcements in the digest section at the end of this email!

Some autistic processes -- how they change during psychoanalytic psychotherapy by Robin Holloway, Ph.D.
Event to take place via zoom. Please preregister by 5:00pm on Tuesday 1/31/22
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1.5 Continuing Education Credits


This presentation considers evidence from 14 years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with my patient “Sam.” I began seeing Sam when he was 11 years old. He is now 25.

This presentation is evidence-based, in that we examine the evidence Sam has produced. This evidence is a series of “graphic novels” which Sam began drawing during our first session of psychotherapy. I propose we examine this evidence together and discuss what it tells us about autism.

As background for our discussion are three papers dealing with Sam and the evidence supplied by his drawings.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

Discuss some of the defences used by those with autism and assess how autistic defences may shift in response to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Describe aspects of psychosexual development in those with autism and explain the possible impacts of autism on how psychosexual development unfolds.

Compare the defensive and the adaptive aspects of artistic rituals and adumbrate the anxieties which provoke these rituals.

Robin Holloway is a Registered Psychologist providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children, adolescents. He is a graduate of CICAPP (The Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) where he is now a supervisor and a teacher. Robin is in private practice at The Willow Centre in Toronto, Canada. Here, Robin has the privilege of working with a small group of like-minded clinicians where together we can discuss cases. Previously, Robin worked for 20 years in the Child and Family Services department of a public hospital where he participated in weekly assessments of children referred for possible autism spectrum disorder. Inspired by this experience and by hearing Anne Alvarez speak about autism to a group of graduate psychoanalytic psychotherapists (members of the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists), Robin went on to develop a special interest in children with autism and Asperger’s. This in turn has led to several publications. Robin has been honoured to participate in the ASD Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

February 2023
01
Some autistic processes -- how they change during psychoanalytic psychotherapy
by Robin Holloway, Ph.D.
Location:
This will be held virtually via zoom. Please preregister
to receive a link by email the day of the lecture

Zoom Opens
7:15PM

Lecture:
7:30PM - 9:00PM


1.5 CE Credits
RIAPP has implemented a "Pay What You Can" model

for more information see the registration page for this event


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Anti-Racism Events and More
Click here to read our Anti-Racism Action Plan

Upcoming (virtual) Events:
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The Personal is Political with Moderator Julie Hyman, LCSWPanelists: Chanda Griffin, LCSW; Nina Sander, MA; Tracy Sidesinger, LCSW; Betty Teng, LCSW
Monday, January 23, 2023, 7:30-9:00 PM via zoom - FREE EVENT
National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP)

Racial Trauma Among Asian American & Asian Immigrant Communities (Webinar Series)Webinar 1: Historical Context & Mental Health Impacts
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 10:30AM - 12PM PT via zoom - FREE EVENT
The Lotus Project

Psychology’s Role in Harming People of Color: Understanding the History and Taking Action
Friday, February 3, 2023 | 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m, virtual
Rhode Island Psychological Association
Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions
Friday February 10th, 7:30pm via zoom
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis

Racial Trauma: Assessment & Coping, with Kineret Kandelker, Psy.D.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (12:00 - 1:30pm EST)
This training explores the concept of racial trauma, and the impact that it has on BIPOC (black, indigenous and people of color) individuals. Participants will be offered techniques to openly discuss race and assess racial trauma with their clients. The training will discuss coping strategies and treatment. Registration fees: $15 for members and $35 for non-members. Click here to register
NASW Rhode Island Chapter

Other Noteworthy Items and Events:
Instincts, Drives, and Affective Consciousness:
A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective
presented by
John Dall’Aglio
Saturday, January 28: 9am-12pm (3 CE CREDITS)
Time Zone: CST
The Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (DSPP)
*RIAPP Members may remember this presenter from his time as an undergraduate at Brown University*

Personality, Culture, and Context in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Saturday, February 4, 2023; 10:30am-12pm (Zoom Conference)
The Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

01/15/2023

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WELCOME BACK TO AN EXCITING NEW RIAPP PROGRAM FOR THE YEAR 2023

This event will be held virtually, via zoom. Please preregister by 5pm on Tuesday 1/31 to receive a link. Links will be sent out the day of the event. Abstract This presentation considers evidence from 14 years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with my patient “Sam.” I began seeing Sam when he

09/30/2022

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09/30/2022

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09/08/2022

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Many BIPOC individuals (clients/patients and staff) have experienced not only violence and discrimination, but also live with symptoms of trauma, and have an increased likelihood of developing health related problems because of this exposure. The physical violence or threat of violence leads to trau

08/17/2022

Dear RIAPP Colleagues and Friends!

See below the first official advertisement for season 2022/2023.
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08/17/2022

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07/25/2022

MAY I GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A TEASE TO WET YOUR APPETITE?
DR. TUMMULA~NARRA. DR. S.J.LANGER, DR.GARY BAILEY. DR. BETH KITA.

06/25/2022

Are you all enjoying the beginning of summer?
Can't wait to introduce the new program to you.

05/14/2022

This is our talented crew at RIAPP saying Thank You to our loyal audience for a a very successful season 21/22 and promising a smorgasbord of presenters for 22/23.
Stay tuned.
I will share with you upcoming speakers & presenters for the new season and in the meanwhile we all wish you lots of R&R and a splendid summer here in New England or wherever your travels may take you.

Talk soon ~ Gabriele Chorney

05/11/2022

WE ARE TAKING A BRIEF SUMMER BREAK AND WILL RETURN WITH A SMORGASBOARD OF PRESENTERS FOR 22/23

05/03/2022

THIS WEDNESDAY IS THE LAST PRESENTATION FOR THE SEASON 2021/2022
PLEASE REGISTER.

04/18/2022

DEAR RIAPP AUDIENCE

HERE IS OUR LAST PRESENTATION FOR THE SEASON.


RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGIES
Intersectionality, intersubjectivity and Social Justice, by Joan G. Lesser PhD, LICSW

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 7:30 PM 9:00 PM

Event to take place via zoom.
REGISTER BY Tuesday 5/3/22 at 5:00pm

The course describes Intersectionality and Intersubjectivity, two theoretical frameworks used to guide socially just clinical practice. These models guide the therapist in initiating “third space conversations,” the interactional, therapeutic field where the clinician’s and the client’s intersectional social identities and subjective attitudes are present and influential (Aron, 2006). The importance of a socio-historical perspective when working clinically will be demonstrated with the use of composite clinical vignettes that demonstrate the therapist engaging with clients around systemic injustices. Attention will also be given to how inequalities may be implicitly enacted in therapeutic practice.



Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate how Intersectionality Theory can inform clinical practice.

2. Use Intersubjective Systems Theory as a framework for third space conversation.

3. Discuss how injustice and inequalities may be implicitly enacted in clinical practice.

May 2022
4
Intersectionality, intersubjectivity and Social Justice,

by Joan G. Lesser PhD, LICSW


Lecture:
7:30pm - 9:00pm
1.5 CE Credits
RIAPP members: FREE
Students (no CEUs): $5
Non-Members: $25

Joan Granucci Lesser, PhD, LICSW is a social work clinician, researcher, educator and author. She is Adjunct Associate Professor at Smith College School for Social Work and has a private psychotherapy practice. Dr. Lesser is the co-author of two social work textbooks and numerous articles and book chapters, and has presented locally, nationally and internationally on a variety of clinical topics. She received the 2012 National Association of Social Worker MA Chapter award for “greatest contribution to social work practice” for founding Pioneer Valley Professionals, an interdisciplinary group practice in Holyoke, MA.

Upcoming (virtual) Events:
Please note that these events are not hosted by RIAPP, click the title of the event for more information

Race in the Unconscious: Dreaming in Color, with F***y Brewster, PhD
Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PST (via zoom)
The Psychotherapy Institute

Inclusion/Exclusion: A Buddhist Perspective on Race and Religion - part of the Confronting Racism, Discrimination and Othering Series
Saturday April 30th 10:00AM-11:30AM (EST) .
William Alanson White Institute
Virtual Conference: BLACK PSYCHOANALYSTS
SPEAK IV - Georgia on Our Mind: Witnessing, Recognition, and Psychic Reconciliation in the Therapeutic Encounter
May 14 - 15, 2022
Black Psychoanalysts Speak

Other Noteworthy Items and Events:
Joining in Joy: an embodied, expressive support group for adults seeking creative play and connection. Hosted by Create Art and Wellness (MA, RI), this group offering is co-led by Emily Natale, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist, and Morgan Johnston, Board Certified Music Therapist.

Are you interested in a peer supervision group for therapists who are psychoanalytically minded? If so, email RIAPP member Irine Schweitzer irinemsw@gmail.com

Please email us at RIAPPorg@gmail.com if you need additional assistance with the online format. We are happy to help!

RIAPP Executive Board:
Jess Cronin, LICSW, President
Kate Roarr, Psy.D., Vice President
Catherine Horton, LICSW, Treasurer
Cordelia Brady LICSW, Member-at-Large

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04/09/2022

Wasn't she great? So thankful for Dr. McWilliams' presentation about Mortality and Aging. Wisdom and knowledge, modest and charming. Thank you for sharing your own journey of aging and helping us to understand our work with our patients.

04/04/2022

LAST REMINDER !!!!!!!!!!


RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGIES

SPRING CONFERENCE April 9th, 2022

Issues of Aging and Mortality: Clinical Reflections of a Psychoanalyst
by Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPp

Event to take place via zoom.
REGISTER BY Thursday 4/7/21 at 5:00pm

Issues of mortality and limitation affect both therapists and patients. This workshop will focus first on issues of aging in the therapist, including practical and ethical concerns related to cognitive decline, hearing loss, diminished energy, and similar challenges, noting also some clinical advantages of elderly clinicians (e.g., breadth of knowledge, wisdom, humility, sense of proportion, increased compassion). It will then address aging in patients, with special reference to the “Later Life” section of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (2017). Therapeutic benefits of acknowledging and mourning limitation will be emphasized.



Learning Objectives

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify three professional challenges that confront aging therapists.

2. Articulate three common professional misperceptions about working with elderly patients.

3. Use the “Later Life” section of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (Guilford, 2017) to conceptualize central psychological issues in elderly patients.


References:

Baum-Baicker, C., & Sisti, D. W. (2012). Clinical wisdom in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy: A philosophical and qualitative analysis. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 23, 13-40.

Del C***o, F., & Plotkin, D. (Eds.) (2017). Later life. In V. Lingiardi, & N. McWilliams (Eds.) Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (PDM-2) (pp. 751-888). New York: Guilford.

Kernberg, O. F. (2010). Some observations on the process of mourning. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91(3), 601-619.

McWilliams, N. (2017). Psychoanalytic reflections on limitation: Aging, dying, generativity, and renewal. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(1), 50-57. Also in C. Masur, (Ed.) (2018), Flirting with death: Psychoanalysts consider mortality (pp. 25-40). New York: Routledge.

Parens, H. (2018). Mortality – the inevitable challenge: The development of acceptance of one’s mortality. In C. Masur (Ed.), Flirting with death: Psychoanalysts consider mortality (pp. 72-96). New York: Routledge.

Location:
This will be held virtually via zoom. You must preregister by 4/7/21
to receive a link by email the day before the conference

Zoom Opens
8:45am

Conference:
9:00AM-12:30PM
3.0 CE Credits
2021 - 2022 RIAPP Member
$65.00

2021 - 2022 RIAPP Student Members
$25.00

Student Non-Members
$40.00

All Other Non-Members
$120.00


Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and is associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (2017). A former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, she has been featured in three APA videos of master clinicians, the most recent being “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy.” Her books are available in 20 languages; she lectures widely both nationally and internationally.

RIAPP Executive Board:
Jess Cronin, LICSW, President
Kate Roarr, Psy.D., Vice President
Catherine Horton, LICSW, Treasurer
Cordelia Brady LICSW, Member-at-Large

04/03/2022

Just 5 days left to get a seat in the Zoom Salon for Dr. Nancy McWilliams on April 9th, 2022. Did you reserve your seat?
Text or call me if you need help with making the reservation.
Dr. Gabriele Chorney
508-740-0444

03/30/2022

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